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Purchasing Advisor for Laser Diode Drivers

Find all you need for professionally buying laser diode drivers: a comprehensive expert-curated directory of suppliers, scientific and technical background information, and an interactive AI-based tool with guidance for a structured decision process.

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Top-level product category: icon lasers and laser amplifiers

Related product categories: laser power supplies, laser diodes, laser diode modules, interlocks

Laser diode drivers provide laser diodes with the required electrical current, with the amount of current controlled by the user or an automatic apparatus. They can also provide auxiliary functions like temperature control and laser safety features, ensuring stable and reliable operation.

Interactive Purchase Decision Tool

Purchasing high-value photonics products is a substantial responsibility. Using a structured decision-making process and high quality supplier data helps a lot:

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How Responsible Purchase Decisions for Expensive Goods Like Lasers Are Done Explanations on this purchasing tool

Go through the process:

1. Understand the technical background

It is important to sufficiently understand the technology before buying.

Use the comprehensive learning resources of RP Photonics:

encyclopedia article laser diode drivers

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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 laser diode drivers. 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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  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for laser diode drivers. Use the checkboxes to mark possibly suitable suppliers.
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Suppliers for Laser Diode Drivers

73 suppliers for laser diode drivers are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 12 present their product descriptions and images. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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OEM Electronics for the Generation and Detection of Laser Light

Analog Modules, Inc.
126 Baywood Avenue
Longwood, FL 32750
United States
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laser diode drivers

AMI offers a family of diode drivers for high current and low current, CW and pulsed applications. AMI’s OEM seed laser drivers are ideal for driving 14-pin butterfly packaged laser diodes for use in CW or pulsed fiber MOPA systems. Featuring risetimes down to 100 ps and up to 50 MHz repetition rate. For high power diode stacks AMI offers up to 300 A, 280 V drivers. Turn-key diode controllers are also available.

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We manufacture diode lasers

Lumics GmbH
Schwarze-Pumpe-Weg 16
12681 Berlin
Germany
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laser diode drivers

Lumics offers customized OEM Driver Kits, enabling manufacturers to easily commission their LuOcean diode laser modules for testing or system integration. The Driver Kit includes a controller for reading laser module signals and controlling the pilot laser, a laser driver for laser activation, and an optional chiller driver for the TEC-based LuOcean Chiller Unit. Featuring an RS232 programming interface and built-in protection functions, these kits streamline operations and enhance equipment safety. Lumics' OEM Driver Kits provide a comprehensive solution for efficient and secure laser module management.

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Advanced laser technologies

EKSPLA
Savanoriu Av. 237
02300 Vilnius
Lithuania
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EKSPLA's uniLDD driver can supply almost any middle- and high-power laser diode in continuous or pulsed operation mode.

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30 Years of Laser Excellence

Monocrom
C/ Vilanoveta 6
08800 Vilanova i la Geltrú (Barcelona)
Spain
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laser diode drivers

From its beginning, Monocrom has been designing and building laser electronics:

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Lasers, Optics, Electronics. Made in Germany.

ALPHALAS GmbH
Bertha-von-Suttner-Str. 5
37085 Göttingen
Germany
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laser diode drivers

A large range of diode laser drivers covering CW and pulsed currents from 100 mA to 300 A are available as standard or as customer-specific products at competitive prices. The diode laser drivers are complemented with TEC drivers of various powers for easy integration into the customer’s laser systems. The product line includes also drivers for picosecond pulse diode lasers with repetition rates up to 100 MHz and laser diode current modulation up to 1 GHz.

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Laser Diodes. Redefined.

Eblana Photonics
3 West Pier Business Campus
Dun Laoghaire
Dublin A96 A621
Ireland
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Eblana’s proprietary DX-1 laser/temperature controller is a low noise, high stability driver solution for CW and modulated usage scenarios. The device’s accurate bias and temperature tuning via the single 4-pin voltage connector allows easy benchtop operating for testing, and simplifies integration for applications such as field monitoring of environmental pollutants, portable LIDAR systems, gigabit ethernet and more.

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Your problem is our challenge – flexibility is our standard!

Artifex Engineering GmbH & Co KG
Dortmunder Str. 16–18
26723 Emden
Germany
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laser diode drivers

Artifex Engineering's LDD100 is a fast pulsed current source for driving laser diodes and high power LEDs. We offer this instrument with various end stages with current ranges from 1 A to 600 A. The graphical user interface is clear and intuitive to use. These drivers are ideal for testing laser diodes.

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Pioneering Photonics

Alpes Lasers SA
Avenue des Pâquiers 1
2072 St-Blaise
Switzerland
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laser diode drivers

Alpes Lasers offers QCL laser drivers for pulsed and continuous-wave operation. Pulse widths as low as 20 ns are achievable with repetition rates up to 1 MHz.

