Successfully demonstrated: LIMO’s diffractive beam splitter with highest efficiency of 95 %

LIMO starts the new year with expansion of its product portfolio with diffractive beam splitter. Unlike the conventional binary diffractive optical elements (DOE), the LIMO beam splitter has a continuous profile. This property has the advantage that undesirable ghost beam effects do not appear. The result is a very high diffractive efficiency of 95 – 97% that LIMO already successfully demonstrated.
Depending on the design of the beam splitter, large beam angles are possible. Additionally the split beams can be focused by means of optional lenses. Furthermore the properties of the profile have an impact on the amount of intensity variation between the spots which is smaller than +/- 5%.

LIMO delivers customized beam splitters consisting of different materials like fused silica or CaF2 for high power and UV applications. The LIMO beam splitter is most suitable for the widely used solid-state lasers with a wavelength of 355 nm, 532 nm and 1064 nm. Especially in the precise laser materials processing (e.g. surface structuring, sawing, cutting, perforation) the beam splitter is often required due to the splitting into several identical spots.

At the Photonics West 2011 (South Hall, booth #601), you will have the opportunity to get to know this product better. For further information please visit our website www.limo.de or contact Klaus Reinecke, k.reinecke@limo.de.

LIMO Lissotschenko Mikrooptik GmbH
Bookenburgweg 4-8
44319 Dortmund, Germany
Tel.: +49 - 231 - 22241 - 0
Fax: +49 - 231 - 22241 - 140
E-Mail: contact@limo.de
Web: www.limo.de
Kontakt für weitere Informationen: Klaus Reinecke, k.reinecke@limo.de
Kontakt PR & Marketing: Nicole Krebs, n.krebs@limo.de

Company Profile

Founded in 1992 - 190 employees - 24 nations - more than 300 patents

At LIMOs headquarters in Dortmund, Germany, an international team of more than 190 engineers, physicists, technicians and many other specialized staff develops customized solutions and manufactures innovative products. LIMO was founded near Paderborn in 1992, relocated to the “Technologiezentrum Dortmund” in 1995 and operates today from industrial park “Dortmund Wickede”, located in the direct neighborhood of the Dortmund airport. On 10,000 m² floor space, LIMO runs approximately 2000 m² of clean room and 800 m² of in-house metal machine shops. At present LIMO holds more than 300 patents.

We regard ourselves as strategic partner to leading companies using laser photons. Our mission is to make business partners in the materials processing & photonic industries more successful with our cutting edge technologies. We are world-market leader in diode laser optics and have been awarded for this technology with the “world’s first innovation award 2007”. (Innovationspreis der deutschen Wirtschaft 2007) A laser beam can be effectively shaped and directed by the use of this award-winning technique – therefore, it is possible to create, e.g., linear or rectangular beam shapes. The following industries benefit from our customized solutions: Microlithography, medical equipment, photonics (solid-state and fiber lasers), flat panel display- and photovoltaic production, automotive manufacturing and all other industries that use high power lasers.

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