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picoEmerald FT
Overview
The picoEmerald FT is our flagship one-box light source. Designed for best-in-class SRS imaging quality and tuning speed, it is an easy-to-use, push-button-tunable picosecond OPO with an integrated pump laser. It directly generates 2 ps pulses with a 10 cm-1 bandwidth, tunable from 660 nm to 2300 nm, with an optional 1032 nm output for coherent Raman microscopy. The light source can be further extended with harmonic generators down to 190 nm with the 4th harmonic for applications such as ARPES and metrology. Additional OPO and DFG stages, extending the wavelength range up to 15 µm enable nonlinear IR-imaging, for example in BonFIRE experiments.
Systems can be further customized using pulse pickers (pulseSelect) to reduce the repetition rate, spectral slicers (pulseSlicer) for bandwidth reduction and optical delay lines (scanDelay). A picoEmerald FT can also be used to pump a second OPO, generating independent, tunable, and synchronized pulses.
Customization is our specialty. If your requirements are not listed in the specification table, please feel free to contact us.
At a Glance
- 2 ps pulses and 10 cm-1 bandwidth – ideal for Coherent Raman imaging
- Fast wavelength tuning: 1.5 s for any tuning step
- Shot-noise-limited performance
- Power and delay control with active stabilization
- Perfectly synchronized output pulses, overlapped in space and time
- Integrated spectrometer for precise wavelength tuning and stabilization
- Fully computer-controlled (TCP/IP) with automated wavelength tuning
Applications
- Coherent Raman microscopy (CARS, SRS)
- BonFIRE (bond-selective fluorescence imaging)
- Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM)
- Time-correlated single-photon counting (TCSPC)
- Quantum dot research
- Metrology
Visual Summary of the picoEmerald FT
Specifications & Typical Performance
Basic Configuration
Optional
| Signal FHG (3+1) | Signal FHG (2+2) | Signal THG | Signal SHG | Idler SHG | picoEmerald FT Signal | picoEmerald FT Idler | Levante IR ps Signal | Levante IR ps Idler | DFG | |
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* At the specified wavelength for power measurement, expressed as normalized root mean square deviation (NRMSD), with power lock enabled, under stable environmental conditions. ** -162 dBc - limit of the measurement setup used |
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| Wavelength range | 190 nm … 210 nm | 210 nm … 230 nm | 230 nm … 335 nm | 330 nm … 505 nm | 530 nm … 660 nm | 660 nm … 1010 nm | 1055 nm … 2340 nm | 1310 nm … 2000 nm | 2150 nm … 4800 nm | 4.8 µm … >15 µm |
| Power | 0.4 mW at 200 nm | 0.5 mW at 220 nm | 15 mW at 266 nm | 50 mW at 400 nm | 20 mW at 625 nm | 600 mW at 800 nm | 400 mW at 1250 nm | 1400mW at 1500nm | 650 mW at 2500nm | 50 mW at 6 µm |
| Bandwidth (FWHM) | 10 cm-1 | |||||||||
| Pulse width (FWHM) | 2 ps | |||||||||
| Time-Bandwidth product | 0.6 | |||||||||
| Repetition rate | 40 MHz | |||||||||
| Output polarization | Horizontal | Horizontal | Horizontal | Vertical | Vertical | Horizontal | Horizontal | Horizontal | Horizontal | Horizontal |
| Power stability (RMS)* | 0.5% | |||||||||
| Spectral stability (RMS)* | 0.01% | |||||||||
| Shot-Noise limited** | -162 dBc/Hz, >5 MHz | typ. -158 dBc/Hz, >1 MHz | ||||||||
Datasheets & Brochures
APE_picoEmerald_FT_rev-4.3.0 (pdf / english)
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Email & Phone Contacts
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