OPTICAL COMPONENTS

Meadowlark Optics Inc. has released its “Transitions 2007-08 Polarization Handbook,” which specifies the company’s component products, including new wide-field retarders, tunable optical filters and ultrahigh-contrast precision polarizers. It presents items such as polarimeters, rotary mounts, spatial light modulators, VersaLight and dichroic circular polarizers, precision and bicrystalline achromatic retarders, liquid crystal polarization rotators and variable retarders and attenuators. Principles of the technologies and the company’s customization capabilities are covered, and polarizer and retarder selection charts are included. The products for OEMs and laboratory research have applications in adaptive optics, medical imaging and remote sensing.