PPC has further improved our advanced polishing processes for sapphire substrates and Ti:sapphire laser rods to produce plano, lambda/10 surfaces with 10-5 surface quality and surface roughness of less than 1 angstrom RMS (as shown above).  Superpolished or laser quality polished sapphire substrates and assemblies are ideal for use as waveplates, high energy waveguides and laser amplifiers where thermal stability, mechanical durability and chemical resistivity are key requirements. We can also provide ion-beam-sputtered (IBS) anti-reflection, beam splitter and high-reflection coatings on both materials at wavelengths from 266 nm to 3000 nm.

PPC stocks 1” and 100mm diameter zero order waveplates for 1064 nm. These retardation plates can be sold as-is, core-drilled or diced to almost any dimension in just a day or two, and they are already coated with our high energy, low loss IBS anti-reflection coatings (R < 0.1%!).

PPC’s CADB® Solid State Laser Assemblies

PPC’s manufacturing technologies have been proven to enable higher performance disk and thin-disk solid state lasers – as much as 6.5 kW of output power at 1030nm from a single thin disk!

The CADB optical bonding technology is a less severe process than traditional diffusion bonding, working at much lower temperatures and without pressure. This allows us to offer solid state laser configurations using a wide range of materials, including YAG, Nd:YAG, SiC and sapphire, and with our unique IBS coatings integrated into the assembly. With these processing technologies, PPC can provide disk lasers, zig zag slabs and planar waveguides with lower wavefront distortion, better cooling characteristics, and higher fluence handling capabilities, making them ideal for high-power solid-state laser applications in both defense/aerospace and materials processing.

CLEO/QELS: 2010 May 16-21, 2010

McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California

Visit us at booth #1528 to see our latest products and capabilities or to discuss your specific requirements. Don’t forget to register for the PhAST Power Lunch on Tuesday, May 18th, and don’t miss our own Dr. Chris Wood speaking about Recent Advances in Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy on Monday, May 17th.

Also, please join us for a PPC open house to be held during the Directed Energy Professional Society (DEPS) 23rd Annual Solid State and Diode Laser Technology Review this June 15-18 in Broomfield, Colorado. SSDLTR 2010 is part of the Advanced High-Power Lasers Review highlighting areas relevant to the development of high power solid state lasers for DoD applications.