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.

KMLabs is a leading manufacturer of low-cost high-performance ultrafast femtosecond Ti:sapphire lasers for single/multi-photon imaging, spectroscopy, OCT, THz-generation, CEP, attosecond generation, and soft X-Rays (EUV).