Edmund Optics to Celebrate Anniversary

Edmund Optics and the University of Arizona Wyant College of Optical Sciences have created an endowed chair, the Robert M. Edmund Endowed Chair in Optical Sciences, and launched the Advancing Women...

Edmund Optics named Linda Fonner CFO. Fonner has more than 30 years of global management experience at companies including Phillips & Cohen Associates, Atotech (an MKS brand), and Bristol Myers...

Edmund Optics has named industry veteran James Fisher senior vice president of corporate development. In the newly created role, Fisher will lead business development strategies, mergers and...

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...

TECHSPEC® Dual Band Laser Line Mirrors from Edmund Optics Inc. offer 99% reflectivity at both IR and visible wavelengths. Options are available for 532-nm or 635- to 670-nm guide beams....

The TECHSPEC® Nonpolarizing Cube Beamsplitters from Edmund Optics Inc. have a 50/50 reflection/transmission ratio and are constructed from high-tolerance N-BK7 right angle prisms. Three...

TECHSPEC® Dual-Band Antireflection (AR) Laser Windows from Edmund Optics Inc. feature <0.25% reflection at 532 nm and <0.1% reflection at 1064 nm for high laser throughput. ...

The E-Series of Adjustable Size Kinematic Optical Mounts from Edmund Optics Inc. can be used for mounting a wide range of round, rectangular, and square optical components, including round and...

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...

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,...

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...

Plate beamsplitters Plate beamsplitters consist of a thin plate of optical crown glass with a different type of coating deposited on each side. The first surface is coated with an all-dielectric...

Reynard Corporation has a full service, in-house optical fabrication facility designed to meet your precision optical requirements. From flats and wedges to aspheric lenses, we understand precision...

Reynard Corporation offers single point diamond turning (SPDT) in-house capabilities to produce 6 to 250 mm diameter high-quality precision optical components for aerospace, military, and commercial...

The ISO 10110 & material cheat sheet assists optical designers in specifying their optical prints according to the ISO 10110 optics drawing standards. This cheat sheet comprises two sections, namely...

X-ray Monochromator Data Sheet

The drive for continuous innovation in machine vision results in a constantly increasing demand for higher resolution. Sensor manufacturers can take two main approaches to meeting this demand: They...

Microscope objectives are critical for high magnification machine vision applications such as semiconductor inspection. There are different key considerations when choosing the right objective...

Recent advancements in imaging sensors have allowed machine vision systems to achieve high levels of performance that were previously unattainable. However, these sensor advancements complicate the...

Advancements in sensor technologies have introduced new requirements for the imaging lenses used with them. These developments make understanding the impact of manufacturing tolerances on lens...

Free-space optics (FSO), also known as optical wireless communication or optical wireless networking, refers to the transmission of data using modulated beams of light through free space (air or a...

An aspheric lens is a type of lens whose surface profiles deviate from the traditional spherical shape. Unlike spherical lenses, which have a constant curvature across their surfaces, aspheric lenses...

The analysis of the properties of radiation, such as light, when acted upon by variations in the atmosphere. Blue and red skies, along with ice halos, glories, coronas and rainbows can all be...

A reflecting grating ruled on a concave spherical surface that not only disperses the light but focuses the spectrum. The great advantage of this grating lies in the fact that no separate collimating...

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...

Differences between hard and traditional coated filters. Discusses how they are both manufactured and the benefits of one type of coating over the other.

Katie Walker, a Product Line Engineer at Edmund Optics, showcases Edmund Optics' Optical Cage System and how it can be used to build a digital video fluorescence microscope. The Optical Cage System...

As the demand for fluorides and other high expansion materials increases, it is important to understand the risks/challenges involved with these materials and how they affect various factors such as...

An erbium-doped fiber optic amplifier is an optical fiber that can be used to amplify an optical input. Erbium rare earth ions are added to the fiber core material as a dopant in typical levels of a...

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...

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,...