ultrafast lasers for scientific, industrial and medical
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Ultrafast lasers for scientific, industrial and medical applications
200 employees, 95% export, offices in U.S., Germany, Taiwan, Korea.
Science, ophtalmology, semi-conductor, display, medical devices,…
Who are we?
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Industrial excellence
IS0 9001 and 13485 certified
Production capability > 500 lasers per year
Vibration tests on all ultrafast lasers
EMC, shock, temperature cycling
and vibration tests on ultrafast fiber laser
6 months power stability in semiconductor fab
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Success of DEFI R&D laboratory with Institut d’Optique
~10 publications since 2011 in high energy coherent combining of FCPA
Scientific excellence
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Scientific breakthrough :
2011 : First demonstration of frequency tagging CC of FCPA
Scientific excellence
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Scientific breakthrough :
2011 : First demonstration of frequency tagging CC of FCPA
First demonstration of passive CC of FCPA
2012 : mJ-class, 2 GW with passive CC of FCPA
Scientific excellence
Polarizer
Frontend
Amp #1
Amp #2Isolator
Compressor Output
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Scientific breakthrough :
2011 : First demonstration of frequency tagging CC of FCPA
First demonstration of passive CC of FCPA
2012 : mJ-class, 2 GW with passive CC of FCPA
First demonstration of passive DPA in FCPA
2013 : mJ / 100 W class passive DPA in FCPA
Scientific excellence
Stretcher /
Replicas
generator
Amp
Compressor/
Replicas
Combinor
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Scientific breakthrough :
2011 : First demonstration of frequency tagging CC of FCPA
First demonstration of passive CC of FCPA
2012 : mJ-class, 2 GW with passive CC of FCPA
First demonstration of passive DPA in FCPA
2013 : mJ / 100 W class passive DPA in FCPA
First demonstration of pulse synthesis with high power FCPA
Scientific excellence
#1
#2Oscillator &
Stretcher CompressorDichroïc
Mirror
Dichroïc
Mirror
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Industrial technology in ICAN
Repetition rate = 15 kHz
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Industrial technology in ICAN
Repetition rate = 15 kHz
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EMC, vibration and shock tests on fiber lasers
Industrial technology in ICAN
Repetition rate = 15 kHz
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Peak power scaling of FCPA
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Peak power scaling of FCPA
Tangerine industrial
Ultrafast FCPA
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Active / Passive
DPA+CPA
Active / Passive
Multichannel FCPA
Peak power scaling of FCPA
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ROD
Microstructed
fibers
Fiber technology for FCPAInvention of rod type
fiber geometryPatent, Université de
Bordeaux / CNRS
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Fiber technology for FCPA
Rod type technology advantages :
- No modal shrinkage due to coiling /
bending
- Ultra-large mode area
- Core / Clad ratio
- Minimized B-integral
- Maximum energy extraction
- Truly single mode
- High optical efficiency
- Proven in the field reliability
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Conclusion
Rod type technology remains the key enabler
- 1mJ @ 10 kHz = 10 W
With sufficient stretching today’s industrial high energy FCPA
- Multi-mJ, several tens W, < 300 fs pulse duration
Novel coherent combining approaches
- Spatial CC
- Temporal CC
- Spectral synthesis
Packaging / Beam delivery … To be continued.
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Thank you for your attention!