High repetition rate Pockels cell drivers and accessories

High repetition rate Pockels cell drivers, MHz-class fast driver for pulse pickers, full bridge Pockels cell drivers for choosing single pulse from train of ultrashort pulses.
 PP-KIT pulse picker developer kit, a set of devices easy-to-integrate into your system,
 HVSW-03 or HVSW-04 Pockel cell drivers of MHz repetition rates.

Please, take into account also
 • ultra fast (1-3 ns rise), ultra small (40×30 mm) kHz-range QBD-nano for cavity dumping
 • ultra fast (1-3 ns rise and fall), small (80×50 mm), kHz-range, 0-800 ns duration QBU-nano for regenerative amplifier control
 • ultra fast (3-4 ns rise and fall), small (80×50 mm), up to 10 kHz-range, 10-1000 ns duration QBY-4001 and QBY-4010 on GaN transistors, for regenerative amplifier control and pulse picking.
 • ultra fast (3-4 ns rise and fall), up to 5 kHz-range, 10-1000 ns duration encased driver for laboratory QBY-BT on GaN transistors, for regenerative amplifier control and pulse picking.

HVSW-04 Pockels cell driver

High voltage high repetition rate Pockels cell driver:

  • Output voltage up to 4000 V
  • Repetition rate up to 4 MHz @ 1400 V and up to 1 MHz @ 3200 V
  • Rise/fall time - 5-11 ns (depends on load capacitance)
  • Requires external HV power supply
    (e.g. HVPS-300)
  • Water cooling

Applications: pulse picking, cavity dumping, regenerative amplifier control

HVPS-300 high voltage power supply

HVPS-300 is a specialized high voltage power supply with bipolar output and DC input. Key features:

  • bipolar output
  • 24 V DC input
    100-240 V AC in bench top version
  • output voltage - up to 4 kV (+/-2kV)
  • high output power - up to 300 W
  • output voltage accuracy - better than 0.5%

Typical use: powering megahertz-class Pockels cell drivers

HVSW-03 Pockels cell driver

High voltage high repetition rate Pockels cell driver:

  • Output voltage up to 2000 V
  • Repetition rate up to 1 MHz @ 1600 V
  • Risetime/falltime - 6-8 ns (depends on load capacitance)
  • Integrated high voltage power supply
  • Basement conduction cooling

Applications: pulse picking, cavity dumping, regenerative amplifier control

PP-KIT electronics for pulse picking, developer kit

PP-KIT or Pulse picker developer kit is an electronical part of pulse picker, it includes:

  • One PP-CONTROL synchronization board
  • One or two HVSW-03 or HVSW-04 high repetition rate Pockel cell drivers
  • PC software
  • Auxiliary power supplies, interconnection cables etc.

PP-CONTROL synchronization board

Precisely synchronizes up to two Pockels cell drivers to the seed oscillator optical pulse train:

  • 1x optical synchro input
  • 1x electrical synchro input
  • 2x independent synchro outputs
  • over 1000 ns adjustable delay in each channel
  • +/- 250 ps jitter
  • USB, RS-485 interfaces