Qioptiq has introduced a series of accessories for the kineFLEX™ range of laser to fiber couplers that now make fiber to laser alignment easier than ever. With the introduction of the laserPLATE™, users can now buy a complete mechanical mounting and packaging system for the Compass™, Sapphire™ and Cube™ range of OEM lasers from Coherent®. All optical and mechanical alignment and mounting considerations are resolved with the laserPLATE and users now only need take care of the fiber output to the application.

Features

• Combined laser chassis and heatsink design
• Ease of integration and alignment
• Pre-fitted dowels and fixings for accurate positioning
• Opto-mechanically stable enclosure design
• Fully compatible with Qioptiq’s kineFLEX range
• Integrated kineMATIX-P2™ manipulator

Optomechanical stability
Our laser beam delivery systems need only to be aligned only once and then are stable for multiple remove and insert operations. Kinematic design also means our fiber systems are stable to optomechanical thermal effects and exhibit no hysteresis.

Beam quality
Singlemode fiber enables you to decouple laser beam astigmatism and dynamic beam pointing instability from the measurement application. Designed around pre-focused and integrated optical assemblies, Qioptiq fiber systems are automatically mode matched to your laser parameters to maximise transmission efficiencies.

Wavelength multiplexers
Qioptiq designs and manufactures “black box” type laser solutions which incorporate multiple sources and their controllers, beam combiner optics, modulation and control devices and beam delivery via fiber optic.

Vacuum solutions
We design and manufacture single mode fiber beam delivery systems for use in an ultra-high vacuum environment, in fields such as metrology and imaging. To ensure that your solution is totally reliable in the harshest environments, we carry out extensive tests.

Precision fiber interconnects
Visible singlemode fiber to fiber interconnects can often be problematic due to the inappropriate use of standard telecoms connectors. The smaller fiber core sizes require more highly toleranced connector features
and stricter manufacturing process controls to ensure the highest performance and reliability.

Beam conditioning
Singlemode fiber provides the ideal spatial filter to decouple spatial mode noise from the application and produce a true ‘Gaussian’ beam profile. More applications require higher throughputs and with a stable and predictable source we can provide a selection of laser beam conditioning appropriate to the application directly from the end of the fiber.

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