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Buying Pulse Stretchers

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Related product categories: pulse compressors, pulse duration measurement devices

Pulse stretchers temporally stretch laser pulses, necessary in chirped-pulse amplification systems and certain pulse characterization methods. They ensure safe amplification and precise measurement of ultrashort pulses.

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 pulse stretchers pulse compression chirped-pulse amplification diffraction gratings

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 pulse stretchers. 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 stretchers. 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 Pulse Stretchers

11 suppliers for pulse stretchers are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 2 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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Exail (formerly iXblue)
34, Rue de la Croix de Fer
78100 Saint Germain-en-Laye
France
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pulse stretchers

Exail (formerly iXblue) offers fiber coils based on custom specifications: internal diameter, height, fiber type and length and winding pattern. They can be used as dispersive pulse stretcher.

Benefits and features of our coils:

  • small foot print
  • RoHS compliant
  • custom winding patterns
  • coil winding service for wide range of sizes and shapes
  • freestanding versions available
  • PM or SM fibers
Product-specific web page
O/E Land Inc.
7639 Cordner
Lasalle, Quebec H8N 2X2
Canada
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pulse stretchers

Our pulse stretcher and compressor fiber Bragg gratings are used in chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) systems. They exhibit low insertion loss, allowing for high system efficiency. O/E Land Inc. offers both standard and custom-made pulse stretching and compression fiber Bragg grating products.

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Other Suppliers

CASIX Inc.
China
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IDIL Fibres Optiques
France
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Mountain Photonics GmbH
Germany
Nano-Giga
France
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Newport Corporation
United States
OptiGrate
United States
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Proximion AB
Sweden
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TeraXion
Canada
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Tokyo Instruments, Inc.
Japan

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