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Cepton has won a multimillion-dollar sales contract from one of the largest highway tolling system operators in the U.S., the lidar technology company said. Under the terms of the contract,...

Quantum computing firm Quantinuum named Rajeeb Hazra CEO. Outgoing CEO Ilyas Khan will assume the roles of chief product officer and vice chairman of the board of directors. Hazra most recently...

Two Fraunhofer institutes have delivered the core optical innovation supporting a recently launched space-based environmental mapping and analysis initiative. The components and devices supplied by...

Quantum computing startup planqc closed a financing round of €4.6 million ($4.67 million) led by UVC Partners and Speedinvest. With the funding, planqc will develop a highly scalable quantum...

Opal Diffusers from Precision Glass & Optics is made from opal glass for applications in which a uniform white light is needed. The glass can be polished to any thickness and/or bonded to...

The Midas Metalization System from Intlvac is designed to produce a single or multilayer symmetrical metal coating on ends, mid spans, or windows of optical fibers for use in a hermetically sealed...

The SmartScope® E45 floor model multisensor metrology system from Optical Gaging Products is an automatic digital zoom device. The E45 features the fixed lens IntelliCentric™ optical...

The high-resolution, 47-MP Atlas10 camera from LUCID Vision Labs Inc. features Sony’s IMX492 rolling shutter CMOS image sensor. Offering 8240 × 5628-pixel resolution and 4/3-in....

With a specific gravity of 1.85 g/cm3, beryllium is the lightest metal that is workable. It is 45 percent lighter than aluminum and approximately five times as stiff. Its stiffness to weight ratio...

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...

An optical coating engineer is frequently confronted with a difficult specification for a coating. Often the difficulty in the specification results from the particular form of the optical system. If...

Aspheric surfaces are powerful tools that combine the optical corrections of multiple lenses into a single element (Figure 1) and affect performance in ways that spherical optics cannot. For example,...

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...

Optical Components must have different properties based on the application and interference effect they are intended for; the shape, surface quality, and coating determine the performance of the...

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MKS Newport delivers best-in-class optical performance with ODiate optical filters for life & health science applications, medical instrumentation, and chemical or material analyses.

This webinar will address the items to consider when designing and fabricating a custom lens for any given system. Presenter Stuart Singer, chief executive officer at Schneider Optics Inc., will...

Join us for a FREE webinar - Wednesday, November 19, 2014, 1pm ET Touching on when and why advanced engineering would require glass or ceramic over easier to machine materials, the bulk of the...

Multiple industries are now requiring high performance from their optical systems while also minimizing the size, weight, and power of system designs. To meet these engineering challenges, a process...

As our understanding of optical surface dynamics has improved, the definition of what constitutes a superpolished surface has evolved, although an exact definition is still debated and varies,...

Thermal interface materials (TIMs) are substances or compounds used to enhance the thermal conductivity between two surfaces in contact. These materials are primarily employed in electronic devices,...

In a laser, a measure of the device's ability to dissipate internally generated heat.

Fused quartz and silica are closely related materials, both composed primarily of silicon dioxide (SiO2), but they are produced through different manufacturing processes and have distinct properties...

Ion-beam sputtering (IBS) is a physical vapor deposition (PVD) technique used for depositing thin films onto substrates. It involves bombarding a target material with a beam of energetic ions,...

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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...

Blackstone-NEY CleanVeyor Ultrasonic parts washer utilizes a combination of spray, immersion, and ultrasonic cleaning technologies and has proven successful in achieving Six Sigma consistency in a...

Aspheres have allowed optical designers to create systems and products that push the limitations of performance across several fields. In this presentation, we will explain the various processes...

Optical coatings are thin layers of materials applied to optical components, such as lenses, mirrors, filters, and prisms, to modify their reflective and transmissive properties. These coatings are...

PG&O provides complete, end-to-end high-quality precision and commercial optics, thin-film coatings, glass substrates and optical fabrication services for a wide variety of applications. ...

The LaCroix name is synonymous with quality precision optics. Since 1947, three generations of family leadership have guided LaCroix Precision Optics to become the premier precision optics...

ISO 9001 & ISO 13485 certified and D&B DUNS # 113515303 Shanghai Optics is an unparalleled custom system solution provider offering advance precision custom optical design, engineering,...

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...