Micro Injection Molded Optics

Bringing vision to new heights with freeform optics in space. Team up with Optimax to engineer freeform optics and solutions to your project needs. We have a long track record as a supplier for...

Fresnel Technologies’ precision polymer optics, including PIR arrays, micro optics, and aspheres, speed your product development. We’re an expert optical partner for biomedical, AR/VR,...

Meopta is a leader in developing, manufacturing, and assembling optical, optomechanical, and optoelectronic systems. We design, produce, and measure systems, submodules, and components. We are fully...

The SingleShot™ Wide Field Objective Imaging System from Navitar Inc. provides high-resolution, wide-field-of-view image capture. The modular fixed focal length imaging system combines...

Concurrent with the introduction of its GF Fotonix silicon photonics platform, GlobalFoundries announced several high-profile collaborations with the potential to significantly boost the...

Three photonics professional societies partnered to kick off the International Day of Light, May 16, with a stylized trailer for a movie titled “Day of Light.” In the trailer, a diverse...

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Fujitsu have developed a method to convert 2D images to a 3D structure. The researchers’ Dynamic Light Field Network (DyLiN) method handles...

The Awards Committee of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, today announced the recipients of its annual awards. Honoring transformative advancements in multiple areas —...

Surface quality has become one of the most poorly understood specifications in the optics industry. A significant portion of the confusion stems from the two major competing (and largely...

What are thin-film coatings? The purpose of any optical thin-film coating is to modify the transmittance and reflectance properties of the substrate material to which they are applied. Most coatings...

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...

Equation (1) is known as the Gaussian form of the lens equation, after the mathematician Karl F. Gauss. Equation (2), first derived by Sir Isaac Newton, is the Newtonian form of a lens equation. The...

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

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Anyone familiar with telecentric optics knows very well that the depth of field can be a problem when using high-magnification lenses. Most of the time you either end up using oversized optics or...

What is a grism? A grism is a compound optical element composed of a GRating and prISM(s). It is a dispersive element that permits an in-line optical layout by cleverly exploiting the differences...

Two- and three-dimensional photonics arrays are commonly used for coupling light in photonic integrated circuits (PICs). With increasing demand for ultralow-loss transmission in applications such as...

Structured light provides the ability to tailor light within all of its degrees of freedom, including amplitude, phase, and polarization. There are many approaches to tailoring light, from using...

This free webinar, sponsored by the Technology Transfer program of CLEO: Market Focus and Photonics Media, complements the live event, which will be held on Thursday, June 13, in the CLEO:2013...

Brian Sanders and Alfred Mottola of VIGO Photonics share the latest advancements in infrared (IR) detectors for the gas sensing market. These detectors are able to be deployed in small form factor...

Optical elements arranged with no spaces between, so that the light travels only through glass, not air.

A material engineered from artificial matter not found in nature. The artificial makeup and design of metamaterials give them intrinsic properties not common to conventional materials that are...

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

Thin layers intended to prevent damage to plastic optics.

Fluorescence filters like FISH products, single-band filters DAPI, FITC, TRITC, Texas Red, GFP, CFP, Cy5 are the other direction of Optolong. Filters we produce are with the dark background and bight...

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Avantier Inc. is an unparalleled leader in providing custom optical systems solutions. We offer advance precision custom optical design, optical engineering, optical lens assembly, rapid optical...

At Avantier, we specialize in the design and production of cutting-edge optical solutions and high-performance optics for a diverse range of applications in optical metrology equipment. Our expertise...

A neutral density filter is a light filter that decreases the intensity of the light without altering the relative spectral distribution of the energy. Also known as a gray filter.

Accumold® is a high-tech manufacturer of precision micro, small and lead frame injection molded plastic components. Utilizing processes developed from Accumold's Micro-Mold® technology, the...

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

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...

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...