APE`s Wavelength Conversion Product Portfolio is upgraded. New Products have been received with great interest at LASER in Munich / August 2009
Ultrafast lasers have become more and more relevant in the different areas of life sciences, whereby most of all the extension of the wavelength ranges is leading to a multitude of new applications. The demand is rising for compact easy-to-use and flexible devices for wavelength conversion providing easy handling also for non-laser-specialists. To meet this demand APE offers a new product line.
The new compact Chameleon OPO (optical parametric oscillator) is the first completely alignment free, fully automated and computer controlled OPO, which - as specific feature - shows highest flexibility in pump- and OPO output wavelengths at the same time. This allows the use of any wavelength combinations.
The picoEMERALD was especially designed for the needs in CARS- and coherent RAMAN microscopy. It comprises a high power (10W) picosecond oscillator, a frequency doubling to 532 nm and a synchronously pumped OPO (optical parametric oscillator) in a single box.
The new product line HarmoniXX is a series of frequency converters for ultrafast lasers, Ti: Sapphire lasers in particular, but also for other wavelength ranges. It covers frequency doubling (SHG) and tripling (THG) but also quadrupling (FHG), with a modularly structured instrument.
For the OPO PP-Automatic the new FAN Crystal Option offers maximum flexibility in the pump- and OPO output wavelengths. This is particularly useful for 2-color applications as simultaneous MPE of different dyes, uncaging, CARS/SRS and other pump-probe-experiments.
Now APE provides a femtosecond version of the Levante Emerald. Pumped by a frequency doubled Ytterbium-laser (523 nm) this OPO offers an attractive and economic solution for generating femtosecond pulses, tuneable from 680 … 2150 nm. Thereby the Levante Emerald substitutes the combination of femtosecond Ti:Sapphire laser and synchronously pumped OPO.