Employs cost-effective flashlamp pumping to deliver outputs from 100 to 1200mJ at 1064nm, repetition rates from 1-100Hz, Q-switched pulses from 5-11ns
Pro-Lite Technology, a specialist photonics distributor, has released details of the Nano family of ultra-compact, Q-switched Nd:YAG lasers from Litron Lasers.
The Nano series employs cost-effective flashlamp pumping to deliver outputs from 100 to 1200mJ at 1064nm, repetition rates from 1-100Hz, Q-switched pulses from 5-11ns and optional harmonic generation to 532, 355, 266 and 213nm.
The Nano series takes in three platforms, proving outputs of up to 130mJ (Nano-S), 250mJ (Nano-L) and 360mJ (Nano-T).
With the additional of a power amplifier stage, the output of the Nano laser can be extended to 1.2J.
Twin head versions of the Nano are available for applications in flow visualisation (PIV).
The Nano series is available with a choice of four resonator configurations that allows the user to choose (and often, upgrade) a laser to provide the optimum combination of energy, pulse length, as well as temporal and spatial beam shapes to suit their exact (and possibly, changing) needs.
The stable multimode resonator supports full adjustment of laser energy and pulse repetition rates, while the addition of an intracavity beam expanding telescope promotes reduced divergence and superlative beam uniformity in the near to intermediate fields.
With the addition of a precision intracavity TEMoo aperture, the output becomes a diffraction-limited fundamental spatial mode that propagates with a gaussian intensity distribution from the near to the far fields.
Finally, an unstable, gaussian-coupled resonator is offered that provides for reduced divergence that supports enhanced higher-order harmonic conversion efficiencies.
Pro-Lite describes the Nano lasers as having engineering excellence 'in their DNA', employing world-class standards of design and construction to ensure that the lasers perform faultlessly for many years to come.
Examples of the Litron attention to detail include simple flashlamp removal without realignment of the pumping chamber and an all-stainless steel and hard-plastic cooling system that avoids the need for routine operation of the laser cooling system to maintain its cleanliness.
Litron have also implemented an advanced pumping chamber design that provides for uniform pumping of the laser rod and efficient cooling of the flashlamp, ensuring that the laser output has the highest degree of beam pointing stability.
The Q-switched Nd:YAG laser is regarded as the workhorse of the laser industry, finding applications in many areas of research, industry and medicine, including photochemistry, tunable OPO and dye laser pumping, remote sensing and LIDAR, laser induced breakdown spectroscopy, Maldi Tof and ICPMS mass spectrometry, laser induced fluorescence spectroscopy, laser ablation and cleaning, particle image velocimetry and electronic speckle pattern interferometry.
