ThorLabs in Bangladesh

Vvon Technologies Limited supplies, installs and services ThorLabs equipment across Bangladesh. 149 products are catalogued across Scientific & Laboratory Equipment.

Categories

• Optomechanics & Motion Control (34)
• Laser Systems (19)
• Optics & Optical Components (17)
• Photodetectors & Beam Diagnostics (17)
• Microscopy & Imaging Systems (16)
• Fibre Optics (13)
• Metrology & Position Measurement (11)
• Optical Tables & Isolation (11)
• Photonics Teaching Kits (10)
• Spectrometers & Optical Analysis (1)

Products

• Imaging Microscope Objectives, Air: Infinity corrected dry objectives from 1X to 100X in plan extended apochromatic, plan apochromatic, plan fluorite, plan achromatic and achromatic designs. They cover the ultraviolet, visible and near infrared for microscopy and beam focusing.
• Microscope Objectives, Water Dipping or Immersion: Infinity corrected apochromatic and plan fluorite objectives designed for physiology and multiphoton imaging, used either dipped directly into the bath or with a coverslip and water immersion. High numerical apertures are combined with long working distances.
• Reflective Microscope Objectives (LMM Series): All-mirror Schwarzschild objectives that image without chromatic aberration across a very wide spectral range. They are used for Fourier transform infrared microscopy, ultrafast pulses and any measurement where glass dispersion cannot be tolerated.
• Cerna Series Modular Microscopy Systems and Components: A modular upright microscope platform built around a tall vertical rail, so a system can be configured for brightfield, epi-fluorescence, Dodt gradient contrast or DIC. The open design leaves a large working volume around the objective for electrophysiology.
• CM500 Series Cerna Birefringence Imaging Microscopes: Cerna based microscopes that map stress and strain induced birefringence in a sample, reporting retardance and fast axis azimuth from a set of input polarisation states. Motorised and manual objective arm versions are offered.
• Bergamo III Series Multiphoton Microscopes: A modular multiphoton imaging platform that moves the microscope to the sample rather than the reverse. Resonant, galvo and spatial light modulator scan paths allow simultaneous readout and optical stimulation of neuron populations.
• Veneto Inverted Microscopes: A modular inverted microscope platform supporting widefield, confocal and multiphoton imaging from one body. It suits cell biology and live tissue work while keeping the accessory ports and accessible light paths of the upright Thorlabs systems.
• Prelude Functional Imaging Microscope: A compact fibre coupled two-photon microscope built for functional imaging of GFP, needing no laser alignment. Motorised XYZ travel and manual rotation give access to samples that cannot be presented vertically.
• Mini2P Miniaturized Two-Photon Microscope: A head-mounted two-photon miniscope for calcium imaging in freely moving animals, based on the published Mini2P design. A microtunable lens gives fast multiplane imaging and detection is on board with a silicon photomultiplier.
• Multiphoton Mesoscope (2p-RAM): A random access multiphoton mesoscope that keeps subcellular resolution across a 5 mm by 5 mm field, so activity in several brain regions can be followed at once. A remote focusing mirror shifts the focal plane without moving the objective.
• Ganymede Series SD-OCT Systems: Spectral domain optical coherence tomography systems at 880 nm, giving real-time cross sectional and volumetric images from backscattered light. They are supplied with a computer and ThorImageOCT software, preconfigured or built to order.
• Telesto Series SD-OCT Systems: Spectral domain OCT systems at 1300 nm and 1315 nm, chosen when deeper penetration matters more than the finest axial resolution. Base units are offered at four A-scan rates with standard or user-customisable scanners.
• Atria Series SS-OCT Systems: Swept source OCT systems at 1060 nm built for long range imaging, using a MEMS-VCSEL source. The 60 kHz base unit reaches 20 mm of imaging depth in air, which suits large samples and industrial inspection.
• Vega Series SS-OCT Systems: Swept source OCT systems at 1300 nm aimed at high speed imaging with deep penetration, using a MEMS-VCSEL source. Two base units trade A-scan rate against imaging depth and sensitivity, and both ship with a computer and the ThorImageOCT software package.
• EDU-OMC1 Optical Microscopy Course Educational Kit: A full undergraduate course in optical microscopy, in which students build and operate a modular microscope on an open rail. Ten lab units cover image formation, resolution, aberrations, contrast methods and fluorescence.
• EDU-AFM1 Educational Atomic Force Microscope: A build-it-yourself atomic force microscope for teaching laboratories, imaging in constant height, constant force and lateral force modes. Optical disc samples and a calibration microstructure are supplied so students can compare known surfaces.
• EDU-SPEB2 Spectrometer Educational Kits: A kit for building either a grating spectrometer or a prism spectrometer from the same set of parts, so students can compare interference and refraction as dispersing mechanisms. A Czerny-Turner extension adds absorption spectroscopy.
• CCT Series Compact Spectrometers: Crossed Czerny-Turner spectrometers with a line array detector, an SMA fibre input and an internal shutter for fast background subtraction. Four models cover the ultraviolet through to the short wave infrared for absorption, emission and fluorescence work.
