Buying Nanosecond Lasers
Nanosecond lasers, typically Q-switched solid-state bulk or fiber lasers, are capable of generating pulses with nanosecond durations. They are used in applications requiring high pulse energies, such as laser material processing. Gain-switched laser diodes and fiber amplifiers are alternative sources of nanosecond pulses.
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Aspects to Consider Before Buying
Some aspects to consider before buying nanosecond lasers: pulse energy and duration, pulse shape, optical bandwidth, pulse energy fluctuations, timing jitter, durability, environmental resistance, integration with systems, maintenance requirements.
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Find Suppliers for Nanosecond Lasers
95 suppliers for nanosecond lasers are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 17 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.
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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 See us at SPIE Photonics West 2025 in San Francisco, January 25–30 (booth 3686, 3687)! |
Serving North America, RPMC Lasers offers one of the widest wavelength selections of nanosecond lasers available ranging from the UV through the MWIR regimes, including wavelength tunable OPO/DPSS lasers. Our offerings include DPSS lasers, fiber lasers, microchip lasers, and ultra-compact & rugged MIL-spec DPSS lasers, with pulse energies as high as 700 mJ and a huge range of pulse repetition rates up to several MHz. Standard and custom options available. Let RPMC help you find the right laser today! |
Innovative and Reliable AdValue Photonics2700 E. Bilby Rd. Tucson, AZ 85706 United States See us at SPIE Photonics West 2025 in San Francisco, January 25–30 (booth 555)! |
The EVERESTnano 1 µm pulsed fiber laser is suitable for laser marking, cutting and ablation. It generates 5-ns pulses with up to 100 W average power and up to 500 kHz repetition rate. The free-space output beam at 1030 nm exhibits a beam quality factor below 1.3. |
Composing with Light Teem Photonics S. A.61 chemin du Vieux Chêne 38246 Meylan France See us at SPIE Photonics West 2025 in San Francisco, January 25–30 (booth 5129)! |
Teem Photonics offers air-cooled diode-pumped passively Q-switched lasers, for nanosecond pulse emission. Available emission wavelengths is at 1064 nm, 532 nm, 355 nm or 266 nm. |
Bright Solutions SRL Via Artigiani 27 27010 Cura Carpignano (Pavia) Italy See us at SPIE Photonics West 2025 in San Francisco, January 25–30 (booth 3312, 3686)! |
Bright Solutions offers various Q-switched lasers with nanosecond pulse durations:
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HÜBNER Photonics GmbH Wilhelmine-Reichard Strasse 6 34123 Kassel Germany See us at SPIE Photonics West 2025 in San Francisco, January 25–30 (booth 3461)! |
HÜBNER Photonics offer pulsed nanosecond lasers in the Cobolt Tor Series: up to 0.5 mJ/pulse, <5 ns pulse width, 7 kHz pulse repetition rate with single pulse triggerable and free running models. |
MPB Communications Head Office 147 Hymus Boulevard Montreal, Quebec H9R 1E9 Canada See us at SPIE Photonics West 2025 in San Francisco, January 25–30 (booth 4823)! |
MPBC’s line of nanosecond pulsed fiber lasers have been designed to give users flexibility in their application refinement. With user-selectable pulse widths and repetition rates, these lasers put more options into the hands of the users than traditional lasers with fixed parameters. In addition, the ability to externally trigger pulses on some of the models make these lasers an extremely flexible tool. Based on an all-fiber laser cavity design and offering excellent beam quality and wall plug efficiency, these compact air-cooled lasers are an ideal choice for your application. |
Let the light be always with you! Geola Digital Ltd.Naugarduko 41 LT-03227 Vilnius Lithuania |
Geola's nanosecond lasers are offered with:
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Lasers, Optics, Electronics. Made in Germany. ALPHALAS GmbHBertha-von-Suttner-Str. 5 37085 Göttingen Germany |
