APE´s Wavelength Conversion Product Portfolio is upgraded

New Products have been received with great interest at LASER in Munich

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 system.

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.