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The ROF-AM 850-nm lithium niobate optical intensity modulator from Beijing Rofea Optoelectronics Co. Ltd. is designed for applications in space optical communication, cesium atomic time bases, pulse...

Improvements in detection for the range 1000 to 3000 nm have allowed for the use of SWIR wavelengths in a number of remote-sensing applications. Chroma’s optical filters are produced on...

Chroma understands that Raman scattering is a weaker signal requiring much better filters, with steeper edges, to isolate the signal of interest. Our Raman filters or sets will cover a wide variety...

The MEMS Autofocus Actuator for Active Athermalization in Embedded Vision Cameras from Sheba Microsystems Inc. was made to be used in automotive, action, drones, machine vision, security and...

Following Group Gorgé’s acquisition of iXblue last month, ECA Group and iXblue announced that both companies will operate under the common brand name Exail. The company will specialize...

Pickit3D and Zivid have established a strategic partnership to jointly address the growing automation needs of the automotive industry. The partnership aims to leverage the companies’ combined...

SPIE has named 27 finalists for the 2024 Prism Awards. The companies — ranging from emerging innovators to industry stalwarts — selected in nine categories, will be honored during a Jan....

The first images from the James Webb Space Telescope are being released today, following an initial release of a “teaser” image July 7, and a subsequent preview image released July 11...

Camera resolution depends upon the optical blur diameter and the detector size. Schade combined these to create an equivalent resolution that is a function of Fλ/d where F is the focal ratio,...

The benefits of aspheric lenses are numerous: They allow for a reduction in spherical aberrations and are ideal for focusing or collimating light, as they can achieve a low ƒ-number. Aspheres...

Diffraction gratings are optical components with a periodic structure that separate light into beams traveling in predictable directions based on their wavelength. The grating acts as the dispersive...

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...

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

As we reach single photon resolution in imaging, and go beyond it, we approach a world better described by quantum mechanics than classical mechanics. In ghost imaging, the key principle is to...

Reynard Corporation has a full service, in-house optical fabrication facility designed to meet your precision optical requirements. From flats and wedges to aspheric lenses, we understand precision...

Speed and precision are paramount to photonics alignment. For Silicon Photonics assembly & test applications such as wafer probing, alignment time is the primary cost driver, especially in production...

Metaoptics is a flat optics technology that uses an array of subwavelength nanostructures to bend and steer light. A typical metalens can use an array of sub-100-nm-diameter pillars to implement the...

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...

Join us for a FREE webinar – Wednesday, June 25, 2014, 1 - 2 p.m. EDT Dan Bajuk is Technical Director of ZYGO’s Extreme Precision Optics group in Richmond, California. He has 40...

Background noise caused by stray light is a persistent problem in optical devices, especially for those functioning in the IR wavelengths. This webinar will discuss the science behind broadband light...

In astronomy, the relative brightness of a celestial body. Originally a scale from 1 to 6, where 1 represented the brightest and 6 the faintest visible night sky objects. This scale has been expanded...

The optical Fourier transform is a mathematical operation applied to optical signals that involves transforming a spatial domain representation of an image into its corresponding frequency domain...

1. A device used to trace out an object and build up an image. One of the most common of these types is video scanning. The scanning takes place inside the television tube as electrons, guided by...

The branch of optics that deals with the study of the refraction of light, particularly by the transmitting medium of the eye, and by lenses.

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Avantier delivers professional optical design consulting with innovative solutions by experienced engineers in custom design, analysis, modeling, and lens design. With over 50 years experience, our...

Check out our new video tutorial on how to clean spherical lenses! Our latest video breaks down the step-by-step process for effectively cleaning spherical lenses, ensuring crystal-clear images every...

Fluorescent filter is a key component of biomedical and life science instruments, and its main function is to separate and select the characteristic band spectra of excitation light and emission...

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...

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...