Sapphire Wave Plates

Custom manufactured infrared windows as large as 14” in diameter in silicon, germanium, sapphire, ZnS, and ZnSe for applications including FLIR and FTIR spectroscopy across the NIR, SWIR, MWIR,...

The Wi8i G2 PRO Wafer Vision Inspection Handler from ViTrox Technologies Sdn. Bhd. is an advanced wafer inspection solution for flexibility in wafer handling and use in different semiconductor...

Since 1947, LaCroix Precision Optics has positioned itself as the premier manufacturer of custom precision optics. Among our list of competencies, LaCroix has the flexibility to assist you in scaling...

High-precision polymer optics for myriad applications. Off-the-shelf products to speed your development and production. Contact us for assistance with selecting your optics, or for help in design and...

Researchers led by Hongwei Chen of the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology and Tsinghua University have developed a lensless optoelectronic neural network...

A team of researchers has developed what is reportedly the first chip-scale titanium-doped sapphire laser — an innovation that could lead to new applications ranging from atomic clocks to...

SEOUL, South Korea — Speclipse, a startup focused on laser spectroscopic and AI-based medical diagnosis technologies and a member of Born2Global Centre, received $7.7 million in investments for...

NTT Corp., in collaboration with the University of Tokyo and RIKEN, has developed an optical fiber-coupled quantum light source. Such a light source that can produce squeezed light is considered to...

Optics today needs alchemy, and the forces that motivate microchip technology are a key reason why. Today, light can transmit and process digital information as well as electricity can — in...

Ultraprecision machining can be defined in general terms as the removal of material from a substrate utilizing a machine tool that operates at a resolution of 10 nm (0.4 μin.) or less. The...

Electrical engineers are very familiar with the effects of shot noise, thermal noise, flicker noise and crosstalk, and recognize how these effects can reduce the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in their...

To Isaac Newton the problem was clear, and in 1704 he realized the effects of atmospheric turbulence on image formation. Just as heat waves shimmering above a hot patch of ground can distort our...

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...

The new general purpose interferometer. Fizeau interferometer for surface and wavefront metrology. 1-Megapixel imaging and 4 optical sources.

Reynard Corporation offers single point diamond turning (SPDT) in-house capabilities to produce 6 to 250 mm diameter high-quality precision optical components for aerospace, military, and commercial...

HIGH-DEFINITION THERMAL INFRARED CAMERAS WITH UP TO 3 MEGAPIXELS. The HD and Super HD Series are high-performance thermal infrared cameras designed to provide unprecedented image quality with crisp...

Baur details techniques and equipment for performance characterization of optical components for polarization control. He discusses metrology for polarizers, wave plates, and precision liquid crystal...

A Free Webinar: Advances in Biomedical Photonics, Thursday, July 19, at 1 p.m. EDT/10 a.m. PDT/ 5 p.m. GMT/UTC Questions & Answers from the Webinar: Lihong V. Wang, PhD Gene...

Laser crystals are used as the gain media for solid-state lasers and are critical for enabling a wide variety of applications ranging from laser materials processing to medical lasers. Like most...

What’s most important to your process when lapping hard optics? It may depend on different desired outcomes, such as achieving better surface quality, a higher removal rate, or clocking less...

An optical element having two principal axes, slow and fast, that resolve an incident polarized beam into two mutually perpendicular polarized beams. The emerging beam recombines to form a particular...

A material used in optics that differs from ruby only in the slight impurity that gives the material its color. Colorless sapphire has been used for lens manufacture because of its high refractive...

The optically pumped, solid-state laser that uses sapphire as the host lattice and chromium as the active ion. The emission takes place in the red portion of the spectrum.

A surgical device used to deliver laser light. Specifically,contact tips are made with artificially grown sapphire which is precisely cut to an orientation which permits efficient light transmission....

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...

-Prism Award winners -Synthetic Diamonds -Saphire coatings A special edition of Light Matters, filmed live at SPIE Photonics West 2013 with reports on Power Technology’s acquisition of Klastech of...

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...

A wave plate is an optical element having two principal axes, slow and fast, that resolve an incident polarized beam into two mutually perpendicular polarized beams. The emerging beam recombines to...

Over 100 Years of Excellence Recognized for our custom fabrication capabilities since 1921, Meller Optics has consistently delivered high precision optics for critical applications in the...

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,...

BMV Optical Technologies Inc. provides manufacturing services for optical components, systems, and thin-film coatings. Products include lenses (cylindrical and spherical), Gaussian reflectivity...

Prototype to Production Quantities | Challenging Designs | Fast Deliveries Since 1995, Rainbow Research Optics has been providing optical components, optical coatings, and optomechanical...