Lasers for life sciences, and other high value-add applications

Modulight Spotlights: LASER-SHARP RESEARCH – January 2026 The highlight of the month goes to teams of researchers led by Prof. Imran Rizvi at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Their latest publication shows that certain light-activated therapy with BPD photosensitizer and ML6600 laser can induce ferroptosis-like cell death, including formation of lipid peroxides, in [...]

Modulight announces yellow and orange laser wavelengths with several watts of output power, excellent beam quality, and unmatched flexibility. Traditionally difficult to achieve, Modulight’s VECSEL-based ML6600 series lasers now close the yellow-orange gap between 570 and 630 nm.

A new addition to Modulight’s Fiber Laser Portfolio, ML6615, is a Mid-IR laser with 2.7–3 µm wavelength. The ML6615 laser is well-suited for soft tissue and dental treatments, and cutting, welding, and micro-machining polymers and certain glasses and ceramics. In aerospace and remote sensing, the system opens possibilities for specialized applications such as humidity and remote sensing tasks. ML6615 delivers up to 10 W of output power, supportiong both CW and QCW operating modes.

Building on the earlier introduction of a tapered amplifier portfolio, Modulight now offers a highly stable, fiber-coupled DBR MOPA system designed for demanding applications requiring exceptional robustness and ease of integration. This DBR MOPA systems answer to the need of quantum technology, high-precision timing, sensing, and spectroscopy applications, providing 750 nm…1100 nm wavelengths and over 1 W of free-space output power.

ML6660 is Modulight’s new, spectroscopy-optimized laser platform, which is now launched with 785 nm DBR laser configuration. It offers exceptional wavelength stability and high single-mode output powers. The laser is especially well-suited for Raman spectroscopy.

Deeksha Sankepalle and the group at Tufts University, USA developed an advanced multi-wavelength photoacoustic imaging system. It integrates a pulsed, tunable laser with an ultrasound acquisition platform to provide functional 3D imaging. The system enables real-time, non-invasive, high-resolution imaging of tumor vasculature by tracking oxygen saturation in the tumor.

Modulight’s new portfolio of single-frequency DBR and DFB lasers and high-power tapered amplifiers is targeted for quantum sensing and quantum computing applications. Additionally, these products are used in magnetometers, spectroscopy, atomic clocks, metrology, and manipulating atoms.

Modulight Spotlights: LASER-SHARP RESEARCH – November 2025 We are delighted to highlight new exciting study by Rahman et al. from Dr. Huang-Chiao Huang’s lab at University of Maryland. Multidrug resistance remains a significant barrier to successful chemotherapy outcomes for cancer patients, often caused by active pumping of chemotherapeutics outside of cancer cells. Hence, the team [...]