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Buying Eye-safe Lasers

Top-level product category: lasers and laser amplifiers

More general product categories: lasers

Related product category: laser safety equipment and consulting

Eye-safe lasers emit in wavelength regions where the light cannot be transmitted to the retina, reducing the risk of eye damage. Examples include erbium-doped lasers emitting around 1.5-μm and thulium-doped lasers emitting around 2 μm. These lasers are used in eye-safe laser rangefinders and free-space optical communications.

Making Good Purchase Decisions

RP Photonics helps you to not only to find all relevant suppliers, 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 gives 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:

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 eye-safe lasers. 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.

3. Find suitable suppliers

We suggest three steps:

  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for eye-safe lasers. 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.

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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 Eye-safe Lasers

30 suppliers for eye-safe lasers are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 6 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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Picophotonics Ltd.
Kauhakorvenkatu 53 B
33710 Tampere
Finland
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eye-safe lasers

Compact, high-repetition rate eye-safe OEM microchip lasers for LIDAR and range-finding applications. Nanosecond pulse duration, µJ pulse energy with repetition rate up to 200 kHz at 1535 nm. The smallest form-factor for high repetition rate microchip laser platform.

Optogama
(4Lasers)
Mokslininku str. 6B
08412 Vilnius
Lithuania
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eye-safe lasers

Optogama offers various types of lasers: eye-safe 1,54 μm diode-pumped passively Q-switched and CW erbium glass lasers as well as passively Q-switched Nd:YAG lasers.

Eye-safe 1,54 μm wavelength nanosecond lasers of the “KAUKAS“ (1, 2, 3) series have a unique compact design and are available in OEM models for dedicated applications. These lasers delivers up to 3 mJ energy per pulse with pulse duration <10–15 ns, TEM00 beam profile and repetition rate of up to 5 Hz.

„KAUKAS HR“ laser models have an adjustable repetition rate and deliver more than 30 µJ energy per pulse with a repetition rate of up to 1 kHz available on request.

“KAUKAS CW” diode-pumped, solid-state laser models deliver up to 400 mW of continuous-wave power at 6 wavelength in the 1,5–1.6 μm spectral range.

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Lumibird – Quantel, Keopsys, Convergent, Continuum brands
2 rue Paul Sabatier
22300 Lannion
France
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eye-safe lasers

Lumibird manufactures a large range of eye-safe lasers in the range of 1.5 µm, through different technologies. We obtain these wavelengths with DPPS OPOs, erbium-doped fiber lasers and diode lasers.

Aerodiode
Rue François Mitterrand
Institut d'Optique d'Aquitaine
33400 Talence
France
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eye-safe lasers

SHIPS TODAY: AeroDIODE offers several fiber-coupled laser diodes modules in the eye-safe wavelength range like 1480 nm or 1550 nm diodes. Most eye-safe laser diode are offered as stock items or associated with a CW or pulsed laser diode driver. They are compatible with our high speed nanosecond pulsed drivers or high power CW drivers (with air cooling) for the multimode high power laser diode versions. The single mode laser diodes (either Fabry–Pérot or DFB laser diode) can reach high power in nanosecond pulse regime up to 400 mW. Most turn-key diode & driver solutions are optimized for single-shot to CW performances with pulse width lengths down to 1 ns. The laser diode precision pulses are generated internally by an on-board pulse generator, or on demand from an external TTL signal. Many multimode versions are available with CW emission up to 450 W in a 200-µm core multimode fiber or up to 250 W in a 135-µm core fiber or 160 W in a 105 µm core fiber.

See also our tutorial on fiber-coupled laser diodes.

Megawatt Lasers
P.O. Box 24190
Hilton Head Island, SC 29925–4190
United States
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eye-safe lasers

MegaWatt Lasers's ER902 is a passively Q-switched erbium glass laser that operates at 1.54 μm. This eye-safe wavelength is ideal for defense, LIBS, and LIDAR applications. The design allows for 10 Hz repetition rates with a 4 ns pulse width and a 200 μJ pulse energy. All in a 9 mm diameter by 20 mm length package.

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RPMC Lasers, Inc.
8495 Veterans Memorial Pkwy
O’Fallon MO 63366
United States
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eye-safe lasers

RPMC Lasers offers a large selection of "eye-safe" or "retina-safe" lasers above ≈1.4 µm in the SWIR, MWIR, and LWIR wavelength ranges. These "eye-safe" offerings include both CW and pulsed diode lasers, superluminescent laser diodes (SLEDs), quantum cascade laser diodes (QCLs), DPSS lasers, and fiber lasers. Our pulsed lasers are available with either active or passive Q-switching, and our continuous-wave (CW) lasers are available in both single- and multi-longitudinal mode options. Let RPMC help you find the right laser today!

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Other Suppliers
3 Micron Laser Technology
United States
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Acal BFi
Germany
AKELA Laser Corporation
United States
DIGCO Inc.
China
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Egismos Technology Corporation
Taiwan
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GMP SA, Büro Zürich
Switzerland
L3HARRIS
Australia
Laser Components GmbH
Germany
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Laserglow Technologies
Canada M6C 1C
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LumiMetric Co., Ltd.
China
Lumispot Technology Corp.
China
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Marysol Technologies, Inc.
United States
Metalaser
China
Mountain Photonics GmbH
Germany
Sichuan MetalMiracle Industry Corp.
China
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Nanjing Crylink Photonics Co., Ltd
China
Nanjing Metalaser Photonics Co., Ltd
China
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Nuphoton Technologies
United States
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Optitask Ltd.
Israel
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PhotonTec Berlin GmbH
Germany
PolarOnyx
United States
QPhotonics, LLC
United States
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Sichuan MetalMiracle Industry Corp.
China
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Sparkle Optics
United States

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