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Recent Research Using Meadowlark Optics Spatial Light Modulators
This ever-evolving collection of recent research using Meadowlark Optics Spatial Light Modulators offers a brief overview of specific applications in which Meadowlark Optics’ Spatial Light Modulators are most commonly used. Citations to published research are included within each application space listed in this document. Some key application spaces include: Imaging in Scattering or Turbid Media, Volumetric Imaging, Optogenetics, Fiber-based Optical Manipulation, PSF Engineering, just to name a...
High-Quality Molded Glass for Various Applications
The IHU series glass can transmit Ultra-Violet (UV) through the visible range.
Health and Sanitization through UV Lighting
With increased awareness and necessity for rapid disinfection methods due to the current coronavirus pandemic, ultraviolet disinfection has become a viable method to achieve it. Determining the amount of UV energy the light source emits onto the...
Dispelling the Myths About Laminated Filters
There is a common belief that there is no longer a need for traditional bandpass optical filters. While this may be true in some cases, not all laminated filters are created equal. In this paper we will illustrate the advantages and disadvantages of...
Hexapod Advancements: Alignment and Industrial Control Applications
1) Hexapod parallel kinematics together with novel controllers and algorithms allow for faster coupling optimization between (fiber) optical devices, across multiple channels. Many industries can achieve significant process savings, including...
Hybrid Gain Flattening Filters in Optical Fiber Amplifiers
Iridian Spectral Technologies has developed what is referred to as a Hybrid GFF, which combines the functionality of both a WDM and the GFF on one component. Specifically, a Hybrid GFF can block the pump laser from light in the range of...
Making Color Images – How Bayer Filters Work
Bayer filters are the most popular type of color filter array used by camera manufacturers to produce color images. This paper will describe how we perceive color, how a Bayer filter utilizes this information to detect colors, the common artifacts...
Colored Glass as a Versatile and Economical Means for Optical Filtering
Colored glass filters find many uses in optical systems including imaging, laser, and industrial equipment. We describe design and fabrication techniques for implementing low cost optical filters which are an excellent choice for production systems....
Ball Shaped End Caps
In this paper, general ball shaped end-caps are studied and illustrated. Different ball shaped end-caps were tested and measured for a variety of applications. For example, a 2.2 mm diameter ball shaped end-cap was manufactured on the end of the...
Are Large Image Sensors A Perfect Fit for Large Field of View Microscope Applications?
In the last years nearly all microscope manufacturers used image circles with 18 mm diameter to image their field of view to cameras connected to their microscopes. Only recently some microscope manufacturers increased their field of view to offer...
Benefits of Client-Server Systems for Quality Control with Vis-NIR Spectroscopy
Analyzer systems monitoring product quality can offer substantial advantages when organized in a client-server network compared to the more traditional local installation. This white paper presents different client-server setups and their benefits....
Multispectral arrays (UV - LWIR)
This presentation discusses the past, present and future features of Multispectral Arrays in regards to space exploration. It details our butcher block assembly capabilities and features, and the expanding need for more capabilities due to the...
Multispectral Array Technology - Meeting New Space Economics and Obligations
For over 40+ years, Materion Precision Optics (formerly Barr Associates) has been providing cutting edge multispectral arrays for high end government sponsored programs (Landsat, VIIRs, etc.). By working closely and collaborating with our customers...
Cassegrain Telescope with Fold Mirror
The following document will cover the analysis of a Cassegrain Telescope system. The polarization properties of the system will be measured with the Polaris-M software and the effects on imaging will be discussed. All plots and data have been...
How to Improve Resiliency in the Medical Device
This white paper examines how breakdowns in product quality, delivery, or availability can greatly disrupt supply chain management. But teaming up with a value-based, ISO 22301-certified supplier can provide engineers and medical device...
5 Most Common Mistakes in Designing Precision Super Hard Components
Over nearly four decades, IRD has been manufacturing precision optical and non-optical components in super hard materials. Roughly 80% of the designs have benefited from IRD’s proprietary Design for Manufacturability (DFM) Review. During these...
Making Innovation Faster: 7 Lessons from Luminate on Building Effective Accelerators for Optics Entrepreneurs
All entrepreneurs face obstacles moving a product from lab to launch. Companies developing optics, photonics, and imaging (OPI) technologies face additional challenges often not addressed by accelerators. Luminate was founded in Rochester, NY to...
Tolerancing and its Role in Illumination and Nonsequential Optical Design
Tolerancing is a subject that is often overlooked, or not fully addressed, in the design of illumination and nonsequential optical systems. Tolerancing methods are well developed and understood in the lens design and imaging system design fields,...
How Much Will an Optical Filter Cost?
Filters are a critical element in the design of most optical systems. However, optimizing the trade-off between cost and performance isn’t obvious. With nearly a half century of experience in the business, Andover Corporation has a few tips to help...
The Fast Lane to Embedded Vision
Sensor Modules are small imaging solutions used to easily integrate customized vision technologies into machines and devices that allow them to see. Developers of robots, drones, IoT, consumer devices and surveillance applications benefit from...
Make or Buy Your Spectrometer
One of the challenges instrument makers face today is an increasing need to bring new innovative products to the market faster and at a lower cost. Spectrometers are an essential component in analytical instruments for a broad range of applications,...
Tolerance Analysis Tools Take the Guesswork out of a Colorful Illumination Design Problem
Tolerance analysis has largely been out of reach for illumination designers because of the time needed to perform the thousands of simulations required to get a meaningful statistical tolerance result, and because of a lack of built-in tolerance...
Radiation Resistant Lenses
Drawing upon approaching 30 years experience — Resolve Optics has built a strong reputation for specialist lens design and manufacture of smaller production quantities of radiation resistant lenses and optical products on time to strict...
Replacing Hard to Source and Obsolete Optical Components
Periodically organisations are faced with replacing hard to source or obsolete optical components within their camera, sensor, or instrument systems. It is at this critical point that you have to choose whether to search for an off-the-shelf...
Application in Optical Design: Optimization for Receiver Enclosed Energy in LiDAR Systems
Enclosed energy optimization can be an important way to achieve high-performance optical systems that have stringent irradiance requirements, such as spectrometers and solar concentrators. This white paper shows an example LiDAR receiver system with...
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