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Buying Educational Laser Kits

Top-level product categories: icon lasers and laser amplifiers, icon services and training

Related product category: educational optics kits

Training on laser technology can benefit from hands-on experiments with educational laser kits. Course participants become more actively involved compared to traditional teaching methods, leading to a deeper understanding and experience of laser principles and applications.

Making Good Purchase Decisions

As the most professional photonics purchasing portal, RP Photonics helps you to not only to find all relevant suppliers (not limited to our advertisers), but also to make good purchasing decisions.

NEW: Structured Decision Process

Purchasing involves a lot of responsibility. We recommend that you apply best practice by using the following structured process: Go through the following expandable sections, complete the form and finally come to a purchase decision. You can then print that to a PDF for documenting the process.

Our article on best practices for purchasing and another one explaining this tool give you valuable insights.

1. Understand the technical background

It is important to sufficiently understand the technology before buying.

Use the comprehensive resources of RP Photonics. Unfortunately, we do not have a specific article related to educational laser kits.

If you need personal help, contact RP Photonics to get technical consultancy.

2. Define your requirements

It is essential to fully understand and clearly define your requirements before you buy.

We recommend that you develop a list of clear specifications according to your specific needs, against which you can later check the suitability of found product offers:

To help you, we have already listed some aspects we recommend you consider when buying educational laser kits. Of course, there may be other aspects that are relevant to your specific case.

This list is for your own preparation, and can later (possibly in modified form) be used for quotation requests to suppliers.

Otherwise, you will need to talk to your technical colleagues.

If you cannot sufficiently clarify your requirements, you may want to get technical consultancy from RP Photonics.

You find these buttons in the supplier list below or under "3. Find suitable suppliers".

3. Find suitable suppliers

We suggest three steps:

  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for educational laser kits. Use the checkboxes to mark possibly suitable suppliers.
  • The selected suppliers will appear below this list, along with your list of specifications. You can then indicate which specifications they meet according to your research. (You should finalize your specifications before doing this.)
  • Based on the results, you can finally choose a supplier that is hopefully a good enough fit.

Selected suppliers:

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Decision

The most suitable supplier you found:

Comments, e.g. reasons for your choice, or things which still need to be checked:

Suppliers for Educational Laser Kits

11 suppliers for educational laser kits are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 2 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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Excellence in Lasers, Optics, and Photonic Systems

Advanced Photonic Sciences
26741 State Route 267
Friendsville, PA 18818
United States
Profile page  Website  
educational laser kits

APS’ has signed an exclusive agreement to represent Dr. Luhs Engineering Offices in North America to distribute, service, and support all educational optics, lasers, telecom, and laser applications modules. These modules, developed by Dr. Walter Luhs Photonik Ingenieurbüro in Germany, are educational modules that teach the basic principles of optics and lasers, and applications thereof, on college and professional school level.

Product-specific web page

Lasers, Optics, Electronics. Made in Germany.

ALPHALAS GmbH
Bertha-von-Suttner-Str. 5
37085 Göttingen
Germany
Profile page  Website  
educational laser kits

ALPHALAS offers laser kits for education and research:

  • Diode-pumped solid-state laser kit with five modes of operation: CW @ 1064 nm, frequency-doubling intra-cavity & Q-switched, external frequency-doubling.
    Options: Nanosecond monolithic microchip laser, active Q-switching, third and fourth harmonic generation, acousto-optic or electro-optic modulator.
    Applications: education in theory and practice, research & testing, start-up for DPSS laser development.
  • Mode-locked picosecond laser kit with ready aligned diode-pumped passively mode-locked laser cavity is offered at a very low price. Nominal specifications are: 1064 nm wavelength, 300 mW output power, 10 ps pulse duration, 100 MHz rep. rate. This kit uses semiconductor saturable absorber technology.
    Options: Second and third harmonic generation.
    Applications: education in theory & practice, research & testing, start-up for picosecond laser development.
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Other Suppliers

Egismos Technology Corporation
Taiwan
Profile page  Website  
eLas educational Lasers
Germany
Profile page  Website  
IBPhotonics Ltd.
Bulgaria
Profile page  Website  
Laser Peak
Austria
Profile page  Website  
neoplas control GmbH
Germany
Profile page  Website  
New Span Opto-Technology Inc
United States
Newport Corporation
United States
Photonics Technologies
United Kingdom
Photonik Ingenieurbüro Dr. Walter Luhs
Germany

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