Buying Chirped Mirrors

See us at OFC 2025 in San Francisco, April 1–3 (booth 1551)!

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.

Your sidekick for laser optics development

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 spectrally uniform GDD. GTI mirrors can be designed for any specific GDD requirement from slightly negative (−20 fs²) up to ±10000 fs².

Matching chirped mirror pairs are also available and can give a dispersion compensation effect.

Standard GTI mirrors can be found in OPTOSHOP.

The Future Depends on Optics

See us at OPIE 25 in Pacifico Yokohama, Japan, April 23–25 (booth F-32), SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing in Orlando (FL), USA, April 13–17 (booth 917), CLEO 25 in Long Beach (CA), USA, May 4–9 (booth 317), Automate 25 in Detroit (MI), USA, May 12–15 (booth 4400), SPS Italia in Parma, Italy, May 13–15 (hall 5, booth 055) and DPG-Frühjahrstagung der Sektion kondensierte Materie in Regensburg, Germany, March 18–20 (booth 25)!

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.

Hangzhou Shalom EO offers custom chirped mirrors optimized for dispersion compensation of ultrashort pulses of ultrafast lasers. Shalom EO's chirped mirrors feature low negative group delay dispersion (GDD), minimized phase distortion and third-order distortion, and high reflectance. In our factory, Shalom EO utilizes accurate and up-to-date GDD metrological instruments to ensure the precise dispersion characteristics of our optical components which guarantees that our products meet the highest standards for pulse compression, dispersion compensation, and other ultrafast optical requirements.

In addition, Shalom EO supplies ultrafast chirped mirror pairs consisting of two matched complementary chirped mirrors. Shalom EO is also a professional supplier of a series of femtoline laser optics, like femtoline low GDD mirrors, ultrafast-enhanced silver mirrors, etc. You might visit our website to learn more.

Home of high power optics and coatings

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.

YOUR KEY to innovation and success

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).