Innovation Photonics Launches

ARLINGTON, Va. — Leonardo DRS received a contract to produce its next-generation thermal weapon sights for the U.S. Army. The firm fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army Contracting Command is...

Block Engineering, a developer of broadly tunable quantum cascade lasers and chemical threat detection products, named Steve Buckley president. Buckley previously served as vice president at Ocean...

Empire State Development (ESD) has announced the 10 companies selected to take part in round six of the Luminate NY accelerator program, investment fund, and competition. Each finalist will receive...

Lumentum Holdings completed its acquisition of NeoPhotonics Corp., less than a week after obtaining receipt of antitrust clearance in China. The companies struck the deal in November 2021. ...

Coherent’s family of mid- and long-wavelength infrared wire-grid polarizers were made for use in applications such as laser based metrology and atmospheric remote sensing. Operating over 3 - 5...

The Meller Sapphire and Ruby Balls from Meller Optics are miniature high-precision sapphire and ruby balls for use as bearings and mechanical components in medical and scientific instruments and as...

The uncooled pump laser modules from Coherent are made with Coherent’s G10 series laser diode technology and are meant to be used in submarine and both single- and dual-chip terrestrial...

The Dove 800D and 410D PAM4 digital signal processors ICs from Credo were manufactured to address the increasing bandwidth requirements of hyperscale customers, AI backend clusters, and general...

What are thin-film coatings? The purpose of any optical thin-film coating is to modify the transmittance and reflectance properties of the substrate material to which they are applied. Most coatings...

Flat optics generally perform three main functions: They transmit light (windows), reflect light (mirrors), and fold light (prisms). While most optical manufacturers make spherical and flat optics, a...

To the novice or casual user of optics, the acquisition of an optical system can be a very difficult experience. Failure to understand the ground rules can result in unnecessarily high cost, late...

The first high-reflectance mirror coatings for the UV and vacuum UV (VUV) were of the Al + MgF2 type produced in the late 1950s. Coatings of this design are still used today for multigas cavity...

DayOptics laser components catalog.

We started developing FACs more than 15 years ago. The result is highly automated in-house processes which allow for competitive prices – even with high volumes. Diode lasers are efficient, compact,...

Space can be a harsh environment for optical coatings. Optimax has successfully provided antireflection (AR) coatings for a wide range of space applications. This paper outlines the results of...

Answering some common questions new users of optical design and analysis software have are “How accurate are the results?” or “Can I trust the results I get?” and discussing the importance of...

Imagine optical elements that rival lenses or mirrors superimposed with a precise pattern of microscopic periodic structures. These are diffraction gratings that can be used in a wide range of...

Metasurfaces based on subwavelength patterning have major potential for realizing arbitrary control of the wavefront of diffracted light by achieving local control of the phase amplitude and...

Baur details techniques and equipment for performance characterization of optical components for polarization control. He discusses metrology for polarizers, wave plates, and precision liquid crystal...

Absorption spectroscopy is a well-known tool for gas sensing, combustion diagnostics, and quantum technologies applications. Techniques like tunable laser absorption spectroscopy (TLAS) are...

In the context of electronics and optics, an isolator refers to a device that allows the transmission of signals in one direction while attenuating or blocking signals in the opposite direction. The...

Optoelectronics is a branch of electronics that focuses on the study and application of devices and systems that use light and its interactions with different materials. The term "optoelectronics" is...

A fiber laser is a type of laser in which the active gain medium is an optical fiber doped with rare-earth ions such as erbium, ytterbium, or neodymium. Fiber lasers generate coherent light through...

Linear receive optics typically refers to the optical components and systems used in the reception (detection) of linearly polarized light signals in various applications, such as optical...

CODIXX is a corporation under German Law, established in September 1998. After a period of research and development CODIXX started the production of a new family of dichroic glass polarizers in 2002....

Take a moment to learn about our products and capabilities. We look forward to hearing from you! PFG Precision Optics is a US manufacturer of high precision optical components (UV thru mid-IR) with...

Optical coatings modify the reflectance, transmittance, and absorptive properties of optic substrates to make them much more efficient and functional. From an optical manufacturer's perspective,...

Technology Transfer Programs are often a concerted effort to share skills, knowledge, technologies, methods of manufacturing, samples of manufacturing, and facilities among governments or...

An optoisolator is an optical coupling device that bridges the gap between incompatible wire communications systems. It contains an input amplifier, a light-emitting diode, a photodiode and an output...

An optical isolator is a device used to suppress or redirect backscattered or backreflected light.

Excelitas Technologies® Corp. is a leading industrial technology manufacturer focused on delivering innovative, market-driven photonic solutions to meet the illumination, optical, optronic,...

Experts In Thin-film Coating Design We practice a design-before-quote approach to help customers refine specifications and minimize technical risk. We understand how coated optical elements...

FOCtek provides customers with all types of custom manufactured lenses, Precision Optical Components, Polarizing Optics, Prisms, Filters, Coatings, Optical Systems, Crystals, Nonlinear Crystals,...

OHARA manufactures more than 130 environmentally safe optical glass types, free of both lead and arsenic. More than 300 tons of optical glass are melted per month, available in the following forms of...