Press Releases
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05.10.2009 | New low cost PCA for THz spectroscopy and imaging
Menlo Systems and the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques have again joined forces to develop a low cost photoconductive antenna (PCA) for THz generation. The new TERA8-1, utilizes the same low temperature (LT) grown GaAs technology found in our current TERA8 with a single dipole structure for significant cost reduction. The wrapped dipole structure, when excited with 150 fs 800 nm laser pulses, emits and detects with 4 THz of bandwidth. The antennae come mounted, connected and individually tested, ready for use in spectroscopy or imaging applications.
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27.03.2009 | New Yb CW laser system for laser cooling and trapping
Menlo Systems GmbH and Koheras A/S have joined forces to present a new high power CW Yb fiber laser system. MenloSystems' new fiber laser system "orange one" delivers 1 or 2 W of optical output power in the wavelength range of 1100 nm - 1121 nm with an optical line width below 50 kHz. It uses Koheras' new ultra narrow line width single frequency fiber laser module as seed laser together with a two stage amplifier designed and built by Menlo Systems. The new orange one laser is available exclusively from Menlo Systems.
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09.02.2009 | See the Phase Drift: New Visual Tool for the APS800 Phase Stabilization Unit
Menlo Systems announces the latest version of the APS800 control software. The APS800 phase stabilization unit is used to monitor and stabilize the phase relation of amplified few-cycle pulses. The newly released software now grants visual control over the phase stable pulses. The graphical user surface has been redesigned, allowing to monitor the phase drift of amplified laser pulses as a contour plot of the interference pattern generated by the f:2f-interferometer.
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09.01.2009 | Compact fiber laser delivers record short sub-70 fs pulses at 780 nm
Due to the significantly improved frequency conversion scheme, the new T-Light 780 has spectral bandwidths of >12 nm, which leads to pulse durations <100 fs. With the T-Femtoscale, a pulse compressor based on chirped mirror technology, further compression to sub-70 fs is achieved.
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04.09.2008 | First light for frequency combs to enable cosmic dynamics experiments
A new calibration technique comes from the combination of astronomy and quantum optics. Frequency combs create a precise ruler needed to calibrate a spectrograph and enable observations that were previously unachievable.
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26.06.2008 | Femtosecond fiber oscillator now available at 1030 nm
Menlo System released its first Ytterbium-doped fiber laser. The ORANGE mode-locked oscillator delivers record breaking values of 200 mW average power in 100 fs pulses at a repetition rate of 100 MHz.
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19.12.2007 | Femtosecond Phase Stabilization Technology Enables the Capturing Attosecond Electron Transport in Real Time
Menlo Systems is proud to announce its latest contribution to advancing attosecond technology. An international team of researchers at the Max Planck institute of Quantum Optics together with the developers of the femtosecond phase stabilization units at Menlo Systems achieved the first essential step towards ultimate-speed electronics, limited only by the time required for an electron to travel between neighboring atoms.
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31.07.2007 | Menlo Systems Opens US Subsidiary to Boost its North American Presence
Menlo Systems opened its US subsidiary in late 2006 to establish a direct line to its customers in North America and to partner with America's premium research institutes for R&D projects. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts the new US office helps the company to grow and continue its success in the American market.
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13.06.2007 | Ultra-compact femtosecond laser
Production and analysis methods employing lasers with extremely short pulses are increasingly finding there way into everyday life. Under the product designation T-Light, Menlo Systems offers a femtosecond fiber laser (fs fiber laser) that was engineered for applications in micro material processing, terahertz generation, and multiphoton microscopy.
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27.04.2007 | High repetition rate fiber laser engineered for high-precision metrology applications
M-Comb delivers the highest fundamental repetition rate available on a femtosecond fiber oscillator. The laser running at 250 MHz repetition rate was developed to be the core component of versatile frequency comb systems.
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28.03.2007 | Highest energy phase stabilized femtosecond laser
Recent carrier envelope phase stabilization of a KMLabs Dragon femtosecond laser amplifier using Menlo Systems' femtosecond phase stabilization units for laser oscillator XPS800 and amplifiers APS 800 demonstrated sub-30 fs phase stabilized pulses with 2 mJ pulse energy at 1 kHz repetition rate.