Partners to marry key optical building blocks

Liekki Corporation is collaborating with Bookham to offer a compatible optical engine and pump block unit.

Liekki Corporation, a leading supplier of highly doped fibres and optical engine modules for fibre laser and amplifier applications, is collaborating with Bookham to offer a compatible optical engine and pump block unit.

The companies' combined technology will offer more compact and cost-effective fibre lasers and amplifiers and will be demonstrated for the first time at Photonics West later this month.

The combined products will enable system manufacturers to integrate key optical building blocks into compact systems and to significantly reduce design time and costs.

Liekki's amplifier optical engine and continuous wave (CW) optical engines are being combined with the Bookham pump block design, which incorporates a stacked system of multiple high power laser modules and accessible water cooling elements.

The combined products are designed for medium-power 10-30W CW fibre laser and 10W output power amplifier applications, both CW and pulsed.

Dr Berthold Schmidt, Director of Marketing for High Power Laser Diodes at Bookham, said: "Customers need more complete and modular solutions; by combining our products, Liekki and Bookham are meeting exactly this requirement".

"Intelligent forward integration is a key strategy within the Bookham industrial laser portfolio and demonstrates our commitment to supporting fibre laser manufacturers".

"The combination of Liekki's compact and ready-to-use fibre subassemblies and the proven reliability and brightness of the Bookham pump block will give customers the technology they need to meet their design requirements".

William Willson, VP of Sales and Marketing at Liekki, commented: "The fibre laser and amplifier system manufacturers need cost-effective and highly reliable building blocks to design CW and pulsed laser system solutions rapidly and efficiently to their customers' needs and specifications".

"They therefore need suppliers who offer compatible products, eliminating concerns about optical, electrical, mechanical or thermal compatibility".

"The building blocks that we are offering give original equipment manufacturers that security and the flexibility that they are looking for".

Liekki and Bookham plan to extend this collaboration to further compatible modules.

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