Effective December 31, 2011, LASER COMPONENTS will discontinue production of cryogenically cooled MIR laser diodes, extended to next March for existing customers.

The first PbSe lasers were produced in the late ‘60s; they reached their technological heyday in the ‘80s and early ‘90s. Both the fundamental scientific and high-resolution gas measurement technology communities originated via tunable diode laser spectroscopy (TDLS).

The necessity of cryogenic cooling in single-mode operation has always hindered wide industrial use. Consequently, TDLS did not achieve its commercial breakthrough until used in the NIR range.

A list of IR lasers available in stock can be found on our web site.

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