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TOPTICA releases its newest fiber laser product – the iChromeTM: The historical fact “different laser colors require different lasers” is outdated. iChrome comes with the flexibility to set its wavelength anywhere in the visible range – computer controlled from 488 nm to 640 nm. The highly repetitive laser pulses exhibit 3 nm bandwith and 3.5 ps pulse duration with an average fiber coupled output power of more than 1.5 mW. The iChrome therefore is the natural choice for scientists that need an all-color flexible laser source with unprecedented hands-off functionality. This new laser product is industrial graded and well equipped with a fiber output that makes its connection to the experiment as simple as possible. No beam combiners are necessary to deliver all colors to the same spot – they just come out of the same fiber with single-mode quality (TEM00), diffraction limited divergence (M2 <1.1) and stable linear polarization (PER > 1:100).

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New Features Extend TOPTICA's Lead in OEM Diode Lasers TOPTICA Photonics AG extends its leadership in OEM diode laser technology by introducing four new TOP features to the iBeam / iPulselaser series.

Feedback-Induced Noise Eraser (FINE)

Power instabilities and high noise levels are common symptoms with any diode laser, when there is a tendency for optical feedback in the set-up (e.g. back reflections from fiber end-facets or from highly reflective samples). A new feature, the groundbreaking Feedback Induced Noise Eraser (FINE) of TOPTICA's iBeam lasers elliminates this problem. A simple push of a button makes TOPTICA's iBeam / iPulse lasers ultra-stable against optical feedback. Customers save time and costs, by making realignment and optical isolators unnecessary.

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TOPTICA presents new OEM Platform for Blue Diode Lasers –the compact Solution for Interferometric Applications

TOPTICA Photonics AG introduces a new technology platform featuring its proprietary "Blue Mode” technology. This term stands for high power and ultra-narrow line width OEM diode lasers in the blue-violet wavelength regime.

To-date, researchers and engineers using interferometric or holographic applications in the blue-violet spectral range were bound to deal with bulky, power consuming ion lasers. Intense blue laser diodes have been available but fell short of the required coherence properties. On the other hand, grating-stabilized blue diode lasers provided a spectrally narrow emission line, but were limited in their output power to well below 20 mW. For the first time, TOPTICA’s new Blue Mode technology unites all of the well-known advantages of direct blue-violet diode lasers: high power, high coherence, and superior long-term mode stability. TOPTICA’s sophisticated engineering incorporates all of these features in a compact, rugged design.

The Blue Mode technology currently starts with 50 mW @ 405 nm, with a spectral line width of less than 10 MHz (coherence length > 10 m guaranteed). A power stability better than 0.6 % in 10 hours has been demonstrated. Combined with an excellent long-term coherence stability (no mode hops), this renders these lasers a perfect fit for demanding applications such as interferometry, holography or high resolution RAMAN spectroscopy.

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Toptica offers unique solutions based on frequency-doubled grating stabilized diode lasers. These new orange and yellow diode lasers provide output powers from several mW to a few ten mW – depending on yhe design wavelength in the range of 555 nm to 625 nm. Such lasers can be coarse-tuned by a few nm and allow for some 10 GHz modehop-free fine-tuning. The proprietary design guarantees frequency drifts below 200 MHz/K and coherence lengths of several hundred meters.

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Discovery Semiconductors, Inc has introduced its 4-element Quad InGaAs Photodiode Arrays for 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s optical communications. The Quad PD Arrays consist of four photodiodes monolithically integrated on a common InP substrate, and are fabricated using Discovery’s high-reliability low FIT rate InGaAs/InP semiconductor process. The Quad PD Array consists of either 10um, 30um, 40um, or 50um diameter photodiodes. The individual RF bandwidth of the photodiodes is 10, 15, 20, or 40 GHz. The top illuminated photodiodes work equally well for 1.3um as well as 1.5um based communication systems. The optical power handling of each photodiode exceeds +12dBm, thus making it a must for coherent systems requiring high optical LO power.  The target applications include 100 Gb/s Long-Haul Pol-Mux (D)QPSK, 40 Gb/s Long-Haul (D)QPSK, and 40G/100G parallel networking.

TOPTICA once again introduces state of the art industrial technology with
the PicoFYb: an ideal hands-off fiber based picosecond seeder for high
power generation.The fiber is Ytterbium doped – resulting in possible emission wavelengths
between 1025 and 1070 nm.

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