Edmund Optics Offers Coherent’s OBIS Lasers

Following Group Gorgé’s acquisition of iXblue last month, ECA Group and iXblue announced that both companies will operate under the common brand name Exail. The company will specialize...

Electro Optic Systems (EOS) secured a conditional contract to supply remote weapon systems (RWS) to Ukraine valued at up to $80 million. EOS’ Defence Systems business secured the contract with...

Coherent Corp. appointed two directors to its board: Elizabeth Patrick and Michelle Sterling. Patrick recently served as senior vice president and chief people officer for Diebold Nixdorf, a...

NASA’s Lunar Flashlight has communicated with mission controllers and confirmed it is healthy after launching Dec. 11 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The satellite embarked on a...

LIDAR Optics from Meller Optics Inc. are designed for OEM material properties and transmission requirements. They can be custom fabricated to OEM specifications as lenses, windows, and mirrors...

Olympus Scientific Solutions is now Evident, but our commitment to manufacturing high-quality microscopy components and optics is unchanged. We are helping engineers develop the scientific...

The OBIS 640 XT from Coherent Corp. is a red diode-pumped solid-state laser module for super-resolution microscopy. With a maximum 1000-mW output at 640 nm, the module includes integrated control...

The Er:YAG line from Meller Optics are laser active elements for medical, surgical, dermatological, cosmetic, and dental applications. The elements operate at 2940 nm and come in semi-finished and...

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,...

Materials processing with lasers is actually a broad term for a diverse range of applications. The major categories of these uses, and the lasers that service them, are summarized Table 1. At one...

The benefits of aspheric lenses are numerous: They allow for a reduction in spherical aberrations and are ideal for focusing or collimating light, as they can achieve a low ƒ-number. Aspheres...

With the understanding of aspheric lens manufacturing provided in part one of this article, designers have the tools to optimize their aspheres; the next step is to understand how to specify and...

Block Engineering's widely tunable mid-infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers are designed for use by researchers and manufacturers. Our next generation design features a six-fold increase in laser power,...

The modulation transfer function, or MTF, is a parameter used to evaluate the performance of a lens. MTF provides a quantitative and standardized way to characterize optical systems, so the metric is...

MKS Newport custom optical subsystem solutions optimize spectral analysis product performance and shorten time to market of your optomechanical sub-assembly.

PIN Photodiode Wavelength Range: 0.9 - 1.7 µm, 0.6 - 1.7 µm, 1.1 - 1.9 µm, 1.2 - 2.2 µm. Package Type: Chip ( Die ), CLCC, TO-Can, TO-Can with 1 Stage Cooler. Customized Aperture sizes are also...

Using SWIR, MIR, and FIR lasers requires knowledge of their beam quality parameters. Many considerations significantly impact the laser process, such as mode structure, positional stability, and...

This event is supported by the European initiatives presented and is moderated by EPIC, the European Photonics Industry Consortium. The European Commission is helping companies access the...

Konstantin Birngruber and Max Eisele introduce TOPTICA's next-generation laser technology by highlighting multicolor light engines for standard fluorescence microscopy, as well as TOPTICA's...

Metallic mirror coatings are critical for countless optical systems. Their optical designs are usually quite simple but face challenges in terms of environmental stability and performance across...

A laser diode module is a compact device that incorporates a laser diode, optics, and often other components into a single package. These modules are designed to provide a convenient and efficient...

Harmonic generation refers to a nonlinear optical process in which incoming photons interact with a material and produce new photons at integer multiples of the frequency of the incoming photons....

A beam shaper is an optical device or system designed to modify the spatial profile or intensity distribution of a laser or light beam. The goal is to transform the incoming beam into a desired shape...

A confocal resonator, also known as a confocal cavity or confocal laser resonator, is a type of optical resonator configuration used in laser systems. The term confocal in this context refers to the...

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Check out our new video tutorial on how to clean spherical lenses! Our latest video breaks down the step-by-step process for effectively cleaning spherical lenses, ensuring crystal-clear images every...

To celebrate this milestone, we've created a video showcasing the journey to the new design. We invite everyone to #joinus and watch the video now! The new DayOptics image is a testament to our...

On this month's episode of Light Matters, we take you on a brief tour of the Higgins Laboratories at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Quinsigamond Community College and WPI received a $4M grant...

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...

Established in 1985, OZ Optics is a leading worldwide supplier of fiber optic components, test equipment and sensors. OZ Optics manufactures its products in three locations, Ottawa (Canada),...

CASTECH is a recognized leading supplier of nonlinear optical crystals, laser crystals and precision optical components for laser, telecom, medical, analysis and detector markets. Products...