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Cobolt is proud to announce that they will integrate their German sales activities into the HÜBNER Group and its Photonics division as of July 1st, 2016.

In December 2015, the HÜBNER Group, headquartered in Kassel Germany, acquired Cobolt AB. Cobolt’s long-standing partner for sales in Germany, Dag von Gegerfelt, will head the sales activities for the Cobolt lasers and for the tunable laser light source C-WAVE in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. This move will strengthen HÜBNER’s current sales force within their Photonics division, focusing on servicing both Cobolt’s customers and HÜBNER’s customers.

Through the integration of Cobolt’s and HÜBNER’s sales activities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, customers will continue to benefit from excellent service from knowledgeable experts, now enjoying expanded resources and a larger product portfolio.

Cobolt AB is proud to introduce modulation capability on the diode pumped lasers (DPL) in the green-yellow region of the Cobolt 06-01 Series of plug and play CW lasers. The 06-DPLs are available at 532 nm and 561 nm with up to 200 mW output power and offer direct intensity modulation (analog and digital) at up to 50 kHz.

The 06-DPL lasers complement the modulated diode lasers (MLDs) already available in the Cobolt 06-01 Series, which offer a market leading combination of modulation extinction ratios (>10 000 000:1) and high speed (up to 150MHz). Together, the 06-MLD and 06-DPL lasers in the Cobolt 06-01 Series offer a very complete spectrum of directly modulatable wavelengths from 405 nm to 660 nm in a compact form factor, ideal for demanding life science applications.

                           Cobolt 06-DPL

Cobolt AB is proud to announce that they produced and shipped their 10 000^th laser in February 2016. The recipient of the Cobolt Samba™ 532nm 300 mW single frequency laser, Dr Sam Johnson (standing next to Kirn Akram from Laser Lines UK, Left photo) from the Photonic Nanomaterials Group in the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford, was ‘excited and surprised, it was an honour’.

(Top) The recipient of Cobolt’s 10 000^th laser, Dr Sam Johnsson, with Cobolt’s UK distributor Kirn Akram from Laser Lines. (Bottom) Sam Johnsson’s diamond nano-photonics experimental set-up.

With roots from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm and founded in 2000, Cobolt has been a dedicated supplier of high performance lasers to the analytical instrument market for now 16 years. After many market firsts and pioneering its proprietary manufacturing method, HTCure™, Cobolt lasers have proven to deliver unmatched reliability and performance both in the lab and industrial environments, demonstrating lifetime capability of >60 000 hours.

Sam Johnson is studying nitrogen vacancy (N-V) defects in diamond lattices which could hold the key to the future of quantum computing. The Cobolt Samba™ 532nm is used in a scanning confocal microscope set-up to excite the diamond, the red emission highlighting the N-V lattice defect (Right photo). Cobolt was the first choice due to the higher available output power, excellent power stability and TEM00 beam, as well as quick delivery time. Cobolt wish Sam all the best for his experiments towards the future of quantum computing. Read the Press Release here.

Will we really be able to improve our attention in the future? Using Optogenetics, Dr Marie Carlén and her team at Karolinska Institutet’s Department of Neuroscience have shown for the very first time that this may actually be possible after identifying a cell type in the brain of mice which is integral to attention. Their ground breaking research was recently published in the prestigious journal Cell and has large implications to the understanding of how the brains frontal lobe works. We trust the groups Cobolt lasers helped contribute to their ground breaking research. Read more…

Congratulations to Marie and her team!

Journal Reference:

1. Hoseok Kim, Sofie A¨hrlund-Richter, Xinming Wang, Karl Deisseroth, Marie Carlén. Prefrontal Parvalbumin Neurons in Control of Attention. Cell, 14 January 2016 DOI: 1016/j.cell.2015.11.038

Cobolt AB is an associated partner in the network LA³NET  (Lasers for application at accelerator facilities) who’s project was showcased at an international Symposium on Lasers and Accelerators for Science & Society in Liverpool, June 26.

The event was a sell out with delegates comprising 100 researchers from across Europe and 150 local A-level students and teachers. The aim was to inspire youngsters about science and the application of lasers and accelerators in particular.

Read more about the event and the project LA³NET

The Laser World of Photonics 2015 in Munich was bigger than ever before with over 30 000 visitors and 1227 exhibitors attending.

It was a successful exhibition for Cobolt in terms of both leads and visitors and we would like to thank all of our friends, colleagues and customers for visiting our booth!

A special thanks to everyone who also came and celebrated the release of our new products with us at our booth party, making it an amazing and memorable evening!

We are looking forward to seeing you again in Munich on June 26-29, 2017.

Cobolt proudly announces the release of Cobolt NLD™ 785 nm, a new ultra-compact narrow-linewidth laser with integrated optical isolator, up to 500 mW in output power. The laser will be showcased at Laser World of Photonics in Münich, June 22-25.

Come and see us at booth #B2:220!

This laser is the start of the Cobolt 08-01 Series; a new family of narrow linewidth continuous-wave lasers with diode pumped solid state lasers as well as stabilized diode lasers. Available at fixed wavelengths from 532 nm up to 785 nm with output power up to 500 mW. The lasers are built using proprietary HTCure™ manufacturing technology for ultra-robustness into a compact hermetically sealed package.

The lasers emit a high quality laser beam with very stable characteristics and dependable performance, tailored to meet the high expectations from manufacturers of high end raman-instrumentation. They are designed and manufactured to ensure the highest level of reliability.

The Cobolt 08-01 series of lasers are intended for stand-alone use in laboratory environment or for integration as OEM component in equipment including not only Raman spectroscopy, but also other applications where stable and narrow linewidth is crucial.

Data sheet Cobolt 08-01 Series

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Two new wavelengths are available on the Cobolt 06-01 Series, 633 nm and 647 nm. All Cobolt MLD™ lasers feature market leading direct intensity modulation capability in terms of speed and depth and can be modulated up to 150MHz with up to 10 000 000:1 extinction ratio. Manufactured using Cobolt’s unique HTCure™ technology ensures world-class reliability and robustness. The Cobolt 06-01 Series offers a standardised compact form factor and a wide wavelength span in a plug-and-play format, utilising the most ideal laser technology to achieve the wavelength whilst maintaining the form factor.

The new lasers are perfectly suitable for applications such as fluorescence spectroscopy, confocal microscopy, flow cytometry, optogenetics and general laboratory use.

Learn more about the Cobolt 06-01 Series or see all specifications on the Cobolt 06-01 Series data sheet.

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Together with one of the most reputable Optogenetics research groups in the world, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Cobolt have published a new whitepaper in the January issue of Biophotonics “A guide to suitable light sources and fiber optic components for optogenetics research, with a specific emphasis on rodent behavior”. The article is addressing many known and unknown issues optogenetics researchers are dealing with and will serve as a guideline for about everyone entering this field.

Lasers, Optics Enhance Optogenetics Studies

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