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SPIE.Photonics West 2026German Exhibitors UltraFast Innovations GmbH

UltraFast Innovations GmbH

Booth number: 4205-30
www.ultrafast-innovations.com/

About us

UltraFast Innovations GmbH (UFI®) develops, manufactures and merchandises custom-made optics and optical devices for ultra-short pulse laser applications. Founded in 2009 as a spin-off from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ), our company is located in Garching, close to Munich.

Our optical components cover the spectrum from the UV-VIS-IR range all the way down to the XUV/soft X-ray-range including mirrors, beam splitters, filters, or anti-reflection coatings. We specialize in offering customized coatings exactly for your experimental needs.

Our portfolio includes as well devices and entire setups for your laboratory. Our experience in optics and ultrafast technology allows us to provide you with the latest systems for generation, characterization and manipulation of ultrafast light, as well as characterization and quality control of optical components.

XUV mirrors

Pulse compression fibers

Beamsplitter

Entire setups for your laboratory

Our coating systems

Characterisation devices for optics and lasers

Tailored pump-probe multilayered mirrors

Customised optics

State-of-the-art solutions for high-power lasers

Address

UltraFast Innovations GmbH
Dieselstr. 5
85748 Garching
Germany

E-mail: exhibitions@ultrafast-innovations.com
Phone:  +49 893 6039437
Internet: www.ultrafast-innovations.com/

Contact person:

Alexander Guggenmos
CEO
E-mail: info@ultrafast-innovations.com

UltraFast Innovations
Sales
E-mail: sales@ultrafast-innovations.com

Products & Services

Beam conditioning and steering components
Optical coatings
Metrology and testing equipment
Others und Science and Research

UFI offers a range of optics, high-tech laboratory devices, and setups that deliver top-of-the-line solutions in ultrafast technology. Our extensive portfolio is the result of years of hands-on experience in the industry, coupled with a keen eye on the latest advancements.

Cascaded spectral broadening and post-compression

Cascaded hollow-core fiber compression system with a compression factor of 35-40
Overall transmission higher than 70%
Footprint of 50 x 300 cm2
Compatible with commercial and home-built lasers
Tailored to each user

Cascaded hollow-core fiber

Core technological approach

Measured trace and reconstructed spectra

Power traces

Ultrabroadband quarter-waveplate with no added GDD

Our ultrabroadband reflective vis-nIR phase retarder is the perfect quarter waveplate to convert linearly polarized light into circularly polarized light with minimal dispersion.
Covering a broad spectral range from 650 to 1400 nm it supports more than an optical octave of bandwidth with a dispersion of less than 3 fs2 and up to 90% reflectivity, making it ideal for laser systems using ultrashort pulses, especially Ytterbium-based platforms. More wavelengths are available upon request.
Its rotation is remote controllable and can be used with beam diameters up to 6 mm, preserving the beam direction.

vis-nIR phase retarder: 8 x 15 cm2 footprint

GDD - group delay dispersion

Total phase delay

Total reflectance

Maximum Ellipticity Pc

Multipass cell

Compact source of high-peak power pulses
Energy up to 500 uJ
Ultrashort pulse duration: 20-50 fs
Compact footprint: 30 x 40-90 cm
Transmission: >90%
Spectral bandwidth: 940-1150 nm

Multipass cell

Spectral bandwidth

Single-shot autocorrelation

Lorentzian fit 21 fs, Instrumental limit 20 fs

UV dispersive mirrors with high reflectance for post-compression of 3rd and 4th harmonics

The new updated coatings designs for the VUV offers greater reflectivity, along with an exceptionally flat group delay dispersion. These features make them an outstanding solution for efficient temporal compression in UV applications.
Ideal for post-compression of 3rd and 4th harmonics.
Energy efficient chirp removal.
No B-integral accumulated.

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VUV optics

Advanced VUV optics - GDD and reflectance

Advanced VUV optics - GDD and reflectance

Advanced VUV optics - GDD and reflectance

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