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Buying Supercontinuum Sources

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Related product category: white light sources

Supercontinuum sources emit light with extremely broad optical spectra, operating either continuously or with high repetition rate pulse trains. Their high spatial coherence makes them valuable in applications such as optical coherence tomography, fluorescence microscopy, flow cytometry, and optical device characterization.

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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 supercontinuum sources. 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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Suppliers for Supercontinuum Sources

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

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We Laser The New Industry

FYLA LASER S.L.
Ronda Guglielmo Marconi 14
CP 46980, Paterna
Spain
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supercontinuum sources

Iceblink is a supercontinuum fiber laser covering the 450–2300 nm spectral range with 3 W of average power and superior stability (<0.5% std. dev.). It is a very versatile white light source with a world of applications in the scientific and industrial sectors, including absorption/transmission measurements for material characterization, VIS, NIR, and IR spectroscopy, single molecule spectroscopy, and fluorescence excitation. The spatial coherence and broad spectrum of Iceblink make it a great alternative to classic lamps, single-line lasers, LEDs, and ASE sources.

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Solutions for Innovators

NKT Photonics
Bregnerødvej 144
3460 Birkerød
Denmark
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See us at OFC 2025 in San Francisco, April 1–3 (booth 5010)!

supercontinuum sources

The SuperK series is an industry-leading range of turnkey supercontinuum white light lasers. They are robust and reliable, built for intensive use, and can replace multiple single-line lasers and broadband sources like ASE sources, SLEDs, and lamps. We offer supercontinuum solutions at every level: From nonlinear fiber and modules to complete turnkey SuperK supercontinuum lasers – with or without a built-in filter.

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O/E Land Inc.
7639 Cordner
Lasalle, Quebec H8N 2X2
Canada
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See us at OFC 2025 in San Francisco, April 1–3 (booth 6347)!

supercontinuum sources

O/E Land’s mid infrared (MIR) supercontinuum and ASE light sources cover a wide wavelength range from 0.4 µm to ~4.5 µm with various bandwidths. They provide high output power of more than 2 watts via single mode fiber (SMF) output. Based on our advanced non-linear fiber optic technology, this light source is specifically targeting applications such as infrared (IR) spectrometry, IR countermeasures, sensor and R&D.

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Thorlabs
43 Sparta Avenue
Newton, NJ 07860
United States
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See us at OFC 2025 in San Francisco, April 1–3 (booth 1551)!

supercontinuum sources

Thorlabs’ 2017 Prism Awards winner in the category of scientific lasers, the SC4500 turn-key mid-IR supercontinuum source, emits light in the 1.3 – 4.5 µm range. With >100 mW of output power in the 2.2 – 4.2 µm range, this source is well suited to studying gas absorption lines and other molecular signatures. Complimenting this system is a range of femtosecond laser systems and a supercontinuum generation kit for driving supercontinuum generation as well as highly nonlinear fibers (HNLF) and photonic crystal fiber (PCF) for spectral broadening of femtosecond pulses.

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Advanced photonic chips made easy to use

Octave Photonics
325 W South Boulder Rd Suite B-1
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
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supercontinuum sources

Octave Photonics packages nanophotonic waveguides into easy-to-use fiber-optic devices. These waveguides can produce supercontinuum with less than 150 pJ of pulse energy.

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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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See us at OFC 2025 in San Francisco, April 1–3 (booth 6283)!

supercontinuum sources

As the pioneer in the optical frequency comb technology, Menlo Systems offers a full product line from the compact and fully automated SmartComb to the ultra-low noise Optical Frequency Comb FC1500-ULNplus. Our patented figure 9® mode locking technology ensures lowest phase noise and long-term reliable operation.

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Innovative and Reliable

AdValue Photonics
2700 E. Bilby Rd.
Tucson, AZ 85706
United States
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supercontinuum sources

AdValue Photonics offers the fiber-based supercontinuum source AP-SC-MIR, emitting in a more than 500 nm wide region (10-dB bandwidth) around 2 μm with 10 kHz repetition rate and 100 mW average power. It can be used, for example, for caps optical component testing, gas analysis, biomedical analysis and spectroscopy.

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The lasers you need. From the people you trust. Our experience, your advantage.

RPMC Lasers, Inc.
8495 Veterans Memorial Pkwy
O’Fallon MO 63366
United States
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supercontinuum sources

Serving North America, RPMC Lasers offers supercontinuum lasers from SPECTROLIGHT Inc., the recipient of several LFW Innovator's Awards and a Prism Award Finalist (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022) for their Flexible Wavelength Selector and its application products. The TLS series offers the broadest continuously optically tunable broadband ps-pulsed laser & the only available device with simultaneous tuning of center wavelength and bandwidth for TLS-Red (fixed bandwidth for TLS-Blue). These ps-pulsed tunable laser systems and their base unit, the SL-Pico ultra-broadband supercontinuum lasers are perfect for applications requiring precision scanning and high output from fluorescence microscopy to time-resolved spectroscopy, such as TCSPC, hyperspectral imaging, machine vision, semiconductors & more. Let RPMC help you find the right laser today!

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Leader in fluoride glass and optical fiber technology

Le Verre Fluoré
Rue Gabriel Voisin
Campus de Ker Lann
35170 Bruz, Brittany
France
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supercontinuum sources

Thanks two their nonlinear properties and their high transparency from UV up to mid infrared, fluoride fibers are widely used for supercontinuum generation. Discover our fluoride fibers for supercontinuum generation. Our fibers are integrated in the commercial supercontinuum Electro-MIR 4100 and Electro-MIR 4800 sources, developed in collaboration with LEUKOS, and commercialized by LEUKOS.

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LEUKOS
2 rue Edouard Michaud
Beaublanc Bât. 3–4–5
87000 Limoges
France
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supercontinuum sources

LEUKOS offers the Rock supercontinuum source. Based on a mode-locked laser, it produces picosecond pulses with up to 5 W average power and an optical spectrum spanning from 400 nm to beyond 2400 nm.

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all wavelengths.

TOPTICA Photonics AG
Lochhamer Schlag 19
82166 Gräfelfing
Germany
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supercontinuum sources

TOPTICA’s FemtoFiber ultra femtosecond fiber lasers are excellent tools for multiphoton applications. These ultrafast lasers provide powerful pulses centered at 780 nm, 920 nm or 1050 nm, up to 5 W average power and <100 fs pulses, with excellent spatial and temporal beam quality for best focusing and therefore highest efficiency or contrast. They are ideal light sources for multiphoton (or SHG) microscopy, fluorescence lifetime microscopy (FLIM), material processing such as 2-Photon polymerization, and many other applications based on non-linear effects (Semicon Inspection, THz generation and sensing, etc.).

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Other Suppliers
Axiom Optics
United States
Crisel Instruments s.r.l.
Italy
IDIL Fibres Optiques
France
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Lahat Technologies Ltd
Israel
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Nano-Giga
France
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New Age Instruments & Materials
India
New Span Opto-Technology Inc
United States
New Technologies and Consulting
Germany
Newport Corporation
United States
NORBLIS
Denmark
Nuphoton Technologies
United States
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Photon etc. Inc.
Canada
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PolarOnyx
United States
Sintec Optronics Pte Ltd (HQ)
Singapore
Hong Kong Xiang Shun Technology Co., Ltd
China
Soliton Laser- und Messtechnik GmbH
Germany
SuperLight Photonics BV
Netherlands
YSL Photonics
China
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