THORLABS

• Imaging systems
• Imaging components
• Microscopy cameras
• Industrial metrology
• Optogenetics

Thorlabs' range of imaging systems includes laser scanning microscopy systems and OCT imaging systems. These systems include multiphoton and confocal fluorescence microscopy systems.

Thorlabs is a leader in developing imaging systems for optical coherence tomography (OCT). There are both off-the-shelf systems and a selection of components that are ideal for building customized OCT systems.

The optogenetics product line includes fiber optic components and light sources for optical stimulation in vivo for neuroscience research.

• Fiber processing/inspection
• Fiber & Fiber patch cabels
• Fiber optomechanics
• Fiber components
• Devices for testing and measuring fiber parameters

Torlabs' full line of optical fibers and fiber optic components includes:  bare optical fibers, fiber patch cables, collimators, polarization controllers, fiber connectors, WDMs, circulators and attenuators, as well as all the tools and consumables needed to terminate, test and clean fiber and fiber components.

• Optical tabels & breadboards
• Optomechanical components
• Optomechanical devices
• Training kits
• Lab supplies

Thorlabs manufactures a wide range of rugged breadboards in stainless steel and aluminum. Optical tables and boards are available with or without threaded mounting holes.
Support and workstation options for optical tables and boards include non-insulating rigid supports, passive and active supports.

The company designs and manufactures high-quality mechanics for virtually any application. Standard components such as racks, optical rails, broadcast platforms and optics holders are offered along with a variety of lens tubes and separators.

This is a broad category that includes optical tables, plates and mounts, mechanical devices with integrated electronics, kits to get the right set of components for research or work, and general lab supplies and tools.

• Lasers / Coherent sources
• Incoherent sources
• Active optical devices
• Drivers & Mounts
• Components for protection against laser radiation

The coherent source category includes: laser diodes, laser diode modules, tunable lasers, HeNe lasers and femtosecond lasers. The non-coherent source category includes: LEDs, white light sources and broadband light sources (SLDs).

The line of benchtop optical amplifiers includes ytterbium-doped fiber amplifiers (YDFA), praseodymium fluoride-doped fiber amplifier (PDFA), and erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFA).

For laser safety, accessories such as laser goggles, laser safety curtains, beam blockers and blinds are available. For broadband non-laser radiation, blackout curtains, optical shrouds and various blackout materials are available.

• Manual stages
• Motorized stages
• Multi-axis stages
• Actuators, adjusters & transducers
• Precision controllers

Thorlabs products are divided into manual and motorized linear and rotary devices, multi-axis cascades, drives and controllers. 1-axis, 2-axis and 3-axis specialized cascades are available. A customized system is available.

For nanopositioning applications such as waveguide and fiber interfacing, our line of multi-axis bending stages is ideal. Both motorized and multi-axis devices are supported by a full line of controllers for a variety of motor and piezoelectric drives.

Support custom and OEM applications with a comprehensive line of manual, motorized and piezo actuators, as well as threaded adjusting screws.

• Polarization optics
• Optical elements
• Optical systems
• Optical isolators
• Optical element sets

Polarization optics change the polarization state of the incident radiation, and polarization instruments monitor and measure the polarization state.

The equipment operates in the UV, visible and IR spectral regions and includes polarizers, wave plates/retarders, quartz depolarizers, liquid crystal polymer-based depolarizers and vortex retarders

Thorlabs manufactures an extensive line of free space and fiber optic isolators.

Thorlabs optical systems can be combined into kits with new desired features.

• Power & Energy meters
• Photodetectors from UV to IR and THz - spectral regions
• Beam characterization
• Equipment for control and measurement of polarization
• Auxiliary tools for working with electrical equipment

Thorlabs offers a wide range of detectors and instruments for measuring the properties of light. Universal power and energy meters can be used with more than 25 different detectors to perform NIST power and energy measurements.
Wide range of photodiode-based detectors (uncalibrated and calibrated), photodetectors (biased, amplified and avalanche), CCD and CMOS sensors, position detectors, integrating spheres and photomultiplier tubes.

• Telecom instruments
• Spectroscopy
• Quantum technologies
• Training sets
• OEM / Manufacturing capabilities

From sophisticated optical instruments to educational kits, Thorlabs equipment can be used in a wide variety of applications. We offer instruments for telecommunications and data communications, spectroscopy components and systems, components for quantum technologies, and training kits based on Thorlabs products. We also offer extensive OEM manufacturing capabilities.