Space and Astronomy

Discover and explore with components designed for harsh space environments, including freeform and large format optics, lasers, and radiation hardened fiber optics.

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Space Qualified Deploying fibers, lasers, and optics found in earth orbit, on moons and planets, and exploring the outer limits of the universe.
Customized Solutions Manufacturing aspheric and freeform optics, harsh environment fiber, and qualified lasers for LEOs, communications, and telescopes.
Acceptance Testing Designing and testing capabilities including shock, vibration, thermal cycling, and radiation tolerance for optimum performance.

Custom Optics

Leading the industry in specialty light-weighted, large-format optics polished to picometer tolerances.

Qualified Lasers

Optimizing custom lasers for use in LEO communications arrays, in weather satellites, and as planetary illuminators.

Fiber-Coupled Modules

Get the convenience of fiber delivery, without sacrificing efficiency, for applications in solid state laser pumping, materials processing, and medical therapeutics.

Unmounted Bars & Chips

Rely on our ability to manufacture unmounted diode laser products in high production volumes, and to your schedule.

Diamond C/Cx Series

DIAMOND C/Cx Series CO₂ lasers offer the best power–size ratio available for cutting, slitting, engraving, scoring, and marking a wide variety of materials.

Specialty Fibers

Tolerate harsh conditions with radiation hardened fibers for spacecraft navigation and telecommunication - even on Mars.

Gyro Fibers

Build high-performance fiber optic gyroscope (FOG) coils, plus sensors for auto, space, and defense applications, with these high birefringence fibers.

Single Mode Fibers

Coherent Single Mode Fibers maintain beam quality, and minimize attenuation and dispersion, and are offered from the visible through the infrared.

Laser and Amplifier Fibers

Coherent Laser and Amplifier Fibers eliminate SRS and TMI, and feature high mode quality, excellent pump light absorption, and exceptionally low photodarkening.

Laser Crystals

Providing domestically grown crystals in custom sizes and lengths for mission-specific laser bandwidth requirements.

Featured Blog

Photonics for Space Applications

Coherent optics, coatings, lasers, crystals, and fibers are deployed everywhere from the Hubble Space Telescope to the New Horizons spacecraft and beyond.

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Customer

Success Stories

Compact excimer laser systems open up new possibilities for the treatment of 3D-CRFP-parts, also by robotic applications.

Dr. Thomas Lukasczyk Fraunhofer IFAM

Mobile Excimer Laser Enables Robotic CFRP Cleaning

See how the high repetition rate (1000 Hz) and pulse energy (10 mJ) of the ExciStar allows rapid processing and continuous movement of the laser beam over the part surface.

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