SuperLight Photonics tailors wideband lasers
SuperLight Photonics is using simulation-driven optimisation to tailor PIC-based wideband lasers to specific application requirements.
SuperLight Photonics has introduced a new application-specific configuration approach for its photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based wideband laser sources, allowing customers to specify performance requirements rather than selecting from fixed product specifications.
The Enschede, Netherlands-based company uses simulation-driven optimisation to determine the balance between bandwidth and output power for individual applications, including optical coherence tomography, spectroscopy, spectral imaging, interferometry and metrology.
The approach builds on SuperLight Photonics’ patented Patterned Alternating Dispersion (PAD) technology, which enables control over how optical power is distributed across the generated spectrum. The company says the PIC-based architecture provides greater design flexibility than conventional fibre-based wideband light sources.
SuperLight Photonics says the configurable approach is intended to address applications where standard laser specifications do not provide the required combination of bandwidth, output power or spectral coverage.
The company, a spin-out from the University of Twente, develops PIC-based wideband laser sources for imaging, sensing and spectroscopy applications.
