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Infrared Tradition Patrick Paul, CEO Dear Reader, Since its founding in 1982, LASER COMPONENTS has specialized in IR c omponents with a focus on infrared detectors, and over time our collective know-how has become extensive. Customers now profit from our in-house production facilities world-wide. We have had the luxury of bringing aboard specialists that are more familiar with the market than ever before, providing their expertise in R&D and production. We offer IR detectors that implement different technologies making it possible for our customers to always find their ideal solution; and depending...

In-House Manufacturing LASER COMPONENTS Detector Group Founded in 2004 Located in Tempe, Arizona, USA The LASER COMPONENTS Detector Group with its CEO ragan rubisic D G started with the production of Avalanche Photodiodes in 2004, and with his experience in xInGaAs materials our PIN photodiodes were subsequently developed. Our latest technologies were launched in 2015, with Detector Group opening a development division and production plant for PbS and PbSe detectors. LASER COMPONENTS has now become the technology leader in PbS/PbSe manufacturing; developing new detectors and inventive fabrication...

Questions to Dragan Grubisic, CEO Q: What has been your first experience with infrared? A: I started working with Ge, InGaAs and InAs single element etectors d in 1983. Q: Has there been somebody like an infrared guide to you? A: Processing of infrared detectors has been and still is a kind of “black magic” so I mostly worked on my own developing fabrication and passivation processes for those infrared detectors with initial support by a Senior Chemist at Judson Infrared Inc. and later on by an infrared expert who was one of the first engineers working at Santa Barbara Research Centre. Q: What...

In-House Manufacturing LASER COMPONENTS Pyro Group Founded in 2014 Located in Stuart, Florida, USA In 2014 the LASER COMPONENTS group expanded its infrared etector d activities and acquired the majority ownership of a U.S. based think tank and manufacturer lead by Alan Doctor, a well-known pioneer in the field of IR, who was the first CEO of LASER COMPONENTS Pyro Group for more than 3 years. LASER COMPONENTS Pyro Group is now lead by our new CEO Lance Feldman, who has been manufacturing pyroelectric detectors for over more than a decade. The LASER COMPONENTS Pyro Group facility was moved in 2015,...

Questions to Lance Feldman, CEO Q: What has been your first experience with infrared? A: My first experience with Infrared occurred while I was still in Middle School, when motion sensors moved from Ultrasound to Infrared; the dramatic reduction of false positives, reduction in cost, giving rise to the commercialization of burglar alarms. I was fascinated with the technology and the reduction of these false positives utilizing Infrared. Q: Has there been somebody like an infrared guide to you? A: In 2008 I was approached by Alan Doctor who is well known in the IR community. He taught me the science...

In-House Manufacturing LASER COMPONENTS GmbH Founded in 1982 Located in Olching, Germany The LASER COMPONENTS GmbH is the headquarter of the whole LASER COMPONENTS Group, and is where our optoelectronic department is located. More than 10 engineers work on inter-divisional products and technologies in the Munich suburb. For our IR products a product family for testing and lab applications is currently being developed, dubbed the "CUBE". As well as CUBE's, we can now also offer our miniature FTIR Reference laser module. Housed in our popular CUBE format the InGaAs, Pyroelectric, PbS, and PbSe...

Questions to Dr. Lars Mechold, CTO Q: What has been your first experience with infrared? A: During my PhD I used to work in the field of high resolution spectro scopy in molecular plasmas. Q: Has there been somebody like an infrared guide to you? A: Yes, my former supervisor Prof. Röpcke at the Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology. He introduced me to a new field and its fabulous possibilities. Q: What has changed in the infrared over the years? A: Lead-salt lasers disappeared and QCL arised. There are new laser sources available. Fortunately more and more applications find themselves...

LASER COMPONENTS offers a broad spectrum of IR components that implement different technologies. Gas measurements, for example, can be carried out using both PbS/PbSe or pyroelectric detectors. Depending on what exactly needs to be measured, one technology is more ideal than the other. Here you will find a general comparison of the technologies. To receive the best measurement result it is mostly neccessary to test different technologies. That’s the aim of our IR application development kit.

Detectivity D* The Detectivity D* describes the quality of a detector with the following definition: D* represents the signal-to-noise ratio for a certain electrical frequency and bandwidth if 1 Watt of radiation power reaches a detector surface of 1 cm2. The higher the D* value is, the better the detector is. NEP describes the noise equivalent power. D* [cm √Hz W-1]   =   √active detector surface   NEP Cooled PbSe Fig 2: D* vs speed for different detector materials 12 – 13

Application Driving Innovation At LASER COMPONENTS, we understand that it is not the component manufacturers who drive worldwide innovation, but rather those who use our products. Therefore, we make sure to keep our finger on the pulse of new technologies, whether via. one of our annual international IR WORKshop events; where we bring together academics and industrial innovators from all fields around the world together, to share their combined knowledge at our HQ in Munich or at Arizona State University in the USA. We are also a manufacturer that is dedicated to working with customers to produce...