What are the advantages and disadvantages of Laser diode?

Advantages:

There are some advantages of Laser diode which are given below,

• The Laser diode gives high power output as compared to other lasers.
• It operates at lower power as compared to other laser.
• It is smaller in size as compared to other types of laser.
• It is easily manufactured in arrays.
• It is the cheaper device to produce laser output.
• It has high efficiency.

Disadvantages:

There are some disadvantages of Laser diode which are given below,

• They are requires big and costly optics for large source size.
• They are requires big and costly optics for large source size.
• It has critical heating problem.
• They are requires high drive current to drive the large laser pellets.