Where to Buy 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-ULN^plus. Our patented figure 9^® mode locking technology ensures lowest phase noise and long-term reliable operation.

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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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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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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 for driving supercontinuum generation as well as highly nonlinear fibers (HNLF) and photonic crystal fiber (PCF) for spectral broadening of femtosecond pulses.

TOPTICA’s FemtoFiber ultra femtosecond fiber lasers are excellent tools for multiphoton imaging. These ultrafast lasers provide powerful pulses centered at 780 nm (500 mW average power and below 150 fs pulse duration), at 1050 nm (5 W average power with an unprecedented short pulse duration of typically 90–100 fs), as well as 1550 nm (up to 2 W power and 200 fs pulse duration). They are ideal light sources for multiphoton (SHG/THG) microscopy, supercontinuum generation, material processing, as well as OPCPA or amplifier seeding.

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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.

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.

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.