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Where to Buy Mode-locked Lasers

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mode-locked lasers

Mode-locked lasers generate trains of picosecond or femtosecond pulses with durations ranging from about 5 fs to 50 ps. They are typically solid-state bulk or fiber lasers, but dye lasers and mode-locked laser diodes are also used. Techniques like cavity dumping and amplification can be employed to achieve higher pulse energies.

More general product categories: lasers

More specific product categories: Kerr lens mode-locked lasers, mode-locked diode lasers, mode-locked fiber lasers, picosecond lasers, ultrafast lasers

Related product category: nanosecond lasers

Related product category: lasers and laser amplifiers

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Some aspects to consider before buying mode-locked lasers: pulse energy and duration, repetition rate, pulse quality (e.g. temporal and spectral shape), durability, thermal stability, environmental resistance, integration with systems, ease of use, maintenance requirements.

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Manufacturers and Other Suppliers for Mode-locked Lasers

45 suppliers for mode-locked lasers are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 10 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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Menhir Photonics AG
Industriestrasse 42
8152 Glattbrugg
Switzerland
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mode-locked lasers

Menhir Photonics offers ultrafast mode-locked lasers at 1.5 μm wavelength. These lasers offer pulse width below 200 fs and fundamental pulse repetition rates that can be chosen from 250 MHz up to 2.5 GHz. These systems are hermetically sealed and all-in-one (laser and electronic is one box). Menhir Photonics’ products have been designed to achieve ultra-low-noise performances combined with high-reliability and robustness, to ensure that they can be used in any situation from laboratory setup to harsh environments.


Thorlabs
43 Sparta Avenue
Newton, NJ 07860
United States
Profile page  Website  
mode-locked lasers

Among its portfolio, Thorlabs manufactures several mode-locked femtosecond fiber laser systems, including stand-alone systems at 1030 nm, 1550 nm, and 2 µm, as well as an all-fiber mid-IR supercontinuum laser driven by a mode-locked pump laser. These systems compliment our femtosecond family of lasers, amplifiers, and specialized optics, including nonlinear crystals, chirped mirrors, low GDD mirrors/beamsplitters, and dispersion compensating fiber.


Fully automated ultrafast tunable laser systems

SI Stuttgart Instruments GmbH
Curiestraße 2
70563 Stuttgart
Germany
Profile page  Website  
mode-locked lasers

The Stuttgart Instruments Primus is an ultrafast (fs) mode-locked oscillator, based on the solid-state technology. It provides a high average output power combined with a superior low noise level (shot noise limit above 300 kHz) and an excellent long-term stability.

The solid-state technology with 1040 nm central wavelength enables the excellent long-term stability by providing several watts of output power at 40 MHz pulse repetition rate and 450 fs pulse duration. Its superior low noise level reaches the shot noise limit above 300 kHz. In combination with the stability and output power, it enables ultrasensitive measurements and makes the Primus perfectly suited as pump source for frequency converters like the Stuttgart Instruments Alpha. The entire system is encapsulated in a solid CNC-cut and water-cooled housing, thus reaching excellent robustness against external perturbations.


Innovative and Reliable

AdValue Photonics
2700 E. Bilby Rd.
Tucson, AZ 85706
United States
Profile page  Website  
mode-locked lasers

AdValue Photonics offers picosecond and femtosecond mode-locked fiber lasers emitting in the 2-μm spectral region:

  • The AP-ML1 offers up to 10 kW peak power in <3-ps pulses with 20–40 MHz pulse repetition rate.
  • The AP-ML2 generates 800-fs pulses with up to 10 μJ pulse energy and up to 500 kHz repetition rate.
  • The AP-ML is a seed laser available with pulse durations between 350 fs and 950 fs. Repetition rates can be between 20 MHz and 50 MHz.

All those devices have a good output beam quality.


CNI Laser
No. 888 Jinhu Road
High-tech Zone, Changchun 130103
China
Profile page  Website  
mode-locked lasers

CNI offer mode-locked picosecond lasers with superior beam quality and high reliability. The pulse duration can be less than 20 ps. Available wavelengths are 266 nm, 355 nm, 532 nm, 1064 nm, 1319 nm and others.


Lasers, Optics, Electronics. Made in Germany.

ALPHALAS GmbH
Bertha-von-Suttner-Str. 5
37085 Göttingen
Germany
Profile page  Website  
mode-locked lasers

ALPHALAS employs various techniques to mode-lock lasers for the generation of picosecond pulses at 1064 nm and the harmonics at 532 nm, 355 nm and 266 nm. The passive techniques include the patented nonlinear mirror (Stankov’s mirror), as well as semiconductor absorber mirror or Kerr lens mode locking. In addition, active mode locking is used in combination with the passive mode locking for highest reliability and stability. The mode-locked lasers are included in the PICOPOWER-series lasers, together with gain-switched and regeneratively amplified lasers.

