Ultrafast Laser Selection Guide
Pick a source by wavelength, pulse regime and working point, then see which OPA and pulse compressor modules it can drive. All specifications are taken from the live product pages.
1 Wavelength
Fundamental 1030 / 1036 / 1064 nm, or a harmonic. Need something else? Any tunable output between 210 nm and 16 µm comes from an OPA pumped by a fundamental source — pick the pump here and the compatible OPA appears in step 5.
2 Pulse regime
Picosecond gives more energy per pulse and higher throughput, but a larger heat-affected zone. Femtosecond is closer to cold ablation. Below 100 fs needs an MPC compressor after the source.
3 Power / Energy
Average power, and the pulse energy available at the rated repetition rate. These two are locked together by E = P / f. Drag the slider or type an exact value.
4 Working point calculator
Select one source above, then move the repetition rate. Below the rated rate the pulse energy is capped and the average power falls; above it the power is capped and the energy falls as P / f.
Select a source from the grid to use the calculator.
5 Compatible modules
Matched on four criteria at once — incident wavelength band, pulse duration window, achievable pulse energy and average power limit. Every criterion is shown so you can check the reasoning.
Select a source from the grid to see which modules it can drive.
6 Full specification table
The parameters that decide a selection, for all 44 products in this section. Sources are compared on energy, power, pulse duration, repetition rate, wavelength, beam diameter and stability; OPA systems on tuning range; compressors on compression ratio and throughput. Everything else — dimensions, supply, trigger modes, contrast, expansion options — is on each product page, and the CSV below still exports every published parameter.