Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF

Laser and Fiber Technology

With expertise in fiber design, optics design, thermo-optics, assembly and joining technology for fiber lasers and in the development of efficient fiber couplers and beam guidance systems, excellent potential exists for the development of high-performance fiber lasers with diffraction-limited beam quality.

 

Assembly and joining technology for fiber lasers and fiber optics

The assembly of laser systems requires special construction and joining technologies which enable operation and stability in an industrial environment...
 

Fiber-based amplification of laser sources

Rare-earth doped fibers offer a simple and performance-scalable way of amplifying low-power laser sources to high power while maintaining...
 

Q-switched microchip lasers

Diode-pumped and passive Q-switched microchip lasers based on various laser crystals and saturable semiconductor mirrors are used as absorbers...
 

Fiber optics

The use of laser and laser diode sources in metrology, visualization and materials processing requires beam shaping optics on the one hand...
 

Resonator design

The Fraunhofer IOF has many years of experience in optimizing output radiation of semiconductor lasers and their adaptation to the widest range...
 

Fiber technology

Direct access to the entire technology chain from design to preparation and characterization all the way to system integration of the laser-active...
 

Materials processing using ultrashort laser pulses

Ultrashort pulse lasers with pulse duration in the range of a few picoseconds or femtoseconds show great use potential for the highly-precise structuring...

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