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Low-cost Custom Fabrication and Mode-locked Operation of an All-normal-dispersion Femtosecond Fiber Laser for Multiphoton Microscopy
Published on: November 22, 2019
Note: fast, small, and low vibration mechanical laser shutters
S Martínez1, L Hernández, D Reyes
1Instituto de Física, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí 78290, Mexico.
The Review of Scientific Instruments
|May 3, 2011
Abstract:
We present three novel mechanical laser shutter designs based, respectively, on a stepper motor, a relay, and a piezoelectric actuator. Each shutter type is ideally suited to a specific shuttering application. The stepper motor is well suited for applications requiring low vibrations, the relay is compact and capable of rapid bursts, and the piezoelectric is 2 orders of magnitude faster than other available mechanical shutters.

