Where to Buy Single-frequency Lasers

All of TOPTICA’s tunable diode lasers offer a narrow linewidth of typically 100 kHz, corresponding to coherence lengths of almost 1 km. By stabilizing these lasers even further with TOPTICA’s locking electronics, linewidths below 1 Hz are possible.

The Koheras narrow linewidth, single-frequency fiber lasers are ultra-low noise sources with longitudinal single mode and single frequency operation. The lasers are based on a DFB design ensuring robust and reliable operation and are delivered as fully integrated systems for industrial and scientific applications. Koheras offers an unprecedented low phase- and intensity noise level at Yb, Er and Tm wavelengths. It has a very high stability, and mode-hop free inherent single frequency output – even when exposed to changing environmental conditions. You can also get shot noise limited solutions for applications demanding an extra low intensity noise level.

Frankfurt Laser Company offers various kinds of wavelength-stabilized laser diodes. Those based on DFB or DBR lasers exhibit single-frequency operation.

Laser Quantum manufacturers of torus mode-locked SLM lasers 532 and 660 nm lasers with active mode-locking to maintain a stable frequency output and output beam performance across long measurements and temperature fluctuations.

RPMC offers a wide range of single-frequency laser diodes and laser modules with wavelengths from 405 nm to 2 μm. These offerings include DFB and DBR diode lasers, external cavity VBG diode lasers, fiber lasers, and DPSS lasers. All are available in both OEM and turnkey packages.

Menlo Systems offers ultrastable, frequency stabilized lasers at basically any wavelength. We supply fully characterized systems with linewidths <1 Hz and Allan deviations of 2 × 10^-15 (in 1 s) as well as modules and components allowing for state-of-the-art systems tailored to your requirements.

The HI-Q™ Laser houses a proprietary driver/controller and the OEwaves laser source, which is based on a high quality factor (Q) Whispering Gallery Mode (WGM) micro-resonator. The laser is scalable to a variety of wavelengths in 370-–4500 nm.

The unique technology of the OEwaves HI-Q™ Laser leverages the self-injection on locking of a suitable commercially available laser diode via a resonant optical feedback from a high-Q WGM micro-resonator. Its monolithically integrated approach along with micro-scale mass and volume make the laser virtually insensitive to environmental vibrations .

Features:

- ultra-narrow instantaneous laser linewidth

- ultra-low phase/frequency noise

- 370–4500 nm wavelength

- low vibration sensitivity

- low residual amplitude modulation

- wavelength stability

- compact package

- integrated driver/controller

- USB or RS232 control interface

Applications:

- interferometric optical sensing

- LIDAR

- B-OTDR temperature and strain

- gas sensing

- optical metrology and spectroscopy

- acoustic sensing

- oil and gas exploration

- coherent communication

- test and measurement

With the CVFL, CYFL and CEFL kilo models, Lumibird offers CW fiber lasers with very narrow linewidth down to 1 kHz. These single frequency lasers emits at 1054/1083 nm for the ytterbium version, in the 1.5-µm range for the erbium version and at frequency converted wavelengths for the CVFL model. These lasers are specifically designed for applications which requirehigh precision such as LIDAR, atomic spectroscopy, or atom cooling.