Thorlabs, Inc.
Thorlabs is a leading designer and manufacturer of photonics equipment for research, manufacturing, and biomedical applications.
- 973-300-3000
- 973-300-3600
- sales@thorlabs.com
- 43 Sparta Ave
Newton, NJ 07860
United States of America
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Optical Spectrum Analyzers
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Thorlabs' Optical Spectrum Analyzers (OSAs) perform highly accurate spectral measurements. Compatible with fiber-coupled and free-space light sources, these compact benchtop instruments suit a wide variety of applications, such as analyzing the spectrum of a telecom signal, resolving the Fabry-Perot modes of a gain chip, and identifying gas absorption lines.
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Ultrafast Photodetector with Current Monitor, 1250 - 1650 nm, DC - 20 GHz, FC/PC
DXM20AF
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The DXM20AF Ultrafast Detector is a DC - 20 GHz, fiber-coupled, InGaAs-based photodetector designed for applications in the 1250 nm - 1650 nm wavelength range. The core element of the detector is the fiber-coupled, hermetically sealed, microwave detector module. For convenience and simplicity of use, the module is mounted inside a rugged housing that includes a rechargeable battery, current monitor circuitry, and a digital display of the DC photocurrent.
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Telecom Fiber Couplers
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Thorlabs offers a varied selection of single mode (SM) and polarization-maintaining (PM) fiber couplers, as well as single mode 1x8 and 1x16 PLC waveguide splitters that have center wavelengths at common telecom wavelengths, including 850 nm, 1310 nm, and 1550 nm.
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Detectors
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Thorlabs' photodetectors are capable of detecting light throughout the UV, VIS, NIR, IR, and THz spectral regions. Our photodetectors feature sensors that enable properties such as intensity, power, intensity distribution, wavefront shape, energy, and wavelength to be measured. We offer unmounted photodiodes as well as amplified, biased, and avalanche photodetectors. Thermal power detectors are available unmounted, mounted on a PCB, or mounted on an aluminum plate. Also available are position-detecting sensors, integrating spheres, and an acoustic detection module.
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Light Analysis
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Welcome to Thorlabs; below you will find links to detectors and instrumentation that measure the various properties of light, a subset of our entire line of photonics products. Thorlabs offers an extensive selection of instruments that measure the properties of light. Our versatile power and energy meters can be used with over 25 different sensors in order to make NIST-traceable power and energy measurements. If the convenience of a meter is not desired, our selection of detectors includes basic photodiodes (uncalibrated and calibrated), photodetectors (biased, amplified, and avalanche), CCD and CMOS arrays, position detectors, integrating spheres, and photomultiplier tubes. The Beam Characterization category contains beam profilers (camera and scanning slit), a wavefront sensor, spectrometers, and interferometers, while the Polarimetery link leads to a selection of instruments used to measure and control the polarization of light.
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Optical Systems
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Thorlabs' optics can be incorporated together to create packages with new functionalities. Some of the packages highlighted here range from beam expanders and collimators to interferometers and spectroscopy kits. Optical isolators, Pockels cells, and modulators are other examples.
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1.533 Μm Frequency-Locked Laser
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Thorlabs' LLD1530 Frequency-Locked Laser is a narrow linewidth, DFB-laser-diode-based, turnkey system with a vacuum emission wavelength of 1532.8323 nm and a high SMSR of at least 35 dB. The laser frequency is actively stabilized to a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)-traceable molecular transition of acetylene and has an absolute accuracy at start-up that is better than ±25 MHz. The emission frequency immediately after start-up is then maintained with a ±25 MHz stability, providing an overall frequency accuracy of ±50 MHz. The LLD1530 is an accurate frequency reference designed to provide low-noise laser emission with excellent frequency stability, accuracy, and precision immediately at start-up. This source is ideal for use in demanding FTIR instrumentation, instrument calibration, gas sensing, and coherent telecommunications applications.
