Rohm has developed a 75W laser diode for lidar in automated guided vehicles, service robots and robot vacuum cleaners. “In recent years, lidar is being increasingly adopted to precisely measure distance and for spatial recognition. For such markets, there is a need to improve the performance of laser diodes to increase detection distance and accuracy,” ...

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