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21.01.2010 : Fianium pushes supercontinuum boundaries with multiple enhancements to its market leading SC series products
A new increased power blue-enhanced source and variable repetition rate sources up to 80MHz are now available
Southampton, 21st January 2010 – Ultrafast fiber laser manufacturer Fianium today unveils a series of enhancements to its market leading SC series supercontinuum systems. These developments include the addition of the highest-power blue-enhanced system (SC-400-6) and variable repetition rate supercontinuum sources (SC400-6-PP, SC450-6-PP, SC400-4-PP and SC450-4-PP), all of which serve to further strengthen Fianium’s position as a leading supplier of high-end ultra-broadband laser sources for industrial and scientific applications.
The SC-400-6 is a new high-power blue-enhanced supercontinuum laser capable of cutting-edge system performance. At 6W, it combines the highest commercially available output power, with very high brightness across the entire spectrum, and the industry’s shortest operating wavelength at 400nm. The full spectrum extends to beyond 2μm. The laser offers a fixed repetition rate of 60MHz or 80MHz, with ps pulse widths; whilst high single-mode beam quality allows for easy collimation, beam steering and focussing to a diffraction limited spot.
Fianium’s new SC400-6-PP, SC450-6-PP, SC400-4-PP and SC450-4-PP supercontinuum sources feature a built in pulse-picker capable of controlling repetition rates from 100kHz up to the new higher speeds of 40MHz or 80MHz. These systems are ideal for both time-resolved applications, where the pulse-to-pulse spacing can be optimized from μs to ns, and steady-state (CW) measurements. Fianium’s supercontinuum systems also have proven compatibility with a range of detectors, including streak cameras and Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC) equipment.
All lasers in Fianium’s SC series utilize an inherently robust, low power, all-fiber design allowing for unprecedented levels of reliability. In addition, the systems are easy to use, maintenance-free, air-cooled and require no alignment.
Colin Seaton, VP Sales & Marketing at Fianium comments:
“The new enhancements we’re showcasing at Photonics West highlight our ongoing commitment to pushing the boundaries of supercontinuum development and maintaining Fianium’s technology leadership in this field. Our lasers will unquestionably enable users to complete specific tasks quicker, better and more cost effectively than any other solutions on the market today The SC series has products capable of supporting the broadest range of demanding applications including anything from confocal fluorescence microscopy and single molecule imaging, to nanophotonics, optical coherence tomography (OCT) and industrial inspection. The latest development of 80MHz pulse picked is also an important addition to Fianium’s unique variable repetition rate supercontinuum sources (patent pending) for fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM).”
About Fianium
Fianium is the world leading manufacturer of ultrafast fiber lasers, providing a product portfolio of unrivalled diversity, uncompromised performance and reliability, to customers in academia and industry.
Fianium’s team combines more than 100 years experience gained working at the forefront of the fiber laser industry. Its customers include key industry figures in bio-medical, material inspection and processing as well as leading professors from top universities around the world.
For industrial applications, Fianium's product portfolio offers users an affordable and energy efficient alternative to traditional laser solutions and a means to complete tasks quicker, cheaper and better. The company is also active in pioneering the use of fibre lasers in new applications, displacing alternative technologies and providing users with the ability to do new things.
In academia, Fianium’s leadership in white light lasers offers users an advanced technology edge to conduct world class research and push the boundaries of scientific discovery. Because of its team’s very strong academic links, Fianium has the essential in-house scientific skills and know how to help users of its technology to stay ahead of the competition and achieve their goals.
Fianium has its world headquarters and manufacturing facility in Southampton in the UK and sales operations in the US, Japan and China. In 2009 Fianium opened a new micro-materials processing applications facility located in Portland, Oregon, USA.
