Furukawa Electric Announces 488nm SHG Blue Laser for Biomedical Application.To download high-resolution, print-ready JPEG JPEG in full Joint Photographic Experts Group Standard computer file format for storing graphic images in a compressed form for general use. JPEG images are compressed using a mathematical algorithm. images, click on the thumbnail image above. WARNING: these images are very large (800K+) Click here for caption Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers/High-Tech Writers CLEO 2004 MULTIMEDIA AVAILABLE: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=4624578 TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 2004 Furukawa Electric (Other OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). :FUWAF) has made production release of 488nm SHG SHG Second Harmonic Generation SHG Short-Handed Goals (hockey) SHG Self Help Group SHG State History Guide (formerly State House Girls) SHG Sacred Heart Griffin blue laser suitable for bioinstrumentation bi·o·in·stru·men·ta·tion n. 1. Use of instruments for the recording or transmission of physiological information, such as breathing rate or heart rate. 2. The instruments so used. and medical equipment. Furukawa Electric has established high performance and highly reliable optical technologies and experiences for optical telecommunication application. Now they are introduced into this blue laser product. Furukawa Electric is going to expand product portfolio in bio and medical area including device, equipment and instrument. Background Market of 488nm blue laser is one of growing area. It is used for several applications in biomedical bi·o·med·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to biomedicine. 2. Of, relating to, or involving biological, medical, and physical sciences. field like analytical equipment, cell analysis by fluorescent microscope and DNA DNA: see nucleic acid. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid One of two types of nucleic acid (the other is RNA); a complex organic compound found in all living cells and many viruses. It is the chemical substance of genes. analyzers. Furukawa Electric has started development of 488nm blue laser using semiconductor laser and wavelength conversion device and overcome these problems. Furukawa Electric is the market leader of 1480nm and 980nm semiconductor pumping laser diode for the telecommunication. Those technologies are successfully deployed in this product. We have done official release of this blue laser product from April 2004 after we have got several positive feedbacks from our potential customers in our sampling stage. We are going to exhibit and demonstrate this blue laser in CLEO 2004 to be held at San Francisco from May 18th. Features of this product 488nm SHG laser contains two smart technologies of fiber coupled 976nm source and SHG device. Fiber bragg grating A short length of optical fiber that filters out a particular wavelength. Periodically spaced zones in the fiber core are altered to have different refractive indexes slightly higher than the core. (FBG FBG Fiber Bragg Gratings FBG Fasting Blood Glucose FBG Functional Brain-Gut Research Group FBG Florida Brewer's Guild FBG Fluidized Bed Generator FBG Flavor Blasted Goldfish (gaming) FBG Forum Battle Group ) stabilized 976nm semiconductor laser with polarization maintaining fiber output is used for initial light source. Reflectivity re·flec·tiv·i·ty n. pl. re·flec·tiv·i·ties 1. The quality of being reflective. 2. The ability to reflect. 3. of FBG has been carefully tuned to control the longitudinal mode of laser oscillation then stable wavelength conversion has realized with SHG device. This simple configuration enabled us to reduce number of components with high reliability. Converted 488nm light is coupled to single mode fiber so the ideal gaussian beam with excellent pointing stability has been realized.
Specifications
Optical performance
Output power from single
mode pigtail 20mW
Power stability less than +/-1%
Beam quality (M2) less than 1.1
Pointing stability less than 3 micro rad (smaller than
measurement limit)
Power consumption less than 18W
Size 127x177x42.7mm
About Furukawa Electric (http://www.furukawa.co.jp) Furukawa Electric is a designer, manufacturer, and supplier of leading edge optical fiber and cables, photonic products, power cables, nonferrous metals, electronics devices. Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Furukawa operates facilities in United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, United Kingdom, Hungary, The Netherlands, Czech Republic, and Asian countries. MULTIMEDIA AVAILABLE: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=4624578 |
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