• OSA Series Optical Spectrum Analyzers: Fourier transform based analysers that act as both a broadband spectrometer and a wavelength meter. Seven models cover 250 nm to 12 micrometres, taking either an FC/PC fibre input or a collimated free space beam.
• WM200 Series Wavemeters: Instruments that measure the wavelength, coherence length and power of a laser to parts per million accuracy. An external reference input improves the figure further, which matters for laser locking and atomic physics work.
• SA Series Scanning Fabry-Perot Interferometers: Confocal cavity spectrum analysers that resolve the fine structure of a continuous wave laser, including mode hops and linewidth. A piezo scans the cavity length and the transmitted signal is read on an oscilloscope.
• SI Series Shearing Interferometers: Shear plate devices that give a quick qualitative check of whether a coherent beam is collimated. Fringes parallel to the reference line mean the beam is collimated, and rotated fringes show convergence or divergence.
• WFS Series Shack-Hartmann Wavefront Sensors: Sensors that pair a CMOS camera with a photolithographic microlens array to measure the wavefront of a beam and decompose it into Zernike terms. They are used for optical alignment, adaptive optics and lens testing.
• BP209 Series Scanning-Slit Optical Beam Profilers: Dual scanning slit heads that reconstruct the two dimensional intensity profile of a near Gaussian beam, with a knife edge mode for very small spots. They measure beam width and position to ISO 11146 for continuous wave and pulsed lasers.
• BC200 Series CMOS Camera Beam Profilers: Camera based profilers giving a full two dimensional analysis of a laser beam, including single pulse capture. Supplied with neutral density filter sets, they cover the deep ultraviolet or the visible and near infrared.
• M2MS Complete M-Squared Measurement Systems: Turnkey systems that measure laser beam quality, reporting M squared, divergence, focus diameter, waist position and Rayleigh length. Factory aligned optics and an internal translation stage automate the ISO 11146 measurement.
• PAX1000 Series Polarimeter Systems: Rotating wave plate polarimeters that measure the full state of polarisation of a collimated or fibre coupled beam and plot it on the Poincare sphere. They also report degree of polarisation and extinction ratio.
• EDU-MINT2 Michelson Interferometer Educational Kit: A teaching Michelson interferometer with laser and LED sources, so students can compare coherence lengths and produce white light fringes. It is also used to measure the refractive index of Plexiglas and the thermal expansion of an aluminium rod.
• Red HeNe Lasers, 632.8 nm (HNL Series): CE compliant helium neon lasers at 632.8 nm with output powers from 0.8 mW to 22.5 mW. Their beam quality and gas discharge behaviour make them the standard source for undergraduate optics teaching, interferometry, alignment and polarisation experiments.
• HRS015B Stabilized Red HeNe Laser: A helium neon laser at 632.992 nm that can be locked in either frequency stabilised or intensity stabilised mode. It is used as a wavelength reference for spectroscopy, interferometry and wavemeter calibration, reaching lock in under fifteen minutes.
• DJ532 Series 532 nm Diode-Pumped Solid State (DPSS) Lasers: Compact green laser modules combining Nd:YVO4 and KTP crystals pumped by an 808 nm diode. They drop into a standard 5.6 mm laser diode pin layout but give much lower beam divergence than a semiconductor diode, for CW use only.
• LDM Series Compact Laser Diode Modules: Self-contained collimated laser diode modules in six wavelengths from 405 nm to 1550 nm. Each housing holds a Fabry-Perot diode, collimating lens, power controller and a built-in shutter, with internal SM1 threads so they mount straight into a lens tube system.
• USB-Powered Compact Laser Modules (PL Series): Plug and play alignment lasers powered from a USB Type-A port, in an 11 mm diameter electrically isolated housing. They run in constant power mode using internal photodiode feedback and give a collimated round beam for classroom and bench alignment work.
• NPL Series Nanosecond Pulsed Laser Systems: Compact pulsed laser heads with drive and temperature stabilisation electronics built in, giving a collimated free space output. Centre wavelengths run from 405 nm to 980 nm with fixed or adjustable pulse widths, suiting fluorescence lifetime and time-resolved work.
• GSL Series Picosecond and Nanosecond Gain-Switched Lasers: Fibre-coupled gain-switched diode lasers that run in picosecond pulsed, nanosecond pulsed or continuous wave mode. Twelve centre wavelengths are offered with single mode or polarisation maintaining output, for time-correlated single photon counting and lifetime measurement.
• QSL Series Q-Switched Picosecond Microchip Laser Systems: Turnkey microchip lasers giving sub-nanosecond pulses at 515 nm, 1030 nm or 1064 nm. High peak power and good beam quality make them suitable for material processing, ablation studies and nonlinear optics on a bench.
• C-FIBER 780 nm and 1560 nm Femtosecond Fiber Lasers: All polarisation maintaining fibre femtosecond sources using Menlo Systems figure 9 mode locking. They reach output in under a minute from a single button and hold a single mode-lock state, for nonlinear microscopy and frequency comb work.
