Where to Buy Pulsed Lasers

The Stuttgart Instruments Primus is an ultrafast solid-state laser at 1040 nm central wavelength. It provides several watts of output power at 40 MHz pulse repetition rate and 450 fs pulse duration. Its outstanding low noise level (which even reaches the shot noise limit above 300 kHz) and its excellent long-term stability enable ultrasensitive applications. The entire system is encapsulated in a solid CNC-cut and water-cooled housing, thus reaching excellent robustness against external perturbations.

The Primus is perfectly suited to pump the Stuttgart Instruments Alpha, which is a modular wavelength-tunable laser system covering the 700 nm to 20 µm spectral range in its maximum configuration. Shot-noise limited performance at milliwatt- to watt-level power is reached, making this system ideal for IR spectroscopy, material analysis, process monitoring or quantum technologies.

GWU-Lasertechnik has more than 30 years of experience in lasers and nonlinear optics. We are the pioneer of commercial BBO OPO technology. Our widely tunable laser sources cover the spectral range from the deep-UV at <190 nm to the IR at >2700 nm. We offer pulsed solutions for nano-, pico- and femtosecond pulses with best performance and highest reliability.

See us at Optatek 2022 in Frankfurt, October 18–20 (hall 3.1, booth 427)!

ALPHALAS manufactures pulsed lasers with picosecond and nanosecond pulse durations that are targeted at material processing, micromachining, nonlinear optics, scientific research and various other applications which require high peak power or time resolved measurements. Advanced mode-locking and Q-switching techniques provide a huge variety of parameters for the laser pulses. Regeneratively amplified lasers with extremely high peak power in the megawatt range, picosecond pulse durations and up to mJ pulse energy are offered with various wavelengths, e.g. 914, 946, 1030, 1047, 1053, 1064, 1320 or 1342 nm and their second, third and fourth harmonics.

Educational laser kits with various modes of operation offer nanosecond or picosecond pulse durations.

Customer-specific designs for pulses larger than 100 ns or variable pulse durations are also available.

AMPHOS offers ultrafast lasers with femtosecond to nanosecond pulse durations. Due to the high repetition rate, that may also be used like cw lasers. We have a variety of versions, going up to the Amphos5000 series with 800 W or even 1000 W average output power and up to 50 mJ pulse energy. 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.

TOPTICA's FemtoFiber lasers provide reliable femto-/picosecond pulses based on polarization-maintaining fibers and SAM mode-locking. Different models (1560/780 nm, VIS/NIR tunable output, IR/NIR supercontinuum, short-pulse) cover a wide range of applications, e.g. time-domain terahertz, microscopy, attoscience and as seed lasers.

Sacher Lasertechnik offers nanosecond pulsed diode lasers with emission wavelengths between 630 nm and 1650 nm, e.g. for time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy.

Lumibird manufactures a wide range of nanosecond pulsed lasers thanks to its expertise in three key technologies: solid-state lasers, fiber lasers and fiber amplifiers, and laser diodes. Various application areas are addressed in industry (manufacturing, lidar sensors), science (laboratories and universities), medical (ophthalmology) and defense.

Frankfurt Laser Company offers pulsed laser diodes with emission wavelengths from 850 nm to 1550 nm.

The iXblue ModBox-OFE is a complete front end laser system designed to be used as a seed source in high energy density laser facilities. The system is available at 1030 nm, 1053 nm and 1064 nm, it allows to generate custom shaped optical pulses with high stability and high extinction ratio and with durations from 125 ps to 100 ns. The short pulse generation is based on the combination of a high-performance continuous laser source combined with a large bandwidth modulation.

The ModBox-OPG is a family of optical pulse generation units which generate pulses with durations from 30 ps to hundreds of nanoseconds, and with very high extinction ratio. The available optical shapes are gaussian and square waveform. The ModBox works at any wavelength, and for an optical pulse train repetition which is externally triggered up to gigahertz repetition rates.

The Optical Spectral Broadening ModBox-OSB achieves the broadening of an optical signal by modulating its phase via the mean of a very efficient LiNbO₃ phase modulator. A number of side bands are created over a spectral width that can reach several hundreds GHz. The ModBox-OSB contains a single-tone RF generator, white noise sources or PRBS sources. The ModBox-OSB integrates laser chain such as High Energy Lasers (HEL) lasers or Spectral Beam Combining laser architectures (SBC).

AFS’s customized kW average power and multi-mJ pulse energy ultrafast laser systems are based on AFS leading-edge fiber technology. They unite multiple main-amplifier channels using coherent combination, a technology which AFS has matured to an industrial grade. All essential parameters are software-controlled and can be tuned over a wide range, making them an extremely valuable tool for numerous application.

Teem Photonics offers air-cooled diode-pumped passively Q-switched lasers – pulsed Microchip and Powerchip lasers series, as well the Picospark, PicoOne and PicoMega laser series, based on a MOFA architecture, i.e., using a fiber amplifier. All can generate intense sub-nanosecond pulses. Available emission wavelengths are 1064 nm, 532 nm, 355 nm, 266 nm and 213 nm.

EKSPLA offers a wide range of femtosecond, picosecond and nanosecond lasers as well as tunable wavelength systems for research and industrial applications.

