APE Levante IR fs Synchronously Pumped OPO

The Levante IR fs is a synchronously pumped, tunable OPO delivering Watt-level Signal and Idler output power across 1300 nm to 5 µm range. With optional harmonic generators for the Signal and Idler down to the 4th harmonic (FHG), and Difference Frequency Generation (DFG) between Signal and Idler, systems are configurable from 325 nm to 20 µm. The OPO is driven by a 1 µm mode-locked femtosecond laser and provides 150 fs pulses with 100 cm⁻¹ bandwidth as well as shot-noise-limited performance. Applications include nonlinear and time-resolved spectroscopy, sSNOM, and multiphoton microscopy.

Features:

• Pumped by mode-locked 1 µm femtosecond lasers

• Configurable from 325 nm to 20 µm through harmonic generation and DFG of Signal and Idler

• 150 fs and 100 cm^-1 bandwidth

• Watt-level output power for OPO-Signal and Idler

• Shot-noise-limited performance

• Perfectly synchronised output pulses

• Integrated spectrometer for precise wavelength tuning and stabilisation

• Fully computer-controlled with automated wavelength tuning

Systems can be further customised using pulse pickers (pulseSelect) to reduce the repetition rate, spectral slicers (pulseSlicer) for bandwidth reduction, optical delay lines (scanDelay) and dispersion compensators (femtoControl). Multiple OPOs can also be pumped simultaneously by a single pump laser to generate independent, tunable, and temporally synchronised pulses.