KMLabs Inc. Information

We bring the power of synchrotron to your optical table! KMLabs develops advanced ultrafast laser systems and coherent short-wavelength light sources for scientific research and emerging technologies. Our expertise spans ultrafast laser physics, nonlinear optics, harmonic generation, and high-performance laser systems operating from the infrared through the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV), extreme ultraviolet (EUV), and soft X-ray spectral regions. KMLabs develops VUV laser sources based on highly cascaded harmonic generation, providing wavelength-selectable coherent VUV radiation for applications including photoelectron spectroscopy, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), photoemission electron microscopy (PEEM), photoionization, and studies of molecular and material dynamics. Our VUV technology also enables emerging applications such as precision spectroscopy of the thorium-229 nuclear transition near 148 nm. In the EUV and soft X-ray region, KMLabs develops coherent sources based on high-harmonic generation (HHG). Our XUUS systems provide compact, laboratory-scale sources for spectroscopy, imaging, materials science, semiconductor research and metrology, and ultrafast and attosecond science. KMLabs was established in 1994 by Professor Margaret M. Murnane and Professor Henry C. Kapteyn. Their research in the early 1990s resulted in the development of the first robust and repeatable mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser capable of generating <10fs light pulses.