Where to Buy Chirped Mirrors
Before You Buy: Learn About Chirped Mirrors
Chirped mirrors are a type of Bragg mirrors with a systematically varied Bragg wavelength within the device. They are designed to be ultra-broadband and can be optimized to control chromatic dispersion over a wide wavelength range. They are crucial building blocks for some ultrafast laser applications.
More general product categories: dispersive mirrors, laser mirrors
Related product category: dispersion compensation modules
Related product category: optical components and devices
With its comprehensive resources, RP Photonics helps you to well prepare purchase decisions:
- Encyclopedia article: Chirped Mirrors
- Related articles: chromatic dispersion, dispersion compensation, dispersive mirrors, dielectric mirrors
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Some aspects to consider before buying chirped mirrors: chromatic dispersion and its accuracy, reflectivity, wavelength range, optical quality, damage threshold, coating durability.
Manufacturers and Other Suppliers for Chirped Mirrors
16 suppliers for chirped mirrors are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 5 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.
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 The Future Depends on Optics Edmund Optics101 East Gloucester Pike Barrington, NJ 08007 United States |  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. |
| Newport Corporation | |
 43 Sparta Avenue Newton, NJ 07860 United States |  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. |
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| Allied Scientific Pro | |
| TeraXion | |
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| Alien Photonics | |
| Altechna UAB | |
| CASIX Inc. | |
 Home of high power optics and coatings LASEROPTIKHorster Str. 20 30826 Garbsen Germany |  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. |
| Layertec GmbH | |
| Mountain Photonics GmbH | |
| NANEO Precision IBS Coatings GmbH | |
| Optics and Allied Engineering Pvt. Ltd. | |
 Your sidekick for laser optics development OPTOMANUkmerges g. 427 14185 Vilnius Lithuania |  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. |
| R&D Ultrafast Lasers Kft. | |
 YOUR KEY to innovation and success UltraFast Innovations GmbHDieselstr. 5 85748 Garching (München) Germany |  UltraFast Innovations (UFI®) provides a variety of ultra-broadband compression mirror sets in several configurations. For example, mirror sets for pulse compression in chirped-pulse titanium:sapphire amplifier systems, broadband oscillators, and other applications cover the wavelength range of 400–1200 nm, i.e., up to 1.5 octaves. Our customers have reached pulse durations around 3 fs after spectral broadening in hollow-core fibers and gas cells in combination with our mirrors. Such mirrors are not only optimized for a broad reflection bandwidth, but also for a precise chromatic dispersion profile with low group delay dispersion (GDD) fluctuations. In some cases, we use two mirrors with different angles of incidence to further reduce the oscillations (double-angle technology). |
