Dr. Rüdiger Paschotta

Founder and Managing Director, RP Photonics Consulting

Dr. Rüdiger Paschotta has done a Ph.D. and a habilitation in physics. He is author or coauthor of more than 100 articles in scientific journals, and of several books and book chapters. His best known publication is the online Encyclopedia of Laser Physics and Technology. He is also well known as a course instructor at conferences.

In 2004, he founded the company RP Photonics Consulting, offering technical consultancy, staff training courses, and simulation and design software for fiber optics, lasers, ultrashort pulse generation, and multilayer optics.

FIGURE 1. Reflectance of a numerically optimized anti-reflection coating (TiO2/SiO2 on fused silica) for 1064 nm and 532 nm.

Optics

Designing multilayer optical devices

Dr. Rüdiger Paschotta

March 4, 2022

Using a suitable design strategy, in addition to flexible software, is key for reaching design goals efficiently.

FIGURE 1. Two laser resonators are depicted here: a linear resonator with output coupling at an end mirror, and a unidirectional ring laser.

Lasers & Sources

Laser Design: Understanding and optimizing laser resonator designs: An overview

Dr. Rüdiger Paschotta

Aug. 1, 2019

The design of a laser resonator is an essential part of a laser design and often a difficult task—learn how to determine required resonator mode properties and find suitable designs...

FIGURE 1. Optical spectra of the steady-state output pulse of a passively mode-locked fiber laser with an all-normal-dispersion laser resonator have been simulated using RP Fiber Power software; the bandwidth of the intracavity bandpass filter is varied from 3 to 12 nm.

Software

Ultrafast Lasers: Numerical simulation aids design of fiber-based ultrafast laser sources

Dr. Rüdiger Paschotta

Oct. 1, 2018

The design of fiber-based ultrafast laser sources via numerical simulations leads to prototype and product designs with proven handling of nonlinear effects.