For more information contact:
Colin Seaton, Fianium, Tel: +1 408 691 0315, Email: colin.seaton@fianium.com
John Clowes, Fianium, Tel: +44 2380 458 776, Email: john.clowes@fianium.com
Chris King, PR Contact, Tel: +44 208 408 8000, Mod: +44 7771 883 799 Email: fianium@eml.com
21.01.2010 : Fianium targets growth in OEM supercontinuum sales
Southampton, 21st January 2010 – Ultrafast fiber laser manufacturer Fianium today unveils a new industry-ready 19” rack mount system for its SC series of supercontinuum sources. Responding to a growing demand from industrial users, Fianium has specifically designed the new system to satisfy exacting integration requirements of OEM customers in applications such as fluorescence imaging, biophotonics, medical instrumentation and metrology.
A demonstration of the rack-mount system can be seen on booth 423 at Photonics West 2010 in San Francisco, USA between the 23rd and 28th January 2010.
“Fianium is constantly looking to push the boundaries of fiber laser development and champion the technology’s widespread adoption over incumbent gas and solid state lasers. This industrial packaging permits simpler integration into our customer instrumentation,”
Comments Colin Seaton, VP Sales & Marketing, Fianium. He continues:
“Historically the main volume market for our white light supercontinuum lasers grew from academics using our systems to provide the advanced technology edge they need to conduct world class research and push the boundaries of scientific discovery. Now, we’re increasingly experiencing interest from OEMs looking to integrate our supercontinuum and other high energy lasers into their industrial applications. Thanks to the new 19” rack mount system our superior supercontinuum technology is in easy to integrate, cost effective reach to industrial users.”
About Fianium
Fianium is the world leading manufacturer of ultrafast fiber lasers, providing a product portfolio of unrivalled diversity, uncompromised performance and reliability, to customers in academia and industry.
Fianium’s team combines more than 100 years experience gained working at the forefront of the fiber laser industry. Its customers include key industry figures in bio-medical, material inspection and processing as well as leading professors from top universities around the world.
For industrial applications, Fianium's product portfolio offers users an affordable and energy efficient alternative to traditional laser solutions and a means to complete tasks quicker, cheaper and better. The company is also active in pioneering the use of fibre lasers in new applications, displacing alternative technologies and providing users with the ability to do new things.
In academia, Fianium’s leadership in white light lasers offers users an advanced technology edge to conduct world class research and push the boundaries of scientific discovery. Because of its team’s very strong academic links, Fianium has the essential in-house scientific skills and know how to help users of its technology to stay ahead of the competition and achieve their goals.
Fianium has its world headquarters and manufacturing facility in Southampton in the UK and sales operations in the US, Japan and China. In 2009 Fianium opened a new micro-materials processing applications facility located in Portland, Oregon, USA.
For more information contact:
Colin Seaton, Fianium, Tel: +1 408 691 0315, Email: colin.seaton@fianium.com
John Clowes, Fianium, Tel: +44 2380 458 776, Email: john.clowes@fianium.com
Chris King, PR Contact, Tel: +44 208 408 8000, Mod: +44 7771 883 799 Email: fianium@eml.com
10.06.2009 : Fianium introduces high-energy ultrafast fibre laser range enabling precision processing of diverse, challenging materials
Southampton, United Kingdom (June 10, 2009) Ultrafast fibre laser manufacturer Fianium introduces its versatile new FP1060-HE range. FP1060-HE lasers are based on a robust, reliable modelocked fibre laser generating high-energy ultrafast pulses with excellent beam quality and pointing stability in the most challenging of environments. Delivering pulse energies in excess of 10μJ and pulse durations down to below 20ps, the flexible lasers enable superior processing of a diverse range of traditionally challenging materials including polymers, glasses, organic tissue and reflective metals.
The FP1060-HE laser platform is based on a modular design, offering flexibility for custom laser configurations within an industry standard 19” rack-mount laser chassis and compact remote optical head. The laser systems feature an external modulator allowing pulse repetition rates from single shot to 20MHz and enabling highly flexible pulse shaping and burst-mode operation.
Where required, Fianium is able to enhance FP1060-HE’s peak power to greater than 5MW by compressing the pulses below 500fs. Optional frequency conversion to green or UV wavelengths further expand the laser’s range of potential applications.
The FP1060-HE's combination of high peak powers and low duty cycle mean that cold processing of materials can be achieved with greatly reduced thermal effects such as melting and micro-cracking. The exceptional beam quality from the FP1060-HE lasers delivers unrivalled focusability for micromachining with the highest precision.
