The Aries-2 series consists of fixed-wavelength, narrowband mid-IR lasers, offering an average output power reaching 1 W. Featuring a highly durable and stable resonator design, the Aries-2 laser ensures excellent control over linewidth and maintains wavelength stability, even under changing environmental conditions. Available with a variety of quantum cascade laser chips, the Aries-2 can be tailored during manufacturing to meet diverse application requirements.
Included with Aries-2 systems is the SideKick laser controller, which provides versatile and accurate adjustments of laser output power, temperature, and pulse settings.
Image Credit: DRS Daylight Solutions Inc.
Highlights
Features and Benefits
- Optical power up to 2 W
- CW or pulsed output
- Wavelength availability: 3-13 µm
- Superior TEM00 beam quality and low beam pointing allow fiber coupling
- Linewidths of <1 cm-1 (pulsed, FWHM) or <100 MHz (CW, tuned to SLM) Output power to >1 W (peak) or >0.5 W (average)
- Superb wavelength stability: ≤0.5 cm-1/hour within operating temperature range
- SideKick™ controller, GUI, and SDK included with all systems
- High power stability: <2% rms (1 hour)
- Current (amplitude) modulation up to 1 MHz
- Proprietary HFQD™ circuitry protects your chips
Applications
- OPA/OPO seeding
- Imaging
- Detector calibration
- Illumination
- TIC, VOC, GHG, and leak detection
- LIDAR and DIAL systems
- Standoff detection
- Optical fiber testing
- Environmental monitoring
- IRCM research
- Materials characterization
Product Specifications
Source: DRS Daylight Solutions Inc.
| . |
. |
| Center Wavelength Availability |
4-11 μm |
| Spatial Mode |
TEM00 (nominal) |
| Beam Divergence |
< 4 mrad (full angle, 1/e2 intensity width) |
| Beam Diameter |
< 5 mm2 (1/e2 width) |
| Ellipticity |
< 1.5 |
| Pulse Repetition Frequency |
CW to 1 MHz |
| Rise/Fall Time (10-90%) |
< 100 ns |
| QCL Compliance Voltage |
< 17 VDC |
| QCL Operating Current |
< 3 A |
| Operating Range (Case Temp) |
15 – 55 °C |
| Dimensions (L×W×H) |
14 × 7 × 8.6 cm |