Custom Infrared Windows

High-quality zinc selenide (ZnSe) lenses, output couplers, and mirrors from Laser Research Optics are optimized at 1.06 μm for medical laser OEMs. The devices are manufactured to...

GPD Optoelectronics Corp. offers a variety of position sensing detectors for use in near-infrared beam alignment and tracking applications. Our quadrant photodiodes offer a convenient option for beam...

While standard InGaAs detectors cover a spectral range from 900 to 1700 nm, ER-InGaAs detector sensitivity is shifted towards higher wavelengths up to 2200 nm, and this is a real breakthrough in SWIR...

The VIPack™ packaging platform from Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. is designed to enable vertically integrated package solutions. The platform leverages advanced redistribution...

A simple method for producing what scientists have reported are record levels of strain in single-crystal silicon could lead to the ability to integrate photonics more fully with silicon structures....

Researchers in Russia have increased photoluminescence (PL) in silicon using germanium quantum dots and a specially designed silicon photonic crystal. Developed by scientists from Skolkovo Institute...

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Columbia University and Sungkyungkwan University (South Korea) has introduced a clean technique to dope graphene via a charge-transfer layer made of...

The liquids isopropanol and toluene appear transparent when viewed with the naked eye. However, when viewed in the NIR and SWIR ranges, the differences between the two become apparent, because each...

Silicon photonics is widely considered a key enabling technology for further development of optical interconnect solutions needed to address growing traffic on the internet. From the first submarine...

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...

Technologies that leverage terahertz radiation have potential to be used in areas such as imaging, security, nondestructive testing, and quality assurance. However, these exciting technological...

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...

Important considerations in obtaining infrared optical metrology, for measuring transmitted wavefront error, optical quality, and surface quality. The paper asks questions to help guide the reader in...

The optical performance of optical coatings is only half of the picture. A coating that is perfectly manufactured to meet its optical specifications is useless unless it also meets the application's...

Vince Forte of Marktech Optoelectronics reviews InGaAs detector types, packaging, performance characteristics, and applications in the NIR and SWIR wavelength bands. He focuses particularly on photo...

VCSELs have increasingly become a fixture in smartphone and consumer electronic applications such as proximity sensing or face recognition, and recent advancements have only made these compact lasers...

Vision-guided robots date back to the beginning of the modern industrial robot age in the early 1980s. Using vision to guide a robot has consistently been a method to add the sense of sight to a...

A type of glass used in near-infrared optical components, in which germanium is used as a cation instead of silicon.

The range of materials that, unlike glass, may be used in the infrared. Water-soluble salts, such as cesium iodide, and other substances such as arsenic sulfide, selenium, thallium bromide-iodide and...

A crystalline semiconductor material that transmits in the infrared.

A diode with a semiconducting material, such as germanium or silicon, for one electrode, and a fine wire "whisker'' which lies on the semiconductor, as the other electrode. The low capacitance...

Ecoptik (also known as BRD Optical) was founded in 2004, and is located in the city of Changchun - the optic base of China with a beautiful view and profound optical culture. We have...

Founded in 1921, Meller Optics has built a reputation of quality and excellence for over 100 years. This video provides an overview of the factory in Providence, RI - as well as interviews with some...

-Shrinking OCT -Photonic Logic Gate -Intravascular OCT This week on Light matters: bulk silicon emits visible light, 3-D printable optics are open sourced, a European project aims to shrink light...

-Flexible Transpatent Display -SiLEDs -Holographic Imaging On this week’s show, an image sensor is totally transparent, silicon nanocrystals make colored LEDs, a holographic imager sees through...

Optical materials are materials that, by virtue of their optical characteristics, are used in optical elements.

Infrared windows are thin parallel plates of material that transmit in the infrared region or a spectral region (of the infrared) in which the atmosphere transmits.

Sydor Optics is a custom manufacturer of precision flat-surfaced, parallel, and wedged glass optical components specializing in double-sided polishing, continuous pad & pitch polishing, CNC...

Ohara manufactures precision optical glasses: strip/slab, cut/molded blanks, pressings, high homogeneity blanks, fine gobs, polished ball lenses, near-UV transmitting i-Line glass, ceramic...

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,...

Hangzhou Shalom EO (or Hangzhou Shalom Electro-optics Technology Co., Ltd.) is a leading supplier of crystals, optics, and components for lasers, IR applications, thermal imaging cameras, and X-ray...