ALPHALAS offers actively and passively Q-switched DPSS lasers (IR, VIS & UV) with pulse widths < 1 ns, which are suitable for applications requiring high peak power and precise synchronization. Both types of lasers feature TEM00 beam profile and compact design. Microchip passively Q-switched lasers are mechanically extremely stable with very high pulse-to-pulse stability, pulse energies up to 1.5 mJ and > 2 MW peak power with pulse duration down to 500 ps. The actively Q-switched lasers feature a timing jitter < 500 ps, optionally down to 300 ps. Repetition rates from single shot up to 100 kHz and average power up to 5 W are available. Higher energy and power is possible using MOPA arrangement. Applications: micromachining, marking & cutting (e.g. diamonds), nonlinear optics, supercontinuum generation, time-resolved fluorescence measurements, pollution monitoring, LIBS, ignition of explosives & combustion engines. |
Advanced laser technologies EKSPLASavanoriu Av. 237 02300 Vilnius Lithuania See us at SPIE Photonics West 2025 in San Francisco, January 25–30 (booth 649)! |
Short pulse durations, a wide range of customization options and high stability are distinctive feature of EKSPLA nanosecond Q-switched lasers. Employing latest achievements in laser technologies, our team of dedicated engineers has designed a wide range of products tailored for specific applications: from compact, simple and robust EKSPLA nanosecond Q-switched DPSS NL230 series lasers for OEM manufacturers to high energy customized flash-lamp multijoule systems for research laboratories. Second (532 nm), third (355 nm), fourth (266 nm) and fifth (213 nm) (where available) harmonic options combined with various accessories and customization possibilities make these lasers well suited for many OEM and laboratory applications like OPO, OPCPA, Ti:sapphire and dye laser pumping, spectroscopy, remote sensing and plasma research. |
Picophotonics Ltd. Kauhakorvenkatu 53 B 33710 Tampere Finland See us at SPIE Photonics West 2025 in San Francisco, January 25–30 (booth 4119)! |
Compact and cost-effective OEM and turn-key lasers with nanosecond pulse duration, tunable 1 – 200 kHz pulse repetition rate and µJ pulse energy at 532, 767, 1064 and 1535 nm. |
Never stop exploring! Focuslight Technologies Inc.56 Zhangba 6th Road High-Tech Zone, Xi'an Shaanxi 710077 China See us at SPIE Photonics West 2025 in San Francisco, January 25–30 (booth 441)! |
Focuslight Technologies has the AL01, a Q-switched nanosecond laser with megawatt peak power and >1.5 mJ pulse energy. It is suitable for applications like flash LIDAR and 3D sensing. |
Advanced Tunable Lasers Open the Future of Measurement Technology Spectra Quest Lab, Inc.408 Chiba-Univ. Inohana Inovation Plaza 1–8–15 Inohana Chuou-ku Chiba-shi Chiba, 260–0856 Japan |
Spectra Quest Lab offers ns/ps tunable lasers and light sources in the 900-nm band and 1-μm band. The tunable laser uses a CW narrow linewidth tunable laser as a seed source, and after nanosecond pulse generation with a pulsed SOA, the ns pulse is further amplified with a fiber amplifier to obtain a Fourier-limited linewidth pulse. The tunable light source is a system in which broadband ASE light from a pulsed SOA is selected with a spectral width of 0.2 nm by a tunable filter and amplified by a fiber amplifier, making it cost-effective and simple configuration. Both can output pulse widths of 1–10 ns and support repetition rates from single shot to 100 MHz on pulse on demand. External synchronization is easily achieved with electrical trigger input/output. Optionally, a picosecond pulse output can be obtained by passing a pulse shaper consisting of an LiNbO3 modulator and an electric pulse generator before the fiber amplifier input. |
The specialist in laser technologies Lumibird – Quantel, Keopsys, Convergent, Continuum brands2 rue Paul Sabatier 22300 Lannion France See us at SPIE Photonics West 2025 in San Francisco, January 25–30 (booth 4818)! |
Lumibird manufactures a wide range of nanosecond pulsed lasers thanks to its expertise in three key technologies: solid-state lasers, 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. |
CNI Laser No. 888 Jinhu Road High-tech Zone, Changchun 130103 China See us at SPIE Photonics West 2025 in San Francisco, January 25–30 (booth 1361)! |
CNI offer nanosecond Q-switched lasers with wavelength coverage from 223 nm to 4800 nm. We have versions with pulse energies from 1 μJ to 10 J, repetition rates from 1 Hz to 200 kHz and pulse width from 0.8 ns to 200 ns. The lasers can be actively or passively cooled with air or water, or with conduction cooling, and there are various controls and outputs. |
