With immediate effect, TOPAG Lasertechnik is taking over the distribution of USP measurement technology in Germany and Austria for the French manufacturer Femto Easy. Products comprise beam profilers, autocorrelators, spectrometers and FROG systems (Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating).

Manufacturer Light Conversion extends its portfolio of tunable femtosecond light sources by introducing new optical parametric amplifier Orpheus-VIS. This OPA delivers pulse durations of <70 fs in the tuning range from 320 to 900 nm, and even <50 fs in the range from 500 to 600 nm.

NL200 from manufacturer Ekspla is a well-proven diode-pumped nanosecond laser for scientific and industrial applications. This laser provides up to 4 mJ at 1064 nm with a variable repetition rate of up to 1 kHz and optional harmonics down to deep UV.

The Echelle wavemeter SHR is an ideal low-cost high-precision spectrometer for measuring laser wavelengths in a wide spectral range from 190 nm to 1190 nm.

New air-cooled tunable nanosecond laser Q-Tune-G with tuning range from 680 to 2100 nm delivers up to 12 mJ in near infrared range.

The journal Laser Focus World awards Innovators Award 2022 to industrial femtosecond laser FemtoLux30 for its innovative cooling system.

With Pharos-UP a new version of the well-proven femtosecond laser series with very short pulses <100 fs is now available. This technical advancement was awarded with this year's innovators prize by journal Laser Focus World.

Q-Tune-HR is a new tunable wavelength optical parametric oscillator with a tuning range from 750 – 1800 nm at a repetition rate of up to 100 kHz. Alternatively, a model with tuning range 1600 – 3200 nm at 10 kHz is available.

The new tunable femtosecond laser Orpheus-NEO is a technical advancement of Orpheus-HP and Orpheus-ONE models with a tuning range from 320 to 16000 nm. The system sets new standards regarding stability, flexibility and user-friendliness for applications like multiphoton microscopy or ultrafast spectroscopy.

This new laser with tuning range from 210 nm to 2.6 µm stands out by its high repetition rate of 10 kHz and narrow linewidth <3 cm^-1.

TOPAG now offers a novel picosecond laser system for infrared spectroscopy with a very large tuning range from 7000 cm^-1 (1400 nm) to 625 cm^-1 (16 µm).

New models of femtosecond laser series Pharos and Carbide with high pulse energy are now available. These models are suited in particular for High Harmonics Generation (HHG) and for pumping several OPAs simultaneously.

Topag expands her product portfolio by UltraFlux series from manufacturer Ekspla. These novel high energy femtosecond lasers are based on OPCPA technology with patented innovations in front-end design.

The new timing generator TG10 with an ultra-stable 0.2 ppm internal clock is designed for synchronizing laser systems and laser components, for example Pockels cells, pulse pickers, akusto-optical modulators, flashlamps and laser diodes. The digital generator is also suitable for synchronizing high-speed acquisition systems and high-precision clock signals.

The renowned journal Laser Focus World awards Gold honors to optical parametric amplifier Orpheus-MIR from manufacturer Light Conversion.  Every year, the Innovators Awards are assigned by a panel of experts to the most innovative products and solutions in optics and photonics.

TOPAG offers an improved version of her GTH Top Hat Beam Shaper series. GTH-S-5.0-16.0 redistributes a Gaussian input beam into a square Top Hat in the millimeter range. The new freeform optics are made of fused silica instead of LF5. The enables using GTH in the extended wavelength range from UV to IR.

Laser manufacturer Ekspla presents a new femtosecond fiber laser with 30 W at 1030 nm, tunable pulse duration from 350 fs to 1 ps and up to 4 MHz repetition rate. This makes FemtoLux30 a perfect tool for manufacturing microelectronics, for structuring brittle material like glass, sapphire or ceramics as well as for high precision machining of metals and polymers.

Read our new article on sum frequency generation (SFG) to understand the architecture of biomolecules and monolayers in perovskite solar cells published in PhotonicsViews Vol 3, 2021.

The new laser system CRONUS-3P from manufacturer Light Conversion has been developed for the analysis of biological tissue with high resolution multiphoton fluorescence microscopy. Dedicated for 3-photon microscopy, this system is tunable from 1,25 to 1,8 µm.

Some applications require a single fixed wavelength that cannot be generated by conventional solid-state lasers like Nd:YAG, Nd:YLF or Ti:Sapphire or their corresponding harmonics. The newly introduced nanosecond laser series Q-Shift from manufacturer Quantum Light Instruments provides a cost-effective and high-power alternative to tunable laser systems.

The Lithuanian laser manufacturers Ekspla and Light Conversion signed a contract to build a new OPCPA laser system for the European research center ELI-ALPS. The system will deliver 15 TW peak power at 1 kHz repetition rate and <8 fs pulse duration in extreme UV range (XUV / X-ray). It is dedicated for ground-breaking experiments in nonlinear X-ray research, 4D imaging and new industrial, biological and medical applications.

