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Buying Ultrafast Optics

Top-level product category: optical components and devices

Related product categories: dispersive mirrors, saturable absorbers, pulse compressors, pulse stretchers, pulse pickers

Ultrafast optics involves optical components specifically designed or optimized for ultrafast laser systems. These elements are tailored to handle ultrashort pulses, minimizing detrimental effects such as chromatic dispersion and optical nonlinearities. They can also be engineered to introduce a controlled amount of dispersion for precise pulse manipulation.

Making Good Purchase Decisions

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1. Understand the technical background

It is important to sufficiently understand the technology before buying.

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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 draw up a list of clear specifications according to your specific needs:

To help you, we have already listed some aspects we recommend you consider when buying ultrafast optics. 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.

3. Find suppliers

We suggest three steps:

  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for ultrafast optics. 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.
  • Based on the results, you can finally choose a supplier that is hopefully a good enough fit.

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Suppliers for Ultrafast Optics

26 suppliers for ultrafast optics are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 7 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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

Thorlabs manufactures a wide range of ultrafast optics specifically designed for ultrafast applications, including mirrors with a specialized coating optimized for use with femtosecond Ti:sapphire lasers, low-GDD beamsplitters and mirrors, nonlinear crystals, and chirped mirrors. To precisely characterize the dispersion of ultrafast optics over the 500 – 1650 nm range, consider Thorlabs’ Chromatis™ dispersion measurement system with the InGaAs detector add-on option.

Hangzhou Shalom Electro-optics Technology Co., Ltd.
A635, Boke Mansion
No. 9 Xiyuan Road
Xihu District, Hangzhou 310030
China
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ultrafast optics

Shalom EO offers a wide range of ultrafast optics for femtosecond lasers and ultrafast pulsed lasers, with both off-the-shelf and custom versions available. Our product portfolio includes:

  • ultrafast mirrors: femtoline low GDD dielectric mirrors, ultrafast-enhanced silver mirrors, chirped mirrors, and chirped mirror pairs
  • ultrafast nonlinear crystals: BBO crystals with a minimum thickness of 0.01 mm and LBO crystals
  • high precision thin BK7 and UV-grade fused silica windows
  • dispersion prisms made of BK7, UVFS, and SF11 and group delay compensators made from calcite.

Our ultrafast or femtoline laser optical components minimize dispersion, aberrations, and losses to maintain pulse qualities, spatial coherence, and beam-pointing stability, enabling you to achieve exceptional results in your experiments or other applications.

The Future Depends on Optics

Edmund Optics
101 East Gloucester Pike
Barrington, NJ 08007
United States
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ultrafast optics

Edmund Optics provides a breadth of ultrafast optics, including low GDD ultrafast mirrors, highly dispersive ultrafast mirrors, compression prisms, reflective objectives and beam expanders, and nonlinear crystals. These products are designed for common femtosecond lasers, including Ti:sapphire, Yb:doped fiber, thulium (Tm), and holmium (Ho).

Your reliable partner for photonics innovations!

EKSMA Optics, UAB
Dvarcioniu St. 2B
LT-10233 Vilnius
Lithuania
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ultrafast optics

Our Femtoline laser optics are tailored for applications with high power ultrashort laser pulses. This series includes low group delay dispersion (GDD) laser mirrors, broadband mirrors, high power laser mirrors and group velocity dispersion (GVD) compensation plates.

Optogama
(4Lasers)
Mokslininku str. 6B
08412 Vilnius
Lithuania
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ultrafast optics

Low GDD ultrafast mirrors from Optogama exhibit high reflectance with minimal group delay dispersion (GDD) in a certain range of wavelengths and angles of incidence. These mirrors eliminate ultrashort optical pulse broadening effects and maintain high peak power as compared to ordinary high reflectivity laser mirrors. Our low GDD ultrafast mirrors are suitable for Ti:sapphire, Nd:glass or ytterbium-doped host based femtosecond lasers.

Your sidekick for laser optics development

OPTOMAN
Ukmerges g. 427
14185 Vilnius
Lithuania
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ultrafast optics

OPTOMAN designs and manufactures application-optimized ultrafast optics: dispersive mirrors (chirped and GTI design) and low GDD ultrafast mirrors. OPTOMAN focuses exclusively on IBS technology, which allows to sputter coatings that exhibit excellent resistance to laser irradiation and meet cutting edge spectral requirements.

Standard in-stock IBS coated ultrafast optics can be found in OPTOSHOP.

YOUR KEY to innovation and success

UltraFast Innovations GmbH
Dieselstr. 5
85748 Garching (München)
Germany
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ultrafast optics

CAPELLA, the light field synthesizer from UltraFast Innovations (UFI®), is the first of its kind offered commercially. It enables the synthesis and sub-femtosecond control of super-octave light transients.

Moreover, UFI offers a wide range of optical components suitable for ultrafast optics, e.g., mirrors and spectral filters.

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Other Suppliers
Alien Photonics
Lithuania
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Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH
Germany
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CASIX Inc.
China
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Crysmit Photonics Co., Ltd.
China
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CVI Laser Optics
United States
HHV Advanced Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
India
HOLO/OR Ltd.
Israel
LASEROPTIK
Germany
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Layertec GmbH
Germany
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Manx Precision Optics
Isle of Man, IM9 2AP
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NANEO Precision IBS Coatings GmbH
Germany
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Newport Corporation
United States
Optimax Systems, Inc
Canada
Pulsar Photonics GmbH
Germany
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R&D Ultrafast Lasers Kft.
Hungary
Fuzhou Solid Photon Inc
China
Spectrum Scientific, Inc. (SSI)
United States
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Tokyo Instruments, Inc.
Japan
Topag Lasertechnik GmbH
Germany
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