APE Levante IR ps Synchronously Pumped OPO

The Levante IR ps is a synchronously pumped, tunable OPO designed for efficient Watt-level generation in the NIR to IR range from 1300 nm to 5 µm. It is driven by mode-locked 1 µm picosecond lasers. With optional harmonic generators for Signal and Idler down to the 3rd harmonic (THG), and Difference Frequency Generator (DFG) between Signal and Idler, systems can be configured from 470 nm to >15 µm. It provides 2 ps to 7 ps pulses with 3 cm⁻¹ or 10 cm⁻¹ bandwidth, depending on the pump laser. Application include AFM-IR, sSNOM, metrology, and nonlinear IR-imaging, for example in BonFIRE experiments.

Features:

• Fully controllable via PC and automated wavelength tuning

• Perfectly synchronised output pulses

• Integrated spectrometer for precise wavelength tuning and stabilisation

• Perfectly synchronised output pulses

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