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Buying Optical Amplifiers

Top-level product category: icon lasers and laser amplifiers

More specific product categories: fiber amplifiers, glass lasers and amplifiers, optical parametric amplifiers, Raman amplifiers, semiconductor optical amplifiers, tapered amplifiers, ultrafast amplifiers

Optical amplifiers are devices for amplifying light beams in free space or as guided waves, the latter mostly in fibers. They can be based on the laser principle or on nonlinear processes. These devices are essential in many optical communication and laser applications.

Making Good Purchase Decisions

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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 optical amplifiers fiber amplifiers "Fiber Amplifiers" "Modeling of Fiber Amplifiers and 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 optical amplifiers. 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.

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3. Find suitable suppliers

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  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for optical amplifiers. Use the checkboxes to mark possibly suitable suppliers.
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  • Based on the results, you can finally choose a supplier that is hopefully a good enough fit.

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Suppliers for Optical Amplifiers

71 suppliers for optical amplifiers 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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Megawatt Lasers
P.O. Box 24190
Hilton Head Island, SC 29925–4190
United States
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth A2.104) and CLEO 2025 in Long Beach (CA), USA, May 4–9 (Kiosk 17)!

optical amplifiers

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.

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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
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optical amplifiers

Serving North America, RPMC Lasers offers optical amplifiers boosting power up to 100 W while retaining your laser’s pulse width, beam divergence, and spectral width. Options include DPSS (1 µm), fiber (1–2 µm), SOA (1.3 & 1.5 µm), and OPA (210 nm – 10 µm, tunable).

Customizable for free-space or fiber-based systems, they deliver configurable power, gain, and pulse options—CW or pulsed down to femtoseconds—in OEM to turnkey formats for seamless integration or lab use.

Built for reliability, these robust amplifiers excel in harsh industrial and aerospace conditions, scaling from research to high-precision needs like spectroscopy and LIDAR with proven durability and performance.

Let RPMC help you find the right optical amplifier today!

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The specialist in laser technologies

Lumibird – Quantel, Keopsys, Convergent, Continuum brands
2 rue Paul Sabatier
22300 Lannion
France
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth A2.341)!

optical amplifiers

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.

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Specialist in Special Optical Devices

CSRayzer Optical Technology Co., Ltd
1F, 2F, 6F, No. 5 Bldg, 88#
Hongshan District
Wuhan 430074
China
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth A3.426)!

optical amplifiers

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.

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THINKING BEYOND

Eagleyard Photonics GmbH
Rudower Chaussee 29
12489 Berlin
Germany
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B2.417)!

optical amplifiers

TOPTICA EAGLEYARD offers a variety of tapered amplifiers in different package type. The miniTA is one of the newst innovations.

The miniTA has a fiber-coupled input and collimated output beam and is available in an optimized butterfly package with 14 thicker pins. This hermetically sealed housing is particularly advantageous in industrial applications, as the thicker pins guarantee an ideal supply of power. Furthermore, the forming of the beam, as well as thermal management, are also integrated. Users can enjoy the easy plug-and-play aspect of the fiber plug of the seed laser.

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Leader in fluoride glass and optical fiber technology

Le Verre Fluoré
Rue Gabriel Voisin
Campus de Ker Lann
35170 Bruz, Brittany
France
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optical amplifiers

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.

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Helping our customers reach their research @ commercial goals for over 45 years

MPB Communications
Head Office
147 Hymus Boulevard
Montreal, Quebec H9R 1E9
Canada
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optical amplifiers

Drawing from a rich heritage in fiber optic technologies, MPBC has established itself as a leading provider of optical amplification solutions including:

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all wavelengths.

TOPTICA Photonics AG
Lochhamer Schlag 19
82166 Gräfelfing
Germany
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See the company profile page for additional contact information.

See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B2.103) and CLEO 2025 in Long Beach (CA), USA, May 4–9 (booth 217)!

optical amplifiers

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.

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Thorlabs
43 Sparta Avenue
Newton, NJ 07860
United States
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B2.403, A1.530) and CLEO 2025 in Long Beach (CA), USA, May 4–9 (booth 113)!

optical amplifiers

Thorlabs manufactures erbium (Er)-, ytterbium (Yb)-, and praseodymium (Pr)-doped fiber amplifiers for applications from ultrafast pulse amplification to datacom. Along with these stand-alone benchtop amplifiers, optical amplifiers available in pigtailed butterfly packages include InP/InGaAsP or GaAs/InGaAs semiconductor optical amplifiers (BOAs or SOAs). Thorlabs has also developed a family of femtosecond lasers utilizing oscillator-amplifier architectures.

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Innovative and Reliable

AdValue Photonics
2700 E. Bilby Rd.
Tucson, AZ 85706
United States
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth A2.112) and CLEO 2025 in Long Beach (CA), USA, May 4–9 (booth 118)!

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.

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Other Suppliers

Aeon Corporation
United States
Agiltron Inc.
United States
Alnair Labs
Japan
ALPhANOV
France
Amonics Ltd.
Hong Kong
APEX Technologies
France
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Azurlight Systems
France
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BaySpec Inc.
United States
Beijing Rofea Optoelectronics Co., Ltd.
China
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Calmar Laser
United States
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Canlas Laser Processing GmbH
Germany
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Coherent Corp.
United States
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Crystech Inc.
China
CYBEL, LLC
United States
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Dausinger & Giesen GmbH
Germany
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Dyneos AG
Switzerland
EDGE Optical Solutions
Latvia
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ELUXI Ltd.
United Kingdom
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EMCORE Corporation
United States
FiberBridge Photonics GmbH
Germany
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FS.COM Inc
United States
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Furukawa Electric
Japan
GLsun Science And Tech Co., Ltd
China
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GMP SA, Büro Zürich
Switzerland
HAM Präzision - Hartmetallwerkzeugfabrik Andreas Maier GmbH
Germany
Heyoptics, Co. Ltd.
Hong Kong
HibriLaser
United States
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Innolume GmbH
Germany
InPhenix, Inc.
United States
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JGM Associates, Inc.
United States
Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories Inc.
United States
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Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V.
Germany
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Lastek Pty Ltd
Australia
Lightcomm Technology Co., Ltd.
China
Lumentum Operations LLC
United States
Mitsubishi Cable Industries
Japan
molex LLC
United States
Mountain Photonics GmbH
Germany
MWTechnologies, Lda.
Portugal
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Nano-Giga
France
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neoLASE GmbH
Germany
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Northrop Grumman - Cutting Edge Optronics
United States
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Nuphoton Technologies
United States
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Optilab, LLC
United States
Optiwave Photonics Limited
India
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Opto-Link
Hong Kong
PacketLight Networks, Ltd.
Israel
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PHOTONICPARTS
Germany
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Photonwares Co.
United States
Polytec GmbH
Germany
Power Technology Inc.
United States
Pritel
United States
QPhotonics, LLC
United States
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SIMTRUM Pte. Ltd.
Singapore
Sirah Lasertechnik GmbH
Germany
Soliton Laser- und Messtechnik GmbH
Germany
Spectra-Physics Lasers
United States
Superlum Diodes Ltd.
Ireland
TRUMPF Scientific Lasers GmbH + Co. KG
Germany
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UpTek Solutions Corp.
United States
VOSCOM Technologies Co. Ltd.
China
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