• ORANGE-HIGH-POWER-10 1040 nm Femtosecond Fiber Laser: A ytterbium fibre femtosecond source giving more than 10 W of average power at 1040 nm with pulses under 150 fs. The all polarisation maintaining design keeps amplitude and phase noise low for multiphoton imaging and micromachining.
• TLX Series Fiber-Coupled Benchtop Tunable Laser Sources: Temperature controlled external cavity lasers tunable across the telecom C-band or L-band on the ITU 50 GHz grid. A built-in variable optical attenuator sets output power, and the narrow linewidth suits component test and coherent measurement.
• SPDC Series Correlated Photon-Pair Sources: Turnkey spontaneous parametric down-conversion sources with an integrated pump laser, using periodically poled KTP crystals for collinear type-II output. They generate correlated photon pairs near 810 nm or 1560 nm for quantum optics teaching and research.
• KLD101 K-Cube Laser Diode Driver: A compact laser diode driver that runs in constant current or constant power mode, with an adjustable current limit to protect the diode. It can be set from the front panel and display or driven from a PC over USB using the Kinesis software suite.
• LDC200C Series Laser Diode Drivers, 20 mA to 4 A: Seven benchtop laser diode controllers covering currents from 20 mA to 4 A, in constant current or constant power mode. The diode is driven with respect to ground, which improves noise and transient behaviour, and every unit ships with a calibration certificate.
• LDC4000 Series High-Power Laser Diode Controllers: Benchtop drivers for high power laser diodes, offered at 5 A and 20 A with continuous wave or quasi-continuous wave operation. An internal function generator supplies sine, square and triangle modulation, and control is over a SCPI compliant USB interface.
• ITC4000 Series Combined Laser Diode and TEC Controllers, 5 A to 20 A: Single instruments that combine a high current laser diode driver with a 225 W thermoelectric controller. A 20 V compliance version drives quantum cascade and interband cascade lasers, and digital PID with auto tuning holds the diode temperature steady.
• TTC001 T-Cube TEC Controller: A compact microcontroller based PID temperature controller for driving a Peltier element against a thermistor or IC sensor. It suits stabilising small temperature sensitive components on a bench and can be run locally or from a PC over USB.
• TED200C 12 W Laser Diode Temperature Controller: A precision temperature controller driving thermoelectric elements up to 2 A, with separate P, I and D adjustment for fast settling. It is used to stabilise laser diodes for interferometry and spectroscopy, cool detectors and hold nonlinear crystals at temperature.
• TED4015 225 W TEC Controller: A high power thermoelectric controller giving up to 15 A and 225 W with digital PID and an automatic tuning function. It supports thermistors, IC sensors and platinum RTDs, and is controlled from the front panel or over a SCPI compliant USB interface.
• N-BK7 Plano-Convex Lenses, AR Coated 400 to 1100 nm: Positive focal length singlet lenses in Grade A N-BK7, near best form for infinite conjugate work. They are the general purpose focusing and collimating lens of an optics bench, offered from 6 mm to 75 mm diameter with a broadband antireflection coating.
• Aspheric Condenser Lenses (ACL Series): Large aperture aspheres in B270 crown glass, shaped for collecting and collimating light from LEDs, lamps and other extended sources. High numerical apertures gather a wide cone of light with far less spherical aberration than a spherical condenser.
• Diffraction-Limited High-Precision Aspheres, MRF Polished (AL Series): Magnetorheologically polished aspheric lenses in N-BK7 or S-LAH64 that reach diffraction limited performance. They focus or collimate a laser beam in a single element and are used where a doublet would add too much wavefront error.
• Plano-Convex Cylindrical Lenses, N-BK7, Uncoated: Cylindrical lenses that focus or magnify in one axis only. They are used to circularise the elliptical output of a laser diode, form a line focus and give anamorphic beam shaping on an optical bench.
• Protected Silver Mirrors (PF Series, P01 Coating): Metallic mirrors with a silver coating and a silicon dioxide overcoat, giving the highest visible and near infrared reflectance of any Thorlabs metallic mirror. Round, square and rectangular formats are stocked, and the broad response suits femtosecond pulses.
• Protected Gold Mirrors (PF Series, M01 Coating): Gold coated mirrors with a protective dielectric overcoat, intended for infrared work where reflectance must stay high well beyond 2 micrometres. Reflectance is relatively insensitive to angle of incidence, as with other metallic coatings.
• Protected Aluminum Mirrors (PF Series, G01 Coating): General purpose broadband mirrors with an aluminium coating under a silicon dioxide protective layer. They tarnish less readily than protected silver in humid conditions, which makes them a practical teaching laboratory mirror.
• Fused Silica Broadband Dielectric Mirrors (BB Series): Dielectric coated mirrors on fused silica substrates that reflect more than 99% for both polarisations over four broad bands. They are designed for continuous wave and nanosecond lasers at angles of incidence from 0 to 45 degrees.
