Laser manufacturers for SLR

[ArttuR-H]

Hello all,
I thought I will also ask from here for suggestions for suitable SLR lasers, as they seem rather hard to find and get.
Even though our station hasn't been operational for almost two decades (!), our HighQ 2kHz laser is degrading and spare parts are hard to get, hence we are looking for a replacement with somewhat similar specs (kHz, ~10ps, ~0.5mJ). The response from HiqhQ was that they are not providing any support or new suitable models.
So I've been asking around at ILRS meetings etc. and found out about Passat LTD, Ekspla, Innolas, Photonics, maybe Alphalas, I'm shure that there are other options as well, so does someone have some great suggestion which they would like to share?
I believe that our station is not the only one who are looking for a new laser.
All help is much appreciated!
Thanks,
Arttu, Metsähovi 

[Matt Wilkinson]

Hi Arttu

Thanks for posting this. We are also thinking at Herstmonceux about our next laser and looking at the choices out there. Our HighQ 2kHz laser works, but is no longer supported.

Some options:

• Photonics Industries.
  RGLX Series High Pulse Energy
  Picosecond Lasers
  It offers 4mJ in IR and 2.5mJ in green. It can fire up to 5kHz. However, the pulse width is 25ps.
  https://www.photonix.com/product/rglx-series-lasers/
  
  
• Edgewave
  PX-series InnoSlab Laser
  It offers a maximum pulse energy up to 1.5mJ in IR and 0.6mJ in green. The pulse width is 10-12ps. It can fire up to 50MHz. The maximum output average power is 400W in IR and 200W in green.
  https://www.edge-wave.de/web/en/produkte/ultra-short-pulse-systeme/px-serie/
  
  
• NeoLASE
  Picosecond Laser – neoMOS 10ps
  It offers a maximum pulse energy up to 0.25mJ in IR. The pulse width is <10ps. I. It can fire up to 40MHz. The maximum output average power is 50W in IR.
  https://neolase.com/produkte/?lang=en
  
  
• ALPHALAS
  High-Energy Picosecond Laser: PICOPOWER™-RG1-1064-10K
  It offers a maximum pulse energy of 0.05mJ in IR and 0.033mJ in green. The pulse width is  <30ps. I. It can fire at 10kHz. The maximum output average power is 0.5W in IR.
  https://www.alphalas.com/products/lasers/high-energy-picosecond-laser.html
  
  
• PASSAT
  High-Energy DPSS Picosecond Lasers
  It offers a maximum pulse energy of 0.5mJ in IR and 0.3mJ in green. The pulse width is 8ps. I. It can fire at 400Hz. This can be upgraded to 1.2mJ in IR 07mJ in green and 1kHz. Alternatively, there is a 0.065mJ version that fires at 14kHz.
  https://passatltd.com/compiler-picosecond-lasers/
  
  
• LUMENTUM
  PicoBlade 3
  It offers a maximum pulse energy of 0.0225mJ in IR and 0.0125mJ in green. The pulse width is 10ps. I. It can fire at 8MHz.
  https://www.lumentum.com/en/products/laser-ultrafast-industrial-picoblade-3
  
  
• EKSPLA
  Atlantic 80
  It offers a maximum pulse energy of 0.2mJ IR and 0.1mJ in green. The pulse width is 10ps. It can fire at 1MHz.
  https://ekspla.com/product/atlantic-series-industrial-picosecond-diode-pumped-laser/
  
  
• DaHENG
  Sagittar-H
  It offers a maximum pulse energy of 0.1mJ and 0.1mJ in green. The pulse width is 12ps. It can fire at 1MHz.
  https://www.gophotonics.com/products/lasers/daheng-optics/29-923-sagittar-h
  
  
• AMPHOS
  Amphos5000 Series
  https://www.amphos.de/products/amphos5000/
  
  
• Spark Lasers
  Sirius
  It offers a maximum pulse energy of 0.06mJ in IR and 0.032mJ in green. The pulse width is 10ps. It can fire at 1 MHz.
  https://spark-lasers.com/produit/sirius/
  
  
• CNI
  Mode-locked picosecond pulsed
  laser at 532nm
  It offers a maximum pulse energy of 2.0mJ in green. The pulse width is 15ps. It can fire at 5 kHz.
  https://www.cnioptics.com/mode-locked-laser/58700246.html/
  
  

If you can decide what fire rates and pulse energies you want then the choices become easier. We would also be interested in IR operations.

Matt