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Aerodiode
Rue François Mitterrand
Institut d'Optique d'Aquitaine
33400 Talence
France
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laser diode drivers

SHIPS TODAY: AeroDIODE offers a wide range of laser diode drivers or SOA drivers for use by R & D teams or as OEM modules for photonics systems manufacturers. Some models are suitable for driving high-power multimode laser diodes, while others can generate nanosecond pulses for both laser singlemode laser diodes or SOAs. All of them have an integrated TEC controller for thermal management. A low noise laser diode driver is also available for narrow linewidth single frequency laser diodes.

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AMS Technologies AG
Fraunhoferstr. 22
82152 Martinsried
Germany
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laser diode drivers

AMS Techno­logies’ range of laser diode drivers addresses the requirements for low-, medium- and high-power laser diodes, whether driving single laser diodes, laser diode arrays or complete diode laser modules:

Together with our suppliers, we can create a customized laser driver solution tailored to your requirements.

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Sacher Lasertechnik GmbH
Hedwig-Jahnow-Str. 12
35037 Marburg
Germany
laser diode drivers

Sacher Lasertechnik offers different types of low-noise laser controllers, including benchtop and OEM versions with digital control interfaces.

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all wavelengths.

TOPTICA Photonics AG
Lochhamer Schlag 19
82166 Gräfelfing
Germany
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See the company profile page for additional contact information.

laser diode drivers

Apart from a well-engineered optomechanical design and the integrated laser diode, the most important part of a tunable diode laser system is its driving electronics, which is responsible for getting the most out of a laser system.

Wide mode-hop-free tuning with Littrow setups requires a well-defined interplay between piezo actuator and current driver. Drifts of the laser diode current, the temperature or the piezo voltage determine the drift of the laser frequency and the stability against mode-hopping. Noise on any of these outputs increases the laser linewidth. The digital DLC pro represents the latest stage of development of laser control electronics. Its noise and drift properties are even better than the well established and widely used preceding electronics SYS DC 110.

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Other Suppliers

8photonics GmbH
Switzerland
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ABSee-Laser
Germany
AB-tron Entwicklungs GmbH
Germany
AKELA Laser Corporation
United States
ALPhANOV
France
Apollo Instruments, Inc.
United States
Arroyo Instruments, LLC
United States
Beijing Rofea Optoelectronics Co., Ltd.
China
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Beratron GmbH
Germany
BWT Beijing Ltd.
China
Crisel Instruments s.r.l.
Italy
Egismos Technology Corporation
Taiwan
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Elliot Scientific Ltd.
United Kingdom
ELUXI Ltd.
United Kingdom
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Evolase Oy
Finland
Freedom Photonics LLC
United States
GEHT International Ltd
Hong Kong
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Highland Technology, Inc.
United States
IBPhotonics Ltd.
Bulgaria
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iC-Haus Germany
Germany
IL Photonics
Israel
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Innolume GmbH
Germany
JGM Associates, Inc.
United States
Lahat Technologies Ltd
Israel
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Lambda Photometrics Ltd
United Kingdom
LAS Photonics
Israel
Laser Components GmbH
Germany
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Laser Electronics
Germany
Lastronics GmbH
Germany
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LIVE Lasersystems
Austria
Lumina Power, Inc.
United States
M Squared Lasers Ltd.
United Kingdom
Maiman Electronics SL
Spain
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Midwest Laser Products, LL
United States
MOG Laboratories Pty Ltd
Australia
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MWTechnologies, Lda.
Portugal
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Nano-Giga
France
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neoplas control GmbH
Germany
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Northrop Grumman - Cutting Edge Optronics
United States
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Optical Pulse Machines
Israel
Optoprim Germany GmbH
Germany
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OPTTON, Inc.
United States
Oriental-Laser (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd.
China
OsTech
Germany
Photon Lines Ltd.
United Kingdom
Shenzen Photonstream Technology Co., Ltd.
China
PicoLAS GmbH
Germany
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PicoQuant GmbH
Germany
Port City Instruments, LLC
United States
QPhotonics, LLC
United States
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QS Lasers
Lithuania
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RedWave Labs Ltd,
United Kingdom
Roithner LaserTechnik
Austria
STANDA Ltd.
Lithuania
Superlum Diodes Ltd.
Ireland
Tokyo Instruments, Inc.
Japan
Vescent Photonics, Inc.
United States
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Wavelength Electronics, Inc.
United States
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Wavelength Opto-Electronic (S) Pte Ltd
Singapore
Wieserlabs UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Germany
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World Star Tech
Canada
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