• Off-Axis Parabolic Mirrors, Protected Silver Coating (MPD Series): Diamond turned off-axis parabolas that focus a collimated beam or collimate a point source without spherical or chromatic aberration. The off-axis geometry moves the focus clear of the beam path, which is useful for spectroscopy and ultrafast work.
• Right-Angle Prisms (PS Series): High precision prisms that turn a beam through 90 degrees by total internal reflection at the hypotenuse, or retroreflect it through 180 degrees. They are a standard classroom demonstration of total internal reflection as well as a beam folding component.
• Equilateral Dispersive Prisms (PS Series): High index prisms with a low Abbe number, used to disperse white light into a spectrum with less stray light than a grating and no higher diffraction orders. They are normally used at the minimum angle of deviation.
• Glan-Taylor Calcite Polarizers (GT Series): Air-spaced birefringent prism polarisers made from laser quality natural calcite, producing very pure linear polarisation. The ordinary ray leaves through a side port, so only the transmitted extraordinary beam should be used.
• Nanoparticle Linear Film Polarizers (LP Series): Sheet polarisers made from nanoparticles in sodium-silicate glass, covering the UV through to the mid infrared in eleven wavelength bands. Mounted versions thread into SM lens tubes and rotation mounts for polarisation experiments.
• Non-Polarizing Cube Beamsplitters, 400 to 700 nm (BS Series): Cemented N-BK7 cubes that divide a beam with little dependence on its polarisation, in five split ratios. The single reflecting surface avoids ghost images and the cube geometry keeps the transmitted beam free of lateral offset.
• Visible Ruled Reflective Diffraction Gratings (GR Series): Aluminium coated ruled gratings blazed for the visible, produced from a ruled original on a soda lime glass substrate. They give high first order efficiency near the blaze wavelength for spectroscopy and monochromator builds.
• Hard-Coated UV and Visible Bandpass Filters (FBH and FLH Series): Ion beam sputtered bandpass filters with high in-band transmission and deep out-of-band blocking, mounted in black anodised aluminium rings. They isolate a laser line or fluorescence band in spectroscopy and imaging setups.
• Long Working Distance Objectives (LMU and M Plan Series): Infinity corrected objectives with an unusually large gap between the front element and the sample, for ultraviolet, visible or near infrared use. The long working distance suits machine vision, wafer inspection and experiments that need access under the objective.
• Precision Kinematic Mirror Mounts (KS Series): Three adjuster kinematic mirror mounts with a thicker back plate and stiffer springs than the standard two adjuster design. Sizes cover half inch to 4 inch optics, with lockable and differential adjuster versions for beam steering that must hold alignment over long periods.
• Kinematic Mirror Mounts with Two Adjusters (KM Series): The general purpose two adjuster kinematic mount used across most teaching and research optical benches. Versions take 7 mm to 2 inch optics with either double-bore setscrew retention or an SM-threaded bore for thin optics and threaded components.
• Compact Kinematic Mounts (KMS, KMSS and QM1): Small footprint kinematic mirror mounts for optical systems where space is tight. The KMS uses removable knobs over a hex socket and the slimmer KMSS is hex driven only, both taking mirror holders for half inch or one inch optics.
• Polaris SM1-Threaded Low-Drift Kinematic Mirror Mounts: Heat treated stainless steel kinematic mounts built for long term pointing stability, with sapphire adjuster seats and matched 100 TPI actuator and body pairs. The SM1-threaded bore takes one inch optics, lens tubes or other threaded components.
• Gimbal Mirror Mounts: Mounts that rotate the optic about the centre of its front surface, so beam steering produces no translation and very little crosstalk between axes. Manual models cover one inch and two inch optics, and a piezo driven version is available for fine remote control.
• Fixed Mirror Mounts (FMP and MFM Series): Non-adjustable mounts for holding mirrors, windows and other flat optics at a fixed angle. A nylon-tipped setscrew secures the optic and a tapped hole on the base takes a standard post, giving a low cost way to fix optics that need no alignment.
• Ø1" (Ø25 mm) Post Holders: Post holders for one inch diameter optical posts, using a flexure clamp that grips the post along two contact lines. They give height adjustment with the stability of a pillar post and are offered in four lengths with a bottom tapped hole or pedestal base.
• Ø1" (Ø25.0 mm) Pedestal Pillar Posts: One piece non-magnetic stainless steel posts, precision ground to 25.0 mm diameter and tapped at both ends so they stack. The pedestal base works with clamping forks, giving a rigid way to set optic height on a table or breadboard.
• Ø1" SM1 Lens Tubes: SM1 threaded lens tubes that take one inch optics directly and build light-tight optical subassemblies. The 1.035 inch-40 thread standard runs through most of the Thorlabs range, so tubes, mounts, adapters and cage plates all interlock.
• Adjustable SM1 Lens Tubes: Lens tubes that translate an optic along the optical axis inside an SM1 assembly. Rotating versions give simple travel while the SM1ZM and SM1NR zoom housings use a helical drive so the internal cell moves without rotating, which matters for polarisation optics.
