pulsed lasers - RP Photonics

The RP Photonics Buyer's Guide contains 151 suppliers for pulsed lasers. Among them:

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CNI Laser

CNI offers nanosecond Q-switched lasers with wavelength coverage from 223 nm to  nm. We have versions with pulse energies from 1 μJ to 10 J, repetition rates from 1 Hz to 200 kHz and pulse width from 0.8 ns to 200 ns. The lasers can be actively or passively cooled with air or water, or with conduction cooling, and there are various controls and outputs.

CNI also offers picosecond lasers.

Leukos

LEUKOS offers the passively Q-switched laser HLX-I, a compact microchip laser generated sub-nanosecond pulsed at  nm. Different versions are available, with up to 500 MW average output power and 50 μJ pulse energy. It is suitable for micromachining, a seed laser, for LIDAR, 3 D scanning and imaging, biophotonics, supercontinuum generation and in other fields.

See our data sheet.

Monocrom

Monochrom offers different types of pulsed lasers:

• Q-switched diode-pumped lasers such as the LQ-527-12: a frequency-doubled Nd:YLF laser emitting up to 1 mJ at 527 nm
• pulsed high-power diode lasers with longer pulse durations but very high pulse energies, such as the HiEN Puls x-YAG

GWU-Lasertechnik

GWU-Lasertechnik has more than 30 years of experience in lasers and nonlinear optics. We are the pioneer of commercial BBO OPO technology. Our widely tunable laser sources cover the spectral range from the deep-UV at <190 nm to the IR at > nm. We offer pulsed solutions for nano-, pico- and femtosecond pulses with best performance and highest reliability.

Active Fiber Systems

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.

Spectra Quest Lab

Spectra Quest Lab offers ns/ps tunable lasers and light sources in the 900-nm band and 1-μm band.

The tunable laser uses a CW narrow linewidth tunable laser as a seed source, and after nanosecond pulse generation with a pulsed SOA, the ns pulse is further amplified with a fiber amplifier to obtain a Fourier-limited linewidth pulse.

The tunable light source is a system in which broadband ASE light from a pulsed SOA is selected with a spectral width of 0.2 nm by a tunable filter and amplified by a fiber amplifier, making it cost-effective and simple configuration.

Both can output pulse widths of 1–10 ns and support repetition rates from single shot to 100 MHz on pulse on demand. External synchronization is easily achieved with electrical trigger input/output. Optionally, a picosecond pulse output can be obtained by passing a pulse shaper consisting of an LiNbO3 modulator and an electric pulse generator before the fiber amplifier input.

Geola

Geola speciales in TEM00 and SLM pulsed lasers from sub-ns pulse duration to >10 J per shot.

RPMC Lasers

Serving North America, RPMC Lasers offers versatile pulsed lasers from femtosecond to nanosecond, with single-shot to 200 MHz rep rates, adjustable PRR, and pulse widths. Delivering MW peak powers and nJ to 100s of mJ energies, they suit cold ablation, LIDAR, and more.

Spanning UV (210 nm) to mid-IR ( nm) with up to 5th harmonics, plus tunable, narrow linewidth, and broadband options, they enable cost-effective solutions for spectroscopy, metrology, and every market.

Customizable platforms—from ultrafast fiber to ultra-low SWaP MIL-spec—offer tailored pulses, wavelengths, and rugged designs for industrial, medical, aerial, space, or lab use.

Let RPMC help you find the right pulsed laser today!

Stuttgart Instruments

The Stuttgart Instruments Primus is an ultrafast (fs) mode-locked oscillator, based on the solid-state technology. It provides a high average output power combined with a superior low noise level (shot noise limit above 300 kHz) and an excellent long-term stability.

