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Purchasing Advisor for White Light Sources

Find all you need for professionally buying white light 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 non-laser light sources

Related product categories: supercontinuum sources, superluminescent sources

White light sources emit broadband radiation, often covering the visible spectrum and beyond. Some sources exhibit high spatial coherence, allowing the light to be directed as a beam and even delivered through single-mode fiber. Applications include supercontinuum generation and white light interferometry.

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:

See also:

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:

encyclopedia article white light sources bandwidth supercontinuum generation white light interferometers superluminescent sources

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 white 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.

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 white 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.

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 White Light Sources

32 suppliers for white light sources are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 5 present their product descriptions and images. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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LEUKOS
2 rue Edouard Michaud
Beaublanc Bât. 3–4–5
87000 Limoges
France
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white light sources

ELECTRO VIS is the latest LEUKOS development. Optimized for long lifetime, power in the visible and ease of use, ELECTROVIS is a high end, short-pulse high-tech device. Ideal for applications where reliability is essential while cost matters.

See our data sheet.

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Light with high power and luminance for industry and research

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

Our fiber-coupled light sources LS-HP1, LS-WL1, LS-BB1 and LS-MC1 are perfect sources for every lab:

  • The laser-pumped white light source LS-WL1 owes its extremely high luminance to two blue laser diodes that pump a ceramic phosphor converter.
  • Our latest light source is the LS-HP1 high-power light source. It is available in a monochromatic and a white light version and is exceptionally powerful.
  • Furthermore, our broadband LED light source LS-BB1 covers the large spectrum from VIS to NIR with a single LED, making it a real alternative to halogen-based light sources.
  • The LS-MC1 series ensures high luminance and supports many different wavelengths.
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We Laser The New Industry

FYLA LASER S.L.
Ronda Guglielmo Marconi 14
CP 46980, Paterna
Spain
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white light sources

Horizon is a next-generation supercontinuum fiber laser that delivers exceptional performance for spectroscopy and imaging. It's ultra-flat spectrum, free of spurious spectral peaks, spans an impressive spectral range of 450 to 2300 nm, providing < 3 W of average power and ≥ 250 mW average power in the visible range.

With outstanding spatial coherence, broad spectral coverage, and superior spectral flatness, Horizon outperforms traditional supercontinuum sources.

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Thorlabs
43 Sparta Avenue
Newton, NJ 07860
United States
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white light sources

Thorlabs manufacturers multiple white light sources including incoherent lamps as well as laser systems for the VIS-NIR and mid-IR spectral regions. Our VIS-NIR supercontinuum generation kit can be used with an existing femtosecond pump laser, while our SC4500 mid-IR supercontinuum laser offers an all-fiber turn-key solution providing coverage from 1.3 – 4.5 µm. Its long-wave supercontinuum cousin, LWIRSC, offers >20 mW output power over the 3.5 – 11 µm range.

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Solutions for Innovators

NKT Photonics
Bregnerødvej 144
3460 Birkerød
Denmark
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white light sources

Imagine the brightness of a laser with the spectrum of a lamp. Our turnkey SuperK white light lasers deliver bright diffraction-limited light from 400–2400 nm. Fiber delivered and collimated. They have a lifetime of several thousand hours and high power output from 400 to 2400 nm. They are robust and reliable, built for intensive use, and can replace multiple single-line lasers and broadband sources like ASE sources, SLEDs, and lamps.

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Other Suppliers

APEX Technologies
France
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Bentham Instruments, Ltd.
United Kingdom
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Camlin Ltd.
United Kingdom
Dolan-Jenner Industries
United States
DXG Ltd.
Korea
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EXALOS AG
Switzerland
Gamma Scientific
United States
HJ Optronics Inc.
United States
IBPhotonics Ltd.
Bulgaria
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IL Photonics
Israel
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Infinon Research
United States
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Kyocera SLD Laser, Inc.
United States
Metrohm AG
Switzerland
Mountain Photonics GmbH
Germany
Nano-Giga
France
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Shanghai Oceanhood Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
China
Olympus Corporation of the Americas
United States
Opton Laser International
France
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OZ Optics
Canada
Prizmatix Ltd.
Israel
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QuantumDesign Europe GmbH
Germany
Sciencetech Inc.
Canada
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Soliton Laser- und Messtechnik GmbH
Germany
Spectrolight, Inc.
United States
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Technologie Manufaktur GmbH & Co. KG
Germany
Thunder Optics
France
YSL Photonics
China
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