• XE25 25 mm Optical Construction Rails: Extruded aluminium rails with a 25 mm square profile and channels on all four faces, used to build enclosures, frames and rigid mechanical structures on an optical table. T-nuts in the channels accept any 8-32 or 1/4 inch-20 optomechanical component.
• Manual Rotation Mounts, High Precision (PRM Series): Rotation mounts that combine continuous 360 degree coarse rotation with a locking dial and backlash-free fine adjustment. They are the standard way to set the angle of polarisers and wave plates in half inch, one inch and two inch sizes.
• MC2000B Optical Chopper System and Chopper Wheels: A microprocessor controlled optical chopper that modulates a continuous beam for lock-in detection. A crystal-stabilised phase-locked loop holds the chopping speed and phase against a reference, and fifteen blades cover the full frequency range.
• Motorized Filter Wheels, Stepper Motor Driven (FW102C and FW212C): Stepper driven filter wheels with an integrated controller, taking six one inch filters or twelve half inch filters. Filters can be changed by hand at the housing or driven remotely over USB, RS-232 or a BNC trigger for automated measurement sequences.
• Fiber Coupling and Spatial Filter Systems (KT120 and KT311): Prebuilt optomechanical assemblies for launching a free space laser beam into fibre and for spatial filtering. The KT120 uses high-precision differential adjusters for submicron translation, and the KT311 cleans up a beam to a near Gaussian profile.
• LDM Series Temperature-Controlled Mounts for TO-Can Laser Diodes: Laser diode sockets with an integrated thermoelectric cooler for 3.8 mm, 5.6 mm and 9.0 mm TO can packages. An internal bias-T allows RF modulation of the diode current, and the housing threads into SM1 lens tubes and 30 mm or 60 mm cage systems.
• Unmounted Achromatic Doublets, AR Coated 400 to 1100 nm: Cemented two element lenses corrected so that two wavelengths share a focus, which cuts chromatic and spherical aberration and gives a much smaller spot than a singlet. Supplied in half inch, one inch and two inch diameters.
• Mounted Zero-Order Half-Wave Plates (WPH Series): Compound zero-order retarders made by pairing two multi-order crystalline quartz plates with crossed axes. The result rotates linear polarisation with much less temperature and wavelength dependence than a single multi-order plate.
• Mounted Longpass Colored Glass Filters (FGL Series): Schott coloured glass longpass filters mounted in SM1 threaded rings so they screw into lens tubes and filter wheels. Each housing is engraved with the part number and cut-on wavelength, which makes them convenient for teaching laboratories.
• TravelMax LNR25 Linear Translation Stages, 25 mm Travel, Manual: All steel manual translation stages on crossed roller bearings, offered with a micrometer or a differential drive. The rigid thermally matched construction gives uniform motion over the full range and the stages stack into XYZ configurations.
• TBB Series Large-Area Translation Stages: Hand operated rack and pinion stages large enough to carry a whole experiment, with a deck height that matches standard breadboards. Fine adjustment is by hex key and the position locks with a setscrew.
• GN and GNL Series Goniometric Stages: Stages that tilt an object about a fixed point above the mounting surface, so the sample stays in place while its angle changes. Two models can be stacked in an XY configuration sharing the same point of rotation.
• 6-Axis NanoMax NanoPositioning Flexure Stages (MAX600 Series): Parallel flexure stages that give six independent degrees of freedom about a common pivot point, which simplifies alignment and reduces crosstalk. Micrometer, stepper and piezo drive options cover coarse travel down to nanometre steps.
• M30X and M30XY Kinesis 30 mm Motorized Translation Stages: Single and dual axis motorised stages with the DC servo drive electronics built into the stage body, controlled from a PC over USB. External triggering allows them to be synchronised with cameras and detectors during a scan.
• PRMTZ8 Motorized Precision Rotation Stage: A compact DC servo driven 360 degree rotation stage with a tapped platform for prisms, polarisers and other optics. A home limit switch locates zero, and the vernier scale allows manual readout of the angle.
• DDR100 Direct Drive Rotation Stage: A low profile rotation stage driven by an integrated brushless DC motor with no leadscrew, so there is no backlash. High speed and a central SM1 threaded aperture suit polarisation scanning and sample rotation.
• ORIC Rotation Stages with Piezoelectric Inertia Drive (PDR Series): Compact stainless steel rotation stages driven by a piezoelectric inertia motor, giving fine backlash-free steps and holding position with power off. A central bore lets a beam pass through or takes optomechanics.
• UMC Series Universal Motor Controllers: Benchtop controllers in one, two and three channel versions that drive both brushless DC and stepper motor stages with encoder feedback. They run from a PC over USB or Ethernet, from a joystick, or from the XA software suite.
• KPC101 K-Cube Piezo Controller and Strain Gauge Reader: A single channel piezo drive and strain gauge readout in one compact cube, running open loop on voltage or closed loop on position. Digital triggers make it suitable for piezo scanning applications.
