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Purchasing Advisor for Pulse Pickers

Find all you need for professionally buying pulse pickers: an interactive tool with a comprehensive and trustworthy directory of suppliers and expert guidance for a structured decision process with scientific and technical background information.

Top-level product categories: icon optical modulators, icon various devices

Related product categories: optical switches, ultrafast amplifiers

Pulse pickers, such as electro-optic or acousto-optic types, reduce pulse repetition rates in ultrafast amplifier systems or regenerative amplifiers. They are essential for precise pulse control in various laser applications.

Interactive Purchase Decision Tool

Purchasing high-value photonics products is a substantial responsibility. Using a structured decision-making process and high quality supplier data helps a lot:

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How Responsible Purchase Decisions for Expensive Goods Like Lasers Are Done Explanations on this purchasing tool

Go through the process:

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 pulse pickers electro-optic modulators acousto-optic modulators pulse generation pulse repetition rate regenerative amplifiers ultrashort pulses

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 purchase.

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 pulse pickers. 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 pulse pickers. 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.

Selected suppliers:

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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:

4. Document the decision process

It is essential to document your purchasing process, not only its result (chosen supplier):

  • You will find it easier next time.
  • If something goes wrong, you can defend your decision by showing that you properly considered all important aspects. Or you see what needs to be done better next time.

Our interactive tool makes it easy: Fill out the form, and in the end print it to a PDF. Note that the document will show all sections (including those not currently shown on the screen), while omitting some irrelevant details such as the page navigation.

Suppliers for Pulse Pickers

20 suppliers for pulse pickers are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 6 present their product descriptions and images. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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GWU-Lasertechnik Vertriebsges. mbH
Bonner Ring 9
50374 Erftstadt
Germany
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth A2.303)!

pulse pickers

GWU’s UHG-PSK Series has been designed for ultrafast laser oscillators. It offers pulse picking with highest output powers and optimum contrast ratio. The system is suitable for femtosecond and picosecond pulses with high input powers, without requiring any attenuation. Integral pulse selecting from single shot to 40 MHz with adjustable contrast ratio is possible by a convenient software control. The UHG Pulse Selector is either available as standalone version or it can be integrated in our Harmonic Generator, where it is positioned before all harmonic stages to offer all features in a single compact housing.

UHG Pulse Selector features and benefits:

  • modular design: standalone version or integrated in our Harmonic Generator
  • high pulse picking efficiency
  • adjustable contrast ratio
  • suitable for high fs/ps power without any attenuation
  • convenient and user-friendly software control
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APE Angewandte Physik und Elektronik GmbH
Plauener Straße 163–165 / Haus N
13053 Berlin
Germany
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B2.410)!

pulse pickers

pulseSelect is an acousto-optic pulse picker, developed for the special demands of femtosecond laser technology. Pulse distortion is minimized by a low dispersive design and the use of reflective optics. High repetition rates and high contrast rates are achieved by using acousto-optical elements. The pulse repetition rate can be reduced by an adjustable internal frequency divider or by external triggering.

APE offers pulse pickers for either a wavelength range from 500 nm to 1600 nm or dual wavelength bands from 340 nm to 540 nm and from 680 nm to 1080 nm.

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Lasers, Optics, Electronics. Made in Germany.

ALPHALAS GmbH
Bertha-von-Suttner-Str. 5
37085 Göttingen
Germany
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pulse pickers

Based on proprietary technology, ALPHALAS offers most advanced pulse pickers for selecting single pulses from a train of picosecond or femtosecond optical trains. Large amplitudes of > 10 kV, pulse widths FWHM of 7 … 10 ns and repetition rates up to 10 kHz in combination with a specially designed short-crystal Pockels cell are best suited for selecting individual pulses from various mode-locked lasers. Low jitter of < 40 ps and short delay of typically 30 ns guarantee a precise synchronization for perfect pulse selection.

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Exail (formerly iXblue)
34, Rue de la Croix de Fer
78100 Saint Germain-en-Laye
France
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B2.341)!

pulse pickers

The ModBox-OPP optical pulse picker allows to pick and optionally shape any sub-nanosecond pulse pattern or pulse sequence in an incoming pulse train. It acts as a fast gate with low insertion loss and high extinction from 30 dB to above 55 dB with high stability over time, and with user-adjustable optical pulse duration and optical pulse train repetition rate (when pre-scaler option is embedded).

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EKSMA Optics, UAB
Dvarcioniu St. 2B
LT-10233 Vilnius
Lithuania
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth A2.107)!

pulse pickers

With the EKSMA Optics opto-electronic laser pulse picking system, femtosecond pulses can be picked from a pulse train at up to 2 MHz rate. The pulse picker UP2 and digital synchronization and delay pulse generator pMaster 4.2 can be synchronized with lasers operating at up to 100 MHz rate. The pulse picker MP1 can select pulses at up to 600 kHz repetition rate and be synchronized with lasers generating pulse trains with up to 60 MHz repetition rate.

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Aerodiode
Rue François Mitterrand
Institut d'Optique d'Aquitaine
33400 Talence
France
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pulse pickers

SHIPS TODAY: Pulse Picker is a synchronization tool for driving external modulation devices such as EOMs, AOMs or SOAs in a pulse-picking mode of operation. It has been designed to work with low level electrical or optical input pulse power like typically the signal coming from a photodiode. It includes 3 pulse picking modes (frequency divider, external triggering & high frequency clock, burst shaping). The Pulse Picker board includes a software-adjustable input voltage level threshold and an (optional) photodiode. This board also includes a special AWG function synchronized with the input signal to perform burst shaping of mode-locked lasers.

NEW: A turn-key pulse-picker solution is now offered covering the full wavelength range between 700 and 1750 nm. It includes the synchronization board described above with our high performances AOMs and drivers.

See our detailed application note for Pulse Picker.

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Other Suppliers

AA Opto Electronic
France
AA Sa Opto-Electronic
France
Avesta Ltd.
Russian Federation
Coherent Corp.
United States
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Conoptics
United States
Del Mar Photonics, Inc.
United States
Dyneos AG
Switzerland
Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories Inc.
United States
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Nano-Giga
France
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nortus Optronic GmbH
Germany
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Polytec GmbH
Germany
Sintec Optronics Pte Ltd (HQ)
Singapore
Sydor Instruments LLC
United States
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Te Lintelo Systems BV
The Netherlands
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