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Buying Scientific Lasers

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Related product category: industrial lasers

Scientific lasers are designed to meet the rigorous demands of scientific research across various fields, including physics, chemistry, and biology. These lasers often offer high precision, stability, and unique wavelength capabilities, enabling detailed and accurate experimental results. They are indispensable tools in laboratories and research facilities worldwide.

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:

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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 scientific 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.

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3. Find suitable suppliers

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  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for scientific 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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Suppliers for Scientific Lasers

30 suppliers for scientific lasers are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 14 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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Precision in photonics. Together we shape a sustainable future.

Menlo Systems GmbH
Bunsenstr. 5
82152 Martinsried
Germany
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scientific lasers

Menlo Systems' portfolio of scientific lasers covers femtosecond fiber lasers, including laser stabilization and synchronization, ultrastable lasers with ultranarrow linewidth, and microjoule lasers.

We offer erbium and ytterbium doped femtosecond fiber lasers with optional subsequent frequency conversion to cover a wide wavelength range for spectroscopic applications. Based on Menlo figure 9® patented mode locking technology, our lasers are unique in regard to user-friendliness and robustness. We offer solutions for laser stabilization, laser synchronization and ASOPS, and complete timing distribution systems.

Our ultrastable lasers with ultranarrow linewidth are available at nearly any wavelength to serve applications such as optical clocks interrogation.

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all wavelengths.

TOPTICA Photonics AG
Lochhamer Schlag 19
82166 Gräfelfing
Germany
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scientific lasers

TOPTICA's products are widely and successfully used for scientific applications in fundamental quantum technology. In these fields quantum physics, quantum optics, atom optics, photonics, statistical physics and related fields are investigated in order to understand the basics of quantum technology. Whenever a laser is required – pulsed or cw, tunable or actively frequency stabilized – a frequency comb or even a complete solution combining many lasers and photonicals, TOPTICA is the ideal partner.

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Tune your wavelength

Radiantis
Carrer Esteve Terradas, 1
Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia
08860 Castelldefels
Barcelona
Spain
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scientific lasers

All Radiantis broadly tunable lasers are specially designed for the scientific community. Femtosecond and picosecond pulses as well as continuous-wave (CW) temporal regimes are provided with automatic tuning across the UV, visible and IR.

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CNI Laser
No. 888 Jinhu Road
High-tech Zone, Changchun 130103
China
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scientific lasers

CNI offers a wide range of lasers, which are often used for scientific applications. For example, we offer:

  • laser diode modules, e.g. narrow-linewidth DFB lasers, picosecond lasers, alignment lasers and others
  • diode-pumped solid-state lasers with high stability, low noise, high output power or pulse energy, Q-switched and mode-locked picosecond versions, etc.
  • fiber lasers with SM or MM fiber output, pulse width <200 ps, tunable versions with 1–250 ns pulse width, modulation rates up to 1 MHz

We specialize in designing and manufacturing custom-made and OEM lasers to suit our clients' particular needs. In fact, 75% of the lasers manufactured involve some type of custom work.

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APE Angewandte Physik und Elektronik GmbH
Plauener Straße 163–165 / Haus N
13053 Berlin
Germany
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scientific lasers

APE offers a wide range of ultrafast optical parametric oscillators (OPOs), which can be pumped with 1-μm lasers or with Ti:sapphire lasers. Wide wavelength regions in the near and mid-IR can be addressed, pulse durations in the picosecond or femtosecond region are available, and pulse repetition rates can be in the megahertz or gigahertz region.

The wavelength ranges can be easily expanded down to the ultraviolet/visible (via APEs SHG/THG/FHG devices) and up to 15 µm (via APEs DFG devices).

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High-power & single-frequency VECSELs at 350–2150 nm for quantum technology

Vexlum Ltd
Kauhakorvenkatu 53 B
33710 Tampere
Finland
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scientific lasers

VEXLUM offers watt-level single-frequency lasers based on VECSEL technology with broad wavelength coverage. Wavelengths range from 350 nm to 2150 nm, and power levels up to 10 W. We will configure the laser exactly to your wavelength. Challenge us with specs of your dream laser!

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30 Years of Laser Excellence

Monocrom
C/ Vilanoveta 6
08800 Vilanova i la Geltrú (Barcelona)
Spain
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scientific lasers

Monocrom offers the CiOM lasers, which are Q-switched Nd:YLF lasers emitting nanosecond pulses at 1053 nm, 526.5 nm or 351 nm. They are used for spectroscopy, interferometry and optical pumping.

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Lasers, Optics, Electronics. Made in Germany.

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

Scientific lasers are offered for many research areas and represent one of the main product categories of ALPHALAS. In addition, solutions for customer-specific designs with individual non-standard features and parameters are offered.

