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Photonics West, held in San Francisco from 26-28 January, is one the largest annual
showcases of laser technology, with plenty of innovation on show for anyone involved in
laser systems. Warren Clark previews some of the highlights
Avantes will introduce two Edmund Optics will display its finding wide adoption in photovoltaic,
new cosine correctors for bandpass interference filters, microelectronics and medical applications.
solar measurement used extensively in biotech and The SC series from Fianium further strengthens
applications. The CC-UV/ quantitative chemical its position as a leading supplier of high end
VIS/NIR-8MM has an 8mm applications, which selectively ultra-broadband laser sources featuring the
active area and the CC-UV/VIS/NIR-5.0 is a special transmit a narrow range of wavelengths while shortest wavelength blue operation and variable
cosine corrector with 5° angular field of view. blocking all others. Interference filters are widely repetition rate, high pulse energy supercontinuum
One of the many spectroradiometer configurations used in instrumentation for clinical chemistry, sources. The new SC450-PP-HE is a compact,
offered by Avantes, is the Solar system, which is a environmental testing, colorimetry, elemental and cost effective, high pulse energy supercontinuum
four-channel system with two redundant systems laser line separation, flame photometry, system, which is transforming the field of super-
each measuring from 200 to 2,500nm. One of the fluorescence, immunoassays, etc. In addition, resolution STED (STimulated Emission
systems measures the direct sun radiation through interference filters are used to select discrete Depletion) microscopy.
the CC-UV/VIS/NIR-5.0 cosine corrector with a 5° spectral lines from arc or gas discharge lamps (Hg, www.fianium.com
acceptance aperture and is normally affixed to a sun Xe, Cd, etc.) and to isolate a particular line from
tracker system. The second spectrometer system in Ar, Kr, Nd:YAG, and other lasers. They are often Frankfurt Laser Company will
the Solar setup measures total radiation (flux) with used in conjunction with laser diodes and LEDs. show a new line of high-power
a standard CC-VIS/NIR cosine corrector. Hard coated filters are fabricated with EO’s temperature stabilised laser diode
This is only one of the 45 new Avantes products Advanced Plasma Reactive Sputtering coating modules. The HEML-FC Series
which can be found in the company’s brand new platform, which produces single-substrate filters of laser modules is equipped with
catalogue, which will also be available at the show. with deeper blocking, higher transmission, and a multimode fibre output (standard: 100µm,
www.avantes.com steeper slopes than soft coated filters. The dense NA=0.22, SMA905 connector, others on request)
coating design prevents filter degradation. and provides a high output power for a variety of
Cambridge Technology Available in UV, VIS, and IR centre wavelengths medical applications, materials processing and other
will be demonstrating its with 10-80nm bandwidths. Custom hard coated applications where compact and rugged laser sources
range of galvo-based optical filters, with optical densities >6.0, transmission >90 combined with convenience of fibre light delivery
scanning solutions. From per cent, and edge-steepness of <0.5 per cent, can are required. The module offers stable power output
components to application- be rapidly developed for OEM instrumentation. (<1 per cent) and wavelength (<0.5nm) over the
specific scan heads, and scanning subsystems, www.edmundoptics.com wide temperature band (0°C to +40°C) and
Cambridge Technology offers an extensive portfolio exceptional pointing stability and alignment.
of analogue and digital scanning solutions. Several Ultrafast fibre laser manufacturer Fianium will It is supplied with high-power laser diodes up to
new products are being debuted, including: the demonstrate two new laser systems from its portfolio 2W or green DPSS laser up to 200mW. TTL
83xxK family of high-stability, low-dither of ultrafast fibre lasers and supercontinuum sources. modulation up to 1MHz (532nm up to 10kHz) and
galvanometers; new high performance ProSeries The systems address two major application areas of analogue modulation up to 10kHz is standard.
scan head products; the SC500 compact USB Scan ultrafast fibre lasers: material processing with multi Also on show will be a wide range of mid-ir laser
Controller; the SM500 compact USB Scan Controller micro-Joule picosecond pulses; and, fluorescence diodes in 1,700-3,000nm wavelength range. The
module with touch screen front panel; and the imaging and time-resolved microscopy in biomedical products include FP single mode laser diodes 1mW
SM1000, a new full-featured standalone Ethernet applications engaging the capabilities of Fianium’s to 150mW power output range, DFB laser diodes
Controller with touch screen front panel and API. supercontinuum product portfolio. with narrow spectral width <5MHz power output
There will be live demonstrations of the company’s The Fianium HE series are multi micro-Joule 1mW to 20mW and broad area laser diodes power
Lightning-2 All-Digital Scanning Subsystem as well class fibre lasers, available with picosecond and output from 100mW to 1W.
as its SM1000 controller software environment and femtosecond pulse durations and programmable The products are supplied in industry standard
integrators toolkit. The complete range of and controllable pulse sequences, at the uncooled (5.6mm and 9mm TO can, C-mount) and
galvanometer and speciality scanning components fundamental wavelength of 1,060nm or frequency cooled packages with free space (TO-5, TO-8) as
and scan heads will also be on display. converted green 532nm or UV 355nm. The well as fibre (butterfly, HHL) optical output.
www.cambridgetechnology.com compact, rugged and cost effective HE series is www.frlaserco.com
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