SLAC and LBNL Select Calmar’s Ultrafast Fiber Laser for Research Studies

The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Facility (SLAC) have chosen the Cazadero ultra-fast fiber laser system from Calmar Laser for studying the structural changes in original material equipment  during rapid time-resolved experiments.

Calmar Laser, which released the Cazadero back in 2005, has extended its business operations to enable accurate material processing applications in microelectronics and medicine production. The fiber-based system can generate high energy pulses of up to 20 µJ with few MHz repetition rates and a pulse width of 500 fs or less.

A light source, called the Next Generation Light Source (NGLS), has been developed at LBNL. The light source is a free-electron laser that emits X-rays in keV power range and functions in MHz repetition rates. The laser can function in a wide range of wavelengths such as 1030, 515 and 257.5 nm based on different photocathode materials. The NGLS can be used for developing cinematic imaging techniques and nonlinear X-ray spectroscopies, and for establishing the structure of heterogeneous systems.