Bright Solutions SRL
Via Artigiani 27
27010 Cura Carpignano (Pavia)
Italy
Profile page  Website  
mode-locked lasers

Bright Solutions has the NPS narrowband picosecond lasers:

  • 1064, 532 or 355 nm
  • 7-ps pulses at 40 MHz
  • spectral width < 0.3 nm
  • 10 mW average output power; custom Nps-1064-k2 with amplifier for 2 W output power

The NPS lasers are suitable for applications like OPO pumping, Raman or fluorescence spectroscopy and multimodal imaging.


Advanced laser technologies

EKSPLA
Savanoriu Av. 237
02300 Vilnius
Lithuania
Profile page  Website  
mode-locked lasers

Due to their excellent stability and high output parameters, EKSPLA scientific picosecond lasers established their name as “Gold Standard” among scientific picosecond lasers. The innovative design of the new generation of picosecond mode-locked lasers features diode-pumping‑only technology, thus reducing maintenance costs and improving output parameters. Second, third, fourth and fifth (on some versions) harmonic options combined with various accessories, advanced electronics (for streak camera synchronization, phase-locked loop, synchronization of fs laser) and customization possibilities make these lasers well suited for many scientific applications, including optical parametric generator pumping, time-resolved spectroscopy, nonlinear spectroscopy, remote sensing, metrology and others.


Lasers for the Molecular Age

Cycle GmbH
Luruper Hauptstr. 1
22547 Hamburg
Germany
Profile page  Website  
mode-locked lasers

Cycle supplies tailored laser systems with unique features and affordable prices:

The SOPRANO-15 is Cycle’s state-of-the art femtosecond fiber lasers, designed to fulfill tasks such as OPO/OPA pumping, semiconductor testing, and materials analysis and processing. The SOPRANO-15 operates at a center wavelength of 1550 nm or 775 nm and pulse duration below 350 fs, establishing benefits in both industrial and scientific environments in 24/7 operation.

The SOPRANO-15 mini is designed to carry out tasks such as multiphoton microscopy, spectroscopy, semiconductor testing, and materials analysis. In addition to its dependable 24/7 operation, the SOPRANO-15 mini operates at a center wavelength of 1550 nm and typical pulse duration below 130 fs, establishing benefits in both industrial and scientific environments.


O/E Land Inc.
7639 Cordner
Lasalle, Quebec H8N 2X2
Canada
Profile page  Website  
mode-locked lasers

O/E Land offers mode-locked fiber lasers with and without additional amplifiers. The applications include but are not limited to spectrometry, industrial and medical/biomedical. Specifically, the high-power UV pulsed laser sources are useful in medical applications and disinfection.


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Innovative and Reliable

AdValue Photonics
2700 E. Bilby Rd.
Tucson, AZ 85706
United States
Profile page  Website  
mode-locked lasers

AdValue Photonics offers picosecond and femtosecond mode-locked fiber lasers emitting in the 2-μm spectral region:

  • The AP-ML1 offers up to 10 kW peak power in <3-ps pulses with 20–40 MHz pulse repetition rate.
  • The AP-ML2 generates 800-fs pulses with up to 10 μJ pulse energy and up to 500 kHz repetition rate.
  • The AP-ML is a seed laser available with pulse durations between 350 fs and 950 fs. Repetition rates can be between 20 MHz and 50 MHz.

All those devices have a good output beam quality.


Allied Laser Solutions, LLC
Biophotonics Solutions Inc. Laboratories
Calmar Laser
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Clark MXR
Coherent Inc.
Del Mar Photonics, Inc.
IMRA America
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Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories Inc.
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Light Age, Inc.
Market Tech, Inc.
Neptec Optical Solutions
Pritel
Spectra-Physics Lasers
Thorlabs
43 Sparta Avenue
Newton, NJ 07860
United States
Profile page  Website  
mode-locked lasers

Among its portfolio, Thorlabs manufactures several mode-locked femtosecond fiber laser systems, including stand-alone systems at 1030 nm, 1550 nm, and 2 µm, as well as an all-fiber mid-IR supercontinuum laser driven by a mode-locked pump laser. These systems compliment our femtosecond family of lasers, amplifiers, and specialized optics, including nonlinear crystals, chirped mirrors, low GDD mirrors/beamsplitters, and dispersion compensating fiber.


TRUMPF Inc.
UpTek Solutions Corp.
Vescent Photonics, Inc.
Profile page  Website  
From America:
Arktis Laser Inc.
Profile page  Website  
Laserglow Technologies
Profile page  Website  
O/E Land Inc.
7639 Cordner
Lasalle, Quebec H8N 2X2
Canada
Profile page  Website  
mode-locked lasers

O/E Land offers mode-locked fiber lasers with and without additional amplifiers. The applications include but are not limited to spectrometry, industrial and medical/biomedical. Specifically, the high-power UV pulsed laser sources are useful in medical applications and disinfection.


Outside America:
Alnair Labs

Lasers, Optics, Electronics. Made in Germany.

ALPHALAS GmbH
Bertha-von-Suttner-Str. 5
37085 Göttingen
Germany
Profile page  Website  
mode-locked lasers

ALPHALAS employs various techniques to mode-lock lasers for the generation of picosecond pulses at 1064 nm and the harmonics at 532 nm, 355 nm and 266 nm. The passive techniques include the patented nonlinear mirror (Stankov’s mirror), as well as semiconductor absorber mirror or Kerr lens mode locking. In addition, active mode locking is used in combination with the passive mode locking for highest reliability and stability. The mode-locked lasers are included in the PICOPOWER-series lasers, together with gain-switched and regeneratively amplified lasers.

