RIO PLANEX^TM Series
Narrow Linewidth External Cavity Laser

PLANEX™ laser product is high performance and industry-proven single frequency External Cavity Lasers (ECL) based on RIO’s proprietary planar technology – PLANEX™. The PLANEX laser consists of a gain chip and a planar lightwave circuit (PLC) that includes a Bragg grating. The coupling of these components forms a cavity with significant benefits: with
up to 30 mW output power, very low RIN, low phase noise and narrow linewidth, and very low wavelength sensitivity to bias current and temperature. RIO PLANEX^TM Series combines the high performance of long cavity fiber lasers with the low cost, simplicity and Telcordia GR-468 reliability qualified technology platform semiconductor lasers.

Figure 1 : PLANEX^TM typical Intensity Noise (RIN)

Figure 2 : PLANEX^TM typical Phase Noise

Figure 3 : PLANEX^TM laser source 14 pin butterfly

KEY FEATURES :


•Single longitudinal mode
•Center wavelength: 1061nm–1067nm and 1530nm – 1565nm windows.
• Narrow linewidth (kHz)
• Low noise (Phase noise and RIN)
• Wavelength tunability
• Excellent SMSR
• Excellent wavelength stability over life and temperature
• Low sensitivity to vibration and acoustic noise
• CW, modulated and pulsed operations
• SMF and PM fiber pigtail options
• Telecordia GR-468 qualified platform
• RoHS compliant


Applications :


• Seeding of fiber and solid-state lasers
• Second Harmonic Generation (SHG)
• Optical Parametric Oscillators (OPOs)
• LIDAR
• Laser Spectroscopy
• Metrology