Picosecond Diode Lasers with Driver: PICOPOWER™-LD Series
Picosecond Pulse Diode Lasers with Driver: PICOPOWER™-LD Series

 

pdf Picosecond Diode Lasers with Driver: PICOPOWER™-LD Series [Detailed Datasheet, PDF]

The ALPHALAS PICOPOWER™-LD Series of Picosecond Diode Lasers with Driver are available with the following standard wavelengths:

375, 405, 450, 488, 510, 635, 670, 785, 850, 976, 1030, 1047, 1053, 1064, 1310, 1550 nm

as well as more than 60 other customer-specific wavelengths in the range of 375 nm - 2300 nm!

Laser pulses as short as 12 ps and more than 2 W peak power for specific wavelengths.

Exchangeable laser heads.

Standard driver models with 20, 50 and 100 MHz with a frequency step of only 1 Hz. 

 

 Features  Applications
  • Laser pulses as short as 12 ps for specific wavelengths
  • More than 2 W peak power for specific wavelengths
  • Proprietary high-frequency design for the shortest & highest peak power diode laser pulses available on the market
  • Collimated free-space output or fiber-coupled
  • Exchangeable laser heads with different wavelengths for greatest flexibility
  • Single-, dual and multi-channel driver models
  • Proprietary laser diode driver generating picosecond high-current pulses
  • Built-in superior performance frequency generators for repetition rate adjustment from 1 Hz to 20, 50 or 100 MHz with a step of 1 Hz
  • External TTL trigger capability and synchronized output TTL or NIM
  • Microscopy
    - Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy (CLSM)
    - Fluorescence / Phosphorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM / PLIM)
    - Stimulated Emission Depletion Microscopy (STED)
    - Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching (FRAP)
    - Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy (TIRFM)
    - Time-Resolved Photoluminescence (TRPL)
  • Spectroscopy
    - Fluorescence (Lifetime) Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS / FLCS)
    - Fluorescence Lifetime Measurements and Time-Resolved Spectroscopy
    - Single Molecule Spectroscopy / Detection
    - Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC)
  • Laser Physics
    - Single Photon Generation
    - Seeding of Fiber Lasers and MOPA Systems
  • Other
    - Laser Imaging and 3-D Laser Scanning
    - Time-Response Characterization of Opto-Electronic Devices
    - Diffuse Optical Tomography and Imaging
    - Time of Flight (TOF) Experiments
    - Optical Time Domain Reflectometry (OTDR)

 

pdf Picosecond Diode Lasers with Driver: PICOPOWER™-LD Series [Detailed Datasheet, PDF]

3D Imaging Application Example 

A very interesting 3D imaging application using our PICOPOWER-LD™ picosecond diode laser has been published by Stanford University. For more information please refer to the Stanford Computational Imaging Lab website  and this article published in Nature .

Here is also a video published on Stanford Computational Imaging Lab's Youtube channel: