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Buying Thulium-doped Laser Gain Media

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More general product categories: rare-earth-doped laser gain media

Thulium-doped laser gain media include crystalline materials like Tm3+:YAG and thulium-doped fibers, such as double-clad fibers for high-power operation and fibers for upconversion lasing. These media typically emit in the 2-μm region, with some capable of blue emission via upconversion processes.

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Suppliers for Thulium-doped Laser Gain Media

11 suppliers for thulium-doped laser gain media are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 2 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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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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thulium-doped laser gain media

Thanks to their high rare-earth solubility (up to 100,000 ppm) and low phonon energy, LVF fluoride fibers offer dozens of active transitions, enabling a broad range of applications from visible to the mid-infrared.

LVF thulium doped fibers are available as single.mode fibers or double cladding fibers.

LVF thulium doped fibers can be used for laser emission at visible wavelengths (455 nm, 785 nm), at infrared wavelengths (810 nm, 1.47 µm, 1.88 µm) and mid-infrared wavelengths (2.3 µm).

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Exail (formerly iXblue)
34, Rue de la Croix de Fer
78100 Saint Germain-en-Laye
France
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Exail’s thulium-doped fiber products have been developed for core pumped fiber lasers and amplifiers from 1.9 to 2.2 µm.

Our portfolio contains both single clad and double clad fibers (from 6 µm to 25 µm core diameter) in PM and non-PM versions. Space, radiation-resistant versions are also available on request.

Benefits and features of our Tm-doped fibers:

  • high and consistent pump absorption
  • low M2
  • large mode area
  • high efficiency
  • high thulium concentration

Applications: 2-µm CW and pulsed lasers, fiber amplifiers.

Exail also offers a wide range of thulium/holmium-doped optical fibers for amplifiers and fiber lasers (from 1.9 to 2.2 µm), including triple clad design to be used in high power amplifiers and fiber lasers.

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Other Suppliers

AOG Crystal Technology Co, Ltd.
China
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CorActive High-Tech Inc.
Canada
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Crytur, spol. s r.o.
Czech Republic
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CYBEL, LLC
United States
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Laserand, Inc.
Canada
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Mountain Photonics GmbH
Germany
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Sichuan MetalMiracle Industry Corp.
China
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New Source Technology LLC
United States
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Princeton Scientific Corp.
United States
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