The steps outlined in this application note can be used to stabilize a TLB-7000, TLB-6900, or TLB-6300 series tunable diode laser to a reference cavity using the Pound-Drever-Hall stabilization …
Albert A. Michelson won the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physics “for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid.” One …
Frequency-modulation spectroscopy is a powerful tool that can achieve high sensitivities with a relatively simple experimental setup. Tunable diode lasers, in particular, can make the …
Determining the surface quality of a critical component—the deviation from the intended shape whether flat, spherical, etc.—is crucial to high-precision manufacturing. Traditional methods …
Oriel® Sol-UV Solar Simulators can be used in a wide variety of dermatological applications in both new research and in commercial sun protection product verification. In commercial …
Scientists at the Kennedy Space Center, FL used Oriel® Light Sources in their Mars Simulation Chamber (MSC). The MSC was designed to accurately maintain the pressure (7 mb). temperature …
With the recent trend towards higher channel counts in telecommunications systems, the efficiency of wavelength-characterization measurements is becoming a major issue. Although the …
Interferometry is widely used to make precision length and displacement measurements ranging from less than a nanometer to tens of meters. Researchers used our 630-nm TLB-6304 laser …
Dr. Philip Kruger at the State University of New York, College of Optometry, used 100 W Quartz Tungsten Halogen Oriel® Light Sources and Optical Accessories to build a system to measure …
The LQA and DLA series represents laser modules with 20MHz analog beam modulation. The LQD and DLD series represents a laser module with 100MHz TTL digital modulation. Analog modulation …
The discovery of the optical frequency comb and the breakthrough work of Hänsch and Hall in refining the frequency comb technique have revolutionized the field of scientific metrology. …
For widely tunable laser, tuning speed and linearity are the terms or specifications quite often being used for characterizing the tuning performance. Tuning linearity is usually defined …
In many applications, active temperature control improves the performance of optoelectronic devices. In most solid-state detectors, noise decreases with operating temperature. Responsivity …
Thermally sensitive resistors (thermistors) are used widely in laser diode and detector cooling applications because of their high sensitivity, small size, ruggedness, fast response …
It’s been said that there are two types of researchers - those who have blown a laser diode and those who will. While that may be an exaggeration, it’s certainly true that today’s lab …
Diode lasers have been called “wonderful little devices.” They are small and effi cient. They can be directly modulated and tuned. These devices affect us daily with better clarity …
Thermistors provide an inexpensive and accurate temperature monitor for use with laser diodes. The nonlinear resistancetemperature characteristics of a Negative- Temperature Coeffi …
The multitude of laser diode packages available today make selecting the correct mount for laboratory, development, or production testing seem a daunting task. This Application Note …
In this Application Note, we show that mode hopping is directly correlated to noise in the total intensity, and that this noise is easily detected by a photodiode. We also show that …
Relatively high peak powers and effi cient operation have made pulsed laser diodes ideal for applications such as solid-state laser pumping and range fi nding. These higher peak powers …
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