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Buying Microchip Lasers

microchip lasers

Top-level product category: icon lasers and laser amplifiers

More general product categories: solid-state lasers

Related product category: microlasers

Microchip lasers are highly compact, alignment-free monolithic solid-state lasers. Many are Q-switched, producing short laser pulses ideal for applications such as laser range finding and LIDAR. Their small size and high reliability make them suitable for various precision tasks.

Making Good Purchase Decisions

As the most professional photonics purchasing portal, RP Photonics helps you to not only to find all relevant suppliers (not limited to our advertisers), 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 and another one explaining this tool give you valuable insights.

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 microchip lasers monolithic solid-state lasers Resonator Modes in Microchip Lasers

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 microchip 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.

You find these buttons in the supplier list below or under "3. Find suitable suppliers".

3. Find suitable suppliers

We suggest three steps:

  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for microchip 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

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Comments, e.g. reasons for your choice, or things which still need to be checked:

Suppliers for Microchip Lasers

20 suppliers for microchip 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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microchip lasers

OEM and turn-key microchip lasers with 50 ps – 10 ns pulse duration, 1 – 500 kHz repetition rate and µJ pulse energies. Current product lines cover wavelengths of 532, 767, 1064 and 1535 nm. Applications in LIDAR, range-finding, photoacoustic microscopy, nonlinear microscopy, time-resolved spectroscopy and seeding fiber amplifiers.

Excellence in Lasers, Optics, and Photonic Systems

Advanced Photonic Sciences
26741 State Route 267
Friendsville, PA 18818
United States
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microchip lasers

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 lasers you need. From the people you trust. Our experience, your advantage.

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

Serving North America, 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. Standard and custom options available. Let RPMC help you find the right laser today!

LEUKOS
2 rue Edouard Michaud
Beaublanc Bât. 3–4–5
87000 Limoges
France
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microchip lasers

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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Teem Photonics S. A.
61 chemin du Vieux Chêne
38246 Meylan
France
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microchip lasers

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, 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.

Lasers, Optics, Electronics. Made in Germany.

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

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Other Suppliers
BATOP GmbH
Germany
Beijing RealLight Technology Co. Ltd.
China
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Bright Microlaser
Italy
CASIX Inc.
China
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CryLaS GmbH
Germany
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Delta Photonics
Canada
GMP SA, Büro Zürich
Switzerland
IBPhotonics Ltd.
Bulgaria
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JGM Associates, Inc.
United States
Lahat Technologies Ltd
Israel
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Metalaser
China
Mountain Photonics GmbH
Germany
Soliton Laser- und Messtechnik GmbH
Germany
STANDA Ltd.
Lithuania

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