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Buying Wavelength-tunable Light Sources

Top-level product category: various devices

Related product categories: tunable lasers, monochromators

Wavelength-tunable light sources provide adjustable output across a broad spectral range. These sources can be created using a combination of a white light source and a monochromator, allowing precise selection of the desired wavelength.

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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 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 wavelength-tunable light 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.

3. Find suitable suppliers

We suggest three steps:

  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for wavelength-tunable light 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.

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Suppliers for Wavelength-tunable Light Sources

26 suppliers for wavelength-tunable light sources are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 10 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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O/E Land Inc.
7639 Cordner
Lasalle, Quebec H8N 2X2
Canada
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wavelength-tunable light sources

The Dispersive Tunable Laser or Fourier-Domain Mode-Locked (FDML) Laser is an ultra-fast, high-performance swept source laser designed for applications requiring rapid and precise wavelength tuning. Operating in 1060, 1310 and 1550 nm spectral range, it delivers a broad tuning range with sweeping rates up to world record breaking of 4 MHz, ensuring exceptional speed and resolution. The FDML laser is optimized for use in optical coherence tomography (OCT), high speed fiber Bragg grating sensor interrogation, spectroscopy, and metrology, providing high coherence length and low phase noise. It features stable long-term operation, medium and high output power, and flexible control interfaces, making it suitable for both industrial and research environments. The laser's compact design and robust fiber-based architecture offer reliability and ease of integration into various photonic systems.

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RPMC Lasers, Inc.
8495 Veterans Memorial Pkwy
O’Fallon MO 63366
United States
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wavelength-tunable light sources

Serving North America, RPMC Lasers offers a selection of tunable lasers including the Q-TUNE family of ns-pulsed DPSS lasers, utilizing an OPO to produce tunable wavelengths from 210 – 4500 nm. The TLS series of broadband tunable ps-pulsed supercontinuum lasers provides the only available device with simultaneous center wavelength (410-1700 nm) and bandwidth. Standard and custom options available. Let RPMC help you find the right laser today!

Fully automated ultrafast tunable laser systems

SI Stuttgart Instruments GmbH
Ernsthaldenstr. 17
70565 Stuttgart
Germany
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wavelength-tunable light sources

The Stuttgart Instruments Alpha is an ultrafast and fully wavelength-tunable frequency conversion system in an ultra-compact and completely passively stable system based on revolutionary parametric oscillator design which guarantees outstanding stability, reproducibility and shot-noise limited performance.

The revolutionary design of Stuttgart Instruments Alpha, characterized by outstanding low noise and passive long-term stability, is based on the fiber-feedback optical parametric oscillator (FFOPO) technology and results in outstanding performance and high flexibility at the same time.

The Alpha covers a gap-free rapid tunable spectral range from 700 nm to 20 µm wavelengths, while maintaining high output power up to the Watt-level with femto- or picosecond pulses at several MHz pulse repetition rates. It provides multiple simultaneously tunable outputs with a selectable bandwidth from a few to 100 cm-1. Shot-noise limited performance above 300 kHz, passive spectral stability (< 0.02% rms) and wavelength-independent stable beam pointing (< 30 µrad) enable excellent sensitivity. In addition, each Alpha is equipped with a user-friendly ethernet and Wi-Fi interface and a matching graphical user interface (GUI) as well as easy to access API interfaces for e.g. LabView, Python, C++.

Typically, the Alpha is pumped by an ultra-low-noise Primus pump laser, which provides more than 8 W average output power at 1040 nm wavelength and 450 fs pulse duration at 42 MHz repetition rate. In addition, the Alpha can be operated with other pump lasers around 1 µm wavelength and enough power.

Due to our modular platform, the Alpha can be adapted and optimized for various applications and is particularly suited for spectroscopic applications requiring a robust and reliable tunable radiation with low noise.

CNI Laser
No. 888 Jinhu Road
High-tech Zone, Changchun 130103
China
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wavelength-tunable light sources

CNI offers various wavelength-tunable lasers: diode lasers (with wavelengths between 403 nm and 1074 nm), tunable DPSS wavelength-tunable lasers including tunable Ti:sapphire lasers, and tunable infrared lasers.

Tune your wavelength

Radiantis
Carrer Esteve Terradas, 1
Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia
08860 Castelldefels
Barcelona
Spain
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wavelength-tunable light sources

All Radiantis lasers are broadly tunable lasers, specially designed for the scientific community. Femtosecond and picosecond pulses as well as continuous-wave (CW) temporal regimes are offered with automatic tuning across the UV, visible and IR.

Zolix Instruments Co., Ltd.
No. 68B, LDUV
Tongzhou District
Beijing 101102
China
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wavelength-tunable light sources

The Zolix tunable light source (TLS) is a pre-aligned, pre-assembled illumination system capable of emitting monochromatic light from 200 nm on. The completely plug & play system is very easily controlled by software. It is widely used in fluorescence spectroscopy.

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

Our tunable fiber laser covers the C-band and can address up to 89 different ITU-T standard wavelengths (with 50 GHz separation). It contains a dual Fabry–Pérot cavity tuning etalon and a high gain chip, featuring high output optical power, narrow linewidth and high wavelength accuracy. It is equipped with a dedicated drive control circuit, high-definition color LCD screen, and optional control keyboard and PC software.

Light with high power and luminance for industry and research

lightsource.tech – a brand of Technologie Manufaktur
Hannah-Vogt-Str. 1
37085 Göttingen
Germany
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wavelength-tunable light sources

For the efficient generation of wavelength-tunable monochromatic light, we offer the Monochromator-H and Hyperchromator in conjunction with suitable white light sources:

  • The Monochromator-H has an integrated halogen lamp, covering the range from 340 nm to 2000 nm.
  • The Hyperchromator is specifically made for the laser-pumped XWS-30 light source from ISTEQ. It works from 190 nm to 2200 nm.

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Alpes Lasers SA
Avenue des Pâquiers 1
2072 St-Blaise
Switzerland
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wavelength-tunable light sources

Alpes Lasers designs and manufactures single-mode mid-IR lasers with wavelength tuning over more than 10 cm−1. Broad-gain lasers with wide tuning in an external cavity are also offered.

Hamamatsu Photonics Europe
Arzbergerstr. 10
82211 Herrsching
Germany
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wavelength-tunable light sources

The Laser-Driven Light Sources or LDLS is an innovative light source developed by Energetiq Technology inc. in the US, which is a subsidiary of Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. LDLS is the only light source in the world that utilizes a focused laser beam to generate and maintain plasma between the discharge electrodes in the xenon gas filled bulb.

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Other Suppliers
Bentham Instruments, Ltd.
United Kingdom
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Brimrose
United States
Camlin Ltd.
United Kingdom
Dynasil
United States
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Energetiq Technology, Inc.
United States
HJ Optronics Inc.
United States
HORIBA Scientific
United States
IDIL Fibres Optiques
France
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Lahat Technologies Ltd
Israel
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Laser 2000 GmbH
Germany
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Lumispot Technology Corp.
China
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Newport Corporation
United States
QuantumDesign Europe GmbH
Germany
Sciencetech Inc.
Canada
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Spectral Products
United States
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Topag Lasertechnik GmbH
Germany
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