Akinetic All-Semiconductor Technology

High-Speed Sweeping

  • 400k, 200k, 100k, 50k, 20k, 10k, 4k sweeps per second; adjustable to any speed 2k to 400k
  • Technology demonstrated to 1M sweeps per second
  • 95% duty cycle, adjustable; nanoseconds between sweeps

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Clean Optical Performance

  • Single longitudinal mode
  • Dynamic coherence length >220 mm (110 mm imaging depth range)
  • Coherence length not dependent on sweep rate
  • Clean point spread function with 55–65 dB noise floor
  • RIN less than -138 dB/Hz; SMSR less than -47 dB

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Unprecedented Sweep Linearity

  • No need for an external k-clock
  • Linearity better than 0.01% at 200,000 sweeps per second (±0.5 pm RMS; ±0.1 GHz)
  • Trigger jitter <300 femtoseconds
  • No mode hops. Guaranteed.

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Flexible, Stable Power

  • Output power 0–10 mW, 0–15 mW, or 0–20 mW; programmable
  • Flatness <0.015 dB
  • Programmable output profiles include flat across band, Gaussian, tapered cosine, Custom Power Profile™

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Phase Stability/Wavelength Repeatability

  • Sweep-to-sweep repeatability <0.5 pm RMS (~0.0005%)
  • Eliminate need for phase referencing and resampling
  • Simplifies and improves Doppler OCT

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Polarization-Sensitive Measurement

  • Stable polarization state (low polarization state wobble)
  • Optional PM source output for advanced testing with high extinction ratio

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Wide Wavelength Bands

  • 100+ nm or 50+ nm sweep ranges (129+ nm or 64+ nm Gaussian equivalent)
  • Insight flat-top profile wavelength range generates greater axial resolution than traditional profiles100+ nm or 50+ nm sweep ranges
  • 1310 nm and 1550 nm bands
  • 1060 nm development ongoing

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Sweep Programmability

  • Change your sweep parameters from software:
    • Power profile
    • Duty cycle
    • Sweep speed
    • Sweep width
    • Measurement points
  • Ethernet communications and control

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Rapidly Declining Costs

  • Already the same or lower price than even lower-performance lasers
  • Wafer-scale laser manufacturing assures rapidly declining costs
  • Internal electronics use high-volume telecom parts for continued cost declines

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Future-Proof Your System: Upcoming Capabilities Based on Software-Controlled Sweep

  • Talk to us about our product roadmap, which includes:
    • Adjustable coherence length
    • Interlacedcoherence sweeps
    • Non-contiguous sweeps
    • Custom wavelength profiles
    • Simultaneous multi-wavelength sweeps
    • Interlaced sweep rate sweeps
    • Interlaced forward and backward sweeps without PSF degradation
    • Interlaced number of data points

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Small (and shrinking) Form Factor

  • OEM (standard):  7.1" x 4.6" x 2.4" (18.03 cm x 11.68 cm x 6.10 cm)
  • Benchtop:  10.25" x 6" x 3.75" (26.04 cm x 15.24 cm x 9.53 cm)
  • The package will be the size of a smart phone in a few years

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Rugged, Reliable

  • Image quality does not degrade over the life of the laser
  • No moving parts for long life
  • Little power loss over time
  • Low vibration sensitivity

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Upcoming: Integrated High-Speed, High-Resolution Measurement

  • Dual-purposing the laser’s existing A-to-D converter(s) cuts system cost
  • One, two or three channels of simultaneous measurement
  • 14-bit high resolution
  • 400 MHz data acquisition
  • Built-in, configurable signal conditioning with wide 200 MHz bandwidth
  • Low noise
  • Tightly integrated with laser operation
  • On-board FFT
  • Auto-zero and auto-correction

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