Supercontinuum light can be best described as ‘broad as a lamp, bright as a laser’. Incandescent and fluorescent lamps, such as those made from tungsten halogens or xenon, provide a very broad spectrum, typically 400 nm to 1,700 nm, but the intensity is limited to the quality of the filament or the efficiency of the gas excitation. Furthermore, as the light is not spatially coherent, coupling the light into the fiber is a challenging affair, resulting in a low-power, low-brightness source with mediocre beam quality.
Lasers on the other hand have high spatial coherence and very high brightness, which enables optimum coupling to a fibre and outstanding single-mode beam quality. However, lasers are usually monochromatic, and thus if more than one wavelength is required extra lasers a specific wavelengths are required to cover a broad spectrum. A supercontinuum source bridges this gap, providing an ultrabroadband white-light spectrum but with singlemode beam characteristics and excellent pointing stability and the brightness of a laser. The figure below shows the broad emission spectrum that can be achieved.
This model is: SuperK Compact - ns / kHz Supercontinuum White Light Laser (Class 3B Laser)
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Current Location: 36-362 optics lab next to wetlab. in the metallic cabin.
Vendor: NKT Photonics
Manual: Instruction Manual
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