About Thorlabs

Thorlabs.  Optical Components, Tunable Sources, and Systems.  Thorlabs is an optical company with headquarters in Newton, New Jersey, and offices in the US, UK, Germany, Japan, and Sweden. The president and founder is Alex Cable.  It designs & manufactures products in the areas of fibre optics, laser diodes, optical instrumentation & polarization.  Thorlabs bought Covega, and optical components supplyer, in 2009.

Quotes about Thorlabs

1. In pairing the FN1 microscope with Thorlabs' OCT technology, we are able to complement our traditional widefield and confocal imaging systems by providing a similar but more macro view.

   Stanley A. Schwartz in Nikon Instruments and Thorlabs Together Bring OCT Imaging to the FN1 'Physiostation' Microscope

2. Covega comes to the Thorlabs family with a new suite of optical technologies that Thorlabs looks forward to offering to its diverse customer base. We are committed to ensuring continued access to the broad array of products that Covega currently manufacturers.

   Alex E. Cable in Thorlabs Acquires Covega

3. Research by our group at MIT and our collaborators at Praevium Research and Thorlabs indicated that the coherence length of the VCSEL source was orders of magnitude longer than other swept laser technologies suitable for OCT, which suggested the possibility of long-range OCT imaging.

   Benjamin M. Potsaid in Researchers achieve meter-scale optical coherence tomography for first time