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Visit us at Biophysical Society 2018
in San Francisco, CA!
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RPMC Lasers will be exhibiting at Biophysical Society 2018 in San Francisco, CA
February 17-21.
Visit us at Biophysical Society 2018
Booth # 1000
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In this Issue:
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- ALCOR - 920nm Ultra-Compact Femtosecond Laser
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- Narrow Wavelength Stabilized Fiber Laser Pumps
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- SOL 20W Green
- Extended Temperature Range Lasers
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What's New:
ALCOR - 920nm Ultra-Compact Femtosecond Laser
ALCOR produces high-average power with ultrashort femtosecond pulses (down to <170 fs) at high repetition rate (80 MHz standard, others optional) in an ultra-compact and robust format. ALCOR is a fiber laser with a best-in-class quality and collimated beam providing high-stability. Integrating state of the art high-power full package amplifiers and pulse management, ALCOR offers remarkable pulse quality at high average power with no maintenance required.
Specifications:
- Wavelength: 920nm
- High repetition rate: 80 MHz
- High power: from 1 W to 2 W
- < 170 fs (standard)
Features:
- Ultracompact, robust & air cooled fiber laser
- Plug'n play: < 5 min set up, sync. out / sync .in
- Intuitive user interface
- Additional wavelength in option
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DIODES:
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Narrow Wavelength Stabilized Fiber Laser Pumps
These Narrow Wavelength Stabilized
Fiber Laser Pumps are manufactured by adopting specialized fiber-coupling techniques. This results in volume products with a high efficiency, stability, and superior beam quality. The products are achieved by transforming the asymmetric radiation from the laser diode chip into an output fiber with small core diameter by using special micro-optics. Inspection and burn-in procedures in each step of production help to guarantee each product with high reliability, stability and long lifetime.
Stabilized Fiber Laser Pumps Key Features:
- High output power / Brightness
- High efficiency
- 976nm wavelength
- up to 80W output power
- 105µm fiber core diameter
- 0.15N.A.
- Narrow bandwidth <1nm
- 1030nm-1200nm feedback protection optional
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LASERS:
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The new SOL 20W green laser is the most compact on the market. Maintaining its original footprint (23 x 10 x 95cm), the SOL 532nm now doubles its average power providing over 20W and 1mJ per pulse, with excellent beam quality and just 24V/200W electrical consumption. This allows for effective air cooling of the all-in-one laser unit.
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Bright Solutions offers extended temperature range options on several high power DPSS lasers. Extreme operating conditions can be requested on Sol and Onda ns DPSS lasers, as well as on Wedge and other sub-ns laser products, to assure stable performance for applications that require operation outdoors, in the field, airborne, underwater, or in space.
When featuring extended operating range options, our lasers can be singularly qualified and tested at their specified operating conditions. In this picture, an air-cooled Sol ns laser is tested in our climatic chamber at -35°C for long-term operation at 10W, 532nm.
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Supplier Spotlight:
BKtel -
Fiber Laser and Amplifiers
Established in 1997, BKtel is a world-leading supplier for 1.0um and 1.5um, pulsed and CW fiber lasers and amplifiers. These products have found homes in a variety of applications such as
LIDAR, range finding, 3D scanning and other applications where eye-safe wavelengths are required. With nearly 20 years of R&D experience, the staff at Bktel has superior technical competence and provides best-in-class solutions to meet the most difficult customer-specific requirements.
Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers:
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Application Notes:
In recent years, micromachining lasers have shown rapid growth. This interest in micromachining has led to the development of ultrashort pulsed lasers in the picosecond and femtosecond regime with higher output powers and energies. Such sources are starting to make a big impact on a variety of micromachining applications in the semiconductor, medical and industrial markets.
Unlike CW, nanosecond, and longer pulsed lasers, that remove material via heat, picosecond and femtosecond pulses remove material via a non-thermal process called a Coulomb explosion. At sufficient energy densities, when using a picosecond or femtosecond laser, electrons are stripped from the atoms inside the material and the positively charged atoms undergo this Coulomb explosion. The Coulomb explosion removes, via "cold ablation", a material layer on the order of 10-100nm per pulse. Since the cold ablation process is material unspecific, ultrafast lasers provide a universal micromachining tool for virtually any material, unlike nanosecond lasers which partially rely on wavelength-specific absorption to heat the material and ablate by evaporation..
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Upcoming Events:
The Biophysical Society was founded in 1958 to lead the development and dissemination of knowledge in biophysics. It does so through its many programs, including its meetings, publications, and committee outreach activities. The Society's members, now over 9,000, work in academia, industry, and in government agencies throughout the world.
Each year, the Society holds an
Annual Meeting, which brings together over 6,000 research scientists in the multidisciplinary fields representing biophysics. With more than 4,000 poster presentations, over 200 exhibits, and more than 20 symposia, the Annual Meeting is the largest meeting of biophysicists in the world. Despite its size, the meeting retains its small-meeting flavor through its subgroup meetings, platform sessions, social activities, and committee programs. Abstract submission to the Annual Meeting is a privilege of membership, although a member may sponsor a non-member. The Society also sponsors smaller
thematic meetings each year.
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How to Improve Laser Diode Lifetime:
Advice and Precautions on Mounting.
This 11 page White Paper on How to Improve Laser Diode Lifetime addresses the importance of the mounting or heatsinking of laser diode packages. Laser diodes have increased in output power and the increased power means added waste heat to contend with. The mounting or heatsinking of the laser package is of tremendous importance because operating temperature has a strong influence on laser lifetime and performance. Achieving correct mounting or heatsinking of the laser package effectively is not as simple as many would assume. This article will discuss the various package types and the best practices for ensuring you are mounting the laser diode correctly. Correct mounting or heatsinking will ensure the best performance and longest lifetimes.
To read our White Paper on How to Improve Laser Diode Lifetime Click Here.
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