LEUKOS offers the passively Q-switched laser HLX-I, a compact microchip laser generated sub-nanosecond pulsed at 1064 nm. Different versions are available, with up to 500 MW average output power and 50 μJ pulse energy. It is suitable for micromachining, a seed laser, for LIDAR, 3 D scanning and imaging, biophotonics, supercontinuum generation and in other fields.

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HÜBNER Photonics offer pulsed nanosecond lasers in the Cobolt Tor Series: up to 0.5 mJ/pulse, <5 ns pulse width, 7  kHz pulse repetition rate with single pulse triggerable and free running models.

RPMC Lasers offers a wide range of pulsed laser sources with wavelengths from the UV through the MWIR. These offerings include DPSS lasers, flashlamp lasers, fiber lasers, and micro lasers/microchip lasers with both active and passive Q-switches, available with up to 100W average output power, up to 200 mJ pulse energy, pulse widths as low as 100 fs and up to 125 ns, and many repetition rate options up to 80 MHz.

MegaWatt Lasers Inc. offers CTH:YAG and Er:YAG resonators. These are flash lamp pumped and water cooled. They are optimized for energy and repetition rate. The CTH:YAG resonator is able to generate 4-J pulses at a repetition rate of 10 Hz, while the Er:YAG resonator reaches 3 J at also 10 Hz. Both allow for adjustable pulse widths.

CNI offers nanosecond Q-switched lasers with wavelength coverage from 223 nm to 4800 nm. We have versions with pulse energies from 1 μJ to 10 J, repetition rates from 1 Hz to 200 kHz and pulse width from 0.8 ns to 200 ns. The lasers can be actively or passively cooled with air or water, or with conduction cooling, and there are various controls and outputs.

CNI also offers picosecond lasers.

Alpes Lasers offers pulsed QCLs with wavelengths ranging from 4 to 14 μm and average powers up to hundreds of milliwatts. The unique nature of QCLs makes them perfectly suited for very short-pulse applications.

AdValue Photonics offers different kinds of Q-switched nanosecond lasers, all emitting in the 2-μm spectral region (1950 nm):

• The Q-switched laser module AP-QS1-MOD generates pulses with 20 ns to 200 ns duration, up to 30 kHz repetition rate, up to 10 W average output power and high beam quality. The module also has an output modulation capability.
• The Q-switched laser AP-QS is a compact seed laser delivering 5-μJ pulses with up to 30 kHz repetition rate.
• The Q-switched laser AP-QS1 with a rack housing offers up to 5 W average power and 250 μJ pulse energy.

Besides, AdValue Photonics has picosecond and femtosecond fiber lasers.

Bright Solutions offers various Q-switched lasers:

• Wedge – nanosecond Q-switched lasers for 266, 355, 532, 1064, 1570, 3100 nm (also multi-wavelength configurations), used e.g. for atmospheric LIDAR, monitoring, glass machining or lithography
• Onda – compact monolithic nanosecond Q-switched lasers for 266, 355, 532 or 1064 nm, used e.g. for lens marking, plastic marking or intravolume glass marking
• Sol – compact Q-switched lasers for 355, 532 or 1064 nm, up to 200 kHz, used e.g. for automotive fabrication, electronic machining, ID card writing and other industrial applications
• Vento – sub-nanosecond MOPA lasers with pulse durations down to 500 ps, up to 200 kHz, up to 100 W average power at 1064 nm or 50 W at 532 nm, e.g. for LIDAR or PCB microprocessing
• Aero – high energy lasers with up to 200 mJ at 1064 nm, 100 mJ at 532 nm, multi-wavelength configurations, custom beam shaping, application e.g. in atmospheric LIDAR, LIBS or nonlinear spectroscopy
• ONE DPSS – miniaturized Q-switched lasers with up to 200 μJ and down to 3 ns, e.g. for atmospheric LIDAR and laser marking on plastics

NKT Photonics offers a wide variety of pulsed fiber lasers, for industrial and scientific applications that covers a wide spectral range from UV to visible and infrared. The lasers are air-cooled and maintenance-free and packaged in a sealed, robust enclosure allowing for operation in the harshest environmental conditions. Our more than ten years’ experience and deep knowledge in laser science allow us to offer lasers having industrial-grade reliability and robustness. We offer ultrafast fiber lasers for industrial and scientific applications as well as a wide range of picosecond pulsed diode lasers. Our gain-switched pulsed diode lasers offer triggerable pulses with durations down to 20 ps in a small footprint for both scientific and OEM applications.

MPBC’s line of pulsed fiber lasers are designed to address a range of market applications including medical and bio-medical research, semiconductor inspection, micro-machining, metrology, and multi-photon spectroscopy.

Products include:

• High-power mode-locked femtosecond fiber lasers which operate at 920 nm or 1190 nm. They generate linearly polarized nearly transformed-limited pulses with a pulse duration of 200 fs, at a repetition rate of 80 MHz, and an average power of 1 W.
• Mode-locked picosecond fiber lasers operate in the 1-µm or the 1.5-µm regime.
• Nanosecond pulsed fiber lasers, with user-selectable repetition rates, are also based on an all-fiber laser cavity, offering excellent beam quality and wall plug efficiency.