Where to Buy Optical Amplifiers

Thorlabs offers erbium (Er)-, ytterbium (Yb)-, and praseodymium (Pr)-doped fiber amplifiers for benchtop applications from ultrafast pulse amplification to datacom. Along with the stand-alone fiber amplifiers, Thorlabs also offers SOAs, BOAs, and a family of femtosecond lasers utilizing oscillator-amplifier architectures.

Lumibird manufactures an extensive range of mature and custom-designed optical fiber amplifiers. Our CW models are used for atom cooling, free space communication or optical remote sensing etc., while our pulsed models are used for applications such as high peak power generation or wind sensing LiDAR. Lumibird also manufactures diode-pumped solid-state laser heads used as optical amplifiers.

AdValue Photonics offers fiber amplifiers for wavelength around 1 μm, 1.5 μm or 2 μm. They are suitable for pulsed or continuous-operation, narrow linewidth or broadband light.

For the 1-μm region, we have compact and yet powerful large mode area fiber amplifier modules, which can deliver more than 120 W average output power.

MegaWatt Lasers Inc. specializes in producing flash lamp pumped solid-state lasers and pump cavities, which can also be used for amplifiers. Our pump cavities employ the highest reflectivity diffuse reflectors in the industry. We specialize in alexandrite, Nd:YAG, Er:YAG and CTH:YAG gain media. We can provide a wide array of standard laser heads, and can assist in the design of a custom devices for specialized applications.

See us at Advanced Solid State Lasers Conference in Tacoma, Washington, USA, Oct. 08–12 (booth 600)!

RPMC Lasers offers fiber amplifiers and DPSS amplifiers between 1030 nm and 2054 nm for both continuous-wave (CW) and pulsed seed sources. These OEM amplifiers are ideal for integration into MOPAs allowing of signal integrity to be maintained while increasing output power.

Tapered laser amplifiers combine the beam quality of a ridge waveguide laser with the high power known from broad area lasers. If you need high power and small spot size, this is the laser for you. eagleyard manufactures tapered lasers between 730 nm and 1083 nm with high brightness and the smallest divergence. Output powers from 500 mW to 2000 mW are available.

Thanks to their high rare-earth solubility (up to 100,000 ppm) and low phonon energy, LVF fluoride fibers offer dozens of active transitions, enabling a broad range of applications from visible to the mid-infrared, one of which is amplification. For example, LVF praseodymium and thulium doped fibers are used for amplification at 1.3 µm and 1.47 µm respectively. LVF doped fibers for amplification are available as single-mode fiber or double cladding fiber.

Le Verre Fluoré will soon offer laser and amplifier fiber modules. The required fiber will be integrated in a robust housing and connectorized with FC/PC, FC/APC, SMA or custom connectors depending on customer need: this is a plug-and-play module.

Depending on specific needs, modules might include single-mode or multimode splices between fluoride fibers or between silica and fluoride fibers.

CSRayzer provides several kinds of EDFAs, including multi-channels erbium-doped optical amplifiers, pulsed EDFAs, polarization-maintaining EDFA, with AGC/APC/ACC operation mode. They have a low noise figure and power consumption, high stability and reliability, and can be customized.

For a variety of applications the output power of single-mode laser diodes is not sufficient. Here TOPTICA offers tapered amplifiers in Master Oscillator Power Amplifier (MOPA) configuration as well as stand-alone amplifier systems. Tapered amplifiers feature high powers up to 3.5 W with excellent beam quality and without compromising the favorable spectral qualities of their master lasers. MOPA systems feature TOPTICA's low noise and narrow linewidth master lasers and offer convenient and safe operation with DLC pro.

See us at Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science in Tacoma, Washington, USA, Oct. 08–12 (booth 401)!