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LASER 2009: new product focus
Products and announcements from B&W Tek, APE, Mobius Photonics and Axetris.
Violet/blue lasers
The BWB series of thermoelectric-cooled, solid-state violet/blue lasers will be featured by B&W Tek (Newark, DE). The 405 nm singlemode sources operate over the 10 to 35 °C temperature range with stable 40 and 80 mW continuous power. B&W says that the “excellent mode quality and low divergence make the lasers suitable for beam focusing as well as long-distance beam positioning”. The compact power supply can be easily integrated into the OEM version for applications such as spectroscopy, metrology, wafer inspection and micro-materials processing.
www.bwtek.com
Frequency converters
The HarmoniXX series of frequency converters for mode-locked ultrafast lasers will be featured by Angewandte Physik & Elektronik (APE), Germany. Frequency doubling, tripling and quadrupling are covered via a modularly structured system. With quick-release optics, HarmoniXX devices are applicable for a wide pulse duration range - from femtoseconds to several tens of picoseconds. APE claims that the new products are “optimized for highest conversion efficiency at various laser power levels as well as minimum pulse broadening”. An Autotracker option is offered for use in combination with automatic, PC-controlled laser systems.
www.ape-berlin.com
Multiwavelength fibre laser
The G1+ Laser System from Mobius Photonics (Santa Clara, CA) is a fibre-based light source configurable for 30 W IR, 18 W green and 10 W UV, with pulse widths as short as 2 ns and repetition rates up to 1 MHz. Those specifications, available in a diffraction-limited beam, “open new opportunities for companies specializing in micromachining, materials processing and precision manufacturing”, says Mobius. Mobius product are based on a pulsed master-oscillator, fibre-power-amplifier (MOFPA) architecture.
www.mobiusphotonics.com
Microlens arrays
The Axetris Division of Leister Process Technologies, Switzerland, will present its portfolio of diffractive and refractive microlenses and microlens arrays at LASER 2009. The refractive microlenses are suitable for a range of applications, among them collimation of high-power diode-laser bars for materials processing, diode-laser pumping and beam homogenization in lithography and biomedical instrumentation. Diffraction gratings and microlens arrays are ideally suited for optical beam splitting and shaping and find applications in optical sensors, metrology and spectroscopy. Axetris also offers MEMS contract services (e.g. deposition of metals, etching, dicing, etc).
www.leister.com/axetris
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