Prism Compressor for Ultrashort Laser Pulses
Prism Compressor for Ultrashort Laser Pulses
The Newport Prism Compressor for Ultrashort Pulses is an easy to assemble setup to deliver the shortest pulse to your sample or device. A typical femtosecond pulse can have anywhere from 5 to 100 nm of bandwidth around the center wavelength of the laser. When a femtosecond pulse with that much bandwidth passes through any optical material such as a lens, beam-splitter, or Faraday isolator, it will experience pulse broadening due to group velocity dispersion (GVD). The good news is that the pulse broadening effects of GVD can be reversed and recompressed by using pairs of prisms, gratings or chirped mirrors.
- Compensates for material dispersion that causes pulse broadening of fs pulses
- Designed to work with Spectra-Physics Ti:Sapphire ultrafast lasers, OPA & OPO
- Three different choices of prism materials
- Fast adjustment of prism separation
- All parts tested and certified to work and fit together See All Features
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| M-PC-TS-KT Prism Compressor for Ultrashort Laser PulsesPrism Compressor, Ultrashort Laser Pulses, Tsunami, Metric | |||||
| PC-MT-KT Prism Compressor for Ultrashort Laser PulsesPrism Compressor, Ultrashort Laser Pulses, Mai Tai | |||||
| PC-TS-KT Prism Compressor for Ultrashort Laser PulsesPrism Compressor, Ultrashort Laser Pulses, Tsunami |
Features
Based on a Prism Pair Set-up
Our prism compressor kit is based on prism pair setup. This kit allows the user to assemble the pre-selected and certified off-the-shelf Newport components and put them together for a cost-effective dispersion compensation solution. The Prism Compressor for Ultrashort Laser Pulses application note has detailed information on how to assemble the kit and choose critical distances most suitable for your application.
Components Compatible with Spectra-Physics Ultrafast Lasers
All of the mounts and optics in this kit have been certified by our scientists in the Newport Technology and Applications Center to be compatible with the Spectra-Physics Mai Tai™, Tsunami™, Spitfire ultrafast Ti:Sapphire lasers, OPAL OPO and OPA. Due to the polarization selectivity of the Brewster’s angle cut prisms, this kit is designed for the horizontal polarization. For vertically polarized laser beams, such as output from Tsunami, a periscope or half wave-plate will be needed to rotate the polarization by 90°.
Applications
Applications for our prism compressor include:
- Supercontinuum Generation
- Multiphoton Microscopy
- Terahertz Generation
- Ultrafast Spectroscopy
Please see the Prism Compressor for Ultrashort Laser Pulses application note for more information.
Resources
Application Notes
Prism Compressor for Ultrashort Laser Pulses(4.2 MB, PDF) Dispersion Compensation Using Chirped Mirrors(864.4 kB, PDF)