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Fiber Optomechanics
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The versatile FiberBench product line includes Single and Multi-Axis FiberBenches as well as a wide variety of compatible components ranging from beamsplitter modules to wave plate units. FiberBenches form the foundation of a nearly infinite array of miniature fiber optic systems that customers have been building for the last decade. When used with the FiberPort Collimators/Couplers, a complete optical circuit can be constructed. The Fiber Launch Platforms are ideal for coupling a free space laser into a single mode, multimode, or polarization-maintaining fiber. Other accessories include fiber mounts, fixed and kinematic collimator adapters, and L-bracket mating sleeves.
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Fiber Test & Measurement
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Thorlabs manufactures a range of devices for testing and measuring the performance of optical fiber. Power, spectral signature, polarization, or end face surface geometry can by characterized with out-of-the-box solutions from our catalog. EO modulators, optical switches, and light sources are available to treat light being used on a test bed.
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2-Wavelength, Polarization-Maintaining WDMs
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Thorlabs' Fused Polarization Maintaining (PM) Wavelength Division Multiplexers (WDMs) combine two wavelengths of light in PM fiber while maintaining the polarization of the incident light. These WDMs are reversible; they can also be used to split two discrete wavelengths entering the common port into two separate output ports. They are not designed to split the output from a broadband source. PM WDMs are often used for pump / signal applications that incorporate erbium-doped or ytterbium-doped fiber amplifiers. They can be readily customized for a wide variety of applications, enabling rapid design cycles and new project builds. For custom requests, please contact Tech Support.
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Fourier Transform Optical Spectrum Analyzer, 350 - 1100 nm
OSA201C
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Thorlabs' Optical Spectrum Analyzers (OSAs) perform highly accurate spectral measurements. Compatible with fiber-coupled and free-space light sources, these compact benchtop instruments suit a wide variety of applications, such as analyzing the spectrum of a telecom signal, resolving the Fabry-Perot modes of a gain chip, and identifying gas absorption lines. Many commonly available OSAs use grating-based monochromators, which have slow acquisition times due to the need to mechanically scan the grating and average out noise at each wavelength. Thorlabs' OSAs acquire the spectrum via a Fourier transform using a scanning Michelson interferometer in a push/pull configuration. This approach dramatically improves the acquisition time, enables a high-precision wavelength meter mode with 7 significant figures and ±1 part-per-million accuracy, and allows the included software to provide robust statistical analysis of the acquired spectra, as explained in the Design tab.
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Fiber End Face Interferometer
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Thorlabs' GL16 End Face Interferometer measures and images the end face geometry of single- and multi-fiber connectors. A non-contact technique called scanning white-light interferometry (SWLI) provides high accuracy, repeatability, and reliability for fiber connector testing, particularly for pass/fail testing using IEC or Telcordia requirements. The system can be controlled locally through the touchscreen display or remotely through a browser-based application (see Software tab for details), allowing it to be easily integrated on the production floor.
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PRO8 Modular Laser Diode Platform
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Thorlabs offers the PRO8 modular test and measurement platform in 2-slot and 8-slot configurations. These customizable bench top chassis let users build a compact fiber or laser diode testing platforms for their lab or factory floor. Modules include lasers, TEC controllers, optical switches, and current controllers.
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Ultrafast Fiber Optic Photodetectors
DXM Series
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The DXM series of Ultrafast Detectors are fiber-coupled photodetectors with wide wavelength ranges, as shown in the plot to the right, that are designed to be used for a variety applications. Each provides a high-fidelity electrical output pulse in response to an optical input pulse, and their clean impulse responses have full width half maxima (FWHM) down to 15 ps.
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Imaging Systems & Components
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Thorlabs offers a wide selection of laser scanning, widefield imaging, and OCT imaging systems, including multiphoton microscopes, confocal microscopes, electrophysiology rigs, swept-source OCT systems, and spectral-radar OCT systems.
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