Features
Schäfter+Kirchhoff offers customized beam launchers especially for quantum optics. These beam launchers are customized optical systems for collimation and combination of fiber-guided radiation from multiple laser systems. They are compact, modular and long-term stable, are ideal for launching tailored laser beams to the desired target and can be conveniently flanged to the chamber.
Following functionalities can be integrated:
- Superposition: multiple input ports / dichroic beam combination
- Beam expansion
- Beam shaping: beams with elliptical cross-sections
- Polarization control: quarter and half-wave plates
- Polarization definition: post polarizer
- Power monitor
- Electromagnetic shutter
- Focus generation: attachment optics for refocusing