SAINT CHARLES, Mo.,
May 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/
-- Cutting Edge Optronics, a Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC)
company, was honored with the CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation
Award in the Lasers and Sources category for their Gigashot(TM)
High Energy Diode Pumped Solid State laser system. The system is
the first Joule class, all diode-pumped, commercially available
laser, ideally suited for use in scientific, industrial and medical
applications.
"We delivered the first Gigashot(TM)-HE laser in December to
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) for use in their
HAPLS laser system, which will enable new science discoveries in
physics, chemistry, biochemistry and medicine at the Extreme Light
Infrastructure Beamlines facility beginning in 2016," said
Ed Stephens, general manager of
Cutting Edge Optronics, Northrop Grumman. "This new laser offers
our customers several competitive advantages, including increased
efficiency and improved energy stability. Thank you to CLEO, Laser
Focus World and the Award committee for recognizing our team's
accomplishment."
The CLEO 2015 recognizes companies that have made major
contributions to advancing the field of optics and photonics
through recently launched products and services. American Physical
Society, IEEE Photonics Society and The Optical Society, with
Laser Focus World co-sponsor the award.
Cutting Edge Optronics' Gigashot(TM)-HE laser is a high energy,
short pulse diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) Nd:YAG laser system.
The injection-seeded DPSS laser delivers more than two Joules of
532 nm energy in each sub-10 ns pulse at 10 Hz with a near field
flat top beam, offering a new level of efficiency for scientific
research. With the overall need for higher repetition rates in
scientific experiments and the number of worldwide Terawatt and
Petawatt laser installations increasing, the introduction of an all
diode-pumped high energy laser system is an important step in the
advancement of high repetition rate / high energy scientific
research.
The laser uses a Master Oscillator-Power Amplifier (MOPA)
configuration, with technology that is scalable to operate at more
than 100 Hz. A four Joule 1064 nm version is also standard, and the
Gigashot(TM)-HE is configurable to other customized
applications.
Diode Pump Solid State (DPSS) lasers, including the
Gigashot(TM)-HE, offer several advantages over flashlamp-pumped
systems, including: increased electrical-to-optical
efficiency, reduced thermal lens strength, improved energy
stability and reduced depolarization losses. In addition, DPSS
laser modules can be operated at much higher repetition rates (10s
of Hz to 1 kHz). The lifetime of the laser diode bars in these
systems is > 10 billion pulses which equates to years or decades
in many applications, making the laser modules nearly
maintenance-free.
Cutting Edge Optronics is a leading supplier of laser diodes,
laser amplifiers, and complete DPSS laser systems for commercial,
industrial, scientific and military / aerospace applications. For
more information please visit northropgrumman.com/ceolaser.
Northrop Grumman is a leading global security company providing
innovative systems, products and solutions in unmanned systems,
cyber, C4ISR, and logistics and modernization to government and
commercial customers worldwide. Please visit
www.northropgrumman.com for more information.
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