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Buying Erbium-doped Laser Gain Media

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More general product categories: rare-earth-doped laser gain media

More specific product categories: erbium-ytterbium-doped laser gain media

Erbium-doped laser gain media include a range of optical fibers, bulk glasses, and crystalline materials like Er:YAG. These media are widely used for lasers emitting around the 1.5-μm wavelength region, particularly in telecom applications.

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1. Understand the technical background

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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 erbium-doped laser gain media. 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.

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Suppliers for Erbium-doped Laser Gain Media

33 suppliers for erbium-doped laser gain media 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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Optogama
(4Lasers)
Mokslininku str. 6B
08412 Vilnius
Lithuania
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erbium-doped laser gain media

Optogama offers a range of high-quality erbium-doped laser gain media, ideal for eye-safe applications around 1.5 µm. These materials are optimized for diode-pumped solid-state lasers used in telecommunications, LIDAR, rangefinding, and medical systems.

We supply both phosphate and crystalline hosts co-doped with ytterbium to enhance pump efficiency and energy storage. Our crystals are precisely fabricated to deliver excellent thermal handling, optical homogeneity, and long operational lifetimes.

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Megawatt Lasers
P.O. Box 24190
Hilton Head Island, SC 29925–4190
United States
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erbium-doped laser gain media

MegaWatt Lasers Inc. has a large inventory laser rods, including Er:YAG rods. We also can assist in the design and modeling for various applications.

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Exail (formerly iXblue)
34, Rue de la Croix de Fer
78100 Saint Germain-en-Laye
France
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erbium-doped laser gain media

The amplification of optical transmission signals is enabled through our high efficiency erbium-doped fibers (ideal for C and L band amplifiers). Our wide range of erbium-doped optical fibers allows for tailored optical amplifiers (EDFAs) performance based on your requirements. Exail’s erbium-doped fiber (EDF) products have been optimized to fulfill the exigency of high efficiency and low noise EDFAs in the C & L bands. They cover a wide range of applications, from telecom to LIDAR. Space radiation versions are available (TRL 9).

Benefits & features:

  • low noise figure
  • flat gain shape
  • high efficiency
  • low splice loss
  • highly consistent spectroscopic data
  • 80 µm reduced cladding on request
  • PM Panda structure

Applications: 1.5-μm lasers and amplifiers, EDFAs, fiber lasers, small footprint fiber amplifiers.

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Leader in fluoride glass and optical fiber technology

Le Verre Fluoré
Rue Gabriel Voisin
Campus de Ker Lann
35170 Bruz, Brittany
France
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erbium-doped laser gain media

Thanks to their high rare-earth solubility (up to 100,000 ppm) and low phonon energy, LVF fluoride fibers offer dozens of active transitions, enabling a broad range of applications from visible to the mid-infrared.

LVF erbium-doped fibers are available as single-mode fibers or double cladding fibers.

LVF erbium doped fibers can be used for laser emission at visible wavelengths (470 nm, 540 nm), infrared wavelengths (1.55 µm) and mid-infrared wavelengths (2.94 µm, 3.5 µm).

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Innovation in every fiber

Fibercore Limited
University Parkway
Chilworth Science Park
Southampton SO16 7QQ
United Kingdom
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erbium-doped laser gain media

Fibercore's portfolio of erbium-doped fiber, PM erbium fiber, dual-clad erbium/ytterbium-doped fiber, triple-clad doped fiber and other doped fibers offers ideal suitability for high-power erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) and fiber lasers.

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3W Photonics
United States
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AOG Crystal Technology Co, Ltd.
China
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China
Bluebean Optical Tech Ltd.
China
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CASTECH
China
Claser Photonics Inc.
China
Coherent Corp.
United States
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Crylink
China
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Crytur, spol. s r.o.
Czech Republic
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DIGCO Inc.
China
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ELUXI Ltd.
United Kingdom
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Furukawa Electric
Japan
HG Optronics
China
Impex High Tech
Germany
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Metalaser
China
Nanjing Crylink Photonics Co., Ltd
China
Nanjing Metalaser Photonics Co., Ltd
China
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New Source Technology LLC
United States
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Newlight Photonics Inc.
Canada
nLight Photonics Corporation
Canada
Northrop Grumman - Cutting Edge Optronics
United States
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OFS Global Headquarters
United States
PHOTONICPARTS
Germany
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Prysmian Group
Italy
Roditi International Corporation Ltd.
United Kingdom
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Scientific Materials Corp.
United States
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Hangzhou Yong Hee Photonics Co., Ltd.
China
Yutai Optics
China

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