Bright Solutions SRL
Via Artigiani 27
27010 Cura Carpignano (Pavia)
Italy
Profile page  Website  
mode-locked lasers

Bright Solutions has the NPS narrowband picosecond lasers:

  • 1064, 532 or 355 nm
  • 7-ps pulses at 40 MHz
  • spectral width < 0.3 nm
  • 10 mW average output power; custom Nps-1064-k2 with amplifier for 2 W output power

The NPS lasers are suitable for applications like OPO pumping, Raman or fluorescence spectroscopy and multimodal imaging.


Chromacity Ltd.
CNI Laser
No. 888 Jinhu Road
High-tech Zone, Changchun 130103
China
Profile page  Website  
mode-locked lasers

CNI offer mode-locked picosecond lasers with superior beam quality and high reliability. The pulse duration can be less than 20 ps. Available wavelengths are 266 nm, 355 nm, 532 nm, 1064 nm, 1319 nm and others.


Lasers for the Molecular Age

Cycle GmbH
Luruper Hauptstr. 1
22547 Hamburg
Germany
Profile page  Website  
mode-locked lasers

Cycle supplies tailored laser systems with unique features and affordable prices:

The SOPRANO-15 is Cycle’s state-of-the art femtosecond fiber lasers, designed to fulfill tasks such as OPO/OPA pumping, semiconductor testing, and materials analysis and processing. The SOPRANO-15 operates at a center wavelength of 1550 nm or 775 nm and pulse duration below 350 fs, establishing benefits in both industrial and scientific environments in 24/7 operation.

The SOPRANO-15 mini is designed to carry out tasks such as multiphoton microscopy, spectroscopy, semiconductor testing, and materials analysis. In addition to its dependable 24/7 operation, the SOPRANO-15 mini operates at a center wavelength of 1550 nm and typical pulse duration below 130 fs, establishing benefits in both industrial and scientific environments.


Dausinger & Giesen GmbH
Profile page  Website  
Dyneos AG
EdgeWave GmbH

Advanced laser technologies

EKSPLA
Savanoriu Av. 237
02300 Vilnius
Lithuania
Profile page  Website  
mode-locked lasers

Due to their excellent stability and high output parameters, EKSPLA scientific picosecond lasers established their name as “Gold Standard” among scientific picosecond lasers. The innovative design of the new generation of picosecond mode-locked lasers features diode-pumping‑only technology, thus reducing maintenance costs and improving output parameters. Second, third, fourth and fifth (on some versions) harmonic options combined with various accessories, advanced electronics (for streak camera synchronization, phase-locked loop, synchronization of fs laser) and customization possibilities make these lasers well suited for many scientific applications, including optical parametric generator pumping, time-resolved spectroscopy, nonlinear spectroscopy, remote sensing, metrology and others.


ELUXI Ltd.
Profile page  Website  
M Squared Lasers Ltd.
Menhir Photonics AG
Industriestrasse 42
8152 Glattbrugg
Switzerland
Profile page  Website  
mode-locked lasers

Menhir Photonics offers ultrafast mode-locked lasers at 1.5 μm wavelength. These lasers offer pulse width below 200 fs and fundamental pulse repetition rates that can be chosen from 250 MHz up to 2.5 GHz. These systems are hermetically sealed and all-in-one (laser and electronic is one box). Menhir Photonics’ products have been designed to achieve ultra-low-noise performances combined with high-reliability and robustness, to ensure that they can be used in any situation from laboratory setup to harsh environments.


MONTFORT Laser GmbH
Profile page  Website  
Mountain Photonics GmbH
Nano-Giga
Profile page  Website  
Optoprim Germany GmbH
Profile page  Website  
Polarus Laser
PULSED GmbH
Profile page  Website  
R&D Ultrafast Lasers Kft.
Sintec Optronics Pte Ltd (HQ)

Fully automated ultrafast tunable laser systems

SI Stuttgart Instruments GmbH
Curiestraße 2
70563 Stuttgart
Germany
Profile page  Website  
mode-locked lasers

The Stuttgart Instruments Primus is an ultrafast (fs) mode-locked oscillator, based on the solid-state technology. It provides a high average output power combined with a superior low noise level (shot noise limit above 300 kHz) and an excellent long-term stability.

The solid-state technology with 1040 nm central wavelength enables the excellent long-term stability by providing several watts of output power at 40 MHz pulse repetition rate and 450 fs pulse duration. Its superior low noise level reaches the shot noise limit above 300 kHz. In combination with the stability and output power, it enables ultrasensitive measurements and makes the Primus perfectly suited as pump source for frequency converters like the Stuttgart Instruments Alpha. The entire system is encapsulated in a solid CNC-cut and water-cooled housing, thus reaching excellent robustness against external perturbations.


Topag Lasertechnik GmbH
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TRUMPF Scientific Lasers GmbH + Co. KG
Profile page  Website  

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