Wyant College of Optical Sciences at University of Arizona won a Gentec-EO PRONTO-SI

Wyant College of Optical Sciences at University of Arizona won a PRONTO-SI at the Gentec-EO 2020 Laser Lab Awards.

The PRONTO-SI uses a photodiode-based technology and is made for laser power measurement between 0.3 nW and 800 mW. It can be handheld or mounted on a small stand. This user-friendly product is so simple to use that anyone can start using it within seconds. It offers data logging on its internal memory and a USB connection to transfer data on your PC.

The PRONTO-SI portable laser power meter is an invaluable addition to their Advanced Laser Physics lab course. They use it in a wide variety of experiments for academic purposes, including:

1. Gaussian beam optics and the Fabry-Perot cavity
2. Construction of a He-Ne laser
3. Active and passive mode-locking
4. Fiber lasers and ultra-fast pulse characterization
5. Second-harmonic generation
6. Semiconductor lasers and construction of an external cavity diode laser
7. Saturation-absorption spectroscopy
8. Magneto-optical trapping

For these experiments, they use lasers that operate with wavelengths ranging from 400 nm to 1.5 µm of powers ranging from 0.1 nW to 100 mW.

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The PRONTO-SI allows them to make more accurate measurements using a modern detector system. With this Gentec-EO technology in their labs, students can save and compile their measurements for future evaluation. That’s a big upgrade compared to the old technology they previously used.

The photograph below shows two of their senior students (Maddie Nowaczyk and Dani Trontz) using a razor blade and the PRONTO-SI laser power meter to measure the gaussian beam profile of a laser.

It always feels great when we see our products contributing to the teaching of future professional laser users. We hope that they learn a lot from these experiments.