Change the Color of Light to Expand your Possibilities! GWU-Lasertechnik Vertriebsges. mbHBonner Ring 9 50374 Erftstadt Germany See us at SPIE Photonics West 2025 in San Francisco, January 25–30 (booth 4205)! |
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. The scanSeries nanosecond product line offers scalable pulse energy at various repetition rates. As a unique feature, GWU can provide high-speed wavelength scanning across the complete wavelength range with shot-to-shot dynamic. Our all-solid-state laser design ensures maximum reliability for diode-pumped and flash-lamp pumped lasers. |
Megawatt Lasers P.O. Box 24190 Hilton Head Island, SC 29925–4190 United States See us at SPIE Photonics West 2025 in San Francisco, January 25–30 (booth 3628)! |
MegaWatt Lasers's ER902 is a passively Q-switched erbium glass laser that operates at 1.54 μmm. This eye-safe wavelength is ideal for defense, LIBS, and LIDAR applications. The design allows for 10 Hz repetition rates with a 4 ns pulse width and a 200 μJ pulse energy. All in a 9 mm diameter by 20 mm length package. |
Thorlabs 43 Sparta Avenue Newton, NJ 07860 United States See us at SPIE Photonics West 2025 in San Francisco, January 25–30 (booth 627, 827)! |
Thorlabs manufactures nanosecond pulsed laser diode systems that are designed to provide a convenient, turnkey source of nanosecond pulse trains at repetition frequencies up to 10 MHz. These compact instruments are available with center wavelengths from 405 nm to 980 nm with maximum peak pulse optical output powers ranging from 13 mW to 1600 mW. |
Other Suppliers | |
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Acal BFi Germany | |
Advanced Optowave Corporation United States | |
Aktyvus Photonics Lithuania | |
Allied Laser Solutions, LLC United States | |
Allied Scientific Pro Canada | |
ALPhANOV France | |
Altos Photonics United States | |
AP Technologies United Kingdom | |
Arktis Laser Inc. Canada | |
Astanza Lasers, Inc. United States | |
AZURE Photonics Co., Ltd. China | |
Beijing RealLight Technology Co. Ltd. China | |
Bloom Lasers France | |
Bright Aerospace Italy | |
Bright Microlaser Italy | |
Canlas Laser Processing GmbH Germany | |
Coherent Corp. United States | |
CryLaS GmbH Germany | |
Dausinger & Giesen GmbH Germany | |
Del Mar Photonics, Inc. United States | |
Delta Photonics Canada | |
Dyneos AG Switzerland | |
EdgeWave GmbH Germany | |
ELUXI Ltd. United Kingdom | |
Enlight Technologies, Inc. United States | |
Evolase Oy Finland | |
FiberLAST Inc. Turkey | |
GIP Technology Corp. Taiwan | |
Glucoloop AG Switzerland | |
GMP SA, Büro Zürich Switzerland | |
Shenzhen Gongda Laser Co., Ltd. China | |
HJ Optronics Inc. United States | |
IDIL Fibres Optiques France | |
IL Photonics Israel | |
Impex High Tech Germany | |
InnoLas Laser GmbH Germany | |
Integrated Optics, Ltd. Lithuania | |
IPG Photonics Corporation United States | |
JGM Associates, Inc. United States | |
Lahat Technologies Ltd Israel | |
Qingdao Lasence Co., Ltd China | |
Laserglow Technologies Canada M6C 1C | |
Lasermate Group, Inc. United States | |
Lastek Pty Ltd Australia | |
Light Age, Inc. United States | |
Litron Lasers Ltd. United Kingdom | |
LTB Lasertechnik Berlin GmbH Germany | |
MONTFORT Laser GmbH Austria | |
MWTechnologies, Lda. Portugal | |
neoLASE GmbH Germany | |
New Age Instruments & Materials India | |
Nanguang Hi-Tech (Xiamen) Laser Co., Ltd China | |
Optical Pulse Machines Israel | |
Optilab, LLC United States | |
Opton Laser International France | |
Optoprim Germany GmbH Germany | |
OZ Optics Canada | |
Passat Ltd. Canada | |
Photonics Industries International, Inc. United States | |
Polytec GmbH Germany | |
QPhotonics, LLC United States | |
Shenzhen RFH Laser Technology Co., Ltd China | |
Sintec Optronics Pte Ltd (HQ) Singapore | |
Sisma Italy | |
SOL Instruments Ltd. Belarus | |
Solar Laser Systems Belarus | |
Soliton Laser- und Messtechnik GmbH Germany | |
Sparkle Optics United States | |
Spectra-Physics Lasers United States | |
Spektrum Laser-Entwicklungs- und Vertriebs-GmbH Germany | |
STANDA Ltd. Lithuania | |
Te Lintelo Systems BV The Netherlands | |
Tianjin Maiman Laser Technology Co., Ltd. China | |
Tokyo Instruments, Inc. Japan | |
Topag Lasertechnik GmbH Germany | |
TRUMPF Laser- und Systemtechnik GmbH Germany | |
TRUMPF Inc. United States | |
UpTek Solutions Corp. United States |