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DSI produces a wide variety of highly reliable, durable, and heat-resistant optical coatings which include Conformal AR’s, AR coated ball lenses, Dark Mirrors, Bandpass Filters, Coating...

DSI designs and manufactures thin film coatings such as bandpasses, beamsplitters, ARs, and absorption coatings for use in the MWIR thru LWIR wavelength regions. The coatings are produced by either...

DSI designs and manufactures thin film coatings such as bandpasses, beamsplitters, ARs, and absorption coatings for use in the MWIR thru LWIR wavelength regions. The coatings are produced by either...

DSI designs and manufactures thin-film coatings such as bandpasses, beamsplitters, ARs and dark mirrors for use in the MWIR thru LWIR wavelength regions. The coatings are produced by either...

For biomedical instrumentation applications such as fluorescence microscopy and Raman spectroscopy, sputter-coated thin-film interference filters deliver exemplary performance. These filters also...

FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif. — Dental laser company BIOLASE appointed three members to its board of directors. Kathleen T. O’Loughlin, Carol Gomez Summerhays, and Martha Somerman have joined...

Industrial organizations in Germany and Canada are collaborating to provide automated control of laser material deposition (LMD) and other additive processes using artificial intelligence (AI). The...

The advent of autonomous vehicles, advanced spacecraft, and other technologies that rely on sensors for navigation has created a need for advanced technologies that can scan for obstacles,...

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...

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...

Controlling and minimizing heat output is desirable in most lighting applications. For example, conventional incandescent light sources are very inefficient with only a small portion of the...

Optical coatings are deposited as thin-film multilayers of a variety of materials using specific deposition techniques. Coatings are applied to optical components that are intended for use at...

CVND Filters are best used in high-quality optical systems to change the intensity of light from 100% to less than 0.1%. As the filter rotates, the beam intensity is reduced due to the density...

Bullseye Apodizing filters are customizable density gradient filters that change radially from the center to the outside of the optical component. These filters are used to eliminate undesirable...

The white paper presents HERA, a novel hyperspectral camera, and a series of results obtained in different applications (agri-tech & food, plastic sorting, remote sensing, and microscopy). The HERA...

New directions for the optical manufacturing industry. Using freeform optics and aspheres designers can do more with less. Less components of an optical system, less weight, and more Optical...

Anti-reflective (AR) coatings are now entering their second century and have remained virtually unchanged throughout their life. As power level and wavelength range requirements continue to increase,...

This presentation includes a brief overview of standard coating systems offered by Satisloh, special technology features, process capability examples, offerings in ancillary support equipment,...

Success in a specific market depends on meeting the right technical requirements. As demand increases, it becomes necessary to develop and establish new manufacturing processes to produce functional...

Microlenses are critical components used in a wide variety of consumer devices and industrial sensors, ranging from cellphone cameras and virtual reality goggles to 3D displays and advanced...

A coating made up of many layers of material having alternating high and low refractive index. In this way, it is possible to produce coatings with a great variety of properties. These may be...

1. In color development, the chemical that combines with certain by-products of the development procedure to form a dye. 2. Device for distributing optical power among two or more ports. 3. Device...

An instrument used to record the emittance or reflectance of an object by scanning with discrete spectral resolution over a wide spectral band, or recording many discrete spectral bands...

A system by which consumer products are assigned a bar code that is read by a scanner at a cash register, enabling computerization of pricing and inventory records.

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...

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...

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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...

A bandpass filter is a filter with a transmission that is high for a particular band of frequencies, but that falls to low values above and below this band.

World Leader in High Performance, Durable Optical Thin-Film Coatings Deposition Sciences, Inc. (DSI®) produces a wide variety of highly reliable, durable, and heat-resistant optical...

Optics that Defend, Build, Cure and Discover The LaCroix name is synonymous with quality precision optics. Since 1947, three generations of family leadership have placed LaCroix Precision Optics...

Optolong Optics Co., Ltd is a manufacturer of fluorescence filters and astronomy filters. We also offer other interference filters such as UV filters, visible filters and near-infrared filters,...

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,...