LQ529 lasers provide smooth beam profile for all harmonics.
Figures show beam profile at 355nm/50Hz.
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Compact Pulsed Nd:YAG Lasers
Del Mar Photonics offers compact pulse Nd:YAG lasers with excellent beam
quality, high energy/efficiency and possibility of efficient PRR changes with no
significant degradation of the output beam parameters. No matter how you may
wish to use it — as a standalone laser or as a pump source for tunable lasers
and OPO — the Del Mar Photonics LQ529 laser provides a combination of high
operation parameters, reliability and reasonable price which could not be
achieved earlier.
Ring cavity design of the LQ529 oscillator ensures perfect balance of energy,
beam quality and reliability.
Excellent Beam Quality
Compensation of depolarization over the Nd:YAG rod crosssection together with
traditional advantages of ring cavities ensure excellent beam profile. Unique
optical design of the LQ529 not only makes losses and distortions caused by
induced birefringence almost negligible, but also minimizes thermal lensing
effect. The above allows the user to vary pulse repetition rate within a wide
range and requires no further cavity alignment to preserve high beam quality and
output energy.
LQ529 lasers provide smooth beam profile for all harmonics.
Figures show beam profile at 355nm/50Hz.
This constitutes a great advantage over lasers using expensive and
difficult to align Gaussian optics and thus demanding realignment and sometimes
even replacement of optical components in order to avoid dramatic worsening of
their output parameters if pulse repetition rate (PRR) has been changed.
Energy Through Efficiency
One of the main reasons for moderate efficiency of conventional Q-switched
lasers is birefringence induced in the Nd:YAG rod leading to depolarization of
laser output. Each time the beam passes through the cavity, depolarized lasing
is filtered by various polarization units and is dropped out of the cavity that
leads to decrease in laser operation efficiency. Optical design of the LQ529
laser cavity allows to practically eliminate energy losses caused by
depolarization and provides laser energy output with more than 2% wall-plug
efficiency of a laser system (total electrical-to-optical power efficiency). Such a high efficiency
allows the LQ529 to provide up to 600mJ output energy without using an amplifier.
Single rod and single flash lamp design is the determining factor for reduction
of the laser price and maintenance costs.
Supplementing the basic model with a onepass amplifier allows to provide up to
1500mJ output energy
in the fundamental (model LQ929) while preserving all the advantages of the
LQ529 model.
A power supply unit and a self-contained
water-to-air cooling system are integrated
into one compact package.
Remote controller with the tactile panel
and large LCD makes laser operating much
more convenient.
Stable And Reliable Operation
One of the obvious advantages of the laser is its absolute mechanical stability
and rigidity.
Pulse-to-pulse energy stability of LQ529C laser at 355nm (THG)
All optical components are mounted on the rigid optical bench which is
mechanically and thermally isolated from the laser housing. This ensures
exceptional alignment stability even under toughest conditions of
transportation and operation. All nonlinear crystals and Pockels cell are
temperature stabilized. Optical bench with cavity components is also
temperaturestabilized. High-precision termostabilization ensures minimal
pulsetopulse and longterm instability. Heating of optical components to the
temperature exceeding ambient totally eliminates any risk of condensation. This
feature along with dustproof housing protects the optics from damage and
minimizes the necessity in service. It should also be noted that the LQ529 laser
design eliminates the necessity of any laser alignments after flashlamp replacement, while the replacement procedure itself takes less than 10
minutes.
All Harmonics Available
All harmonic options — 532nm, 355nm, 266nm and 213nm — are available as
standard.
High-efficiency Harmonic Generators can be either built-in (except for the FiHG)
or supplied as separate units upon the customer’s request. For this reason all
the harmonics can be ordered with the laser or at later date.
Compact Intelligent Power Supply
A power supply unit and a selfcontained watertoair cooling system are
integrated into one compact package. Compact size and closed loop cooling system
which requires no external water, allow to place the power supply under the
optical bench or wherever convenient. Computer control using the optional RS232
interface allows integration into laboratory or industrial automated systems.
Highpower cooling system and automatic temperature control with 0.5°C precision
ensure stable laser operation at up to 30°C ambient temperature. A heater built
into the cooling system reduces warm-up time to several minutes even at 15°C
ambient temperature.
ACCESSORIES AND OPTIONS
* Built-in and External Harmonic Generators up to
5th Harmonic
* Solid State Raman Converter
* Solid State Optical
Parametric Oscillator OPO
* High Power Attenuator for All Harmonics
* Custom Configurations
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Case studies:
Raman
shifter for conversion from 1064 nm to 1328 nm
APPLICATIONS
Nonlinear optics
Excellent beam quality and high pulse energy allow to use the LQ529 laser for
nonlinear spectroscopy, plasma physics, nonlinear optics and harmonic
generation.
