Princeton Optronics is a privately held, venture funded company engaged in the development and manufacture of high power vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs), low noise ultrastable lasers and tunable lasers. The company's PowersweepTM 2000 is a high power tunable laser designed for externally modulated transmitters. We have also developed transmitters using tunable lasers and ruggedizing them for military applications with DoD funding.

Princeton Optronics was founded in 1993 and has since been working in various cutting edge technology areas including low noise lasers, VCSELs and high power laser products, mostly with Venture Capital and DoD funding.

Breakthrough research in Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers, low noise ultrastable lasers and tunable laser topologies, an outgrowth of DOD sponsored research, prompted the company to seek venture funding to focus on the market demand for tunable source components and sub-systems. The company has strong financial backing from leading venture investors to accelerate its commercial development process. These investors include Novak Biddle Venture Partners and Technology Venture Partners.

Company Highlights

• Princeton Optronics is the world leader in the technology of high power VCSELs. Have demonstrated single devices with 3W of output power and small arrays of 230W from a 5x5mm chip with a peak wall plug efficiency of 52%. Also has demonstrated high power and high brightness operation of the arrays. It has announced a product line of high power VCSEL devices and VCSEL arrays, single mode VCSELs, frequency doubled blue laser, and seed lasers for fiber lasers. Princeton Optronics is a participant of the DARPA SHEDS program.


• Princeton Optronics has world's lowest noise and highest stability lasers. They have a patented technology for RIN noise reduction by 50dB. They have the highest stability lasers with a unique locker technology (patent pending) delivering 5kHz long term stability. The line width of the lasers is in the range of 100Hz. It is a participant in the DARPA PHOR-FRONT program for lowering the noise of lasers.


• Princeton Optronics is developing high brightness pumps for fiber lasers and has introduce some products and introducing higher brigntness products as it develops them.


• Princeton Optronics has developed narrow divergence arrays of VCSELs which is part of its product line.