Laser Operations’ Brightlock
Ultra-G wins prestigious Prism award for most innovative laser
product of the year Laser Operations LLC, manufacturer of the QPC
Lasers product line, was presented with the 2009 Prism award for its
Ultra-G™ lasers, a family of powerful and ultra-compact green 532 nm
lasers based on its proprietary BrightLock® monolithic chip wavelength
stabilization technology. The Company and its breakthrough products,
were selected by an independent panel of industry experts and
highlighted during a gala ceremony held during Photonics West in San
Francisco on January 27th. In honor of the 50th anniversary of the
birth of the laser, the Laser Prism Award was presented by Kathleen
Maiman, widow of Ted Maiman, whose husband demonstrated the first
working laser in 1960.
“The Ultra-G sets the new benchmark for
performance and size of visible lasers and has already generated an
unprecedented level of interest from customers across multiple
disciplines” said Laurent Vaissie, V.P. of Marketing and Sales for the
company. “On the historic 50th anniversary of the invention of the
laser, it is with great pride that we see our relentless efforts to
innovate recognized and rewarded by the laser community with this
prestigious award” he added.
“The Ultra-G incorporates unique technology
innovations both in solid-state laser and monolithic pump diode
wavelength stabilization,” said Dr. Jeffrey Ungar, CTO and Founder of
the Company. “As has been the case for many of our products, this
achievement would not have been possible without our unique
technological capabilities in both areas, and we are very pleased that
SPIE and Laurin Publishing singled us out from a field of strong
candidates,” added Ungar.
January
24, 2010 Laser
Operations LLC,
manufacturer of the
industry leading QPC Lasers
product
line, announced new power and brightness records for lasers operating
at
“eyesafe” wavelengths between 1410 nm and 1550 nm. The
company shipped the
world’s first fully collimated 10 kW CW wavelength-stabilized
Brightlock® stack array and
announced significant
brightness and efficiency improvements across the Ultra®laser module product line,
including
fiber-coupled modules producing 125W CW at 1470nm. These new
performance levels
meets the needs of numerous medical, military, and material processing
applications, which previously required solid-state lasers, to be met
with low
cost, efficient and compact diode sources.
Laurent
Vaissie, VP Sales and Marketing commented “Laser
Operations is proud to have leveraged its unique vertically integrated
design
and manufacturing capabilities to advance the state of the art of long
wavelength semiconductor lasers, further cementing our position as the
leading
provider of “eye-safe” laser solutions. With our InP laser
chips now achieving
45% wall-plug efficiency, OEM customers enjoy even higher brightness
and lower
power consumption from our modules at critical wavelengths such as
1470nm and
1550nm.”
Jeff
Ungar,
CTO and founder of the company, agreed: “The significance of
these milestones
goes well beyond the immediate performance achievements.The underlying
technologies that power these
achievements have momentum behind them, and we expect considerable
continued
improvements in the months to come.These
technological achievements significantly advance the performance of
eye-safe lasers
and point the way to 10-100 kW class eye-safe lasers for military and
industrial applications.
Laser
Operations will present its upgraded “eye-safe” laser
product line at Photonics
West in San
Francisco
from January 25th to 18th
at Booth #309.
September 7,
2009 Laser
Operations LLC, manufacturer of the QPC Lasers product
line, announced today the release of the Ultra-G™ green laser
platform, a new
visible laser product family based on its proprietary
BrightLock® monolithic
chip wavelength stabilization technology.
Designed
for medical applications, the BrightLock® Ultra-G™
MEDICA package features a compact, user-friendly and cost-effective
fiber-coupled source delivering greater than 3W CW at 532 nm in a
narrow core
detachable delivery fiber combined with smart medical features such as
low
power aiming beam, fiber detector and removable blast shield for
applications
in dermatology and ophthalmology.
The
BrightLock® Ultra-G™ is also available as an energy
efficient, compact and ruggedized package delivering a collimated beam
of up to
6W CW of visible green light at 532 nm, which is ideally suited for
applications including long range non-lethal visual disruption
applications in
defense and law enforcement.Laser
display manufacturers developing digital cinema and front projectors
can also
leverage the Ultra-G™’s BrightLock®
monolithic stabilization technology for
stable and passively cooled operation over a wide temperature range.
June
1, 2009
On June 1, 2009, Laser Operations LLC acquired all the assets of
Quintessence Photonics Corporation, the operating subsidiary of QPC
Lasers, Inc. The new company will leverage its financial stability and
the deep business and managerial experience of its ownership group to
support the customer base acquired from Quintessence and pursue new
high growth opportunities in Medical, Industrial, Defense and Consumer
Display markets uniquely suited for the market leading technologies and
products acquired from Quintessence.
