Past News Items
Professor Margaret Murnane and Professor Henry Kapteyn Receive 2009 Ahmed Zewail Award in Ultrafast Science & Technology (Mar 2009)
Professors Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn became this year's joint recipients of the Ahmed Zewail Award in Ultrafast Science & Technology. The award recognizes outstanding and creative contributions to fundamental discoveries or inventions in ultrafast science & technology in areas of physics, chemistry, biology, or related fields. The Ahmed Zewail Award was first awarded in 2007, and is named in honor of 1999 Chemistry Nobelist. Kapteyn and Murnane are the first award recipients recognized for work done outside the chemistry field. Read more here.
Awards (Mar 2009)
SBIR Phase I Award from the DoD (Air Force) for ultrafast machining.
Low-Cost Griffin-3 Oscillator Introduced (Feb 2009)
KMLabs now offers a complete, turn-key Ti:sapphire laser system for less than what some competitors charge for just a pump laser! The Griffin-3 produces the broad bandwidths(>70nm) and ultrashort pulses (<10fs) which KMLabs Ti:sapphire lasers have been producing for over 15 years. Using a high performance, low cost 3-watt pump laser, the Griffin-3 delivers up to 350 mW output power in a robust, computer-tunable, cost competitive system.
KMLabs to build >10TW amplifier system for Defense Applications (Nov 2008)
The KMLabs >10TW (0.5J-class < 25 fs 10Hz) RedDragon-TW amplifier system, includes multi-wavelength, high-repetition rate, and beam-steering capability. This RedDragon-TW system is mobile for ease of transport to test sites.
Recent Awards (Fall 2008)
SBIR Phase I Award from the
National Science Foundation (NSF) for the development of an EUV Source
for Semiconductor Metrology.
STTR Phase I Award from the
US Department of Defense (AFRL) in Highly Parallel Ultrafast
Micromachining. KMLabs is teamed with Colorado School of Mines.
SBIR Phase II SBIR Award from the US Department of Energy for the
Development of New Mid-Infrared Ultrafast Laser Sources for Compact
X-ray Sources.
SBIR Phase II SBIR Award from the US Department of Energy for Laser
Systems Development for the International Linear Collider (ILC)
Photoinjector.
RedDragon Amplifier System News (Oct 2008)
The KMLabs 11mJ, 1kHz, 25fs femtosecond RedDragon laser system enables scientists to study strong field and matter interactions in the attosecond regime. Among other uses, 780nm femtosecond pulses are converted in a High Harmonic Generation setup to generate extreme UV and soft x-ray pulses.
KMLabs awarded contracts to build four high-power CEP ultrafast
amplifier systems for US and
KMLabs is under contract to deliver three high power ultrafast amplifier power systems to customers in Europe. Each system is designed for CEP stabilized operation. A RedDragon and Dragon system will be delivered to a customer in Germany. The RedDragon will be the highest energy commercial system ever delivered with CEP capability. Dragon systems will also be delivered to a customer in the UK, and a customer in California. All four systems will be delivered in the late 2008/early 2009 timeframe.
RedDragon Amplifier System installed in Europe (Sep 2008)
KMLabs installed a fully carrier-envelope phase (CEP) stabilized laser system with 6mJ, 1kHz, and 25fs in the UK for experiments in attosecond science, coherent control and ultrafast processes in molecules. The CEP system can be scaled to more than 14mJ at 1kHz.
Introducing Europe-based expert service and support for KMLabs ultrafast laser products (Aug 2008)
KMLabs and the Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK) in Heidelberg, Germany have entered into an agreement that will enable KMLabs to provide service support throughout Europe through scientists of the MPIK. This new agreement is another expansion of KMLabs service network, which has previously been mainly carried out from KMLabs factory in Boulder, Colorado, USA. This new technical support location in Heidelberg will allow KMLabs to conduct system installations, maintenance, and training directly from central Europe in order to expedite access to first-class technical support. KMLabs is especially proud of the exceptional expertise in femtosecond oscillators, femtosecond amplifier systems and CEP stabilization that this service from MPI will bring to the scientific community in Europe. The agreement will also allow the institute to gain access to the latest in femtosecond laser technology, and KMLabs will assist the Institute in improving their laser capabilities to optimize their state-of-the-art experiments.
KMLabs to build highest power CEP ultrafast amplifier system (Aug 2008)
KMLabs was awarded a contract to build a high power ultrafast amplifier system for delivery in early in 2009. The system will be a high repetition rate CEP RedDragon with < 25 fs pulse duration. This will be the highest average power commercial system ever equipped for CEP.
