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There are two critical parameters that all lasers diodes must meet to begin the lasing process.  The first one of these parameters is that there must be more gain than loss inside the laser cavity, the point at which this condition is satisfied is...

At RPMC we are excited to announce the release of our newest lidar white paper titled "Single Frequency Fiber Lasers for Doppler Lidar."  Doppler lidar takes advantage of the fact that when light interacts with moving object, it experiences a...

In honor of the Pittcon conference this month, we here at RPMC Lasers have decided to gear our third quiz on lasers used in analytical instrumentation. In this quiz we cover a wide range of topics from Laser-Induced Break Down Spectroscopy (LIBS) to...

RPMC Lasers will be exhibiting at Pittcon March 18-21 in Phildelphia, PA. Stop by our Booth # 2540 to see the products we will be featuring! Pittcon’s target audience is not just “analytical chemists,” but all laboratory scientists — anyone who...

Last summer we released a white paper titled "How Mode-Locked Lasers Affect the Past, Present, and Future of Two-Photon Microscopy" which reviewed in detail the evolution of two-photon microscopy, with a particular focus on its usefulness in producing...

Mass spectrometry is an extremely powerful analytical tool for chemical analysis, which is widely utilized in applications ranging from forensics to pharmaceuticals, because of its ability to detect the atomic constituents of an analyte but also...

In October of 2017 RPMC Lasers, published a white paper titled “How to Improve Laser Diode Lifetime! Advice and Precautions on Mounting,” where we went on to describe in great detail the various package types and the best practices for ensuring the...

Laser hair removal is one of the most popular medical laser applications worldwide and is projected to reach 1.35 billion dollars annually by the year 2022 according to Transparency Market Research. As this market started to explode in the early...

  RPMC Lasers will be exhibiting at Biophysical Society annual meeting  March 3-5 in Baltimore, Maryland. Stop by our Booth # 339 to see what products we will be featuring.  Biophysics, the bridging science, uses mathematics to explains what happens...

As discussed in previous posts, Raman spectroscopy is a rapidly growing analytical technique used in a wide variety of industries for material identification, but with so many different laser options it can be somewhat challenging to understand which...

Whether a diode laser is a traditional monolithic design or utilizes an external cavity configuration, the laser light must still propagate through the diode’s PN-junction via a ridge waveguide.   As a result, the beam profile of edge emitting diodes...

Last week RPMC Lasers, was proud to show our support for the photonics community once again by exhibiting this year at SPIE’s Photonics West conferences in San Francisco.  It was a great event this year, especially with the completion of the recent...

Jenoptik will be presenting its latest development in the field of high-power laser sources for industrial material processing, and in particular for direct diode laser applications. The new diode laser with passive cooling makes quite the impression...

Bright Solutions’ sub-ns DPSS lasers are field proven subsystems for portable lidar sensors. Many successful installations worldwide have confirmed the reliability of these laser sources in land vehicles, as well as airplanes and helicopters....

After several years of in-house testing and intensive testing in the field for some pilot  programs, Bright Solutions is happy to announce their new UV versions of the Wedge Lasers, the industrial sub-ns DPSS laser solution.

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a common term in the medical community which has been used to describe treatments ranging from near-infrared laser-induced vascular dilatation to photo-thermal excitation of nanorods embedded in cancer tumors.    For the...

Nowadays many applications, such as unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) LiDAR, biophotonics instruments, automotive and handheld LIBS demand high performance solutions with reduced size, weight and power consumption (SWaP). This is exactly what Bright...

In our previous application note titled “Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) in Biomedical Applications,” we discussed the fundamentals of the technique with a particular emphasis on the use of q-switched diode-pumped solid-state lasers as the...

Laser-based techniques have been gaining more and more popularity in the medical and biomedical fields.  In previous posts, we have discussed a wide variety of such applications ranging from Laser Diode Crown Troughing in Dentistry to Laser-Induced...

As part of our commitment to helping to promote the latest advancements in the laser and electro-optic community, we here at RPMC Lasers would like to take a moment to shine a spotlight on one of the conferences in our community that does just that...

Here at RPMC Lasers we are excited to announce our exclusive North American distribution relationship with The Bright Solutions Group,  providers of state-of-the-art pulsed DPSS lasers.  For over 15 years we have worked closely with Bright Solutions,...

At RPMC we are excited to announce the release of our most recent white paper focused on fluorescence microscopy titled "Multi-Wavelength Laser Sources for Multi-Color Fluorescence Microscopy."  Multi-color fluorescence microscopy is a widely used...

RPMC Lasers is excited to be participating in The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) 2018 meeting in San Diego from December 8th to the 12th.    ASCB is an inclusive, international community of biologists studying the cell, the fundamental unit...

As promised we here at RPMC Lasers, would like to give you another chance to test your laser knowledge with a new 10 question quiz.  The first quiz in our this series covered a wide range of laser topics including fundamentals, historical trivia, and...

Semiconductor materials are unique among laser gain materials for their extremely high index of refraction.  As a result of this large index difference at the air/semiconductor interface, each facet of a laser diode naturally acts as a partially...