The solid-state technology with  nm central wavelength enables the excellent long-term stability by providing several watts of output power at 40 MHz pulse repetition rate and 450 fs pulse duration. Its superior low noise level reaches the shot noise limit above 300 kHz. In combination with the stability and output power, it enables ultrasensitive measurements and makes the Primus perfectly suited as pump source for frequency converters like the Stuttgart Instruments Alpha. The entire system is encapsulated in a solid CNC-cut and water-cooled housing, thus reaching excellent robustness against external perturbations.

Bright Solutions

Bright Solutions offers various Q-switched lasers:

• Wedge – nanosecond Q-switched lasers for 266, 355, 532, , ,  nm (also multi-wavelength configurations), used e.g. for atmospheric LIDAR, monitoring, glass machining or lithography
• Onda – compact monolithic nanosecond Q-switched lasers for 266, 355, 532 or  nm, used e.g. for lens marking, plastic marking or intravolume glass marking
• Sol – compact Q-switched lasers for 355, 532 or  nm, up to 200 kHz, used e.g. for automotive fabrication, electronic machining, ID card writing and other industrial applications
• Vento – sub-nanosecond MOPA lasers with pulse durations down to 500 ps, up to 200 kHz, up to 100 W average power at  nm or 50 W at 532 nm, e.g. for LIDAR or PCB microprocessing
• Aero – high energy lasers with up to 200 mJ at  nm, 100 mJ at 532 nm, multi-wavelength configurations, custom beam shaping, application e.g. in atmospheric LIDAR, LIBS or nonlinear spectroscopy
• ONE DPSS – miniaturized Q-switched lasers with up to 200 μJ and down to 3 ns, e.g. for atmospheric LIDAR and laser marking on plastics

MPB Communications

MPBC’s line of pulsed fiber lasers are designed to address a range of market applications including medical and bio-medical research, semiconductor inspection, micro-machining, metrology, and multi-photon microscopy.

Products include:

• Mode-locked ultrafast fiber lasers which operate at 515 nm, 532 nm, and anywhere from 920 nm to  nm. They generate linearly polarized nearly transformed-limited pulses with pulse durations in the femtosecond or picosecond regime. With repetition rates in the range 10–100 MHz, and an average power of greater than 1.5 W, our ultrafast lasers are designed for a wide range of applications.
• Sub-nanosecond pulsed fiber lasers, available from 514 nm to  nm and with user-selectable repetition rates, are based on an all-fiber laser cavity, offering excellent beam quality and wall plug efficiency.

ALPHALAS

ALPHALAS manufactures pulsed lasers with picosecond and nanosecond pulse durations that are targeted at material processing, micromachining, nonlinear optics, scientific research and various other applications which require high peak power or time resolved measurements. Advanced mode-locking and Q-switching techniques provide a huge variety of parameters for the laser pulses. Regeneratively amplified lasers with extremely high peak power in the megawatt range, picosecond pulse durations and up to mJ pulse energy are offered with various wavelengths, e.g. 914, 946, , , , ,  or  nm and their second, third and fourth harmonics.

Educational laser kits with various modes of operation offer nanosecond or picosecond pulse durations.

Customer-specific designs for pulses larger than 100 ns or variable pulse durations are also available.

Innolume

Innolume’s pulsed laser diodes provide precision-tailored light sources for time-critical photonic applications. We offer both Fabry–Pérot (FP) and Distributed Feedback (DFB) lasers to meet varying performance needs:

• Our pulsed FP lasers deliver high peak powers up to  mW, making them ideal for fiber laser seeding and high-energy pulse applications.
• Our pulsed DFB lasers produce ultrashort 50-ps pulses using gain switching, with peak powers up to 300 mW and exceptional spectral stability.

You can obtain these diodes available in a variety of fiber-coupled and chip-level packaging formats. They can be customized for specific wavelengths and spectral widths.

NKT Photonics

NKT Photonics offers a variety of pulsed lasers, covering a wide spectral range from UV to visible and infrared. We have packaged the lasers in a sealed, robust enclosure allowing operation in harsh environmental conditions. They are air-cooled and maintenance-free. We offer femtosecond fiber lasers as well as a wide range of picosecond pulsed diode lasers.

