Features
- Broad-bandwidth MIR pulses at high repetition rate
- Continuously tunable in 2500 – 15 000 nm range
- Short-pulse high-energy auxiliary output at 2000 nm
- Pumped by industrial-grade lasers for high stability
- CEP-stable option
ORPHEUS-MIR is an optical parametric amplifier (OPA) optimized for the efficient generation of broad-bandwidth MIR pulses. The laser system provides ultrashort pulses in the tuning range of 2.5 – 10 μm and reaches up to 15 μm with a narrow-bandwidth extension. Due to the novel system design, ORPHEUS-MIR provides < 100 fs pulses directly at the output. Signal and Idler outputs are available simultaneously. The system architecture is well-suited for high-energy and high‑power PHAROS and CARBIDE femtosecond pump lasers.
ORPHEUS-MIR serves as an excellent high-repetition-rate source for spectroscopy, such as two-dimensional infrared (2D IR) and vibrational sum-frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy. Combined with a narrow-bandwidth output of SHBC, it forms a compact laser system for SFG measurements, covering most of the MIR spectrum in a single shot and providing high spectral resolution. In addition, its high output stability is the key to fast and high-quality SFG imaging.
Furthermore, for MIR applications requiring CEP-stable pulses, ORPHEUS-MIR provides unique CEP-stable option in the complete 2500 – 15000 nm range.
- Broadband vibrational sum-frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy
- Time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (TR-ARPES)
- Two-dimensional infrared (2D IR) spectroscopy
- High-harmonic generation (HHG) in solids
- Other infrared spectroscopy and high-energy physics applications
- Specified as a percentage of pump power.
- FWHM (full width at half maximum).
- Expressed as NRMSD (normalized root mean squared deviation).
- Not tunable, optimized for best overall performance. Not simultaneous to OPA output.
- Specified as a percentage of pump power.
- Simultaneous to OPA output. Available on request.
- Specified as a percentage of pump power.
- Not available in collinear-output configuration.
- Specified as a percentage of pump power.
- FWHM, assuming Gaussian pulse shape.

Pump: 80 W, 2 mJ, 40 kHz



Measured at ≈ 3000 nm

Measured over 12 h at 5000 nm
Broadband Multidimensional Spectroscopy Identifies the Amide II Vibrations in Silkworm Films
A. S. Chatterley, P. Laity, C. Holland, T. Weidner, S. Woutersen, and G. Giubertoni, Molecules 19 (27), 6275 (2022).
Long seed, short pump: converting Yb-doped laser radiation to multi-µJ few-cycle pulses tunable through 2.5–15 µm
R. Budriūnas, K. Jurkus, M. Vengris, and A. Varanavičius, Optics Express 8 (30), 13009 (2022).
Measuring Protein Conformation at Aqueous Interfaces with 2D Infrared Spectroscopy of Emulsions
A. S. Chatterley, T. W. Golbek, and T. Weidner, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 31 (13), 7191-7196 (2022).
Peptide Orientation at Emulsion Nanointerfaces Dramatically Different from Flat Surfaces
T. W. Golbek, K. Strunge, A. S. Chatterley, and T. Weidner, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 46 (13), 10858-10862 (2022).
Structure and Orientation of the SARS-Coronavirus-2 Spike Protein at Air–Water Interfaces
M. Bregnhøj, S. J. Roeters, A. S. Chatterley, F. Madzharova, R. Mertig, J. S. Pedersen, and T. Weidner, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 18 (126), 3425-3430 (2022).
Electrostatics Trigger Interfacial Self-Assembly of Bacterial Ice Nucleators
F. Madzharova, M. Bregnhøj, A. S. Chatterley, K. B. Løvschall, T. Drace, L. S. A. Dreyer, T. Boesen, and T. Weidner, Biomacromolecules 2 (23), 505-512 (2021).
Broadband Mid-Infrared Source Tunable through 3-11pm Based on Yb-doped Laser and Dual OPA Setup
R. Budriunas, K. Jurkus, and A. Varanavicius, in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, (OSA, 2020).
ORPHEUS-MIR Broad-Bandwidth Mid-Infrared Optical Parametric Amplifier
Product datasheet.
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