New Laser

October 1, 2015

An installation of our new Coherent dual femto and pico laser system has just been completed. The system consists of a Ti:sapphire laser Mira, pumped with a 12-W cw laser Verdi V12. The Ti:Sapphire laser has a tuning range 700 - 1000 nm; it provides a pump for an OPO tuneable in the wavelengths range between 1300 and 4000 nm. The main advantage of the new-generation Mira laser and OPO is that they can be tuned independently from each other in a wide range of wavelengths. The new OPO is also easy to align; one can see the up-converted beam in the OPO cavity with a naked eye in room light. This was the reason of choosing Coherent system: it has a very convenient configuration and well written documentation. In case if the system goes out of alignment, a trained user could fix this problem relatively easily. We are looking forward to starting our experiments using our new laser system.

Ksenia Dolgaleva