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The L-Series of rigid industrial-grade micro fiberscopes from Titan Tool Supply Inc. are fiber optic borescopes designed for remote visual inspections and diagnostics in hard-to-reach areas without...

The Unispectral Monarch II multispectral camera from Bodkin Design & Engineering LLC is a NIR camera integrated with a tunable Fabry–Pérot filter. Weighing 30 g, it can be...

The GEO™ system from KrellTech is designed for polishing PIC optical components. Its work holder fixtures provide adjustable mounting mechanisms to accommodate varying chip dimensions, while...

Borofloat UV-blocking coated filter glass from Abrisa Technologies protects eyes from UV radiation. The non-heat absorbing glass features heat stability for consistent color balance and...

Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and their collaborators developed high-energy pulse compression gratings that will be installed in what will be the world’s most...

Coherent Corp. appointed two directors to its board: Elizabeth Patrick and Michelle Sterling. Patrick recently served as senior vice president and chief people officer for Diebold Nixdorf, a...

Amazon Web Services is partnering with synthetic diamonds manufacturer Element Six to explore ways to develop and improve synthetic diamonds for quantum networking. The collaboration aims to develop...

SpaceLink, a space communication technology company, entered an Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command Technical Center (USASMDC-TC) to...

Given the pace at which technology advances, there always seems to be a learning curve. With the abundance of consumer electronics available, there typically is no right or wrong way to use these...

When purchasing an industrial laser system, the astute buyer will look for a Class 1 laser product — a system where the laser beam hazard is completely enclosed and there is no potential laser...

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...

Materials processing with lasers is actually a broad term for a diverse range of applications. The major categories of these uses, and the lasers that service them, are summarized Table 1. At one...

Short wave pass and long wave pass filters are a specialty of ours. Learn more...

A great "How-to" for cleaning optics. A must have for ALL.

This document outlines how Seiwa Optical's fully automated inspection equipment can increase the threshold, reduce chip loss, and decrease production costs of wafer manufacturing.

We are pros at designing, developing, and manufacturing notch filters!

Beam profiling describes the measurement of the spatial distribution of power of a laser beam. Laser users often wonder if they need to profile their lasers but may have nagging doubts as to why....

Vision applications across industrial and medical markets are demanding improvements in camera size, speed, intelligence, and power consumption. Additional requirements for industrial markets include...

Lasers with large beam divergence are used in a number of applications, such as remote sensing, optical communications, and materials processing. Large beam divergences create challenges for reliably...

Achieving full SKU coverage and fewer mispicks, and completely emptying a bin of random objects, are success factors that may be hard to achieve if an automation system is based on stereo depth...

The fiber optic connector developed and manufactured by Amphenol Fiber Optic Products.

Additive manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing, is a manufacturing process that involves creating three-dimensional objects by adding material layer by layer. This is in contrast to...

Laser texturing is a manufacturing process that involves using a laser beam to selectively modify the surface of a material, creating textures, patterns, or microstructures. This technique is...

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.

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...

Universe Kogaku designs and manufactures precision assembled optics including CCD and CMOS lenses, CCTV and Diode Laser Lenses, High Resolution Lenses, UV Lenses, Mounts, Filters and Accessories.

Are you curious about Spectral Domain (S-D) OCT and where a spectrometer fits into it all? Learn more about this exciting technology and how Wasatch Photonics is enabling SD-OCT.

The New Videology is here.

In 1977, Dale Flaming, a scientist working at the University of California at San Francisco, was having difficulty reliably producing micropipettes. He developed the first electronically controlled...

For over 100 years, Prior Scientific has been manufacturing precision optical and electro-mechanical equipment and instrumentation. Prior is a leader in the development of precision motion,...

National Aperture, Inc. manufactures precision micro-apertures, miniature translation stages, and motion control products such as linear and rotary manual stages, motorized stages, and controllers....

Electro Optical Components (EOC) provides Advanced Systems and Components including Detectors, Sources, and Signal Recovery Amplifiers from the UV to the far IR. UV Photodetectors, UV APDs and UV...