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Purchasing Advisor for Holmium-doped Laser Gain Media

Find all you need for professionally buying holmium-doped laser gain media: an interactive tool with a comprehensive and trustworthy directory of suppliers and expert guidance for a structured decision process with scientific and technical background information.

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

The most common holmium-doped medium is Hm3+:YAG, used for emission at wavelengths around 2.1 μm. It is predominantly employed in medical lasers, particularly for laser surgery due to its effective tissue interaction properties.

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1. Understand the technical background

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2. Define your requirements

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

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 holmium-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.

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.

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3. Find suitable suppliers

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  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for holmium-doped laser gain media. 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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Suppliers for Holmium-doped Laser Gain Media

7 suppliers for holmium-doped laser gain media are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which two present their product descriptions and images. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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

LVF holmium doped fibers can be used for laser emission at visible wavelengths (549 nm) and mid-infrared wavelengths (2.95 µm, 3.92 µm).

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Exail (formerly iXblue)
34, Rue de la Croix de Fer
78100 Saint Germain-en-Laye
France
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Exail (formerly iXblue) has a full range of holmium-doped optical fibers for amplifiers and fiber lasers from 1.9 to 2.2 µm.

Our single clad holmium-doped fiber can be directly core-pumped with a thulium-doped fiber laser. Our double-clad holmium-doped fiber is available for high efficiency multi-mode pump coupling.

Exail also offers triple clad designs for high power amplifiers and fiber lasers.

Benefits and features:

  • high and consistent pump absorption
  • large mode area, low M2 and NA
  • high efficiency
  • high holmium concentration
  • good heat dissipation

Applications: 2-μm CW and pulsed lasers and amplifiers, e.g. for military and commercial applications.

Thulium/holmium co-doped fibers are also available, e.g. with triple clad design for high-power amplifiers and lasers.

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Other Suppliers

Crystech Inc.
China
HG Optronics
China
Mountain Photonics GmbH
Germany
Princeton Scientific Corp.
United States
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Scientific Materials Corp.
United States
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