The new Mantis is a chirped mirror technology based oscillator. Designed for a fixed operation point in bandwidth (>70 nm) and center wavelength (at the peak of Ti:Sapphire), Mantis is a high end, yet cost effective broadband oscillator. The unique configuration and design of the Mantis allows for the integration of a green pump laser based on monolithic OPSL (optically pumped semiconductor laser) technology, and takes full advantage of the OPSL characteristics. OPSL is a Coherent Inc. technology that has been widely used for several years in demanding OEM applications such as bioinstrumentation.

A major application for the Mantis is seeding short pulse amplifier/OPA systems to generate tunable high energy, sub-35 fs pulses for a wide range of pulse-probe experiments in physics and chemistry. Typical examples include studies into molecular photodissociation dynamics and power hungry techniques such as fluorescence upconversion. Another application area is THz spectroscopy and imaging. Here the easy to use Mantis oscillator will generate a wider spectrum of THz radiation because of the laser’s very short pulsewidth.

High end accessories available for the Mantis include the Silhouette pulse shaper and the CPC compact pulse compressor.

Features include:

• Bandwidth (>70 nm) optimized for short pulse femotsecond amplifiers
• Chirped mirror technology
• Cavity design for integrated OPSL pump laser
• Temperature stabilized resonator
• Compact footprint
• External pump configuration (optional)
• Optical pulse compression and shaping accessorie