Tony Karam

Product Line Manager of Laser Optics, Edmund Optics

[email protected]https://www.edmundoptics.com

Tony Karam is Product Line Manager of Laser Optics at Edmund Optics (Barrington, NJ).

FIGURE 1. Highly dispersive mirror coatings designed to minimize thermal lensing are beneficial for both intracavity and external optics—such as those pictured here—when used with high-power ultrafast systems.

Lasers & Sources

Combatting thermal lensing in high-power ultrafast laser systems

Tony Karam

June 23, 2021

With their short pulse durations and high peak powers, ultrafast laser systems benefit and enhance a wide variety of applications, from materials processing to microscopy.

FIGURE 1. Representation of the constructive and destructive phase interference of different wavelengths inside a laser cavity, generating pulses with ultrashort temporal pulse durations but broad wavelength bandwidths.

Optics

Ultrafast multipass cells for pulse compression

Tony Karam

Nov. 17, 2020

A multipass cell reduces the number of mirror surfaces in a dispersive mirror-based ultrafast pulse compressor to two, enabling compactness.