Where to Buy Picosecond Lasers

Our highly engineered components and subsystem solutions – paired with deep expertise in advanced photonics – make us the global technology partner of choice for advanced industrial OEMs and system integrators. Drawing on a wealth of technical and application experience from our ARGES and Laser Quantum engineering teams, we have developed Dart, a picosecond laser solution with reliable, repeatable operation to ensure precision in a multitude of applications. Dart offers a leading design for a range of precision processing and microelectronic applications with multiple power levels, wavelengths and pulse parameters available. Each laser delivers excellent beam quality with the M² close to the diffraction limit and near-perfect beam roundness.

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Based on an all-fiber design, MPBC’s picosecond mode-locked fiber lasers are highly reliable (10,000 hrs) and maintenance-free. Customized specifications are available for emission wavelengths from 1020 to 1100 nm and pulse durations of 2 to 50 ps. Average output power varies from 2 to 3000 mW, depending on the configuration. These lasers are designed to address a range of market applications including semiconductor inspection, micro-machining, metrology, multi-photon spectroscopy, and can be used as a seed source for optical amplifiers, and second harmonic generation.

The picosecond laser source picoEmerald emits ultra-short pulses with a duration of 2 picoseconds (other durations possible). The wavelength tuning of the ps laser is fully automated across a tuning range of 700 to 990 nm (signal) and 1080 to 1950 nm (idler). The fundamental beam at 1032 nm is also available. A wavelength scan / sweep function for fast spectra acquisition over certain specific wavelengths is included.

The key-facts of the picoEmerald are:

• wavelength 1 IR beam 1032 nm
• wavelength 2 tunable 700 … 990 nm
• wavelength 3 tunable 1080 … 1950 nm
• 80 MHz pulse repetition rate
• temporal and spatial overlap of the output wavelengths
• integrated time delay between the wavelengths
• common output port for all beams
• fully automated wavelength tuning
• EOM optionally integrated

AdValue Photonics offers the EVERESTpico 1 μm picosecond fiber laser (AP-1030P), Different models can deliver 50-ps pulses with 15 W, 30 W, 60 W or 100 W average power in a collimated free-space beam with excellent beam quality. Pulse repetition rates can go up to 1 MHz.

There is also the EVERESTpico green picosecond laser for applications like laser cutting, drilling and scribing on various materials. Different models can deliver 50-ps pulses with up to 30 W average power and excellent beam quality.

AMPHOS offers ultrafast lasers. The flexible Amphos1000 1030-nm seed laser (a fiber laser) is the basis for amplified sources like the Amphos1500 with up to 5 mJ pulse energy (for picosecond pulse durations), the Amphos3000 series with up to 20 mJ, and the Amphos5000 series with 800 W or 1000 W average output power and up to 50 mJ. Common features are a high beam quality, narrow spectral bandwidth, burst mode features and flexibility concerning the pulse duration. Typical applications are OPCPA pumping, attosecond physics, high harmonic generation and laser material processing.

There are also frequency-converted versions emitting at 515 nm or 343 nm.

NKT Photonics has developed a wide range of different picosecond fiber lasers for scientific and industrial applications. The Katana platform offers from 20 ps to nanosecond pulse durations, continuously tuneable repetition rate that can be triggered internally or externally allowing for laser operation in both master and slave mode. Katana is streamlined to offer high-power picosecond pulses in green, yellow, orange, red, and infrared.

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.

RPMC Lasers offers one of the widest wavelength selections of <300 picosecond and >300 picosecond lasers available ranging from the UV through the IR. Our offerings include DPSS lasers, fiber lasers, and microchip lasers with pulse energy as high as 100 mJ and pulse repetition rates up to the megahertz range.

The FYLA SCT High Power is a pulsed high power supercontinuum fiber laser with excellent power stability, covering the wavelength range from 450 nm to 2400 nm, and delivering visible average powers of 100 mW. FYLA´s SCH High Power is an ideal solution for single-photon applications such as SPIM, LSFM, OCT, and semiconductor characterization, providing a greater level of robustness, higher lifetimes, and a cost-effective solution.

Laser Peak offers turnkey Yb-doped ultrafast lasers with pulse durations in the femtosecond, and the picosecond range. Harmonic generators allow doubling, tripling and quadrupling of the laser frequency. Our ultrafast lasers have an attractive price/performance ratio.

TOPTICA offers next generation ultrafast picosecond and femtosecond fiber lasers for science and industry. The key for successful integration of ultrafast technology are robust, cost-effective systems with simple push-button operation. TOPTICA offers several products fulfilling these requirements: ultrafast fiber lasers based on erbium (Er) and ytterbium (Yb).

Teem Photonics offers a wide range of lasers with pulse durations as short as 100 ps. For example, the 266 nm PNU-M01210-1x0 laser, belongs to the Powerchip laser series, which also covers wavelengths of 1064 nm, 532 nm, 355 nm and 213 nm with pulse durations below 500 ps. Peak powers of tens of kilowatts (or even 160 kW at 1064 nm) are generated. Compared with mode-locked picosecond lasers, the pulse repetition rates are limited to about 100 kHz), while the pulse energies are far higher – tens of microjoules.