Consulting

Femtosecond Laser Microfabrication

Aktiwave has developed a micromachining platform based on a femtosecond laser system and is using the advantageous characteristics of femtosecond pulses for waveguide writing, laser welding, and polishing.

Waveguide Writing

Welding

Polishing

Novel Optical Sources

Akitwave is developping novel optical sources based on waveguiding in laser and nonlinear materials.

Waveguide testing

Mode of waveguide laser

Beam Shaping with Microdot Components

Aktiwave designs and manufactures custom microdot components such as:

Beam shapers for lasers and incoherent sources

Spatial masks for projection and illumination systems

Coronagraphs for telescopes

Apodizers ("soft-edge apertures")

Flat-top apodizers ("Gaussian compensating plate")

Array of apodizers for biomedical device

Band-limited coronagraph

Apodized-pupil Lyot coronagraph

Spatial and Temporal Metrology

Aktiwave has developed advanced solutions for wavefront sensing and time-domain metrology, for applications to astronomy, free-form metrology, and laser systems:

High-resolution reflective phase plate to characterize the modulation transfer function of commercial interferometers

Optical differentiation wavefront sensor

Diagnostics for ultrafast lasers and telecommunication sources

Test plate for interferometer MTF characterization

Optical differentiation wavefront sensing

Temporal diagnostic development