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Buying Picosecond Diode Lasers

Top-level product category: icon lasers and laser amplifiers

More general product categories: picosecond lasers, laser diodes

Related product category: gain-switched lasers

With suitable driver electronics, laser diodes can be gain-switched to produce picosecond light pulses. These lasers serve as flexible seed sources for picosecond pulse amplifier systems.

Making Good Purchase Decisions

As the most professional photonics purchasing portal, RP Photonics helps you to not only to find all relevant suppliers (not limited to our advertisers), but also to make good purchasing decisions.

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 picosecond diode lasers gain switching ultrashort pulses picosecond 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 picosecond diode lasers. 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.

You find these buttons in the supplier list below or under "3. Find suitable suppliers".

3. Find suitable suppliers

We suggest three steps:

  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for picosecond diode lasers. Use the checkboxes to mark possibly suitable suppliers.
  • The selected suppliers will appear below this list, along with your list of specifications. You can then indicate which specifications they meet according to your research. (You should finalize your specifications before doing this.)
  • Based on the results, you can finally choose a supplier that is hopefully a good enough fit.

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Decision

The most suitable supplier you found:

Comments, e.g. reasons for your choice, or things which still need to be checked:

Suppliers for Picosecond Diode Lasers

20 suppliers for picosecond diode lasers are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 3 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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Lasers, Optics, Electronics. Made in Germany.

ALPHALAS GmbH
Bertha-von-Suttner-Str. 5
37085 Göttingen
Germany
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picosecond diode lasers

Picosecond diode lasers from ALPHALAS with pulses < 12 ps and peak power > 2 W at specific wavelengths offer a cost-effective alternative to the mode-locked DPSS lasers. Exchangeable laser heads with wavelengths from 375 to 1550 nm offer great flexibility. Simultaneous multichannel operation at numerous wavelengths is also available. External TTL trigger capability and synchronized TTL output are standard features. Picosecond pulses are generated with repetition rates from single shot to 100 MHz with a frequency step of 1 Hz. Options like fiber coupling, variable amplitude, CW mode, temperature tuning of the wavelength and single-frequency are available on request for most wavelengths. All models feature single transverse mode laser beam. Applications include fluorescence lifetime measurements, pump–probe experiments, laser seeding, time-correlated single photon counting and more.

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NKT Photonics
Bregnerødvej 144
3460 Birkerød
Denmark
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picosecond diode lasers

Our PILAS range of gain-switched pulsed diode lasers are designed for industrial as well as scientific applications. Get a flexible system to fit any application. Choose from more than 10 different wavelengths in the range from 375-1550 nm, repetition rates from single-shot to 40 MHz pulse trains, internal or external triggers. With PILAS you get alignment and maintenance-free 24/7 operation.

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Other Suppliers

3photon
Lithuania
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Acal BFi
Germany
AUREA Technology
France
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Becker & Hickl GmbH
Germany
Crisel Instruments s.r.l.
Italy
Crystalaser
United States
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Edinburgh Instruments Ltd.
United Kingdom
GMP SA, Büro Zürich
Switzerland
Ikeos Research Ltd.
United Kingdom
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Irisiome Solutions
France
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Lambda Photometrics Ltd
United Kingdom
New Age Instruments & Materials
India
Omicron Laserage Laserprodukte GmbH
Germany
Optical Pulse Machines
Israel
Opton Laser International
France
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PicoQuant GmbH
Germany
RAM Photonics LLC
United States
Sintec Optronics Pte Ltd (HQ)
Singapore

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