A surgical device used to deliver laser light. Specifically,contact tips are made with artificially grown sapphire which is precisely cut to an orientation which permits efficient light transmission. The tips are coated with dielectric material in...

Film that produces color negatives or transparencies by the use of three emulsions, one coated over the other, that are each...

An antireflection coating (AR coating) is a thin film or coating applied to optical surfaces, such as lenses or windows, to...

An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is a laboratory technique used to detect and measure the presence of specific...

An optical lens manufactured to control the transmission of light over a specified wavelength range. Low absorption lenses...

Optical materials refer to substances or compounds specifically chosen for their optical properties and used in the...

Optical coatings are thin layers of materials applied to optical components, such as lenses, mirrors, filters, and prisms,...

Nanoimprint lithography (NIL) is a nanolithography technique used for fabricating nanoscale patterns on a substrate. It is a...

An optical component coated to reflect infrared radiation. Gold, silver and aluminum are typical coating materials.

A 30-60-90° spectrograph prism that is coated on the surface opposite the 60° angle with a reflecting film.

Photolithography is a key process in the manufacturing of semiconductor devices, integrated circuits, and...

Coating carried out in a sealed chamber evacuated by a mechanical pump in series with an oil diffusion pump to a pressure...

Photoresist is a light-sensitive material used in photolithography processes, particularly in the fabrication of...

An enclosure whose walls are coated to absorb completely all radiation striking them.

A microchannel plate (MCP) is a specialized electron multiplier device used in various applications such as particle...

A strip or annulus of glass coated with a semitransparent material such as inconel. The coating thickness, and as a result...

A type of flat panel display made up of a layer of gas between two glass plates. The glass is coated with parallel...

The recording of the information contained in a modulated electron beam onto photographic or silicon resin-coated materials....

An electrowetting display (EWD) is a type of electronic display technology that utilizes the principles of electrowetting to...

A fluorescent screen refers to a phosphorescent or fluorescent-coated surface that emits visible light when exposed to other...

A solid-state panel of the photoconductor-electroluminescent type. The photoconductive layer, sensitive to x-rays, is coated...

A shallow, fine-pitch diffraction grating having a precise dielectric overcoating that experimentally has absorbed...

A holographic plate coated by photopolymeric mixtures that are composed of one or more monomers and a photoredox catalyst...

A rigid medium, generally a polycarbonate substrate coated with a reflective aluminum layer, that stores information (such...

A hollow sphere coated internally with a white diffusing material and provided with openings for incident beam, specimen and...

A glass substrate that has its rear surface coated with a reflective coating. Also known as a back-surface mirror.

A mirror blank refers to the initial piece of material from which a mirror is made. It is typically a flat or slightly...

A layer of material applied to a coated surface to protect it from physical or chemical action.

A photoelectric detector consisting of a glass tube internally coated with a low conductance material. Voltage applied along...

Optical surface damage due to abrasive rubbing. Abrasion damage affects are less than the thickness of the optical coating...

A method of cleaning and drying coated optical components. The cooled parts are placed in a container above a boiling...

A corner cube, also known as a corner reflector or retroreflector prism, is a type of optical device used to reflect light...

Lithography is a key process used in microfabrication and semiconductor manufacturing to create intricate patterns on the...

A mirror coated to reflect cold (white) light while transmitting hot (infrared) energy.

An X-Y electrically addressable series of arrays with individual electron emitters bombarding a phosphor-coated transparent...

A telescope lens is a primary optical component of a telescope system that gathers and focuses light to form an image. It is...

Liquid marble refers to a unique form of microscale liquid encapsulation, where small droplets of liquid are coated with a...

A film or plate that is usually coated on both sides with a very fast emulsion that is sensitive to x-rays, and used to...

The observation and measurement of the flatness of a mirror surface by contacting an optical flat with the mirror. The...

An astronomical mirror, also known as a telescope mirror or primary mirror, is a key component of a reflecting telescope. It...

Optical elements that have been coated with one or more layers of dielectric, or metallic material. These coatings serve to...

A projection printer that is capable of reproducing a multiplicity of images from a master transparency on a single support...

An electron-beam lithography (EBL) system is a sophisticated nanofabrication tool used in the semiconductor industry and...

Describing a surface that is coated with a film of metal of such thickness that it transmits about one-half of the incident...

An interferometric method for describing the surface shape of large coated or uncoated optical flats. The procedure uses a...

One surface of a nonconducting plate that is coated with many minute particles of photoemissive material that are insulated...

A cathode-ray tube having a screen that is coated on the back with a thin film of aluminum, which serves to intensify the...

An infrared lens is an optical component specifically designed and optimized for transmitting, focusing, or manipulating...

In physics, momentum transfer is the amount of momentum transferred from one particle to another during particle collision...

A film applied to a coated or uncoated optical surface primarily for protecting this surface from mechanical abrasion, from...

A diffraction grating is an optical component consisting of a surface with a periodic structure of equally spaced, parallel...

A beamsplitter is an optical device for dividing a beam into two or more separate beams. A simple beamsplitter may be a very...

A photomask, also known simply as a mask or reticle, is a key component in the photolithography process used in...

A phototube having a cesium-coated cathode that has its greatest sensitivity in the infrared region.

1. A device used to trace out an object and build up an image. One of the most common of these types is video scanning. The...

An early form of photographic media consisting of glass plates coated with an emulsion.

1. The negative electrode of a device in an electrical circuit. 2. The positive electrode of a primary cell or storage...

Type of solid-state display tube in which the readout surface is coated with a material that changes color when positively...

A compound prism composed of two 30° prisms, one of which is partially coated with a suitable opaque metal of high...

A thin, stretched plastic membrane cemented to a rigid supporting ring. It may be coated to act as a beamsplitter, for...

A plastic disc coated with ferric oxide or other films on which data can be stored by selectively magnetizing areas of the...