PicoQuant Releases A New Picosecond Pulsed Diode Laser At 560 nm

The yellow laser opens the door for new applications in Life and Material Sciences

PicoQuant GmbH announces the release of the long-awaited 560 nm picosecond pulsed diode laser head. The availability of this new wavelength opens the door for entirely new applications in bioanalytics, biochemistry, genetics, semiconductor characterisation, and quality control.

The 560 nm laser is ideal for exciting fluorescent proteins like mCherry, RFP, or DsRed, and

fluorescent dyes such as CY3 or Atto565. With a pulse duration as short as 80 ps, the pulsed laser head perfectly matches the time resolution of mainstream detectors, yet at a price much lower than that of commonly used solid state lasers. The laser head supports picosecond pulsed as well as continuous-wave operation.

Visitors of the Photonics West exhibition in San Francisco in January 2014 already had the chance to see the laser head as a technology preview at PicoQuant's booth. With the official release of the new model, the PicoQuant diode laser family “LDH Series” now covers the entire wavelength range from 375 nm to 1990 nm. All laser heads come with collimator optics that can optionally be fitted with optical fibers. The new 560 nm laser head is compatible with PicoQuant's family of diode laser drivers “PDL Series”.

Technical Data
LDH-D-TA-560
Center Wavelength 561 nm ± 3 nm
Repetition rate from single shot to 80 MHz
Pulse width < 80 ps (FWHM) at average power 0.2 mW at 40 MHz repetition rate
Average output power in continuous-wave mode: 5 mW

About PicoQuant
PicoQuant GmbH is a research and development company in the field of optoelectronics. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in the science and technology park Berlin-Adlershof, Germany. The company is a worldwide leader in the field of single photon counting applications. The product line includes pulsed diode lasers and LEDs, photon counting instrumentation, fluorescence lifetime spectrometers and time-resolved confocal microscopes. PicoQuant employs currently around 50 people. Since April 2008 Sales and Support in North America is handled by PicoQuant Photonics North America Inc.