June 26, 2024

Wavelength has been stabilizing laser diode wavelength, current, and power, and delivering low noise electronics systems for over three decades now.

Our customers are brilliant – researchers, system developers, entrepreneurs. They have visions for how they want to improve the world.  We help them with the electronics subsystems, so they are free to explore and invent.

We build OEM laser diode drivers and temperature control components with benchtop instrument performance. We also offer touch screen instruments for researchers and low noise QCL drivers for narrow linewidths. We couple the off-the-shelf electronics with high reliability manufacturing so field returns are less than 0.1%.

Our equipment is often used in medical systems – surgical devices, medical and biological detectors, cancer therapy.  Two case studies briefly highlight this.

One case study uses fluorometry to identify tumor aggressiveness. Researchers from Spain used a fluorescent hypoxia biosensor for functional imaging of tumor cells to provide critical information about the size and location of tumors, as well as the micro-environment. Stable wavelength was critical, and they used our LFI Temperature Controller instrument to achieve that goal.

In the second case study, researchers in the UK created a bio-laser where a virus is introduced into the lasing cavity and used to detect the concentration of the viral load.  They proved rapid biomolecular detection with the precision of commercial systems. Constant current, stable wavelength, and modulation were critical parts of the system. Wavelength’s WLD Laser Diode Driver was used in achieving these results.

We are committed to customer success. In addition to our off-the-shelf components and instruments, we’re offering custom engineering services to develop circuits that perfectly fit your system needs. If you use a laser diode, QCL, VCSEL, SLED, any semiconductor laser, and need low noise, stable wavelength, power, or current, let’s talk.

The two case study images were obtained from Clark et al., “Artery targeted photothrombosis widens the vascular penumbra, instigates peri-infarct vascularization and models forelimb impairments,” Scientific Reports (2019) 9: 2323, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39092-7 and Hales et al., “Virus lasers for biological detection,” Nat Commun 10, 3594 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11604-z. The articles are distributed under terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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