Where to Buy Microchip Lasers

Passively Q-switched microchip lasers from ALPHALAS are based on Nd:YAG, Nd:YLF, Yb:YAG and other active media combined with Cr⁴⁺:YAG Q-switch. Their monolithic laser cavity is the basis for extreme durability and reliability. Pulse widths range from 500 ps to several nanoseconds. The lasers have high peak powers at the fundamental wavelengths 914, 946, 1030, 1047, 1053, 1064, 1320 or 1342 nm and their harmonics. Models with repetition rates greater than 100 kHz, average power up to 1 W, pulse energies up to 1.5 mJ and > 3 MW peak power directly from an oscillator can be amplified for further power/energy boosting in a MOPA setup. TEM₀₀ beam profile and extremely compact design round up the laser specifications. Applications include material processing, nonlinear optics, efficient Raman Stokes, super continuum generation and micromachining. Customer-specific parameters are also available.

LEUKOS offers the passively Q-switched laser HLX-I, a compact microchip laser generated sub-nanosecond pulsed at 1064 nm. Different versions are available, with up to 500 MW average output power. It is suitable for micromachining, a seed laser, for LIDAR, 3 D scanning and imaging, biophotonics, supercontinuum generation and in other fields.

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RPMC Lasers offers passively Q-switched microchip lasers that emit high peak power pulses at wavelengths of 1064, 946, 532, 473, 355, 266, and 236.5 nm. These lasers are available with picosecond to nanosecond pulse widths and contain an integral photodiode which can serve as a trigger, for precise timing with detection systems.

APS offers microchip lasers emitting at green and infrared wavelengths. For example, the Snake Creek Lasers MicroGreen™ Series is a diode-pumped solid-state laser packaged in a 5.6 mm diameter can – the world’s smallest microchip laser with 532-nm output. An eye-safe version emitting at 1550 nm is also available.

The SNP-70F microchip laser advanced series reaches 70 kHz pulse repetition rate at 700 ps pulse duration with single longitudinal mode emission.

Teem Photonics offers over 45 short pulse lasers emitting at 1064 nm, the eye-safe MNE-06E-100, or with frequency conversion in the green (532 nm) as well as the ultraviolet at 355 nm, 266 nm and 213 nm at pulse durations down to 100 ps.