DenseLight Expands Laser range
DenseLight Semiconductors, a subsidiary of the opto-electronics process company POET Technologies, has unveiled its next generation Constellation Series of Narrow Linewidth Laser (NLWL) solutions.
The new Constellation Series integrated light modules [CBF Series] offers narrow spectral linewidths (e.g., 10, 5 and 1 Khz), excellent Side-Mode Suppression Ratio (SMSR), power stability and a high wavelength stable laser output, according to the company.
These feature sets are suited for a wide range of high precision remote sensing applications including wind-farm LIDAR; meteorological atmospheric LIDAR; Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS); Perimeter Intrusion Detection Systems (PIDS); distributed strain and temperature sensing using Brillouin Optical Time Domain Reflectometry (BOTDR); precision optical metrology & instrumentation; and high resolution optical gas & chemical sensing.
Senior VP of sales and marketing at DenseLight, Bryan Patmon, commented: "Our newest family of laser products delivers the most reliable laser performance with the lowest noise output. We are greatly simplifying the process for customers to create and implement integrated systems and solutions with advanced capabilities."
DenseLight's first Constellation Series product, the CBF-9, is complete with a proprietary specialty laser module fixed into a newly designed hermetically-sealed Butterfly package, as well as an integrated laser driver and temperature controller.
Premiering with a C-band laser, the CBF series of products will eventually be extended across a wide wavelength range, inclusive of the O, E, S, C and L bands. The new CBF platform can be customized for multiple use and application options to meet customers' specific requirements.
A New Family of Derivative Gain Chips
DenseLight has also expanded its product portfolio of gain chips, based on proprietary InP active waveguide designs to provide high optical gain over a broad wavelength range and near-circular optical far-field profile.
Gain chips are typically integrated in external cavity laser systems as the laser gain source. The gain chip is delivered as chip or chip-on-submount, with high reflectivity (HR) coating on the back facet and low reflectivity anti-reflecting (AR) coating on the angled front facet.
The DenseLight gain chip family will feature very stable operational characteristics as well as superior tuning capabilities. The gain chip product portfolio will offer ASE optical peak wavelength coverage from 1260nm to 1650nm.
DenseLight's portfolio of optical sensing solutions will be demonstrated at the Photonics West 2017 conference in San Francisco, California from January 31 to February 2, 2017.
