Orlando, Florida EM4, Inc., a market and technology leader in optoelectronic components and manufacturing services, showcased its full line of state-of-the art optoelectronic components for the life sciences industry at the PITTCON conference this week.

The product portfolio features an extensive range of fiber-coupled and free-space active source and detector modules in the 532nm to 1600nm wavelength region. The modules which are applicable to a very broad spectrum of areas, such as bioanalytical chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry, nanotechnology, environmental, forensic and food analysis and other areas, are currently in use today in fiber lasers used in some of the most advanced medical equipment. Typical applications include medical devices used in soft and hard tissue surgery, medical imaging, lasik surgery, and dental procedures.

Optical sensing applications have been in demand for some time. But now with the cost of lasers coming down, its become viable for more and more doctors to be able to safely and affordably perform popular new procedures that sweeping advances in technology have made available, said Basil Garabet. All of our active optical devices are built with our core competency in sub-micron assembly technology to assure the highest reliability and performance.
Designed with EM4s high coupling efficiency of optical transmission, EM4s industry record high power pump and diode lasers improve medical laser system performance and reliability. Their small size also makes them an ideal optical source for integration into clinical applications and medical diagnostics. The industry-leading product family includes:

High Power Multimode and Singlemode Pump Lasers
EM4s advanced High Power Laser (HPL) line of multimode pump lasers all are designed to deliver high power and reliability. The HPL series offers four epoxy-free hermetic package types, 3 pin (TO258), 8 pin and 14 pin cooled and uncooled options, built to defense industry standards to meet all application needs. The HPL Series single-emitter fiber-coupled laser diodes offer up to 7 W power into a 105m fiber with either a 0.15 or 0.22NA in an operating temperature range of -5 to 70 C. The >12W laser, available in Q2 06, retains the dimensions and features of the highly successful ultra high reliability and power HPL family into a 200 m fiber.

The companys singlemode 980 pump lasers feature industry-record high power with 600mW of output power. The 980nm laser modules are qualified according to the Telcordia GR-486-CORE standard, the industrys most stringent reliability test.

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