Lumibird

Lumibird manufactures a wide range of nanosecond pulsed lasers thanks to its expertise in three key technologies: solid-state lasers, fiber lasers and fiber amplifiers, and laser diodes. Various application areas are addressed in industry (manufacturing, lidar sensors), science (laboratories and universities), medical (ophthalmology) and defense.

Teem Photonics

Teem Photonics offers air-cooled diode-pumped passively Q-switched lasers – pulsed Microchip and Powerchip lasers series, as well the PicoOne and PicoMega laser series, based on a MOFA architecture, i.e., using a fiber amplifier. All can generate intense sub-nanosecond pulses. Available emission wavelengths are  nm, 532 nm, 355 nm, 266 nm and 213 nm.

Megawatt Lasers

MegaWatt Lasers Inc. offers CTH:YAG and Er:YAG resonators. These are flash lamp pumped and water cooled. They are optimized for energy and repetition rate. The CTH:YAG resonator is able to generate 4-J pulses at a repetition rate of 10 Hz, while the Er:YAG resonator reaches 3 J at also 10 Hz. Both allow for adjustable pulse widths.

Alpes Lasers

Alpes Lasers offers pulsed QCLs with wavelengths ranging from 4 to 14 μm and average powers up to hundreds of milliwatts. The unique nature of QCLs makes them perfectly suited for very short-pulse applications.

For more information, please visit Beamtech.

LEDlas

Introducing our cutting-edge LED-pumped EO Q-switched Nd:YAG laser, designed for high-performance applications. This laser offers exceptional stability, a long lifespan, and minimal maintenance requirements. With a peak power exceeding 9 MW and a convenient USB computer interface, it's ideal for a variety of applications, including LIBS, photoacoustic imaging, circuit trimming, fat-panel-display repair, and material processing.

Sacher Lasertechnik

Sacher Lasertechnik offers nanosecond pulsed diode lasers with emission wavelengths between 630 nm and  nm, e.g. for time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy.

Exail

The Exail (formerly iXblue) ModBox-OFE is a complete front end laser system designed to be used as a seed source in high energy density laser facilities. The system is available at  nm,  nm and  nm, it allows to generate custom shaped optical pulses with high stability and high extinction ratio and with durations from 125 ps to 100 ns. The short pulse generation is based on the combination of a high-performance continuous laser source combined with a large bandwidth modulation.

The ModBox-OPG is a family of optical pulse generation units which generate pulses with durations from 30 ps to hundreds of nanoseconds, and with very high extinction ratio. The available optical shapes are Gaussian and square waveform. The ModBox works at any wavelength, and for an optical pulse train repetition which is externally triggered up to gigahertz repetition rates.

The optical spectral broadening ModBox-OSB achieves the broadening of an optical signal by modulating its phase via the mean of a very efficient LiNbO3 phase modulator. A number of side bands are created over a spectral width that can reach several hundreds GHz. The ModBox-OSB contains a single-tone RF generator, white noise sources or PRBS sources. The ModBox-OSB integrates laser chain such as High Energy Lasers (HEL) lasers or Spectral Beam Combining laser architectures (SBC).

AdValue Photonics

AdValue Photonics offers different kinds of Q-switched nanosecond lasers, all emitting in the 2-μm spectral region ( nm):

• The Q-switched laser module AP-QS1-MOD generates pulses with 20 ns to 200 ns duration, up to 30 kHz repetition rate, up to 10 W average output power and high beam quality. The module also has an output modulation capability.
• The Q-switched laser AP-QS is a compact seed laser delivering 5-μJ pulses with up to 30 kHz repetition rate.
• The Q-switched laser AP-QS1 with a rack housing offers up to 5 W average power and 250 μJ pulse energy.

Besides, AdValue Photonics has picosecond and femtosecond fiber lasers.