• MDT693B and MDT694B Open-Loop Piezo Controllers: Low noise voltage sources for driving piezoelectric actuators and stacks, in one and three channel versions. The maximum output can be limited by a rear switch to protect low voltage piezos, and BNC input allows external modulation.
• BPC301 and BPC303 Closed-Loop Piezo Controllers: High power benchtop piezo controllers that run open or closed loop with strain gauge or capacitive sensor feedback. Waveform generation supports piezo scanning, and an auto-configure function reads Thorlabs actuator identification.
• DRV120 Modular Piezoelectric Actuator: A piezo drive that fits between a NanoMax stage and its existing actuator, adding fine travel with strain gauge feedback for closed loop control. It also fits any stage that accepts a 9.5 mm mounting barrel.
• PIA Series Piezoelectric Inertia Actuators: Stick-slip piezo actuators that replace a manual adjuster on a mirror mount or translation stage, giving nanometre steps over a long travel range with no backlash. They hold position without power once stepping stops.
• Amplified Piezoelectric Actuators, 220 µm to 2500 µm Travel: Discrete piezo stacks mounted inside a flexure housing that acts as a lever, greatly increasing the free stroke while keeping the fast response of the stack. They are backlash free and suitable for open or closed loop use.
• Nexus Optical Tables, 210 mm (8.3") Thick: All steel Nexus optical tables with a 210 mm thick honeycomb core, supplied in sizes from 1 m x 2 m up to 1.5 m x 2.5 m. The machined stainless steel top skin is tapped on a 25 mm grid and every table is individually tested for damping performance.
• Nexus Optical Tables, 310 mm (12.2") Thick: A thicker Nexus optical table for demanding beam stability, offered from 1 m x 2 m up to 1.5 m x 4 m. The 310 mm core raises stiffness so that deflection under a 150 kg central load stays below 1.2 micrometres, suiting interferometry and long beam paths.
• Nexus Optical Tables, 460 mm (18.1") Thick: The heaviest Nexus table, 460 mm thick, available from 1.2 m x 2 m up to 1.5 m x 4 m. The extra depth gives the highest stiffness in the range and is intended for large multi-instrument setups where relative tabletop motion must stay at the sub-nanometre level.
• Nexus Optical Breadboards, Optimized Damping, 60 mm (2.4") Thick: Steel honeycomb breadboards 60 mm thick, from 300 mm x 300 mm up to 900 mm x 1200 mm. Each board is individually tested and damping is optimised per size, making them a practical mounting surface for benchtop optics and small laser setups.
• Nexus Optical Breadboards, Optimized Damping, 110 mm (4.3") Thick: A 110 mm thick Nexus breadboard range covering 600 mm x 900 mm up to 1200 mm x 1800 mm. The deeper honeycomb core raises stiffness for larger optical layouts that still need to sit on a frame rather than a full optical table.
• Aluminum Breadboards: High Stiffness, 25 mm (0.98") Thick: Lightweight non-magnetic breadboards built from aluminium plates over an aluminium honeycomb core. Matching the coefficient of thermal expansion throughout reduces thermal drift, and a T-slot in each side accepts 25 mm construction rails.
• Upgradeable Optical Table Supports: Rigid, Non-Isolating: Free-standing rigid legs for Thorlabs optical tables, supplied in three heights with a levelling pad. They suit vibration-insensitive work such as general spectroscopy, and each leg can later be converted to passive pneumatic isolation with an upgrade kit.
• Passive Isolation Optical Table Supports: Pneumatic table legs that isolate an optical table from floor vibration across the 10 to 50 Hz range where most laboratory disturbance sits. The closed oil-free system is inflated with a foot pump and needs no permanent compressed air supply.
• Optical Table Supports: Active Vibration Isolation: Self-levelling pneumatic supports that isolate an optical table in both the vertical and horizontal axes from about 3 Hz upwards. The very low resonant frequency suits interferometry, nanopositioning and high resolution microscopy.
• Passive Benchtop Isolation Systems: Benchtop isolation for breadboards and instruments, covering pneumatic IsoPlate platforms, bolt-on pneumatic isolator feet and sorbothane feet. They are intended for temporary setups and moderately vibration-sensitive microscopy and photonics work.
• Active Isolation Breadboard Support Frames: All steel support frames carrying four air-mounted active isolators, sized for breadboards up to 1200 mm x 1800 mm. They self-level to a repeatability of 0.25 mm and suit interferometry, cell injection and non-contact surface measurement.
• Single Mode FC/PC Fiber Optic Patch Cables (P1 Series): Single mode patch cables terminated at both ends with ceramic FC/PC connectors, covering wavelengths from the near ultraviolet to the short wave infrared. Low back reflection at the fibre junction makes them suitable for laser delivery and instrument interconnection.
• Step-Index Multimode Fiber Optic Patch Cables, SMA to SMA (M Series): Multimode patch cables with SMA connectors at both ends, offered across a wide range of core diameters and numerical apertures. They are the usual link between a broadband source, a sample and a spectrometer in a teaching or analytical laboratory.
