Where to Buy Chirped Mirrors

Edmund Optics offers various kinds of mirrors for ultrafast laser technology, including highly dispersive chirped mirrors for different spectral regions such as 0.8 μm, 1 μm and 2 μm, but also UV and other infrared versions.

See us at CLEO 2024 in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, May 7–9 (booth 116), SPS Italia 2024 in Parma, Italy, May 28–30 (booth H069, hall 5) and Optics and Photonics Days 2024 in Helsinki, Finland, May 28–30 (booth 12)!

UltraFast Innovations (UFI) has ultra-broadband compression mirror sets which are available in many configurations. For example, mirror sets for pulse compression in chirped-pulse Ti:sapphire amplifier systems, broadband oscillators and other applications cover the wavelength range of 400–1200 nm, i.e., up to 1.5 octaves. Customers have reached pulse durations around 3 fs after spectral broadening in hollow-core fibers and gas cells in combination with mirrors designed and manufactured by UltraFast Innovations (UFI).

Such mirrors are not only optimized for a broad reflection bandwidth, but also for a precise chromatic dispersion profile with low GDD fluctuations. In some cases, we use two mirrors with different angles of incidence for further reducing oscillations of the group to latest version (double-angle technology).

See us at Ultrafast Phenomena 2024 in Barcelona, Spain, July 14–19!

Teraxion offers Dispersion Management Reflectors (DMRs), including low dispersion management reflectors for passive mode-locking of ultrafast lasers.

Thorlabs manufactures a wide range of ultrafast optics specifically designed for ultrafast applications, including mirrors with a specialized coating optimized for use with femtosecond Ti:sapphire lasers, low-GDD beamsplitters and mirrors, nonlinear crystals, and chirped mirrors. To precisely characterize the dispersion of ultrafast optics over the 500 – 1650 nm range, consider Thorlabs’ Chromatis™ dispersion measurement system with the InGaAs detector add-on option.

See us at CLEO 2024 in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, May 7–9 (booth 427)!

OPTOMAN can guide you through the features of chirped mirror designs and manufacture optimal dispersive mirrors for your laser system. Our dispersive mirrors feature predefined and flat GDD. GTI mirrors can be designed for any specific GDD requirement from slightly negative (−20 fs²) down to −5000 fs². Matching chirped mirror pairs are also available and can give a dispersion compensation effect.

Standard GTI mirror can be found in OPTOSHOP.

LASEROPTIK designs and produces various kinds of dispersive coatings, including chirped mirrors and matched pairs of chirped mirrors, also all other kinds of coated optics for dispersion management like GTI mirrors. We use Ion Beam Sputtering (IBS) for highest quality and widely ranging dispersion measurement setups for precise characterization.