Tunable Cateye Lasere (CEL)

 Michael Iluz

Key Features

  • Cateye filter design
  • Fast piezo feedback
  • Precision wavelength adjustment
  • High bandwidth direct modulation
  • Microwave RF modulation
  • Wavelengths 450 – 530nm, 630 – 1620nm
  • Diode protection circuit and relay
  • Acoustically inert and passively stable
  • Narrow linewidth
  • Low frequency-noise
  • Self-aligning
  • High feedback bandwidth
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Description

The MOGLabs cateye diode laser offers a new twist in external cavity diode lasers. A cateye reflector and ultranarrow filter replace the alignment-sensitive diffraction grating of conventional Littrow and Litman-Metcalf designs.

The CEL is robust, stable, and acoustically inert.  You can literally hit it with a hammer and it will stay locked, and it is inherently self-aligning so you can tune tens of nanometres without having to realign.  In combination with MOGLabs electronics, the linewidth can be well below 100 kHz.  Many laser diode wavelengths are available, for example 520nm, 633-639nm, 657nm, 671nm, 679nm, 689nm, 698nm,707/707nm, 729nm, 759nm, 767nm, 770-820nm, 820-895nm, 920-935nm, 960nm, 1010-1016nm, 1033nm, 1092nm, 1120nm, 1550nm, 1612nm at powers up to 200mW extra‐cavity.

Enjoy the rock-solid stability normally expected only from DFB and DBR diodes – but with wide-range tunability, order-of-magnitude smaller linewidth, broader range of wavelengths, much lower sensitivity to optical feedback – and much lower diode cost.



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