Dalgety Bay, UK, 3 June 2015 – PowerPhotonic today announces that it is working with Lasertel, Inc. for the supply of a new generation of precision micro-optics for high power laser diode pump sources. The novel patented optics, which are manufactured using PowerPhotonic’s unique direct write laser micro-machining technology, have been in development for the last five years at PowerPhotonic. The optical design provides precise beam shaping in an ultra-compact and reliable optic assembly, enabling Lasertel to collimate the world’s highest peak-power laser diode arrays.
The ultimate home of these new optics is the High Repetition-Rate Advanced Petawatt Laser System (HAPLS), currently being built by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) for the European Union’s Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) facility near Prague, Czech Republic. The HAPLS laser will be capable of delivering laser pulses at a repetition rate of 10 per second, each with peak power of greater than 1 petawatt.
Roy McBride, MD of PowerPhotonic said, “we have been working with Lasertel for many years to bring to market a new standard in precision micro-optics for laser diode pump sources. It is tremendous to be working with Lasertel and also to be associated with such a prestigious programme such as HAPLS. As a company, we have always prided ourselves on our ability to deliver state-of-the-art optics, and it is gratifying to get recognition of this by being part of the world’s most powerful laser.
ELI will be the world’s first international laser research centre, operating in a similar manner to the particle physics facility at CERN. The laser facility aims to host some the most intense lasers in the world and make them available to an international scientific user community.
About PowerPhotonic – “Enhancing Beam Performance”
PowerPhotonic is a global leader in the design and manufacture of precision micro-optics. Our business was founded with the objective of providing unsurpassed excellence in all aspects of micro-optics product realization for laser applications. Our world-class design skills are supported by an innovative and flexible manufacturing process that allows the company to design both a broad range of state-of-the art industry standard laser micro-optics products and, uniquely, to offer a low cost rapid fabrication service for creating completely freeform optical surfaces.
Founded in 2004 and headquartered in the United Kingdom, the PowerPhotonic engineering team has developed many unique technologies that allow the company to produce a wide range of precision micro-optics that cannot be economically produced by using traditional glass molding or machining techniques, with higher efficiency, superior performance and increased functional integration.
Our focus today is on providing solutions for diode laser and high power laser applications, principally for the materials processing, medical systems, optical communications and defense industries. In addition, as experts in micro-optic technology and supported by our unique fabrication process, we are well-positioned to create products that solve many of our customer’s real world problems, problems that cannot easily be addressed using traditional manufacturing techniques. This means that PowerPhotonic is uniquely positioned to meet the challenge of delivering world-class solutions for ever higher brightness, more power-efficient and more compact laser applications.
About Lasertel, Inc.
Lasertel is a leading manufacturer of semiconductor laser products from 760nm to 1100nm used in a variety of industrial and medical applications. Lasertel’s proprietary manufacturing processes and rugged product designs result in revolutionary products that lead the industry in efficiency and reliability. From solid source MBE wafer growth techniques to patented designs and manufacturing processes, Lasertel products are proudly designed and manufactured in the USA.
