Edmund Optics (EO), one of the world's leading manufacturers and suppliers of optical components, now manufactures in-house short-pulse laser optics with low group delay dispersion (GDD) and optics with high laser damage threshold (LIDT) specifications at its Edmund Optics Florida site, formerly known as Quality Thin Films (QTF).
Low LIDT optical components minimize chromatic aberration and pulse propagation in ultrafast laser systems, enabling higher peak powers. High LIDT optical components, on the other hand, help reduce the likelihood of damage and system failure in high-power applications such as laser cutting, drilling and welding.
Laser optics metrology is essential to ensure that components consistently meet desired specifications and operate safely, particularly for systems using high-power lasers or where changes in throughput can lead to inadequate system performance.
With the acquisition of Edmund Optics Florida, one of the world's leading laser optics manufacturers, Edmund Optics not only designs and coats low-GDD optics, it is now able to provide the highly sophisticated metrology required for specification verification. Edmund Optics uses white-light interferometers and an ultrafast pulse laser in-house to determine GDD, enabling these challenging optics to be measured to verify their performance in real-world environments. Edmund Optics Florida's low-GDD optics are measured before shipment, guaranteeing GDD specifications from 250 to 3,200 nm to within +- 10 fs2.
In addition, Edmund Optics Florida's high LIDT optics, such as Nd:YAG and Yb:YAG Laser Stripe Mirrors, have guaranteed laser damage thresholds thanks to an in-house laser test laboratory. Each laser line processing design is tested to ensure high LIDT under both continuous-wave and pulsed laser operating conditions, ensuring reliable optical performance and preventing system failure.
Edmund Optics Florida excels in the manufacture of a wide variety of laser optics, including laser crystals, high laser damage threshold optics and low GDD optics.
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