A state-of-the-art laser system with two optical parametric amplifiers (OPAs), including Light Conversion’s award-winning ORPHEUS-MIR, was installed at Silicon Austria Labs (SAL), Austria’s top research center for electronic-based systems. This versatile combination of Light Conversion’s OPAs provides broadband pulses in the UV–MIR range with sub-100 fs pulse duration. These parameters are ideal for sum-frequency spectroscopy and … Continue reading
Karolis Jurkus and Rimantas Budriūnas, R&D engineers and winners of the Laser Focus World Gold-level Innovators Award, admit that news of the accolade came as a surprise, but a pleasant one. Karolis and Rimantas work at Light Conversion and have designed an ORPHEUS-MIR optical parametric amplifier, the intricacy of its name only excelled by that of its application. … Continue reading
A highly esteemed and experienced panel of judges from the optics and photonics community recognized ORPHEUS-MIR from Light Conversion as a GOLD HONOREE by “Laser Focus World.” ORPHEUS-MIR is a broad-band-width mid-IR optical parametric amplifier (OPA) with the following features: Broad-bandwidth up to 500 cm-1 2500–10,000 nm tuning range < 100 fs pulse duration Up to 80 W pump power … Continue reading
Challenge As made famous by the Hubble Space Telescope’s spherical aberration problem and subsequent repair in 1993, Optical Ground Support Equipment (OGSE) is vital to the success of any space-bound optical equipment. Whether it is taking detailed images of the cosmos or enabling a high data rate for optical free-space communications, ensuring that equipment will … Continue reading
ORPHEUS-MIR is a versatile system optimized for the efficient generation of broadband, mid-IR pulses from Light Conversion. In general, it is a two-channel optical parametric amplifier (OPA), followed by a difference frequency generation (DFG) stage. The system provides broadband pulses in the tuning range of 2500–11,000 nm, and reaches up to 15 µm with optional narrowband extension. … Continue reading
Germanium (Ge) broadband beam shapers can shape single mode lasers at wavelengths in the mid-IR spectrum to achieve uniform illumination profiles in various shapes including: square, round, line or rectangular. These beam shapers are ideal for MIR/FIR spectroscopy and other projection applications using broad-band MIR sources. Therefore, Holo-Or’s single window beam shapers offer diffraction-limited shaping performance in the entire … Continue reading