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Lumentum Holdings named Caroline Pan senior vice president and chief marketing officer. Pan will be responsible for leading strategic and corporate marketing and communications, and Lumentum...

The Consumer Electronics Show, the flagship event of the Consumer Technology Association, opened its doors Tuesday. The annual show, which showcases the latest innovations and developments in...

II-VI announced its corporate name change. The company, which finalized its acquisition of Coherent Inc. this summer, is now called Coherent Corp. The company also debuted a brand identity, which...

Netherlands-based integrated laser technology startup company Brilliance has secured €2 million ($2.16 million) in seed funding from Oost NL and PhotonVentures. Brilliance’s silicon...

The AKD2G 24A servo drive from Kollmorgen Corp. is designed for precision multi-axis servo systems. Over its predecessors, the drive offers upgraded safety features, SD card backup, and a...

The grating used in a spectrometer design plays a defining role in its performance. It impacts sensitivity, signal to noise, and spectral response, and thus should be carefully matched to the...

The NPG102 from NewPhotonics is a PIC with an integrated optical equalizer for linear receive optics and linear drive pluggable optics applications in the data center. An octal and quad parallel...

Solidifying our role as your all-inclusive optics supplier, we’ve broadened our capabilities to include optical assemblies. Whether you need prototypes or production volumes, we’re fully...

ACOUSTO-OPTIC SCANNING DEVICES: CHARACTERISTICS MODULATORS Material Bandwidth (MHz) Rise Time (ns) Acousto Input Power (W) (Saturation) Material Wavelength Range...

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....

Flat optics generally perform three main functions: They transmit light (windows), reflect light (mirrors), and fold light (prisms). While most optical manufacturers make spherical and flat optics, a...

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...

Optical Filters are available in an array of choices and are employed for a wide and diverse range of applications. As a global supplier of stock and custom-made optics, Knight Optical runs through...

As we reach single photon resolution in imaging, and go beyond it, we approach a world better described by quantum mechanics than classical mechanics. In ghost imaging, the key principle is to...

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...

The market for the tunable light source is ever expanding due to its uses in countless fields, such as the inspection industry, machine visioning, and a wide range of optical experiments....

This webinar is intended to be a primer on practical spectral design. It will begin with a short review of the most promising spectral technologies and the current state-of-the-art. The presenters...

FREE WEBINAR Additional Questions and Answers from the Webinar are below: Speakers to include: David J. Brady, Duke University Computational and Compressive Raman Spectroscopy ...

Laser-induced contamination is a key concern for ultraviolet (UV) laser systems. Contamination resulting from the environment or outgassing can significantly reduce performance or lead to system...

Combining vibrational spectroscopy with electrochemistry is helpful for studying electrochemical reactions, battery research, and failure analysis. Each molecule has a unique infrared and Raman...

Optical noise refers to undesirable fluctuations or disturbances in an optical signal that can affect the quality or integrity of the transmitted information. This type of noise is particularly...

A process by which high-quality fiber optics are made. See axial vapor-phase deposition.

Usually a dielectric coating on glass or plastic optics; a coating that is comparable in hardness to glass itself.

The area of optics in which the propagation of light is described by geometrical lines (or rays) governed by Fermat's Principle. Geometrical optics is useful as long as the objects in which the light...

Our optical design team employs DFM principles to ensure optimal performance, cost-efficiency, and timely production of our solutions. Our state-of-the-art metrology ensures thorough testing of each...

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Optolong Optics Co. Ltd., brand owner of Optolong, is a manufacturer of fluorescence filters and astronomy filters. We also offer other interference filters including UV filters, visible filters, and...

Shanghai Optics is a leading global custom optics manufacturer and optical solution provider with more than 60 years of experience. Our experienced engineering team possesses in-depth DFM knowledge...

An achromatic lens is a lens consisting of two or more elements, usually of crown and flint glass, that has been corrected for chromatic aberration with respect to two selected wavelengths. Also...

FOCtek provides customers with all types of custom manufactured lenses, Precision Optical Components, Polarizing Optics, Prisms, Filters, Coatings, Optical Systems, Crystals, Nonlinear Crystals,...

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...

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...

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,...