• Graded-Index (GRIN) Multimode Fiber Optic Patch Cables: Patch cables built from graded-index multimode fibre, whose gradual index profile cuts modal dispersion and raises bandwidth compared with step-index fibre. They are supplied with narrow key FC/PC or LC/PC ceramic ferrule connectors.
• FiberPort Collimators and Couplers (PAF2 Series): Compact micropositioners that couple a free space beam into fibre or collimate the output, with five degrees of freedom plus rotation. They work with single mode, multimode and polarisation maintaining fibre and hold alignment once locked.
• F810 Series Air-Spaced Doublet Fiber Collimators: Factory aligned collimation packages with a multi-element doublet lens, giving diffraction limited performance at the design wavelength. With no moving parts they cannot drift out of alignment, which suits permanent fibre coupled detection systems.
• CFC Series FC/APC Adjustable Aspheric Collimators: Adjustable focus collimators built around a spring loaded aspheric lens in a stainless steel cell, for collimating light out of an FC/APC terminated fibre. A locking ring holds the setting once the beam is collimated.
• TC Series Triplet Fiber Optic Collimators and Couplers: Air-spaced triplet lens collimators that produce a nearly Gaussian output with lower divergence and wavefront error than an aspheric collimator. They can be used in pairs for collimator to collimator coupling over separations up to 2 m.
• Single Mode Fiber Optic Circulators (CIR Series): Three port non-reciprocal devices that pass light from port 1 to port 2 and from port 2 to port 3 with low loss, while blocking the reverse paths. They are used in add-drop multiplexing, fibre sensing and bidirectional transmission.
• Fiber-to-Fiber U-Benches (FBC and FBP Series): A FiberBench base with fibre input and output on the same side, opening the beam into free space so that filters, polarisers or modulators can be inserted. Fixed versions use factory aligned patch cables and adjustable versions use FiberPorts.
• ARC150 Portable Arc Fusion Splicer Kit: A field portable arc fusion splicer with automated cleaved fibre inspection, alignment and splicing, supplied with manual cleavers and transfer clips. The removable battery and carrying case make it usable away from a bench.
• Vytran LFS Series Filament Fusion Splicers: Filament fusion splicers for standard, large diameter, specialty and soft glass fibre, using a resistive filament rather than an arc. True Core Imaging aligns the fibres and the wide thermal range also allows thermally expanded core mode field adapters to be made.
• Vytran CAC400 Compact Fiber Cleaver: An automated tension and scribe cleaver for cladding diameters from 60 to 600 micrometres, handling single mode, multimode, polarisation maintaining, photonic crystal and soft glass fibre. The CAC400A version also produces angled cleaves.
• Vytran LDC401 Fiber Cleavers for Ø80 µm to Ø1.25 mm Cladding: Programmable large diameter cleavers using a stepper controlled diamond blade and linear tension loading, with an internal vacuum pump to hold the fibre. They handle capillary tubes, photonic crystal and non-circular fibre as well as standard types.
• C-Series Photodiode Power Sensors (S100 Series): Photodiode sensor heads for optical power meter consoles, chosen when fast response and high resolution matter more than a flat spectral response. Standard, slim, microscope slide, integrating sphere and fibre versions all share the C-Series connector.
• C-Series Thermal Power Sensors (S400 Series): Thermopile sensor heads with a broadband absorber and a relatively flat spectral response, for measuring laser power from the deep UV into the far infrared. Most heads accept free space input and a fibre adapter, and connect to any C-Series console.
• C-Series Pyroelectric Energy Sensors (ES Series): Pyroelectric heads that measure the energy of individual laser pulses across a very wide spectral range. Standard, high energy and fast versions cover different repetition rates, and a BNC to C-Series adapter is supplied for use with Thorlabs consoles.
• PM100D2 and PM100D3 Digital Handheld Power and Energy Meter Consoles: Handheld consoles with a colour touchscreen that read Thorlabs photodiode, thermal and pyroelectric sensors. They log data to internal memory and support free space and fibre measurements, with over forty compatible sensor heads.
• PM5020 Dual-Channel Benchtop Power and Energy Meter Console: A two channel benchtop console with a 5 inch touchscreen, for continuous wave and modulated light measurement. It acquires up to 100 kS/s, drives configurable analogue outputs and can be monitored over USB, Ethernet, RS232 or a web browser.
• PM16 Series Compact USB Power Meters: Sensor heads with the power meter electronics built into a USB stick housing, read by the Optical Parameter Monitor software on a PC. Photodiode, slim photodiode, integrating sphere and thermal head formats are offered, all post mountable.
• PDA Series Si and Black Si Free-Space Amplified Photodetectors: Silicon photodetectors with a built-in transimpedance amplifier, in fixed gain, switchable gain and USB data acquisition versions. They are the workhorse detector for laser pulse monitoring and general laboratory photodetection.
• DET Series Free-Space Biased Detectors: Reverse biased photodiodes in a slim aluminium housing for monitoring continuous wave or fast pulsed lasers. Silicon, germanium and InGaAs versions cover the UV to the mid infrared, and each unit ships with an internal 12 V bias battery.
