Elliot Scientific has announced that it is taking advanced orders for its continuous wave (CW) diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) laser that outputs at the 'ruby' wavelength of 694.3nm.
The company said its Crescendo laser - which will be officially launched and demonstrated at Klastech at June's Laser World of Photonics exhibition in Munich - will open up new possibilities to researchers in biophysics and DNA sequencing.
Initially available with powers of up to 150mW, future designs of the Crescendo offering up to 500mW are under development.
The current units output in single longitudinal mode with typically less than 1MHz line width and a coherence length in excess of 100m.
A low-noise figure of less than 0.05 per cent rms is allied with a near-perfect Gaussian beam that has a pointing stability of <10 urad/C, allowing the laser to meet the requirements of a range of applications that cannot be usually met by typical diode-based lasers.
These include: bio-fluorescence, flow cytometry, confocal microscopy, holography, interferometry, disc mastering, haematology, food sorting, spectroscopy and retinal imaging.
In addition, the single-frequency laser is designed to be capable of output power modulation while still maintaining the original diode laser current.
The company said this extends laser lifetime and secures stable operating parameters but is only available on special request at present.
