Vladimir Pervak

Head of Optical Coatings, UltraFast Innovations

[email protected]https://www.ultrafast-innovations.com

Vladimir Pervak is Head of Optical Coatings at UltraFast Innovations (Garching, Germany).

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.