Company Overview
Our first apparatus was designed in 1998. PCI belongs to a class of pump/probe thermal lens instruments. The focused beam of a pump laser creates local thermal effect, the optical probe experiences phase distortion in the heated area. The original motivation for the instrument was to study induced absorption effects and optical damage in nonlinear optical crystals. With time simpler applications like absorption measurements in coatings, glass substrates became most popular. SPTS offers measurement services and PCI instruments like PCI-03.