Light sources for non-medical use, namely, tunable light sources for quality control, industrial metrology, product characterization, product inspection, product sorting; scientific instrumentation, plasmonics, metamaterials, and optical characterization, in particular for spectroscopy and spectrophotometry; light sources for non-medical use, namely, a tunable filter for controlling the spectral properties of the output from a light source for quality control, industrial metrology, product characterization, product inspection, product sorting; scientific instrumentation, plasmonics, metamaterials, and optical characterization, in particular for spectroscopy and spectrophotometry; broadband light sources, supercontinuum light sources, lasers, laser amplifiers, lasers providing single-mode output and optical fiber based light sources; monitoring systems including light sources for non-medical use, in particular tunable light sources, and structural components thereof, for quality control, industrial metrology, product characterization, product inspection, product sorting; analysis systems including light sources for non-medical use, in particular tunable light sources, and structural components thereof, for scientific instrumentation, plasmonics, metamaterials, and optical characterization, in particular for spectroscopy and spectrophotometry; components for modifying and controlling the output of a light source, in particular filters for modifying the spectral properties of a broadband spectrum provided by a light source; detectors for detecting broadband light signals; Graphical User Interface (GUI) software for controlling a tunable light source, in particular a tunable broadband or supercontinuum light source; graphical user interface software for controlling the spectral filters of a tunable light source

Light sources for medical use, in particular tunable light sources; light sources including a tunable filter for controlling the spectral properties of the output from a light source for medical use; broadband light sources, supercontinuum light sources, lasers, laser amplifiers, lasers providing single-mode output and optical fiber based light sources for medical use; imaging systems including light sources for medical use, in particular tunable light sources, and structural components thereof for biomedical imaging, Microscopy, Fluorescence lifetime measurements, ophthalmology, optical coherence tomography, and optical characterization, in particular for spectroscopy and spectrophotometry; components for modifying and controlling the output of a light source for medical use, in particular filters for modifying the spectral properties of a broadband spectrum provided by a light source; detectors for detecting broadband light signals for medical use