Ultrafast lasers are particularly sensitive to thermal lensing, where heat causes either a gain medium or intracavity optics to deform or exhibit a refractive index gradient. This can reduce performance and even prevent mode-locking to produce a pulsed beam. With the advances in highly-dispersive intracavity mirrors from Edmund Optics’ partner, UltraFast Innovations (UFI), optics that experience negligible thermal effects are now available.
Standard in-stock mirrors for 1.030 nm ultrafast lasers feature negligible thermal effects, highly-negative group delay dispersion for pulse compression, and >99.5% minimum reflection of P-polarization across a 50 nm bandwidth. Custom mirrors are also available upon request.
Learn more about how highly-dispersive mirrors with minimized thermal lensing can improve high-power laser systems at https://www.edmundoptics.eu/knowledge-center/trending-in-optics/minimizing-thermal-lensing-in-ultrafast-systems/.
Edmund Optics® (EO) is a leading global manufacturer and distributor of precision optics, optical assemblies and image processing components with headquarters in the USA and manufacturing facilities in the U.S., Asia and Europe and sales representatives around the globe. EO has a very large inventory of optical components for immediate delivery and offers products, standard or customized, in small quantities but also in volume for various industries. Request a quote or place your order through the website https://www.edmundoptics.eu/ or contact us via phone +49 (0)6131 5700 0 or email sales@edmundoptics.eu by reference to our catalogue.
About UFI:
Ultrafast Innovations GmbH (UFI) is a spin-off from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics. UFI is a premium manufacturer of optics with complex designs, dielectric optics for laser applications, and dielectric/metallic multilayer structures for XUV/soft X-ray applications. Combining broadband coherent sources with unique dispersive technology, UFI also offers the generation and measurement of the shortest pulses in the market in the femto- (UV-VIS-IR) and attosecond (XUV/soft X-ray) ranges.
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