True currently, but laser form factors are shrinking quickly. Reminds me of this article from a couple months ago where a team built (among a host of other siz

True currently, but laser form factors are shrinking quickly. Reminds me of this article from a couple months ago where a team built (among a host of other sizes/use cases) a 20W(!) laser using a 500um PCSEL which they describe, mounted, as "roughly the size of a webcam". Their lasers are also at comparable wavelengths https://spectrum.ieee.org/pcsel https://spectrum.ieee.org/pcsel