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News Release from: Innolume | Subject: GC-1200/160-200mW
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 21 September 2007
Gain chip keeps lasers in tune
New generation gain chip covers wavelength range otherwise not exploitable with conventional semiconductor light sources.
Innolume has begun sampling the GC-1200/160-200mW, a new generation gain chip providing broad optical gain centred at 1.2um The release of the GC-1200/160-200mW represents a further expansion of Innolume's product lines beyond high power lasers and SOAs
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 28 Mar 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Optimised for operation in an external cavity setup, the GC-1200/160-200mW has typical values for minimum output power of 200mW over a tuning range of 160nm in a wavelength range otherwise not exploitable with conventional semiconductor light sources.
The curved waveguide structure supports very low reflectivity of typically less than 10e-5 for the angled facet.
The standard product is delivered in a chip on submount configuration.
"We're pleased with initial customer feedback indicating that this new chip exceeds the performance and quality expectations of module and subsystem providers", says Guido Vogel, Business Development Manager at Innolume: "This chip enables completely new applications in instrumentation, industrial and medical systems which previously could not be produced due to the absence of suitable light sources".
"Tunable lasers and swept lasers for spectroscopy, metrology and optical coherence tomography benefit from the wide tuning range", adds Dr Alexey Kovsh, CTO at Innolume.
"By applying the proper optics and gratings, the new chip may also be used to create fixed wavelength laser sources with very narrow linewidth well suited for direct frequency conversion to visible light used in, for example, laser projection and flow cytometry".
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