• PDB Series Free-Space Balanced Amplified Photodetectors: Balanced receivers that subtract two optical inputs to cancel common mode noise, letting small signal changes be pulled out of the noise floor. They are used for spectroscopy, heterodyne detection, optical coherence tomography and terahertz work.
• SPDM Series Single Photon Detectors and Counting Modules: Actively quenched, temperature stabilised silicon avalanche photodiode modules that produce a TTL pulse for every detected photon. They pair with correlated photon pair sources for quantum optics teaching, and also suit photon correlation spectroscopy and LIDAR.
• Photomultiplier Modules (PMT and PMM Series): Photomultiplier modules with bialkali, multialkali or GaAsP photocathodes for detecting faint optical signals. Their large active areas suit divergent light, and SM1 or C-Mount threading lets filters and lens tubes attach directly.
• Position-Sensing Detectors (PDP and PDQ Series): Detectors that report the position of an incident beam rather than just its power. The lateral effect PDP90A is insensitive to beam shape, while the segmented quadrant models suit automatic alignment and beam stabilisation loops.
• General-Purpose Ø50 mm Integrating Spheres (2P Series): Integrating spheres in black anodised aluminium that spread incoming light evenly by multiple internal reflections. They are used for laser power, flux, reflectance and radiance measurements, and take Thorlabs SM05PD photodiodes directly.
• Zelux 1.6 MP CMOS Compact Scientific Cameras: Very small scientific cameras with a 1.6 megapixel global shutter CMOS sensor, in monochrome and colour. They connect over USB 3.0, thread directly into SM1 lens tubes and 30 mm cage systems, and ship with ThorImageCAM software and an SDK.
• Kiralux CMOS Compact Scientific Cameras: A family of global shutter CMOS cameras from 1.3 to 12.3 megapixels in monochrome, colour and NIR-enhanced versions. Passively cooled and thermoelectrically cooled models are offered, all with a USB 3.0 interface and cage system compatibility.
• Quantalux 2.1 MP sCMOS Scientific Cameras: Monochrome scientific CMOS cameras built for low light imaging, combining sub-electron median read noise with high dynamic range. They are used for fluorescence microscopy, quantum dot imaging and multispectral work, in passively or actively cooled packages.
• Kiralux Polarization Cameras, 5.0 MP Monochrome CMOS: Monochrome cameras with a four-direction wire grid polariser array built onto the sensor between the microlenses and the photodiodes. A single exposure yields intensity, azimuth and degree of linear polarisation images for stress and flaw inspection.
• EDU-QOP1 Quantum Optics Educational Kit: A free space kit that lets students build a heralded single photon source from a type-I BBO crystal and study it with single photon detectors. Experiments cover coincidence counting, single photon polarisation, self interference and the quantum eraser.
• EDU-QCRY1 Quantum Cryptography Analogy Demonstration Kit: A classical analogy kit that models the BB84 key distribution protocol using the polarisation of light. Students build the sender, receiver and eavesdropper stations and see how interception introduces detectable errors.
• Quantum Eraser Demonstration Kit: An analogy experiment built around a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, in which polarisation marks which path the light took and then erases that information. The fringes disappear and reappear, showing complementarity in a form students can see.
• EDU-BT1 Bomb Tester Demonstration Kit: A Michelson interferometer kit that demonstrates the Elitzur-Vaidman interaction-free measurement thought experiment. Marking a photon with path information destroys the interference pattern, which students observe on a screen and with a detector.
• EDU-OT3 Portable Optical Tweezers Educational Kit: A teaching optical trap assembled on a 30 cm by 60 cm aluminium breadboard, with a visible laser, sample stage and camera. Students observe Brownian motion and trap microbeads in three dimensions without realigning the setup between sessions.
• EDU-TRAS1 Time-Resolved Absorption Spectroscopy Educational Kit: A masters level kit for building a nanosecond transient absorption spectroscopy setup. Students measure the change in sample absorbance after optical excitation and extract excited state decay times.
• EDU-FOP2 Fourier Optics Educational Kit: A 4f optical setup that projects the Fourier plane of a chrome-on-glass target onto a screen, so students can filter spatial frequencies and watch the image change. It links Fourier transforms to image formation in a microscope.
• EDU-3D1 Polarization and 3D Cinema Technology Kit: A polarisation teaching kit that builds three setups for viewing 3D images, including a circular polarisation projection based on cinema technology. Further experiments measure optical rotation in sugar solutions and map stress in materials.
• OTKB Modular Optical Tweezers: A complete inverted microscope optical trapping system for advanced laboratory courses and research. A 976 nm trap laser, oil immersion objective and piezo sample stage allow microscopic objects to be held and moved under video observation.
• AOK Series Adaptive Optics Kits: Complete adaptive optics systems containing one or two deformable mirrors, a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor, a laser diode source, imaging optics and control software. They are used for beam shaping, microscopy and teaching demonstrations.