Laser Induced Damage Threshold (LIDT) of optical components, including but not limited to highly dispersive mirrors, is an acute issue in high-energy/high-power ultrafast laser systems largely influencing not only their life expectancy, but also ultimate performance and possibilities for further output power/energy scaling. Since this question became one of the most frequently asked ones in […]
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K2 is a delay unit to perform pump-probe experiments in the attosecond range. The device allows time-resolved experiments with either an XUV/soft X-ray pump pulse and an IR probe pulse, or vice versa. Its design allows to focus two collinear laser beams of different divergence/beam size establishing highly stable spatial overlap between their foci while […]
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PC2018 is an advanced broadband dispersive dielectric multilayer mirror pair exhibiting zero dispersion over a spectral bandwidth covering nearly an optical octave around a central wavelength of 1030 nm. With a reflectance > 98.5% at an angle of incidence (AOI) of 45 degrees and s-polarization, it allows highly efficient steering of high-energy and high-power ultrashort […]
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How to choose your GLACIER®? Stop wondering which of UFI’s reflectometers to choose, here’s the answer! UFI’s GLACIER family of reflectometers allows to measure losses of optical coatings down to 5 ppm (up to 99.9995% reflectivity) using the extremely sensitive cavity-ringdown spectroscopy method. To match the different needs of the customers, UFI® offers now three […]
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Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) mirrors are key components to steer, focus and shape attosecond pulses. Designed and produced in atomically thick coating layers, these attosecond XUV mirrors allow very high precision in terms of wavelength/energy, spectral phase and high efficiency. Now, thanks to our partnership with Edmund Optics®, some of these mirrors are available in just […]
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GOBI® is the ideal instrument to characterize and control the quality of multi-layered ultrafast optics. The device uses spectrally resolved interferometry to accurately measure the optics in terms of the spectral phase and the Group Delay Dispersion (GDD). Combining spectral with temporal information and the possibility to accumulate multiple passes over the same optic, the […]
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CM65 and the newly released PC2151 are advanced dispersive multilayer mirror pairs exhibiting negative dispersion over a spectral bandwidth that extends beyond an optical octave around a central wavelength of 800 nm. This feature enables precise control of a temporal profile of a white light continuum emerging from bulk and noble-gas-filled hollow-core and photonic crystal […]
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AURORA, UltraFast Innovations‘ (UFI®) XUV phase retarder, turns linearly polarized XUV light into circularly polarized light. Its compact design facilitates implementing it into existing setups in a simple manner without introducing noticeable dispersion. With a maximum transmission of ~40%, the input linearly polarized light (40 to 85 eV) obtains a high degree of circular polarization. […]
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GLACIER-123 is the latest addition to UFI’s GLACIER® family of reflectometers. GLACIER® allows to measure losses of optical coatings down to 5 ppm (up to 99.9995% reflectivity) using the extremely sensitive cavity-ringdown spectroscopy method. Designed as a multiwavelength system, GLACIER-123 is the first of its kind to measure at 355 nm. It includes a microchip […]
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Due to their enormous power, terawatt and petawatt laser pulses may reach ionization threshold values of 1010 W/cm2 already several pico- or nanoseconds before the main laser pulse by either poor amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) levels or parasitic pre-pulses in an uncontrolled manner. In order to avoid these deleterious effects, one needs a way to […]
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