Spectroscopy
High pulse repetition rate allows to reduce data collecting time, while high
stability almost eliminates calibration drift troubles in Raman and
time-resolved spectroscopy.
Velocimetry
Critical for the success of PIV experimentation is stable, reliable compact
laser source. The LQ529 ideally suits for most PIV experements. Del Mar
Photonics offers several custom configurations for Particle Image Velocimetry
experiments based on the LQ529.
Pump source
The LQ529 ideally suits for tunable lasers and OPO pumping. Models LQ829 and
LQ929 are ideal pump lasers for terawatt class Ti:Sapphire amplifiers.
Material processing
Meets almost all major requirements made to lasers for industry applications.
Design features provide a highest reliability and low demands to operation
conditions. Low operating cost, fast and simple service are also significant
factors for industrial applications of the LQ529 Laser.
Mobile laser systems
Unique mechanical rigidity and resistance to mis-alignments, low electricity
consumption and air cooling make the LQ529 an ideal laser source for various
mobile measuring and monitoring systems which may be installed on any transport
means. Dust protected laser head design ensures long-term reliable operation of
laser optical components even in field conditions.
Nd:YAG laser models
| Model | LQ529A | LG529B | LQ529C | LQ829 | LQ929 | ||
| Configuration | Oscillator only | Oscillator + Amplifier | |||||
| Pulse repetition rate, Hz | 5 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 50 | 10 | 10 |
| Output energy, mJ | |||||||
| at 1064 nm | 500 | 500 | 350 | 350 | 150 | 1000 | 1400 |
| at 532 nm 1), 3) | 280 | 280 | 190 | 190 | 80 | 550 | 800 |
| at 355 nm 1), 4) | 110 | 100 | 90 | 90 | 40 | 220 | 300 |
| at 266 nm 1), 3) | 100 | 70 | 60 | 40 | 16 | 120 | 180 |
| at 213 nm 2), 4) | 25 | 20 | 15 | 12 | 5 | 40 | 50 |
| Pulsewidth, ns 5) | 10...13 | 8...11 | |||||
| Beam diameter, mm | ≤8 | ≤6 | ≤5 | ≤10 | ≤11 | ||
| Divergence, mrad | ~1.5 | ~1.3 | ~1.5 | ||||
| Stability +/- % better than 5) | 2.5 | ||||||
| Cooling | self-contained water-air cooling system | ||||||
| Power consumption, less than, W (single phase, 220V+/- 10%, 50/60 Hz) |
400 | 600 | 600 | 800 | 1000 | 900 | 1000 |
| Dimensions, mm | |||||||
| Laser head | 575 x 180 x 100 | 600 x 220 x 115 | |||||
| Power supply | 650 x 290 x 650 | 770 x 340 x 670 | |||||
1) Harmonic generators built in laser head
2) When operating with external harmonic generator LG105
3) When SHG is optimized
4) When THG is optimized
5) At 1064 nm
* Excellent beam quality and stability
* All harmonics
up to 213 nm
* High pumping efficiency
* Turn-key operation
* Remote controller and
RS232 interface as standard
* No external water,
single phase mains operation
* Low maintenance
Nd:YAG Laser LQ929 is used as pump laser for second stage amplifier in Femtosecond Terawatt Ti:sapphire Laser System Teahupoo MPA-XL
pulsed Nd:YAG laser model LQ529C-TEM00 with aperture inside the cavity (TEM00)
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Rutile (TiO2) coupling
prisms Del Mar Photonics offers optical elements made of high quality synthetically grown Rutile Titanium Dioxide crystals. Rutile’s strong birefringency, wide transmission range and good mechanical properties make it suitable for fabrication of polarizing cubes, prisms and optical isolators. Boules having high optical transmission and homogeneity are grown by proprietary method. Typical boules have 10 - 15 mm in dia. and up to 25 mm length. Optical elements sizes - from 2 x 2 x 1 mm to 12.7 x 12.7 x 12.7 mm. Laser grade polish quality is available for finished elements. So far we the largest elements that we manufactured are 12 x15 x 5 mm, in which optical axis is parallel to 15 mm edge, 5 mm is along beam path, 12 x 15 mm faces polished 20/10 S/D, one wave flatness, parallelism < 3 arc.min. (better specs. available on request). more details - download brochure - request a quote |
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