SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 15, 2015 — Coherent Inc. offers diode laser bars for medical applications with high batch-to-batch consistency. At 1470 nm with a low fill factor, the 35-W CW-rated bar is designed for fiber coupling, optical beam coupling and direct applications. Uses include surgical and aesthetic medical applications, such as urology, lithotripsy, benign prostatic hyperplasia treatment, vascular surgery, endovenous laser treatment, skin rejuvenation and acne treatment. At 1060 nm, 100-W bars and...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 30, 2015 — The Rapid FX femtosecond laser from Coherent Inc. is designed for precision micromachining of metal, glass, sapphire, ceramic and other dielectric materials. The solid-state laser delivers 900-fs pulsewidths with pulse energies up to 100 μJ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 10, 2016 — The Fidelity 10 and Fidelity 18 ultrafast fiber lasers from Coherent Inc. offer 10 and 18 W of output power, respectively, with high average power and short pulse widths that enable high-intensity focusing. A pulse width of 140 fs is featured...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 2, 2015 — The Flare NX series from Coherent Inc. is a range of compact, short-pulse, solid-state lasers that enable analytical measurements, laser microdissection, and laser-induced fluorescence with high speed and process quality. The lasers have high...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 13, 2015 — The Monaco femtosecond laser from Coherent Inc. is a closed, one-box system that combines a 1035-nm solid-state oscillator with an amplifier. The device yields a 40-μJ pulse energy at a repetition rate of 1 MHz in pulsewidths of <400 fs....

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 21, 2015 — Coherent Inc. has announced 780- to 830-nm and 975-nm diode laser components for industrial applications. At 780 to 830 nm, the company's AAA technology has been extended to include 60- and 80-W low-fill-factor bars, as well as a new 70-W,...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 27, 2015 — Coherent Inc. has announced its next generation of carbon monoxide (CO) lasers for enhanced materials processing. The lasers output at 5 μm, providing strong absorption in certain plastic films, polymers and water, as well as dielectric...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 14, 2015 — The Highlight FL series of fiber lasers from Coherent Inc. is capable of delivering output powers of 4 kW and up. The devices employ a modular architecture to allow OEM customers and system integrators to choose systems with turn-key operation...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 29, 2015 — The new Revolution series of Q-switched, pulsed lasers from Coherent Inc. provides average power up to 80 W at a wavelength of 527 nm with excellent beam profile and smooth energy distribution. The diode-pumped Nd:YLF lasers use efficient...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 9, 2015 — The new LaserCam-HR II diagnostic camera from Coherent Inc. improves on previous models by offering more sensitive and accurate laser beam diameter measurements, especially those involving D4sigma and second moment calculations. New CCD...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 7, 2015 — The newest StingRay structured light-generating laser from Coherent Inc. produces up to 50 mW of output with ±75 percent line uniformity in the blue (450 nm) wavelength. It is suited for machine vision applications based on 3-D...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 25, 2014 — A new laser from Coherent Inc. allows simultaneous, multiwavelength excitation of multiple probes and photoactivation for nonlinear microscopy. The Chameleon Discovery is continuously tunable from 680 to 1300 nm, with a pulse width of 100 fs...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 30, 2014 — The StingRay SD from Coherent Inc. is a laser that generates structured light patterns for use in 3-D vision systems. The laser produces high power density and thin measurement cross sections with a uniform return that does not mask the...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 2, 2014 — Coherent Inc. has introduced a range of CO2 lasers in its Diamond J-Series for applications in system integration. The lasers feature a common mechanical, electrical, optical, software and control interface, with powers ranging from 150 to...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 28, 2014 — The 100G ROSA product line from NTT Electronics offers coherent transport systems to address increasing network bandwidth demand. Consisting of both p-i-n and avalanche photodiode (APD) devices, ROSA offers solutions for data centers and...

IRVINE, Calif., March 25, 2014 — LightSpeed-II CL20010, the single-carrier 200G coherent SoC (system on chip) from ClariPhy Communications, offers programmable modulation for 200G and 400G dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) transport applications. It supports...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 18, 2014 — HighLight 10,000D, a direct-diode laser system from Coherent Inc., delivers higher power, enabling increased throughput for applications in metal cladding and heat treating. The device outputs 10 kW (at 975 nm) and can be configured to deliver...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 17, 2013 — The Daytona-HE, a short-pulse, UV fiber laser from Coherent Inc., delivers 355-nm output with peak powers >45 kW (at repetition rates up to 525 kHz) and high pulse energies >70 µJ (at up to 325-kHz repetition rate). It produces...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 26, 2013 — Coherent Inc.’s high-power Verdi G20 laser can simultaneously pump a Ti:sapphire oscillator and a high-repetition regenerative amplifier, or two Ti:sapphire oscillators with sufficient power to each drive a tunable optical parametric...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 23, 2013 — The OBIS Galaxy fiber optic beam combiner from Coherent Inc. combines the outputs of up to eight separate lasers into a single-mode fiber for bioinstrumentation applications including flow cytometry and confocal microscopy. Using FC...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 27, 2013 — The most recent member of Coherent’s Vitara family of closed-box, ultrafast oscillators is the UBB (ultrabroadband) sub-10-fs laser. It is suitable for applications including terahertz pulse generation, OCT, pump-probe spectroscopy,...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 15, 2013 — Coherent Inc. has expanded its ultrafast laser amplifier family with the addition of the Libra-HE+, a one-box, single-stage device. In combination with optical parametric amplifiers such as the proprietary OperA Solo, it serves as a compact...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 29, 2013 — The Helios series of subnanosecond solid-state lasers from Coherent Inc. is suited for applications including scribing of thin-film and crystalline-silicon solar cells, dicing of silicon wafers, and precision marking for use in the electronics and...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 9, 2013 — Coherent Inc.’s PowerMax USB Wand is a “meterless,” ultraslim laser-power sensor configured to enable measurements at points deep within instruments such as flow cytometers and multiphoton excitation microscopes, and between...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 20, 2013 — Coherent Inc. has enhanced its Sapphire series lasers with a 594-nm instrument that can excite a range of red fluorescence fluorophores, including Texas Red and Alexa Fluor 594, and the new mFruit dyes. Based on proprietary optically pumped...