TOPTICA Photonics

TOPTICA's FemtoFiber lasers provide reliable femto-/picosecond pulses based on polarization-maintaining fibers and SAM mode-locking. Different models (/780 nm, VIS/NIR tunable output, IR/NIR supercontinuum, short-pulse) cover a wide range of applications, e.g. time-domain terahertz, microscopy, attoscience and as seed lasers.

HÜBNER Photonics

You’re driving at 100 km/h in a 100 km/h zone, you just crossed a radar that checks your speed and automatically sends tickets. You know that you are safe because the speed reading on your car is accurate. This is a life expectation that we have from reliable measurement devices.

Are you as confident with your laser power meter? How do you feel when you turn the laser on your power meter? Do you feel confident it will not burn your sample? Are you confident about the measurement accuracy?

Fear no more!

Let’s see in simple steps how to correctly choose your laser power measurement device in no time.

First step to measuring laser power: get a high-quality laser power detector

The first step to get an accurate measurement is that you use the right detector. Our product finder should be a natural reflex to make sure that the power meter you have or the one you are about to buy is the right one.

It will prompt you to enter specifications about the laser you want to measure.

1 – What is your laser average power?

Keep in mind that the laser average power is the most important factor to determine which power detector you’ll use, because heat dissipation must be managed by conduction, fan cooling or water cooling.

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2 – What is your laser beam diameter?

Another important factor to be considered is the beam size. The ideal beam area is 80% of the head aperture. We do not recommend using a beam smaller than 10% of the aperture size. A beam larger than the aperture would induce measurement errors since the casing will absorb some of the heat.

3 – What is your laser wavelength?

When looking for a laser power detector, it is important to know at which wavelength it will be used. As a matter of fact, the different types of detector technologies that exist react differently to various wavelengths.

Some detectors are very broadband and can react to a wide range of wavelengths, whereas others only work for a restricted range of wavelengths. Silicon photodiodes, for example, are very sensitive to visible wavelengths, but will not work in the deep UV or in the far infrared.

Understanding the absorber recommendation

Whether you use our product finder or you browse through our website, you will notice that there are many different kinds of absorbers. To follow the evolution of the ever-growing world of lasers, we have developed detectors with a variety of materials that expand our measurement range in terms of damage thresholds and power levels.

Here is a quick overview of which types of absorbers that we recommend according to your laser:

Low power lasers: Photodiodes are the way to go for power from nanowatts to 800 mW.

Continuous lasers and C02 lasers: H absorber is the way to go. It is very difficult to damage and it works well with pulsed lasers too.

Tightly focused lasers with average power under 50W: W absorber can resist drilling made by a DPSS laser or many lasers that damage everything. It has the best power density damage threshold and is ideal when you cannot expand the beam size.

Pulsed lasers with average power over 50W but under 200W: QED absorber is a volume absorber that takes on a double role. First, it diffuses the beam so it spreads the density on a larger surface. Second, it reflects part of the beam so some of the power is attenuated. Ideal for Q-Switch lasers with high energy and low repetition rates.

Pulsed lasers with average power over 200W: The H12 or HD absorber can withstand the energy density generated by a 1kW femtosecond laser or the power density from a high-power laser up to 120kW.

Second step: choose the power meter that best fits your needs

Now that you have a detector, how do you want to get the read-out? You’ll need to convert the detector’s signal into the actual measured value, in watts. The electronics that do this conversion are included in a device called a meter.

Laser power meters can take on many forms, depending on your needs. They can be PC-based to be used with a software for data acquisition. They can include a display, for example, if you want to see the measurement results in real-time on your optical bench. They can even be wireless and communicate with your or computer to send out the measurements.

Alternatively, you may consider an all-in-one laser power measurement device, such as our Pronto series, which give you a power measurement reading in just 5 seconds for powers up to 10kW with down to 3% uncertainty.

We recommend that you choose your power meter after you determined which detector best fits your needs and not the other way around. The reason is that not all meters are compatible with all detectors. You’ll find it easier this way.

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