May 24, 2006, PhAST/Laser Focus World Innovation Award Program 

The PhAST/Laser Focus World Innovation Award Program granted Sacher Lasertechnik an 'Honorable Mention' at the 2006 PhAST/CLEO conference in Long Beach, CA. This award is already the second award for Sacher Lasertechnik after a first 'New Product Award' granted at CLEO 2000. These awards are a result of an excellent reseach and development strategy which results in superior, patented product families and more than 5000 satisfied customers.

Feb. 01, 2004, Strategic Partnership with Triad Technologies, Inc. 

Sacher Lasertechnik GmbH Marburg, Germany and Triad Technology, Inc. Longmont, CO agreed in forming a strategic partnership with the goal to develop ultra stable laser light sources based on stabilized external cavity diode lasers.

Sacher Lasertechnik Group is a leading manufacturer of tunable high power external cavity diode lasers with several patents on external cavity diode lasers as well as on performing antireflection coatings for diode lasers.

Triad Technology, Inc. is founded by former board members of EOSI, which was acquired by Newport in 1999. Triad Technology, Inc. contributes the technology of manufacturing high quality reference gas cells as well as electronic stabilization techniques to the partnership.

The goal of this strategic partnership is to gain the technology and market leadership in the field of ultra stable high power laser systems. Applications will include frequency standards, optical cooling and trapping as well as spectroscopy in general.

Sept. 15, 2003, Licence Agreement with Univ. Potsdam, Germany
Sacher Lasertechnik GmbH and the University of Potsdam, Germany, represented by ZAB GmbH Brainshell, signed an exclusive license agreement of patent application WO 03/055018. Sacher Lasertechnik GmbH and the Potsdam based Institute of Physics herewith deepen their proven technological partnership.

The patent application describes and protects an external cavity assembly which results in diffraction limited laser emission of broad area diode lasers. Broad area diode lasers are high power devices with an output power in the range of 1W .. 10W. Up to now their major disadvantage has been the filamentation of the laser beam profile resulting in a poor laser beam quality .

Sacher Lasertechnik Group will incorporate this intellectual property into their diode laser based Raman product series. This knowledge will enable Sacher Lasertechnik Group to expand and strengthen their leading position in the field of high power tunable diode lasers. Market launch of this Raman laser product line is expected for early 2005.

Potsdam University’s Institute of Physics is a long-standing development partner of Sacher Lasertechnik GmbH. Brainshell is a department of ZukunftsAgentur Brandenburg GmbH and responsible for commercialisation of the intellectual property of universities in the Brandenburg region.