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 Alpes Lasers HQ in Switzerland | |
| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| Industry | Photonics |
| Founded | (August 22, 1998) |
| Founders | Jerome Faist, Antoine Muller, Matthias Beck |
| Headquarters | Avenue des Pâquiers 1, 2072 St. Blaise, Switzerland |
Key people | Antoine Muller (CEO) |
| Products | |
| Website | Official website |
| Footnotes / references [1] | |
Alpes Lasers S.A. is a Swiss manufacturer of infrared lasers and electrical drivers based in St. Blaise, Neuchatel. The company was the first to commercialize the quantum cascade laser (QCL) for scientific[2][3], industrial and medical use[4]. QCLs have also been developed by Alpes Lasers for defensive countermeasure applications for the United States Air Force[5].
The company was founded in 1998 by physicists Jerome Faist, Antoine Muller and Matthias Beck to design, manufacture and distribute QCLs, which were first demonstrated by Jerome Faist, Federico Capasso, Deborah Sivco, Carlo Sirtori, Albert Hutchinson, and Alfred Cho at Bell Laboratories in 1994[6]. Prior to founding Alpes Lasers, Faist co-authored the US patent for the quantum cascade laser[7].
In 2017, Alpes Lasers introduced QCL frequency combs commercially[8][9].
References
- ^ "Corporate Profile". Alpes Lasers S.A. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
- ^ Walker, Richard (2011). Quantum Cascade Laser Spectroscopy: Applications and Developments (PhD). University of Oxford.
- ^ Bergin, Ann G.V. (2013). Applications of optical-feedback cavity-enhanced absorption spectroscopy (PhD). University of Oxford.
- ^ "Alpes commercializes quantum-cascade laser". Laser Focus World. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
- ^ "Alpes Lasers to Supply QCLs to US Air Force Intelligence Project". Photonics Media. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
- ^ Faist, Jerome; Federico Capasso; Deborah L. Sivco; Carlo Sirtori; Albert L. Hutchinson; Alfred Y. Cho (April 1994). "Quantum Cascade Laser". Science. 264 (5158): 553–556. Bibcode:1994Sci...264..553F. doi:10.1126/science.264.5158.553. PMID 17732739.
- ^ US patent US5936989A, Federico Capasso; Alfred Yi Cho & Jerome Faist, "Quantum cascade laser", published 1999-08-10, issued 1999-08-10, assigned to Lucent Technologies Inc.
- ^ "Product Focus: Alpes Lasers commercially introduces frequency-comb quantum-cascade lasers". Laser Focus World. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
- ^ "Alpes Lasers launches frequency comb quantum cascade lasers". Semiconductor Today. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
