Where to Buy Lasers

HÜBNER PHOTONICS offers a full range of high performance lasers including single and multi-line Cobolt lasers, tunable C-WAVE lasers, C-FLEX laser combiners. All our lasers are manufactured in a clean room environment, by skilled staff and with the highest of quality.

GWU-Lasertechnik has more than 30 years of experience in lasers and nonlinear optics. We are the pioneer of commercial BBO OPO technology. Our widely tunable laser sources cover the spectral range from the deep-UV at <190 nm to the IR at >2700 nm. We offer pulsed solutions for nano-, pico- and femtosecond pulses with best performance and highest reliability.

Ti:sapphire is the workhorse of ultrafast lasers due to its high gain bandwidth, enabling delivery of the shortest pulses and scalable to high pulse energy and average power. KMLabs provides a full suite of modelocked oscillators and integrated oscillator-amplifier systems, spanning pulse energies from the nJ range to 30 mJ in pulses from 15 fs to 40 fs.

AFS offers various femtosecond laser platforms based on ytterbium or thulium-doped fiber amplifiers, OPCPA/OPA and XUV extensions covering all wavelength ranges for compact systems up to complex multi-functional beamlines.

EKPLA offers a wide range of femtosecond, picosecond and nanosecond lasers as well as tunable wavelength systems for research and industrial applications.

Class 5 Photonics delivers ultrafast, high-power laser technology at outstanding performance to advance demanding applications from bio-imaging to ultrafast material science and attosecond science. Our robust optical parametric chirped pulse amplifiers (OPCPA) provide high-power, tunable femtosecond pulses and user-friendly operation.

Blue Sky Research offers fiber-coupled lasers, systems and components:

• single fiber output
• single, RGB or Multi-wavelength laser system
• up to four unique lasers (405 nm to 980 nm)
• individual laser driver, control and TEC stability electronics
• single-mode fiber optic pigtail output
• optional feedback/collimator

Radiantis manufacturers broadly tunable laser systems based on Optical Parametric Oscillators (OPOs). Femtosecond, picosecond and continuous-wave (CW) lasers are available that cover the visible and IR spectral regimes. The laser systems include both a pump laser and the OPO in the same enclosure.

Customised devices for specific wavelengths or pulse duration can be developed.

Sacher Lasertechnik offers a wide range of diode lasers for scientific and industrial applications, covering a wide range of emission wavelengths and output powers. Apart from DFB and DBR lasers, Fabry–Pérot and tapered amplifier diodes, we offer quantum cascade lasers and terahertz emitters.

TOPTICA's products provide an ultra-broad laser wavelength coverage: 190 nm – 0.1 THz (corresponding to 3 mm). They enable a big variety of demanding applications in quantum optics, spectroscopy, biophotonics, microscopy, test & measurement, as well as materials inspection. The unique wavelength range is based on three major product categories:

• diode lasers, 190 nm – 3500 nm with frequency-conversion techniques
• ultrafast fiber lasers, 488 nm – 2300 nm (3500 nm customized), 5000 – 15000 nm
• terahertz systems, 0.1 – 6 THz (15 THz customized)

Edmund Optics offers a wide range of laser sources, including machine vision lasers, life science lasers, metrology lasers, gas lasers, industrial and point lasers, and material processing lasers.

Frankfurt Laser Company offers the widest wavelength range for laser diodes on the world market from 370 nm to 12 µm, single mode & multimode, broad area, DFB and DBR, fiber Bragg grating stabilized, quantum cascade, VCSELs, superluminescent diodes and mid-IR light emitting diodes. We offer wavelength selection and custom packaging; please contact us to discuss your requirements.

Bright Solutions offers various types of lasers:

• fiber-coupled diode laser modules
• various types of nanosecond Q-switched lasers and MOPAs, e.g. for LIDAR, laser machining or lithography
• narrowband picosecond lasers, e.g. for OPO pumping, Raman or fluorescence spectroscopy and multimodal imaging

Thorlabs manufactures an extensive selection of CW and pulsed laser systems including the new picosecond Q-switched laser with microjoule-level pulses at kHz repetition rates and exceptional beam quality.

Lumibird manufactures a wide range of lasers thanks to its expertise in three key technologies: pulsed solid-state lasers (nanosecond range), CW and pulsed fiber lasers and fiber amplifiers, and laser diodes. Various application areas are addressed, in industry (manufacturing, lidar sensors), science (laboratories and universities), medical (ophthalmology) and defense.

The Stuttgart Instruments Alpha system is a modular, wavelength-tunable laser covering the 700 nm to 20 µm spectral range. It provides ultrafast pulses at MHz repetition rates and milliwatt- to watt-level power. Due to its excellent passive long-term stability, outstanding performance at the shot-noise limit and broad spectral range, it is ideally suited for sensitive IR applications.

The Alpha system can be configured optimum for your application. Its basic version is tunable from 1.35 µm to 4.5 µm, but can be upgraded to higher power, to the VIS (700 – 980 nm), the NIR (1.1 – 1.4 µm) and the MIR range (4.5 – 20 µm). Each module is field upgradable, and the entire system is fully automated and controlled via a user-friendly GUI.

NKT Photonics offers a wide range of lasers spanning from pulsed diode lasers over ultra-low noise single-frequency fiber lasers and ultrafast fiber lasers to supercontinuum white light lasers. Whatever your laser need, we have a system for you!

CNI offers a wide range of lasers, including

• laser diode modules, e.g. narrow-linewidth DFB lasers, picosecond lasers, alignment lasers and others
• diode-pumped solid-state lasers with high stability, low noise, high output power or pulse energy, Q-switched and mode-locked picosecond versions, etc.
• fiber lasers with SM or MM fiber output, pulse width <200 ps, tunable versions with 1–250 ns pulse width, modulation rates up to 1 MHz

and various others. We specialize in designing and manufacturing custom-made and OEM lasers to suit our clients' particular needs. In fact, 75% of the lasers manufactured involve some type of custom work.

Alpes Lasers offers a wide range of lasers with wavelengths ranging from 4 to 14 μm and powers up to several watts. This includes FP, DFB, THz, frequency comb and external cavity lasers in the mid-IR. Additionally, Alpes offers uniquely fast and widely tuneable lasers with our ET and XT product line.

RPMC Lasers offers the widest selection of solid-state lasers in North America, including both pulsed and CW sources ranging in wavelength from the UV through the LWIR regimes. Pulsed lasers include DPSS lasers, flashlamp lasers, fiber lasers, micro lasers/microchip Lasers, and ultrafast lasers. Additionally, CW laser modules including single-mode and multimode DPSS laser and laser diode modules available in both fiber coupled and free space configurations, as well as gas and fiber lasers, line modules, and many laser diode types, including superluminescent laser diodes, multi-wavelength lasers, and QCW quantum cascade laser diodes. Applications include material processing, LIDAR, micromachining, and many others.

MegaWatt Lasers Inc. spezializes on lamp-pumped pulsed lasers for a wide range of applications. Our pump chamber designs provide unsurpassed performance, reliability and leak integrity to meet the demanding needs of your laser system design. Our lasers produce multi-joule nanosecond pulses at eye-safe wavelength, e.g. based on Er:YAG or CTH:YAG rods. We also offer Nd:YAG and alexandrite lasers.

We maintain an inventory of standard pump chambers for immediate delivery, while modular design allows for cost effective custom solutions.

AdValue Photonics has developed a number of industrial fiber laser products, operating in different wavelengths regions and pulse duration regimes, or in continuous-wave mode. They are suitable for a range of industrial applications, including laser cutting, drilling and ablation.

See also our overview on fiber laser products!