Product of the Month: Ultra Compact Diode Laser

The new iBeam smart ultra-compact diode laser series from TOPTICA Photonics (Victor, NY) features digital and analog modulation; autopulse; a graphical user interface (GUI); high power levels (120 mW at 405 nm, 50 mW at 445 nm, 60 mW at 488 nm, 100 mW at 640 nm, 150 mW at 642 nm and150 mW at 660 nm); compact size (100 mm × 40 mm × 40 mm); single-mode fiber coupling; FINE (Feedback Induced Noise Eraser), which makes the iBeam smart completely insensitive to optical feedback; and a new SKILL function, which acts as a purely electronic “speckle killer” by decreasing the longitudinal coherence lengths of emitted light to a minimum.