Overview

Optical Pulse Shaper & Laser Front End

iXblue offers the most comprehensive portfolio of versatile sub-nanosecond laser pulse generation transmitter based on unparalleled LiNbO3 modulator design.

 

These turn-key ModBoxes combine the best available optoelectronics components to provide state of the art optical pulse performances.

 

These ModBoxes are available over a wide wavelength range and can be tailored to specific applications:

 

ModBox-PG: to generate square optical pulses

ModBox-PS: to generate arbitrary shaped optical pulses

ModBox-FE: to generate energetic arbitrary shaped pulses

ModBox-SB: to suppress the Stimulated Brillouin Scattering

ModBox-PP: to pulse pick

ModBox-DER: to measure Very High Extinction Ratios

 

A set of several Standards ModBox units is already available, please refer to the data-sheet ModBox collection below. If your ModBox product does not exist, a customized and dedicated solution can be built for you.

 

iXblue has accumulated a strong experience in such systems and successfully installed them in many laboratories over the world. To warrant the success of your project in a timely manner, iXblue proposes system demonstration as well as on-site installation with training of local staff. Please contact us to learn more about these services.

Pulse Shaper and Front End

Highlights

Benefits & Features

  • Turn-Key and standalone sub-ns pulse laser
  • High quality optical pulse
  • Proven solution
  • Custom design

Applications

  • Laser cutting
  • Inertial confinement fusion
  • Interaction of intense light with matter
  • Laser plasma interaction
  • Laser implosion
  • Interaction of ion beam with HP laser

Main specifications

  • Very high pulse contrast
  • Fast rise and fall times
  • Low intrinsic jittering

Products

ModBox-PG
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Capable of delivering 30 ps to several 100 ns pulses, the ModBox-PG is an Optical Pulse Generator ModBox that produces high-quality square or super-Gaussian optical pulses in the NIR and C-band optical windows. The system embeds carefully selected components to ensure outstanding optical pulses performances such as a high optical extinction ratio with high stability over time, low jitter and high versatility on the Pulse Width and the repetition rate frequency.
ModBox-PG-50ps
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Operating Wavelength: from 780 nm to 2 000 nm
Optical Pulse Contrast: up to 60 dB
Optical Pulse waveform: Square, super-gaussian
Pulse Width: from 50 ps up to 250 ps
ModBox Datasheet
ModBox-PG-CBand-50ps
ModBox-PG-100ps
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Operating Wavelength: from 780 nm to 2 000 nm
Optical Pulse Contrast: up to 60 dB
Optical Pulse waveform: Square, super-gaussian
Pulse Width: from 100 ps to 100 ns
ModBox Datasheet
ModBox-PG-CBand-100ps
ModBox-PS
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Capable of shaping 125 ps to several 100 ns pulses, the ModBox-PS is an Optical Pulse Shaper ModBox that produces high-quality pre-shaped optical pulses in the NIR and C-band optical windows. The Pulse Shaper provides a high dynamic extinction ratio with user adjustable pulse duration, repetition rate and temporal pulse shape. This systems is very useful to pre-compensate for pulse distortion that occurs in optical amplifier chains.
ModBox-FE
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The ModBox-FE is a ModBox-PS integrating a seed laser and an optical fiber amplifier to provide a full laser Front End solution delivering high energy and pre-shaped optical pulses to your amplification chain. The ModBox-FE is usually associated to the ModBox-SB. The ModBox-FE is a proven and reliable laser seed for ultra-intense lasers used in laser fusion, inertial confinement fusion, interaction of intense light with matter, etc…
ModBox-SB
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The ModBox-SB is an efficient solution for spectral broadening of 0.3 nm and even 1 nm or more, it is useful feature to suppress the Stimulated Brillouin Scattering caused in optical fibers by high fluxes of highly coherent light. The ModBox-SB is triggered by an electrical signal (for instance delivered by the ModBox-FE) to synchronize the pulse broadening effect with the incoming optical pulse.
ModBox-PP
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The ModBox-PP allows to Pick any Pulse or pulse sequence from an incoming pulse train and acts as a fast gate with low insertion loss and high optical extinction ratio. The ModBox-PP is available in the NIR and C-band windows and can be used for pulse shaping in addition to lowering the repetition rate of your pulse train.
ModBox-PP-NIR
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Operating Wavelength: NIR window
Extinction Ratio measurement: up to 55 dB
Optical Pulse waveform: Square
Pulse Width: from 100 ps to 100 ns
ModBox Datasheet
ModBox-PP
ModBox-DER
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The ModBox-DER is an equipment to measure Very High Extinction Ratios of sub-ns optical pulses from 100 ps in the NIR window. This diagnosis system is based on a repeatable measurements design that can provide a real time measurement of critical optical pulse parameters (pulse contrast, optical insertion loss over time) to monitor potential drift the quality of a pulse train.
ModBox-DER-NIR
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Operating Wavelength: NIR window
Extinction Ratio measurement: up to 55 dB
Input Pulse width: from 5 ns to 25 ns3
Input Pulse Rate: single shot to 10 kHz
ModBox Datasheet
ModBox-DER-NIR

Application Notes

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