Perhaps the most fascinating and rewarding aspect of LASER COMPONENTS IG, Inc., is our exposure and contribution to the diverse applications that our many products bring to us. Certainly our society has been experiencing a photonics revolution for some time now and we are in our infancy as to how light is positively impacting our quality of life.
Take for instance our SPECDILAS line of spectroscopic diode lasers that includes the Lead Salts. What a fantastic potential that they are realizing in human breath analysis for detecting ethane for assessing in vivo oxidative stress (cell damage) and nitric oxide for diagnosis of asthma and other chronic illnesses. Lead Salt and Quantum Cascade Lasers used for high-resolution trace gas spectroscopy, today peer through our atmosphere tracking environmental pollution and probe hydrocarbons for oil exploration. VSCELS from Ulm Photonics at 763 nm enable oxygen detection in locations like pharmaceutical containers and the aircraft fuselage, as well as 795 nm for atomic clocks and 850’s used in that new optical mouse you will soon have.
CODIXX polarizers are rapidly gaining market share in applications like multi-spectral fluorescence imaging, genetics, silicon wafer inspection and even sit at the South Pole looking at the sun for solar observation moni-toring through the ozone. Our high power laser optics continue with conventional lasers and still new cavity designs with exotic wavelengths and gaussian optics for unstable resonators. The FLEXPOINT lasers will accurately position you on that X-ray or MRI table. Fiber optics and components like multi mode WDM’s and couplers from ATI Optique enhance video surveillance networks in casino’s, cities and on highways, Big Brother is watching!
The LLA Echelle spectrometer we offer in the USA allows scientists elemental opportunities with Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy probing sea shells and rocks from the bottom of the ocean, ore from mining operations and sniffing around nuclear waste materials. The LLA NIR spectrometer has finally entered the North American on-line plastics recycling industry.
Pulsed Laser Diodes and Avalanche Photodiodes produced at our Canada and Arizona facilities have wide application use in police speed guns, range finding, distance measurements at constructions sites, mines, in your home and on the golf course.
2005 was a great year and we have high expectations for 2006. We are proud to participate and thank you for your creativity and innovation with the Light Fantastic.
