A new structure for a 1.3 mu m-wavelength beam-expander integrated ridge-waveguide laser is demonstrated that does not require a regrowth step. A narrow beam divergence of 5.4 degrees (lateral) and 18.9 degrees (vertical) enables a laser diode to be coupled to a cleaved singlemode fibre with an efficiency as high as 33% with a 1 dB alignment tolerance of +/- 2.4 mu m laterally and +/- 1.5 mu m vertically.