Describing themslevs as bringing the power of synchrotron to "your" optical table, Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories LLC (KMLabs) spun out of research conducted at University of Colorado, Boulder involving high power, femtosecond laser systems and x-ray technology. The firm is a key player in making practical coherent EUV and x-ray sources -- essentially the first commercial tabletop-scale x-ray laser light sources. The firm's focus is on working to put state-of-the-art ultrafast research tools into the hands of leading scientists worldwide. In this capacity, KM has gained the attention of system manufacturers in several industries interested in partnering with the company to commercialize their next generation technologies. Describing themselves as committed to the continued advancement of ultrashort-pulse and short-wavelength laser technologies, the firm is structured around high power, highest performance femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser systems, and is suggested as a market definer for coherent EUV and X-ray sources based on high-harmonic generation, and the inventor for coherent VUV sources based on highly-cascaded harmonic generation. Our expertise with high-average-power ultrafast laser systems is unsurpassed, with single-box, 20-35 fs systems at 15W average power at 1-5 kHz, 5-20 kHz, and 50-200 kHz, and custom systems w/ >30 W/30 mJ. The XUUS high harmonic coherent EUV system is an integrated X-ray laser source. The VUV highly-cascaded harmonic system is an integrated VUV laser source. KMLabs was established in 1994 by Professor Margaret M. Murnane and Professor Henry C. Kapteyn. Their research in the early 1990s resulted in the development of the first robust and repeatable mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser capable of generating <10fs light pulses.
