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Buying Ultrafast Amplifiers

Top-level product category: icon lasers and laser amplifiers

More general product categories: optical amplifiers

More specific product categories: chirped-pulse amplifier systems, optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifiers, regenerative amplifiers

Related product category: ultrafast lasers

Ultrafast amplifiers are designed to enhance the power of ultrafast laser pulses. Some simply amplify the full pulse train from a mode-locked laser, while others reduce the pulse repetition rate with a pulse picker to achieve much higher pulse energies and peak powers. These amplifiers can be categorized into different types including bulk solid-state and fiber amplifiers, regenerative amplifiers, and multipass devices. Additionally, there are parametric amplifiers that utilize nonlinear optical processes.

Making Good Purchase Decisions

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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:

encyclopedia article ultrafast amplifiers multipass amplifiers regenerative amplifiers chirped-pulse amplification divided-pulse amplification ultrafast lasers "Fiber Amplifiers" "Modeling of Fiber Amplifiers and Lasers" Femtosecond Fiber Amplifiers: Unlimited Peak Power?

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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 ultrafast amplifiers. 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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3. Find suitable suppliers

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  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for ultrafast amplifiers. 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.

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Suppliers for Ultrafast Amplifiers

33 suppliers for ultrafast amplifiers are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 5 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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Lasers beyond the state of the art

Active Fiber Systems GmbH
Ernst-Ruska-Ring 17
07745 Jena
Germany
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ultrafast amplifiers

AFS’s customized kW average power and multi-mJ pulse energy ultrafast laser systems are based on AFS leading-edge fiber technology. They unite multiple main-amplifier channels using coherent combination, a technology which AFS has matured to an industrial grade. All essential parameters are software-controlled and can be tuned over a wide range, making them an extremely valuable tool for numerous application.

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Lasers for the Molecular Age

Cycle GmbH
Luruper Hauptstr. 1
22547 Hamburg
Germany
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ultrafast amplifiers

Based on Cycle's own femtosecond fiber lasers, the company also offers fiber-based amplifiers (EDFA) with a center wavelength of 1550 nm to 1700 nm. This variant of the SOPRANO-CA is a very attractive solution to amplify the output of beam arrival monitors in synchrotron or FEL facilities, for example. Other custom-made fiber amplifiers are available upon request.

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Extreme power at extreme wavelengths

Class 5 Photonics
Deutsches Elektronensynchrotron DESY
Notkestr. 85
22607 Hamburg
Germany
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ultrafast amplifiers

Class 5 Photonics delivers ultrafast, high-power laser technology at outstanding performance to advance demanding applications from bio-imaging to ultrafast material science and attosecond science. Our robust optical parametric chirped pulse amplifiers (OPCPA) provide high-power, tunable femtosecond pulses at user-friendly operation.

Features of the White Dwarf OPCPA 5 W:

  • compact and user-friendly
  • CEP stability available
  • pumped by Coherent Monaco industrial femtosecond laser

White Dwarf HE OPCPA 30 W:

  • high-performance, ultrafast OPCPA
  • pump-probe configuration
  • pumped by Yb-based laser up to 300 W and 3 mJ

Supernova OPCPA 100 W:

  • our award-winning flagship product
  • highest average power OPCPA for demanding applications
  • pumped by kW-class Yb:YAG Innoslab amplifiers or thin-disk lasers
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Femtosecond fiber lasers - superior lifetime & performance

Fluence sp. z o.o.
ul. Kolejowa 5/7
01–217 Warszawa
Poland
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ultrafast amplifiers

Find harmony in four perfectly synchronised and precisely tunable wavelength outputs produced by the Fluence Harmony Optical Parametric Amplifier (OPA).

Fluence Harmony is a device that precisely converts ultrafast pulses of one band (e.g. 1030-nm pulses coming from Fluence Jasper) into a set of pulsed laser beams tunable in an extremely broad spectrum of wavelengths, ranging from 210 nm up to 2600 nm. All automated, all software-controlled.

A growing number of ultrafast spectroscopy techniques has prompted the need for a robust and reliable, self-diagnostic device like Harmony. The optical parametric amplifier is fully compatible with all femtosecond lasers and provides automated tuning across the basic tuning range.

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Thorlabs
43 Sparta Avenue
Newton, NJ 07860
United States
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ultrafast amplifiers

Thorlabs manufactures erbium (Er) and ytterbium (Yb) fiber amplifiers for ultrafast pulse amplification. Along with these stand-alone benchtop amplifiers, Thorlabs has developed an entire family of femtosecond lasers utilizing oscillator-amplifier architectures.

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Other Suppliers
AMPHOS GmbH
Germany
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Amplitude Laser Group
France
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Avesta Ltd.
Russian Federation
Calmar Laser
United States
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CDP Corp.
Russian Federation
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Coherent Corp.
United States
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Dausinger & Giesen GmbH
Germany
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Del Mar Photonics, Inc.
United States
Dyneos AG
Switzerland
Elixir Photonics
United States
ELUXI Ltd.
United Kingdom
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Fibercryst
France
GMP SA, Büro Zürich
Switzerland
Ikeos Research Ltd.
United Kingdom
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INO
Canada
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Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories Inc.
United States
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Mountain Photonics GmbH
Germany
neoLASE GmbH
Germany
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Northrop Grumman - Cutting Edge Optronics
United States
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Optoprim Germany GmbH
Germany
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PHOTONICPARTS
Germany
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Sintec Optronics Pte Ltd (HQ)
Singapore
Skynet Lasers Inc.
Canada
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Spectra-Physics Lasers
United States
Tokyo Instruments, Inc.
Japan
TRUMPF Laser- und Systemtechnik GmbH
Germany
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TRUMPF Scientific Lasers GmbH + Co. KG
Germany
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UpTek Solutions Corp.
United States

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