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Photonics OEM
When a laser goes inside your product, its failure modes become your support tickets. The question is not peak specification — it is what the source does on a customer site with nobody qualified nearby.
The problem
A dual-comb or pump–probe instrument built around two independent lasers needs high-speed electronics locking them together. That stack is the part that drifts, the part that needs tuning, and the part your field engineer will be flown out to fix. It also dominates the envelope and the bill of materials.
Meanwhile the noise floor of the instrument you are selling is set by the relative intensity noise of the source you chose, which means the specification conversation has to happen before you design around it, not after.
Where it bites
Precision ranging
Absolute distance rather than fringe-counting displacement.
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Broad coverage and an inherently calibrated frequency axis.
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Comb-based instruments and metrology chains.
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Ultrafast measurement in a packaged system.
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Multiphoton platforms needing a specific excitation window.
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THz-TDS without a delay line to package.
Learn moreWhat a design review needs to know
- A single shared cavity produces both pulse trains, so mutual coherence is passive — no active lock, no high-speed locking electronics, no optical amplification stage.
- Turn-key operation: the end user of your instrument never performs an alignment.
- Ultralow relative intensity noise, which is what sets the noise floor of the product you build around it.
- The K2-1000-mini is the version intended for integration rather than the optical table.
- Paeonia represents K2 Photonics across Asia — the lasers are developed at K2 Photonics, a spin-off from the Keller group at ETH Zurich.
Send the envelope, the interfaces and the noise budget you have to hit, and we will tell you honestly whether it fits before you design around it.
Designing a source in?
Tell us the measurement, the delay range and the integration constraints, and we come back with the configuration that fits.