Where to Buy 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.

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.

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.

Laser Quantum are the manufacturers of the torus mode-locked SLM lasers, with patented active mode-locking technology to maintain the performance of the output beam, and a stable frequency output across wide temperature fluctuations and long measurement periods.

NKT Photonics passively mode-locked lasers, for industrial and scientific use, exhibit a compact packaging and the lowest phase noise on the market. A special hybrid laser setup, consisting of state-of-the-art polarization maintaining (PM) fiber technology and advanced dispersion control, allows for high pulse energy generation while supporting perfectly transform-limited soliton pulses without Kelly sidebands, temporal pedestals or satellite pulses. NKT Photonics lasers have been designed for high precision applications requiring long-term amplitude stability, low phase noise and timing jitter and 24/7 maintenance-free operation.

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The KMLabs Griffin™ series of Ti:sapphire oscillators gives customers ultimate control over their system, are simple to maintain, and offer a wide range of performance specifications enabling many different applications. These prism-based oscillators use Kerr lens modelocking to generate ultrashort <12 fs pulses. All Griffin lasers include computerized control of the spectral bandwidth and center wavelength and water-cooled breadboards for maximum long term stability. There are options within the Griffin series that include integrated pump lasers and diagnostics. Griffin lasers are very simple to maintain, since components are easily accessible.