Its packaging is designed to achieve a highly integrated, self-contained module with a small form factor.
At the heart of the ORION module is a high-performance single frequency External Cavity Lasers (ECL) based on RIO’s proprietary PLANEX technology. It consists of a gain chip and a planar light wave circuit (PLC) with a Bragg grating.
These components form an extended laser resonator, which offers considerable advantages in addition to the extremely small line width – for example, low wavelength sensitivity to bias current and temperature.
These features make ORION a well suited semiconductor solution for applications that require high accuracy and resolution; e.g. Optical Parametric Oscillators (OPO), high resolution spectroscopy, LiDAR and other precision metrology applications.