New Focus, a Newport Brand, has introduced a series of semiconductor tapered amplifiers for high-power tunable and fixed-wavelength applications.
The Vamp series is designed to accept many fibre-coupled seed sources, providing easy alignment and helping protect the chip from unintentional misalignment.
The high-performance design includes output isolation, over-current protection and input seed monitoring in every amplifier to ensure stable and robust operation.
These features also protect the chip from self lasing and other hazardous operating conditions.
The tapered amplifier series produces in excess of 1W of tunable signal frequency radiation when seeded with an appropriate source, such as Vortex II and Velocity precision tunable lasers.
The Vamp can also operate with many homemade seed sources, making it a convenient solution for quality measurements in the laboratory.
The company has implemented a power-locking loop that reduces the amplitude noise and drift.
The power output remains stable and quiet over the entire operating temperature range, which results in higher quality data in shorter amounts of time.
The Vamp offers high ASE rejection to improve the signal-to-noise ratio, making it suitable for atomic cooling and spectroscopy, and for creating Bose-Einstein condensates.
