Holographix Receives 2018 Gold Supplier Award

BluGlass Limited, a semiconductor developer, has received $4.3 million in commitments from institutional and sophisticated investors. The funds will be used to scale and speed production and delivery...

BAE Systems has been selected by the Space Systems Command (SSC) Space Enterprise Consortium to provide a prototype ground system for the U.S. Space Force’s SSC Future Operationally Resilient...

Headwall Photonics has acquired Holographix LLC, a manufacturer of custom diffraction gratings, microlens arrays, diffusers, waveguides, and other custom replicated optics. Terms of the deal were not...

Waters Corp. entered into an agreement to acquire Wyatt Technology, a developer of light-scattering and field-flow fractionation technology, for $1.36 billion in cash. The transaction is expected to...

The updated Athena™ 1920 high-definition thermal camera core from BAE Systems now supports missions requiring 360° situational awareness, vehicle protection, and space-based surveillance at...

The LVCM-019-048-02 Linear Voice Coil Motor from Moticont is a 0.750-in. servo motor featuring zero cogging, high accuracy, and high repeatability when operated in a closed position loop. The...

The Mx 9.1 software from Zygo Corp. integrates acquisition and data analysis for surface topography and wavefront data. Version 9.1 provides several key advantages such as integrated analysis...

Silicon photonics fiber arrays from POINTek support the back-end packaging for various PICs. The arrays come in two designs — single mode and polarization maintaining — with various...

Lenses come in a variety of shapes, sizes and materials. They can be made of a single piece of glass or have multiple elements; their surfaces can be spherical, aspheric or cylindrical; they can be...

A lens collects light from a point on an object and focuses it to a corresponding conjugate point on an image. Under most conditions, the lens fails at this task because of some error in the...

The first high-reflectance mirror coatings for the UV and vacuum UV (VUV) were of the Al + MgF2 type produced in the late 1950s. Coatings of this design are still used today for multigas cavity...

Optics can be contaminated in many ways. Contamination can be kept to a minimum by returning the optics to their case after use or by covering the optics for protection from the outside environment....

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...

Sapphire is a tough optical material resistant to chemicals, scratching, and high pressure in many diverse environments and has exceptional transparency. Frequently it is the combination of two, or...

We offer custom prisms, polygons, windows, mirrors, and wedges from one source. FISBA not only has the complete production chain in-house, we can also develop entire systems built-to-spec or support...

This whitepaper looks at the unique challenges associated with optical systems by exploring two extremes, an ultra-high precision instrument, and a low-cost consumer product, and the different...

LASER COMPONENTS brings together some of the brightest minds in the industry for a one-hour workshop. Doctoral students from MIT, Princeton University, and Stanford University share how they are...

Freeform optics are a great choice when designing off-axis optical systems. Understanding and specifying total error for freeform optical components can help with integrating the components during...

The exact equation to design a stigmatic lens has recently been discovered and extensively studied. This equation allows researchers to explore several stigmatic optical systems and shows that these...

Metasurfaces are sub-wavelength spaced arrays of nanostructures that enable the design of ultrathin optical components with superior aberration control and ease of optical alignment compared to...

Integrated photonics is a field of study and technology that involves the integration of optical components, such as lasers, modulators, detectors, and waveguides, on a single chip or substrate. The...

A lateral shearing interferometer is an optical device used in interferometry to measure phase differences between two beams of light. Interferometry is a technique that combines and analyzes...

Germanium crystal refers to a crystalline form of the element germanium (Ge), which is a metalloid and semiconductor commonly used in various electronic and optical applications. Germanium crystals...

Linear optics refers to the study and manipulation of light in a linear and deterministic manner, where the response of optical elements is proportional to the amplitude of the incident light wave....

YOEC: Special optical fiber manufacturer; fiber coil; fiber sensor; optical components.

FISBA AG is one of the leading suppliers in the optics industry. Its mass-produced optical components, systems, and microsystems are distributed worldwide, and alongside its headquarters in St....

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For 40 years, OPCO Lab has been producing beamsplitters, optical components that split light into two, that are used across a range of products and industries.

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...

Excelitas Technologies® Corp. is a leading industrial technology manufacturer focused on delivering innovative, market-driven photonic solutions to meet the illumination, optical, optronic,...

Fresnel Technologies Inc. is an expert manufacturer of molded plastic optics, including Fresnel lenses and related optical components, as well as infrared transmitting materials and optics made from...

Expanding upon the storied Fairchild Imaging legacy, we offer a wide range of imaging devices that provide our customers with top performance and key features for the most demanding applications. Our...