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Author: Michael Meyer

Fusion Energy: Critical NEW Details Emerge

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have uncovered critical new details about fusion facilities that use lasers to compress the fuel that produces fusion energy. The new data could help lead to the improved design of future laser facilities that harness the fusion process that drives the sun an… Read More

RPMC Lasers Will Exhibit at CYTO 2022 in Philadelphia

RPMC Lasers Inc. will be highlighting their wide selection of lasers at the ISAC’s annual CYTO conference in Philadelphia, PA from June 4th-7th. Through this conference, RPMC hopes to create new relationships with both OEM companies wanting to integrate a high-quality, reliable light source into their system and researchers and scientists looking to perform lab analysis. “We are really looking forward to seeing our clients and partners in person and forging new relationships within the cytometry world,” says Dean Micke, President of RPMC La… Read More

Laser Requirements for Time Gated Active Night Vision Imaging Systems

After reading this white paper, you will come away with an in-depth understanding of both the history of night vision technology, as well as the current state of modern night vision imaging. This article will further go on to explain the important features and requirements that you need to be aware of when determining which laser source is best for your active imaging application. In this article, we illustrate the critical laser requirements through Optitask’s series of q-switched Er:Glass lasers, which are ideally suited for active night vision imaging, due to both their ruggedized design and high pul… Read More

RPMC Lasers Announces Exclusive Partnership with Dausinger + Giesen

RPMC Lasers Inc, the leading laser distributor in North America, is excited to announce an exclusive distribution agreement with Dausinger + Giesen (https://www.dausinger-giesen.de/), allowing us to now offer their Thin-Disk Lasers and Thin-Disk Components. D + G provides leading edge thin disk laser components, such as thin disk gain media, thin disk pump modules, Pockels cells, and high-power optomechanics. They also provide high performance, versatile, fast & ultrafast thin disk lasers, regenerative amplifiers, linear amplifiers, demonstrators, prototypes and designs. As pioneers of thin disk technology, with Dr. Giesen credited with the invention of the thin disk laser, D + G owns multiple patents on thei… Read More

Choosing the Right Connector for Your Fiber-Coupled Laser Diode

Having trouble deciding which fiber-coupling connection is best for you? In this paper, we review pros and cons of the most common fiber optic connectors and the two main connector styles – FC and SMA, the importance of the self-centering ferrule and physical contact and polishing angle in regard to coupling efficiency and back reflections. After reading this white paper, you will come away with an in-depth understanding of the optomechanical structure of fiber optic connectors, their variants and tolerances, and which of these will better suit y… Read More

Lasers for Machine Vision: Selection Criteria

Interested in adding machine vision into your system? Wanting to make improvements to your current machine vision setup? After reading this article, you will have a better understanding of the characteristics that need to be considered when defining a laser module for machine vision. These characteristics include laser output power and stability requirements, wavelength options and cost/specification considerations, beam shaping options to get the preferred line or illumination pattern, external environmental requirements to consider, and OEM versus turn-key … Read More

Quantum Cascade Lasers (QCLs) for Infrared Countermeasures

After reading this white paper, you will come away with an understanding of how heat-seeking missiles function and why infrared sources are necessary for protecting military aircraft from attack. This article also explains the basic functionality of QCLs, pointing out both the similarities and differences between QCLs and classical semiconductor lasers. Finally, we discuss the specific laser requirements needed to be effective at disorienting a heat-seeking missile, and why the PowerMir series of QCLs from mirSense are ideal for this ap… Read More

Laser Requirements for Wind Turbine Monitoring LiDAR Systems

After reading this white paper, you will come to understand the fundamental rationale behind range resolution not being of particular importance for this application and why continuous wave (CW), frequency modulated LiDAR signals are preferred over pulsed laser signals. This article will further go on to provide a brief overview of fiber laser technology and explain why they have become the light source of choice for most commercial LiDAR applications.  Lastly, in the article, the LRL2 single-frequency fiber laser from BKtel is presented as an example of a perfect laser solution with the specifications required to lay the foundation for a successful Doppler LiD… Read More

Fundamentals of Confocal Raman Microscopy

After reading this white paper, you will come to understand the fundamental relationship between the conjugate pinholes and how they determine the depth resolution of the system.  You will understand why these type of microscopes can produce such high-resolution images, and why that requires a laser which is both a single spatial and single longitudinal mode.   We go on to explain that, for these reasons the 532nm single longitudinal mode (SLM) diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) laser from Oxxius, with excellent TEM00 beam quality makes it an ideal source for integration into confocal Raman micr… Read More

Single Frequency Fiber Lasers for Doppler LiDAR

After reading this white paper, you will come to understand the fundamentally entangled relationship between the range and velocity resolution of a lidar system and why it is so important to use single frequency laser sources for velocity measurement. This article will further go on to provide a brief overview of fiber laser technology and explain why they have become the light source of choice for most commercial lidar applications. Lastly, in the article, the LRL2 single frequency fiber laser from BKtel is presented as an example of the types of specifications required to lay the foundation for a successful Doppler lid… Read More