Ultrafast Optics

Ultrafast Optics feature designs specifically tailored for use with ultrafast lasers with short pulse durations on the order of picoseconds, femtoseconds, or attoseconds. This short pulse duration is highly beneficial for a wide variety of applications including medical lasers, materials processing, nonlinear imaging and microscopy, communications, and defense.

Edmund Optics^® addresses these difficulties with state-of-the-art metrology including white light interferometers for verifying GDD, laser damage testing to measure LIDT, and cavity ring-down (CRD) loss meters to verify high reflectivity in reflective ultrafast optics.

Example Applications

Materials Processing

Medical Lasers

Semiconductor Inspection

Non-Linear Microscopy

Edmund Optics offers a breadth of Ultrafast Optics, including Low GDD Ultrafast Mirrors, Highly-Dispersive Ultrafast Mirrors, Compression Prisms, Reflective Objectives and Beam Expanders, and Nonlinear Crystals. These products are designed for common femtosecond lasers, including Ti:Sapphire, Yb:doped, Thulium (Tm), and Holmium (Ho). Please contact us if your application requires an Ultrafast Optic with a custom design wavelength, size, or other requirements.