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Lasers and Electro Optics Division – manufacturing Lasers for three decades.

Manufactured infrared gas lasers include Carbon monoxide (CO), Carbon dioxide (CO2), pulsed TEA-CO2 and Far infrared (FIR). These lasers are user replenishable, highly stable, grating tuned with output radiation being in the wavelength regions of 5.2-6.0 microns (CO), 9.1-10.9 microns (CO2, TEA–CO2) and 40 microns - 1.22 mm (FIR).

The division has recently launched a series of picosecond pulsed diode lasers with excitation wavelengths currently at 375nm, 405nm, 445nm, 470nm and 635 nm.

Applications for the infrared gas lasers cover interferometry, plasma diagnostics, biochemistry, photochemistry, protein studies, biological and chemical material analysis, ablation, atmospheric studies, ranging, spectroscopy, biophysics, solid state physics, material science etc.

Applications for the picosecond pulsed diode lasers include fluorescence lifetime measurements that use time correlated single photon counting as the measurement technique. Typical instrumentation that require these sources are fluorescence lifetime spectrometers and fluorescence lifetime multiwell plate readers for spectroscopy applications in biochemistry, biology, photophysics, semiconductor physics, bio-chemical assays etc. Customised versions of the diode lasers can be also supplied for integration within various types of analytical instrumentation.

PL Series Grating Tuned Carbon dioxide (CO2) Lasers from Edinburgh Instruments

Edinburgh Instruments’ PL series of carbon dioxide lasers covers spectral range 9.1 to 10.9 microns, with models having continuous wave (CW) output powers up to 180 Watts. Special isotopic fills to extend the wavelength spectral range are available on request.

PL – 3 CO Grating Tuned Carbon monoxide (CO) Laser from Edinburgh Instruments

The PL - 3 CO operates sealed off on low gain CO transitions in the range 5.2 to 6.0 microns with an output power of 1Watt. By changing the cavity optics and gas mixture, the PL3 can be converted into a tuneable CO2 laser covering 9-11 microns with 15W output power.

MTL – 3 Mini TEA pulsed CO2 Laser from Edinburgh Instruments

A very compact laser with a pulse energy of upto 150 mJ - multimode (50 mJ - with grating tuning), TEM00 version, pulse width FWHM ca. 70ns, repetition rates of 1Hz – 100Hz (200 Hz burst) with manual grating tuning over 60 lines between 9.2 and 10.8 microns.

FIR (TeraHertz) series Optically Pumped Far Infrared Lasers from Edinburgh Instruments

A choice of FIR lasers from Edinburgh Instruments to meet applications requiring coherent radiation in the range of 40 microns to 1.22 mm  (0.25 to 7.5 THz). The FIR (THz) lasers are available with either single output or dual output versions. Guaranteed output powers in each output, for example, are 150mW and 500mW at the 118.8 micron and 184.3 micron lines depending on the model of the Edinburgh Instruments CO2 pump laser used with the FIR (THz)lasers.

EPL series of Picosecond (ps) Pulsed Diode Lasers from Edinburgh Instruments

Excitation wavelengths currently at 375nm, 405nm, 445nm, 470nm and 635 nm. 10 repetition frequencies, spectrally purified output, fully integrated and compact design, extremely low RF radiation, optimized collimated beam, optimized for time correlated single photon counting, pulse widths up to ca. 90 ps.
 

Laser Servicing and Customer Support

Edinburgh Instruments Ltd have been providing excellent service backup on all of our own CO, CO2 and FIR lasers, and agency products. We pride ourselves on ensuring first class customer care before, during and after the purchase.

 

 

 
 

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