LIC Engineering is one of the world's leading providers of innovative CO2, Capacitor Charging & High Power Laser Diode Driver/Power supplies. We specialize in compact high power water-cooled switch-mode power supplies and high speed, high current, high voltage & high power nano-pulse technologies.

In 1986, Inoue founded LIC Engineering (formerly Laser Innovations Corp.) in Sunnyvale, CA to manufacture and market this new technology. In the early 1990s, LIC Engineering introduced its first flat-type water cooled CO2 laser power supply, the CSF-series. In the mid '90s, the company introduced cost effective 600W/1KW CPF-series and the highest power of 25KW CSF-25000PD & CSF-25000/8.  These CSF-& CPF series are the most popular and long run products among our products line. Since the company introduced the first water cooled power supply in the late '80s, the company has continued to manufacture the unique water cooled CO2, Yag, Capacitor charging laser power supply.

In 2005, the company introduced the first high peak current, fast rise time and ultra high QCW power laser diode drivers, LD-1500/3000, and LSP-500, that were capable of LSP (LIC Super Pulse) and 15KW QCW power.  Now we have wide variety of LD Driver/Gas Discharge product line:

LSP-XXXX-series high voltage, high power, high speed laser diode drivers can achieve 5KA/15KV/20ns pulse width with the rise time of 100ps-15ns.

LD-XXXX/QCW-series high speed, high current, high QCW laser diode drivers have the output power to 1KA/1KV/1MW of QCW power and  25KW of CW power.

LS-XXXX-series high frequency, high pulsed current laser diode driver/gas discharge power supply can achieve the pulse rate up to 5MHz with pulse width of 5ns-100ns and CW power up to 8KW.

 

Technologies

Super Pulse and Ballast-less technologies are the original development by LIC Engineering in the early 1980s for the surgical CO2 laser systems.  Since the first product was developed, our laser power supply has used "series resonant topology", which make a switching current "sinusoidal" to reduce the switching loss and to push a high current into the secondary circuit in very short time.  This enabled our products the most compact in size and to achieve the high peak current of Super Pulse, that is capable of 10 times higher peak power than CW power.

LSP-series's high voltage, high current, & high speed LD-Driver/Pulse Generator/H.V switches use all semiconductor H.V switch and MPC (Magnetic Pulse Compression) technology.  With this combination, LSP series's voltage ranges from 500V to 15KV, the current ranges from 500A to 5KA, and the rise time ranges from 100ps to 15ns with the pulse width from 5 ns to several hundred ns.

Through over 28 years of investment in research and development, LIC Engineering has become an innovator both in product design and manufacturing processes as well. The result is the world's most compact, water cooled H.V power supply, and high power, high speed, high current laser diode driver/high current pulse generator available today.