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Purchasing Advisor for Superluminescent Sources

Find all you need for professionally buying superluminescent sources: a comprehensive expert-curated directory of suppliers, scientific and technical background information, and an interactive AI-based tool with guidance for a structured decision process.

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Top-level product category: icon lasers and laser amplifiers

More specific product categories: superluminescent diodes

Superluminescent sources emit broadband light with high spatial coherence. Common types include superluminescent diodes and fiber-based ASE sources, which offer higher output power levels and are used in various optical applications requiring smooth spectral profiles.

Interactive Purchase Decision Tool

Purchasing high-value photonics products is a substantial responsibility. Using a structured decision-making process and high quality supplier data helps a lot:

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How Responsible Purchase Decisions for Expensive Goods Like Lasers Are Done Explanations on this purchasing tool

Go through the process:

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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If you need personal help, contact RP Photonics to get technical consultancy.

2. Define your requirements

It is essential to fully understand and clearly define your requirements before you purchase.

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 superluminescent 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.

You find these buttons in the supplier list below or under "3. Find suitable suppliers".

3. Find suitable suppliers

We suggest three steps:

  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for superluminescent sources. 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.

Selected suppliers:

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Decision

The most suitable supplier you found:

Comments, e.g. reasons for your choice, or things which still need to be checked:

4. Document the decision process

It is essential to document your purchasing process, not only its result (chosen supplier):

  • You will find it easier next time.
  • If something goes wrong, you can defend your decision by showing that you properly considered all important aspects. Or you see what needs to be done better next time.

Our interactive tool makes it easy: Fill out the form, and in the end print it to a PDF. Note that the document will show all sections (including those not currently shown on the screen), while omitting some irrelevant details such as the page navigation.

Suppliers for Superluminescent Sources

38 suppliers for superluminescent sources are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 4 present their product descriptions and images. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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Advanced Tunable Lasers Open the Future of Measurement Technology

Spectra Quest Lab, Inc.
408 Chiba-Univ. Inohana Inovation Plaza
1–8–15 Inohana Chuou-ku Chiba-shi
Chiba, 260–0856
Japan
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superluminescent sources

Spectra Quest Lab offers ASE light sources in the 950-nm and 1040-nm bands. They have a very low gain ripple of typically 0.03 dB (RMS) and relatively flat spectral characteristics with a 3 dB bandwidth above 50 nm; PM fiber-coupled output power is 100 mW (typ.) and have come as turnkey bench-top packages. A current modulation port with 1 MHz bandwidth is provided for high-speed modulation.

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DK Photonics Technology Co., Ltd.
4F, Building 18, Qinghu Industrial Park
Dahe Road, Longhua District
Shenzhen, Guangdong 518109
China
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superluminescent sources

DK Photonics offers fiber-based broadband ASE sources emitting in the telecom wavelength bands C and/or L or around 1060 nm.

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Innovative and Reliable

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

AdValue Photonics offers 2-μm ASE sources: the AP-ASE-2000 with over 170 nm bandwidth and 20 mW output power, and the AP-ASE-2100 with over 100 nm and 10 mW output power. Both come as a turn-key benchtop package.

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Test. Measure. Solve.

Quantifi Photonics Limited
12–14 Parkway Drive
Auckland 0632
New Zealand
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superluminescent sources

Quantifi Photonics' SLED 1000 Series is a super-luminescent LED light source with high output power, large bandwidth and low spectral ripple. They are available in various wavelengths in compact benchtop or PXI form factors and ideal for test procedures in telecom and datacom applications.

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Other Suppliers

Allwave Lasers Devices Inc.
China
Alxenses Company Ltd.
Hong Kong
AP Technologies
United Kingdom
APEX Technologies
France
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BaySpec Inc.
United States
BKtel photonics
France
ELUXI Ltd.
United Kingdom
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EXALOS AG
Switzerland
FiberLabs Inc.
Japan
FIBERPRO, Inc.
Korea
FORC-Photonics
Russian Federation
Frankfurt Laser Company
Germany
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GEHT International Ltd
Hong Kong
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Innolume GmbH
Germany
InPhenix, Inc.
United States
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LD-PD Inc.
Singapore
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Mountain Photonics GmbH
Germany
Nano-Giga
France
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nanoplus Nanosystems and Technologies GmbH
Germany
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New Age Instruments & Materials
India
Nuphoton Technologies
United States
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Oelabs Inc.
China
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Opto-Link
Hong Kong
Optoprim Germany GmbH
Germany
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OZ Optics
Canada
Power Technology Inc.
United States
QPhotonics, LLC
United States
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Roithner LaserTechnik
Austria
Safibra
Czech Republic
Sintec Optronics Pte Ltd (HQ)
Singapore
Soliton Laser- und Messtechnik GmbH
Germany
Superlum Diodes Ltd.
Ireland
Techwin (China) Industr Co., Ltd.
China
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Zewda Technology Co., Ltd
Hong Kong

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