A CUTTING-EDGE LASER TECHNOLOGY
Leukos supercontinuum laser sources are based on the development and use of new generation optical fibers. These waveguides enable an extreme confinement of the electromagnetic field and a high conversion efficiency by means of nonlinear effects. The interaction of a high peak power pump laser with the material constituting the fiber allows to generate a multitude of wavelengths, i.e., a supercontinuum.
Our supercontinuum lasers cover wavelengths from UV (320 nm) to mid-IR (4500 nm), with different modes of operation (from pulse-on-demand (10 Hz) to quasi-CW (MHz)) and different pulse widths (picosecond, sub-nanosecond, nanosecond). The desired spectral band as well as the spatial profile of the fiber output beam can be adapted to the target application.
PUBLICATIONS
Compact supercontinuum sources and their biomedical applications
Optical Fiber Technology 18 (5), 375-378, 2012
Visible supercontinuum generation controlled by intermodal four-wave mixing in microstructured fiber
Optics Letters 32 (15), 2173-2175, 2007
Ultra wide band supercontinuum generation in air silica holey fibers by SHG-induced modulation instabilities
Optics Express 13 (19), 7399-7404, 2005
White-light supercontinuum generation in normally dispersive optical fiber using original multi-wavelength pumping system
Optics Express 12 (19), 4366-4371, 2004