Colin Seaton, VP Sales & Marketing at Fianium comments:
“The uniquely flexible pulse energy, pulse duration and repetition rates of the FP1060-HE range makes it perfectly suited to many diverse materials processing applications from tissue ablation to glass panel scribing. These lasers will unquestionably enable users to complete specific tasks quicker, better and more cost effectively than using conventional DPSS lasers, or other ultrafast laser on the market today.”
For more information, please visit Fianium's booth (522 in hall C1) at LASER World of PHOTONICS 2009 in Munich, between 15-18th June, where the FP1060-HE laser platform will be demonstrated for the first time.
About Fianium
Fianium is the world leading manufacturer of ultrafast fibre lasers, providing a product portfolio of unrivalled diversity, uncompromised performance and reliability, to customers in academia and industry.
Fianium's team combines more than 100 years experience gained working at the forefront of the fibre laser industry. Its customers include key industry figures in bio-medical, material inspection and processing as well as leading professors from top universities around the world.
For industrial applications, Fianium's product portfolio offers users an affordable and energy efficient alternative to traditional laser solutions and a means to complete tasks quicker, cheaper and better. The company is also active in pioneering the use of fibre lasers in new applications, displacing alternative technologies and providing users with the ability to do new things.
In academia, Fianium's leadership in white light lasers offers users an advanced technology edge to conduct world class research and push the boundaries of scientific discovery. Because of its team's very strong academic links, Fianium has the essential in-house scientific skills and know how to help users of its technology to stay ahead of the competition and achieve their goals.
Fianium has its world headquarters and manufacturing facility in Southampton in the UK and sales operations in the US, Japan and China.
For more information contact:
Colin Seaton, Fianium, Tel: +1 408 691 0315, Email: colin.seaton@fianium.com
John Clowes, Fianium, Tel: +44 2380 458 776, Email: john.clowes@fianium.com
Chris King, PR Contact, Tel: +44 208 408 8000, Mod: +44 7771 883 799 Email: fianium@eml.com
24.01.2009 : Fianium Announces New Capabilities in Photonic Crystal Fiber Fabrication
Southampton, United Kingdom (January 24, 2009) Eradicating shortcomings and limitations of conventional supercontinuum lasers.
Ultrafast fibre laser manufacturer, Fianium has unveiled a new type of photonic crystal fibre (PCF) - the early fruits of its strategic collaboration with the University of Bath. By working closely with the inventors of PCF and authors of numerous patents, Fianium has gained an immensely deep understanding of the technology and has been able to evolve its processes and Intellectual Property to make them even better and more cost effective. The new patent protected fibre design is exclusive to Fianium, and is integral to the company's ongoing new product development strategy as it strives to extend its market and technology leadership in supercontinuum fibre lasers.
By working closely with customers and the University of Bath Fianium has been able to explore and unearth many of the limitations and shortcomings of traditional supercontinuum fibre lasers. Inspired by this knowledge, the new PCF design was created to right these wrongs and enable development of better performance, more stable and more cost-effective supercontinuum laser solutions - the likes of which the industry has not seen before.
Curently Fianium has no plans to become a supplier of PCF and has developed its own fibre supply chain in order to protect continuity of supply.
Fianium CEO Anatoly Grudinin believes it will be an interesting year ahead:
“ Given the current economic climate I predict we'll see a number of mergers and consolidations during 2009 which could conceivably see suppliers starting to become competitors. In this highly competitive market I'm a firm believer in vertical integration, or at least having control of supplier relationships. We therefore felt it prudent to develop our own, reliable supply chain in order to guarantee the long term, high-quality continuity of supply of our new PCF.”
About Fianium
Fianium is the world leading manufacturer of ultrafast fibre lasers, providing a product portfolio of unrivalled diversity, uncompromised performance and reliability, to customers in academia and industry.
Fianium's team combines more than 100 years experience gained working at the forefront of the fibre laser industry. Its customers include key industry figures in bio-medical, material inspection and processing as well as leading professors from top universities around the world.