The newly available pulsed nanosecond laser Q-Tune-IR is tunable in the infrared wavelength range from 1380 to 4500 nm. Typical pulse energy is >20 mJ @ 1500 nm and >6.5 mJ @ 3500 nm at 3-4 ns pulse duration.

The new picosecond laser PT403 delivers high up to 70 µJ at 1 kHz repetition rate and a wide tuning range from 210 to 2300 nm. This system is dedicated for many spectroscopy applications.

The renowned journal Laser Focus World assigns Platinum and Gold Innovators Awards to femtosecond laser Carbide 80 W, 800 µJ with BiBurst and option I-OPA.

Laser manufacturer Ekspla extends her portfolio of tunable integrated laser systems by two new models NT352C and NT352E with significantly higher pulse energy up to 230 mJ in the red wavelength range. Pumped with 532 nm, the OPO covers the tuning range 660 to 2600 nm at 4 - 6 ns pulse length and bandwidth below 10 cm-1.

The high energy laser series Q2-HE from manufacturer Quantum Light Instruments is now available with up to 120 mJ at 10 Hz or 100 mJ at 20 Hz and 1053 nm. The series comprises other model up to 100 Hz with laser medium Nd:YAG or Nd:YLF and their respective 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th or 5^th harmonics.

Infrared spectroscopy is being used to characterize vibrational states of molecules. Nonlinear SFG spectroscopy provides additional information about molecules on surfaces or at interfaces. The observed SFG spectra show the deformation of molecular binding states from centro-symmetrical geometry.

Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification is the state-of-the-art technology providing high peak and average power as well as few-cycle pulse duration. It enables amazing advances in attosecond physics.

TOPAG offers a wide range of crystals for laser applications, which are used as optical gain sources as well as frequency conversion and mixing purposes.

The diode-pumped, actively Q-switched subnanosecond MPL15100 lasers deliver high peak pulse power near 1 MW at short pulse durations <700 ps and repetition rates up to 1 kHz. Standard wavelengths are 1064 nm, 532 nm, 355 nm and 266 nm.

Careful continuous development of the femtosecond laser series Carbide led to the introduction of a new model featuring doubled output power > 80 W. The new BiBurst mode offers new possibilities to increase ablation efficiency in industrial processes.

M522 is a long-focal 522 mm fully automated monochromator-spectrograph with high line quality and low-level stray light. The standard version features two input and two output ports. Optionally, M522 is now available with three output ports.

The integrated YAG/OPO laser system NT342 with tuning range from 192 to 2600 nm is now available with the newly developed MIR extension to 4400 nm. On customer's request further extension to 18 µm is possible.

TOPAG presents a new beam shaper especially designed to generate short, narrow and homogeneous line spots.

TOPAG now supplies lasers from Irisiome Solutions, a manufacturer of novel, air-cooled CW and pulsed fiber laser systems. The series Manny allows unique flexibility on both pulse duration and repetition rate by employing picosecond “pulse gating” technique.

TOPAG Lasertechnik offers microchannel plates and MCP detectors for research and industry. These products are used in many different areas like biology, experimental physics or medical engineering.

TOPAG Lasertechnik extends her portfolio of green CW Lasers. We are happy to announce the new cooperation with the US manufacturer Lighthouse Photonics. This company develops and produces ultra-stable CW lasers with 532 nm wavelength.

The tunable Laser NT277-XIR from the manufacturer Ekspla stands out by its large infrared tuning range from 2.5 to 12 µm. The system integrates OPO and DPSS pump laser in a single, compact housing and delivers up to 80 µJ at repetition rates of 1000 Hz and pulse duration of < 10 ns.

TOPAG offers the femtosecond laser CARBIDE manufactured by Light Conversion with improved specifications. The compact and robust femtosecond lasers stand out by their excellent output parameters and are used in science and industry for 24/7 micromachining processes.

Topag Lasertechnik is happy to announce the cooperation with its new supplier QS Lasers. The company produces advanced diode-pumped Q-switched subnanosecond lasers dedicated for applications requiring high peak power (up to 2.8 MW) at a variable repetition rate of 1 to 100 Hz.

The Echelle wavemeter SHR-IR is a reasonably priced high-precision instrument with a large spectral range from 600 to 1800 nm for laser monitoring, analysis of spectral lines and laser spectroscopy. This device has an outstanding wavelength precision of ±15 pm and a very high resolution of 4000:1.

As part of the picosecond laser series Atlantic, TOPAG offers a compact, entirely air-cooled model with high pulse energies and high repetition rates at 1064, 532 or 355 nm wavelength. This ultra short pulse laser is an attractive alternative to other conventional industrial lasers for micromachining.

The femtosecond oscillator Flint has been redesigned fundamentally. TOPAG Lasertechnik now offers the improved models of this series with significantly more output power.