To double the power and improve the manufacturability, we were
ready to start over. We evaluated several alternative approaches by guesswork.
The first column was the existing manufactured design. The second was a different
clustering of four lasers, the third used multiple independent lasers in each small
package, the fourth used lots of little lasers, the next two used grating modulators
with high-power laser sources, and the last two were grouped clusters of existing
laser chips, but in new packages. The next-to-last column won.
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