For industrial applications, Fianium's product portfolio offers users an affordable and energy efficient alternative to traditional laser solutions and a means to complete tasks quicker, cheaper and better. The company is also active in pioneering the use of fibre lasers in new applications, displacing alternative technologies and providing users with the ability to do new things.
In academia, Fianium's leadership in white light lasers offers users an advanced technology edge to conduct world class research and push the boundaries of scientific discovery. Because of its team's very strong academic links, Fianium has the essential in-house scientific skills and know how to help users of its technology to stay ahead of the competition and achieve their goals.
Fianium has its world headquarters and manufacturing facility in Southampton in the UK and sales operations in the US, Japan and China.
For more information contact:
Fianium contact: John Clowes, Tel: +44 2380 458 776, Email: john.clowes@fianium.com
PR contacts: Chris King / Richard Parker, Tel: +44 208 408 8000, Email: fianium@eml.com
12.01.2009 : Fianium previews new high performance supercontinuum fibre lasers at Photonics West 2009
Southampton, United Kingdom (January 12, 2009) Patent pending fibre secures continuity of high-quality supply and helps Fianium to extend its market and technology leadership.
Ultrafast fibre laser manufacturer, Fianium has developed a new supercontinuum fiber laser based on its proprietary high performance photonic crystal fibre (PCF) design. Supercontinuum fibre lasers utilising Fianium's superior PCF design will be rolled out during 2009 as the company seeks to extend its market and technology leadership in supercontinuum (SC) fibre lasers. Fianium's lasers can be previewed on its stand (booth 6225) at Photonics West 2009 and booth 8132 at BIOS 2009 in San Jose, USA between the 24th and 29th January 2009.
In 2008, in partnership with the Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials at the University of Bath, Fianium developed a new type of PCF enabling superior performance SC fibre lasers. SC lasers based on Fianium's PCF design offer true white spectrum covering the entire 390-2400nm band. They also deliver greater power in the visible 400-700nm part of the spectrum, compared to lasers based on conventional PCF enabling wavelength tunability with enhanced spectral brightness. Fianium has now developed a new patent-pending technique for fabricating such fibres in volume.
The new supercontinuum fiber lasers have a number of advantages over conventional SC fiber lasers including their stability and no performance degradation over time. Because of its simplicity, Fianium's method of pulling fibre is also less expensive than conventional techniques.
Anatoly Grudinin, CEO at Fianium commented:
“Our high performance PCF design is evidence of Fianium's technical superiority, which has evolved through the team's 100 plus years of combined experience working with the world's best universities and professors at the forefront of ultrafast fibre lasers. Supercontinuum fibre lasers built using our high performance PCF design and fabrication method offer customers the advanced technology edge with which to push the boundaries of scientific discovery. Our fabrication method ensures high quality continuity of supply as we extend our technology and market leadership moving forward.”
About Fianium
Fianium is the world leading manufacturer of ultrafast fibre lasers, providing a product portfolio of unrivalled diversity, uncompromised performance and reliability, to customers in academia and industry.
Fianium's team combines more than 100 years experience gained working at the forefront of the fibre laser industry. Its customers include key industry figures in bio-medical, material inspection and processing as well as leading professors from top universities around the world.
For industrial applications, Fianium's product portfolio offers users an affordable and energy efficient alternative to traditional laser solutions and a means to complete tasks quicker, cheaper and better. The company is also active in pioneering the use of fibre lasers in new applications, displacing alternative technologies and providing users with the ability to do new things.
In academia, Fianium's leadership in white light lasers offers users an advanced technology edge to conduct world class research and push the boundaries of scientific discovery. Because of its team's very strong academic links, Fianium has the essential in-house scientific skills and know how to help users of its technology to stay ahead of the competition and achieve their goals.
Fianium has its world headquarters and manufacturing facility in Southampton in the UK and sales operations in the US, Japan and China.
For more information contact:
Fianium contact: John Clowes, Tel: +44 2380 458 776, Email: john.clowes@fianium.com
PR contacts: Chris King / Richard Parker, Tel: +44 208 408 8000, Email: fianium@eml.com