Lasers for LIDAR Seeding
Geology Seismology Remote sensing Atmospheric physics TOPTICA’s added value
LIDAR applications
LIDAR, light detection and ranging, is an optical remote…
Laser Guide Star
Adaptive optics is employed in modern telescopes in order to correct the wavefront distortion induced by the Earth’s atmosphere, yielding blurred images. As a reference object for…
Diode Lasers for Microlithography
Moore’s law is king: Striving for ever smaller structures is the clear target of microlithography. In modern microlithographic systems compact violet and UV diode…
Ellipsometry
Manufacturers of optics, semiconductor and optical data storage share the same problem: how to control the thickness of thin films or layers? The measurement has to be fast,…
Inspection for Process Optimization
Any production line of optical media requires inspection tools in order to maintain high quality standards. Shape and depth of structures have to meet strict…
Widely tunable comb-locked frequency-swept synthesizer
Advantages Optical synthesizer
the scanning cw laser is permanently phase-locked to the frequency comb and inherits its low phase noise and…
Highly Stable Lasers for Scatterometry
In strive for ever more capable electronics, advanced processes led to an increase in complicated 3D structures (i.e. FinFET and others). To keep manufacturing…