LiDAR is a critical component of ADAS (Advanced Driving Assisting System), AVs (Autonomous Vehicles), and industrial automation systems. Highly efficient VCSELs (vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers), with their tiny footprint, attractive...

Are you looking for a high-power, high repetition rate, femtosecond fiber laser for your bioimaging application? Check out our newest white paper, titled "jYCaMP: An Optimized Calcium Indicator for Two-Photon Imaging at Fiber Laser Wavelengths."...

Despite the recent economic depression caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the medical industry has seen continued growth. Among the new industry opportunities, demand for medical devices has spiked. In this article, we'll discuss one device in...

RPMC Lasers is looking to hire a dedicated, technical person to join our sales force! As North America's largest laser distributor, our team is growing and we'd like to invite you to submit a resume and come talk to us about an exciting career in the...

Mid-IR molecular spectroscopy is a rapidly developing and promising technique, enabling high-performance chemical detection and analysis for industrial or environmental purposes, with new wavelength ranges becoming commercially available. The...

A common problem for HeNe laser customers is the issue of polarization switching, which is the sudden change of the polarization of different modes, especially in shorter tubes, which can be particularly detrimental when operating frequency stabilized

Laser diodes must meet two critical requirements to facilitate the lasing process. The first requires that, at a minimum, the laser cavity's gain increases to the point that it reaches unity with the level of losses. This unity state is known as the...

Spectroscopy is a class of analysis methods meant for chemical species identification and concentration measurement, based on emission spectra detection, if irradiated by an adequate light source. Fluorescence-based spectroscopy is one of the...

At RPMC, we are excited to announce the release of our newest white paper titled "Fundamentals of Confocal Raman Microscopy."  While there are many white papers out there which focus heavily on the spectroscopy aspects of this application, we have...

In previous blogs, we've explained the basics of Raman Spectroscopy, various trade-offs that exist when selecting the laser type (Multi-mode vs. Single-mode Lasers for Raman Spectroscopy), and laser wavelength (The Influence of Laser Wavelength on...

Combat zones can be extremely chaotic. With a massive influx of sensory input, implementing clear communication, rugged tools, and reliable instrumentation is key to a successful mission. One of the most challenging tasks in any aerial combat...

The ALCOR laser series from SPARK Lasers just received a nice power boost! This series, offered in a dual 920nm and 1064nm wavelength configuration up to 2W, or a single wavelength configuration with up to 4W at 920nm (highest power 920nm fs laser on...

Shortly after the invention of the first laser, a relevant application enabled by the availability of coherent light, called time-of-flight, emerged. ToF is the precise measurement of the round-trip time of a laser pulse from the source to the target...

Traditional microscopy is the technical field of using microscopes to view objects and areas (mostly cells) that are not within the resolution range of the naked eye. Compound microscope designs feature objectives and condensers, but also consists of...

Quantum Light Instruments' (QLI's) main product family is the Quantas Series.  This family of lasers offers compact, air-cooled, high-energy, low rep rate, DPSS lasers at the fundamental wavelengths of 1064 and 1053nm, and the standard harmonics...

In actively Q-switched lasers, the user controls the pulsed laser output, so that no laser pulse emission occurs without providing a proper input signal, aka "the trigger". Due to the trigger signal propagation through the interface electronics, the...

RPMC is excited to announce a partnership with BrightLaser! Through RPMC, BrightLaser now offers Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (VCSELs)!

Single frequency lasers have long been the cornerstone of standoff gas detection applications, particularly in traditional LIDAR (Light Ranging and Detection), DIAL (Differential Absorption LIDAR), and TDLAS (Tunable Diode Laser Absorption...

For security purposes, ID cards often require some form of unique identifier and tamper-proof security features, designed to mitigate the potential for alteration and counterfeiting. Laser sources play an essential role in this regard, providing a...

The LaserBoxx L6Cc and L4Cc laser beam combiner series, from Oxxius, is a compact and flexible all-in-one multi-color laser source. These fully integrated packages utilize a dichroic combining technique with up to 6 different diode and/or DPSS...

Are you looking for a high-power, high repetition rate, femtosecond laser for your bioimaging application? Check out our newest white paper, titled "Context-Dependent Sensory Processing Across Primary and Secondary Somatosensory Cortex." This...

A significant and well-recognized difference between lasers and conventional, incoherent light sources, is the ability to concentrate laser emission in short pulses, with durations going down to a few femtoseconds, containing potentially only a few...

Jenoptik is now offering the JOLD-275-CPNN-1L, their latest development in the field of high-power laser sources for industrial material processing, medical, and life science applications. Thanks to Jenoptik's patented mounting and bonding...

In our last blog post, we highlighted the benefits of high-energy q-switched lasers for harmonic generation.  In that article, we reviewed how q-switched lasers work and why the resultant short duration, high-energy pulses are required for...