Finished Infrared Optics

Using a state-of-the-art replication process, Spectrum Scientific offers a cost-effective solution for high-volume precision aspheric and freeform mirrors, without sacrificing quality or performance....

Meller Sapphire Windows provide front surface protection for optics used in gimbaled systems and are available with multispectral antireflective coatings that can meet salt fog requirements....

The SOLANO hexapod from Symétrie is an ultra-compact device of 104 × 120 mm for precision positioning applications in industry or research. Designed to position up to 5-kg...

Optical Surfaces’ pre-aligned large diameter beam expander modules enable complex 5-degrees of freedom set-up in a matter of minutes. The modular beam expander assembly components include...

The complementary strengths of fluorescence and vibrational microscopy are combined in a new technique developed at Caltech, which is called bond-selective fluorescence-detected infrared-excited...

Systems that run artificial intelligence programs, such as large language models, face a “bandwidth bottleneck” that can limit the amount of data they transfer between nodes. Using light...

Precision optics and photonics technology company G&H (Gooch & Housego) has acquired GS Optics, a designer and manufacturer of polymer optics. The $15.7 million acquisition, G&H said, is...

TRUMPF subsidiary TRUMPF Photonic Components named Thomas Dobbertin managing director. He succeeds Berthold Schmidt, who now serves as CTO and a member of the board for parent company TRUMPF SE + Co....

Optical design software allows the user to develop a configuration of optical elements that manipulate the trajectory of light for the purposes of creating an image, illuminating a target, coupling...

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...

When physical structures get very small — on the order of molecular or atomic sizes with one or more dimensions on the nanoscale — their behavior and interactions with energy, including...

Questions on the advantages of IBS coatings, chemical bonding, surface roughness and dielectric coatings.

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...

Fiber Optic Gyro Coil - The Core components of FOG used in inertial navigation field.

Despite the rapid development of modern lasers, the Gaussian intensity distribution often leads to problems, especially in laser material processing. When welding wide weld seams, a top-hat profile...

Metrology of optics and optical systems is a challenging tasks without one easy solution. In many ways, metrology in the manufacturing of lenses and mirrors is well understood. But, for the most...

Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate technology has been the defining foundation of silicon photonic integrated circuits for over 20 years, fostering their commercial deployment in the data center by...

In optical design for illumination, some key questions need to be answered early on in a project, such as: “Which size LED should be used to create a beam with a given optics size and beam...

Line-field confocal optical coherence tomography (LC-OCT) is an imaging technique based on a combination of reflectance confocal microscopy and time-domain OCT. It can generate cellular-resolution...

A measure of the relative difference in refractive index between two optical materials. Most commonly used in fiber optics where the refractive index contrast, D, is given as follows: where n1 equals...

An optical table, also known as an optical bench or an optical breadboard, is a specialized platform used in optics laboratories for mounting and aligning optical components. These tables provide a...

A single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) is a specialized type of photodetector designed to detect extremely weak optical signals, down to the level of single photons. SPADs are widely used in...

Harmonic generation refers to a nonlinear optical process in which incoming photons interact with a material and produce new photons at integer multiples of the frequency of the incoming photons....

Blackstone-NEY CleanVeyor Ultrasonic parts washer utilizes a combination of spray, immersion, and ultrasonic cleaning technologies and has proven successful in achieving Six Sigma consistency in a...

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...

Tour of our Fitchburg, MA manufacturing facility.

Telecentric Lenses are widely used in metrology instruments, laser marking systems, and AOI (Automatic Optical Inspection) machines. Here’s a 360 view of one of our custom Telecentric Lenses which...

Spectrum analyzers are scanning devices used to cyclically tune through a given frequency range to determine the amplitude-frequency distribution of the signals present, usually by displaying output...

PG&O provides complete, end-to-end high-quality precision and commercial optics, thin-film coatings, glass substrates and optical fabrication services for a wide variety of applications. ...

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...