DPSS lasers have been designed 'from the ground up' to replace the argon lasers traditionally used in biomedical instrumentation
Argon ion lasers have traditionally been the laser of choice for applications such as flow cytometry.
These require cooling either by an external water chiller or an internal fan which makes integration into an instrument difficult and can transmit vibration into the system.
The Cobolt Blues and Samba are powerful DPSS lasers at 473nm and 532nm which have been designed from the ground up as drop-in replacement sources for instrumentation.
Power levels up to 100mW are currently available with less than 0.5% rms noise in an extremely compact package measuring only 115mm x 85mm x 44mm.
The ability to generate this sort of power in such a compact package is down to Cobolt's proprietary technology for quasi-phase matching using periodically poled nonlinear materials.
The controller units too are designed for integration and come in circuit-board only format with a remote-mode interface.
