Our technical team will review your optical drawing or custom specifications and provide a quote.   Typically we offer:

Size: 3mm to 400 mm
Surface roughness: 3Ǻ
Surface quality: 10/5  Laser Quality (scratch/dig)
Surface flatness: we routinely provide 1/10λ Peak to Valley for flat mirrors or Irregularity for radius mirrors at 632.8nm,  with the  ability to achieve 1/20λ Peak to Valley
Standard tolerances include +0/-0.005″ for diameter, length or width and ± 0.005″ for thickness
Parallelism: 1 minute
(alternate specifications/tolerances available upon request)

These high performance flat mirrors are intended for general purpose beam steering tasks in excimer laser based applications and systems. ARO’s extensive experience in supplying beam delivery optics for demanding excimer laser applications, such as microlithography and LASIK, has enabled us to develop optics that deliver an optimum combination of long lifetime, high reflectivity, superior laser damage resistance and excellent mechanical durability. In addition to these stock components, ARO can readily produce optics customized in virtually every aspect, including size, shape, substrate material, surface specifications and performance characteristics. Please contact our technical sales department to discuss your custom optics requirements.

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ARO ultrafast mirrors are designed to deliver superior performance for demanding beam steering tasks in Ti:Sapphire laser applications. Close cooperation between the ARO design staff and leading ultrafast researchers has enabled us develop to optics that deliver an optimum combination of high reflectivity, broad spectral bandwidth, excellent laser damage resistance and minimal group velocity dispersion. ARO supplies two standard series of ultrafast laser mirrors. Our B-Max coatings are optimized to deliver the Broadest possible bandwidth, while our E-Max high reflectors are specifically optimized to attain the highest pulse Energy damage threshold. In addition to these stock components, ARO can readily produce optics customized in virtually every aspect, including size, shape, substrate material, surface specifications and performance characteristics. Please contact our technical sales department to discuss your custom optics requirements.

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Our unique Spectral Shaping Filter provides a simple route to shorter pulses (as short as 10 femtoseconds) from Titanium:sapphire ultrafast amplifiers. This new intra-cavity optic is a dielectric coated filter with a spectral transmission curve designed to precisely compensate for the wavelength dependence of the Titanium:sapphire gain curve. Since the center wavelengths near 800 nm are preferentially amplified, the amplified pulse is effectively narrowed in wavelength. (Spectral narrowing results in pulse lengthening in transform-limited laser pulses). The ARO spectral shaper is an intra-cavity coated optic that has a transmission curve that is the mirror image of the Ti:S gain curve. With this optic inserted in a amplifier, the spectral curve for single pass cavity gain is now a flat line rather than a gaussian. Both the center wavelength and the magnitude of the single-pass gain correction can be easily adjusted with the Spectral Shaping Filter. Specifically, varying the angle of incidence at which the optic is mounted causes a shift in the center wavelength. This enables the filter’s performance to be matched to the skewed spectral gain curve of chirped amplifiers. And, by rotating the filter angle relative to the beam polarization, its transmission maximum can be smoothly increased or decreased. This allows the same filter to be used in both a multi-pass or regenerative type amplifier. The particular performance specifications of the Spectral Shaper can be optimized for OEM’s upon request. For more detailed information on how the spectral shaper works, see the ARO technical white paper entitled “The ARO Gain Flattener for Ultrafast Amplifiers.”

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These high performance flat mirrors are intended for general purpose beam steering tasks in solid state laser based applications and systems. ARO’s extensive experience in supplying optics for demanding solid state laser applications, such as the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has enabled us to develop optics that deliver an optimum combination of high reflectivity, superior laser damage resistance and excellent mechanical durability. In addition to these stock components, ARO can readily produce optics customized in virtually every aspect, including size, shape, substrate material, surface specifications and performance characteristics. Please contact our technical sales department to discuss your custom optics requirements

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