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Sacher Lasertechnik GmbH
Hedwig-Jahnow-Str. 12
35037 Marburg
Germany
scientific lasers

Sacher Lasertechnik offers various scientific lasers:

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Lasers beyond the state of the art

Active Fiber Systems GmbH
Ernst-Ruska-Ring 17
07745 Jena
Germany
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scientific lasers

Our employees have pushed the boundaries of what is possible with femtosecond lasers over the last decade. Our solutions range from compact options all the way to complex high-power femtosecond laser beamlines with multiple output ports.

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Composing with Light

Teem Photonics S. A.
61 chemin du Vieux Chêne
38246 Meylan
France
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See us at OFC 2025 in San Francisco, April 1–3 (booth 6384)!

scientific lasers

Teem Photonics short pulse lasers bench top CDRH versions are easy to install and operate under laboratory condition. When R & D leads to industrial roll-out, the company's long lasting specialization for OEM laser module production leads to a seamless transition.

Over 45 different laser versions are available, including the 532 nm Picomega laser with pulse durations of 100 ps. Available laser wavelengths are 1064, 532, 355, 266 and 213 nm.

Application fields cover instrumentation, biomedical and material processing.

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Fully automated ultrafast tunable laser systems

SI Stuttgart Instruments GmbH
Ernsthaldenstr. 17
70565 Stuttgart
Germany
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scientific lasers

The Stuttgart Instruments Alpha is an ultrafast and fully wavelength-tunable frequency conversion system in an ultra-compact and completely passively stable system based on revolutionary parametric oscillator design which guarantees outstanding stability, reproducibility and shot-noise limited performance.

The revolutionary design of Stuttgart Instruments Alpha, characterized by outstanding low noise and passive long-term stability, is based on the fiber-feedback optical parametric oscillator (FFOPO) technology and results in outstanding performance and high flexibility at the same time.

The Alpha covers a gap-free rapid tunable spectral range from 700 nm to 20 µm wavelengths, while maintaining high output power up to the Watt-level with femto- or picosecond pulses at several MHz pulse repetition rates. It provides multiple simultaneously tunable outputs with a selectable bandwidth from a few to 100 cm-1. Shot-noise limited performance above 300 kHz, passive spectral stability (< 0.02% rms) and wavelength-independent stable beam pointing (< 30 µrad) enable excellent sensitivity. In addition, each Alpha is equipped with a user-friendly ethernet and Wi-Fi interface and a matching graphical user interface (GUI) as well as easy to access API interfaces for e.g. LabView, Python, C++.

Typically, the Alpha is pumped by an ultra-low-noise Primus pump laser, which provides more than 8 W average output power at 1040 nm wavelength and 450 fs pulse duration at 42 MHz repetition rate. In addition, the Alpha can be operated with other pump lasers around 1 µm wavelength and enough power.

Due to our modular platform, the Alpha can be adapted and optimized for various applications and is particularly suited for spectroscopic applications requiring a robust and reliable tunable radiation with low noise.

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Let the light be always with you!

Geola Digital Ltd.
Naugarduko 41
LT-03227 Vilnius
Lithuania
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scientific lasers

Geola Digital is a company that specializes in manufacturing narrow-spectrum single longitudinal mode (SLM) and TEM00 Q-switched lasers with uniform transverse Gaussian mode and stable characteristics. These lasers are suitable for a wide range of laser photonics applications where precise control over the wavelength and phase of the light is essential.

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Structured Light & Laser Beam Shaping Solutions

Osela inc.
1869 32nd Avenue
Lachine, QC H8T 3J1
Canada
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scientific lasers

The BioShape laser (BSL) is a fully integrated top hat projection system designed to be a plug and play illumination solution for the bio-instrumentation industry. The platform efficiently creates customizable top hat beam profiles with high uniformity and no high frequency ripple as required in many analytical instruments. The top hat beam can be created directly at the customer’s target plane (ITH) or at the focal plane of an existing optical system (DTH option). The BSL’s opto-electronics are optimized for ultra-low noise operation while offering fully integrated digital and analog interfacing features (RS232, RS485, I2C). The platform is completely temperature controlled for maximum stability.

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Other Suppliers

AMPHOS GmbH
Germany
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Amplitude Laser Group
France
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Arktis Laser Inc.
Canada
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Elliot Scientific Ltd.
United Kingdom
GMP SA, Büro Zürich
Switzerland
InnoLas Laser GmbH
Germany
Integrated Optics, Ltd.
Lithuania
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LEOS Instruments s.r.l.
Italy
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OEwaves, Inc.
United States
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Opto Enginee LLC
United States
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Raymax Lasers
Australia
Sintec Optronics Pte Ltd (HQ)
Singapore
Spectra-Physics Lasers
United States
Topag Lasertechnik GmbH
Germany
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TRUMPF Scientific Lasers GmbH + Co. KG
Germany
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UpTek Solutions Corp.
United States

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