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Mon, May 6, 2024
Cricket™² - Advanced Image Intensifier Adapter
The Cricket™² is a plug & play camera image intensifier attachment enabling low light level imaging and extreme high shutter speeds for CMOS and CCD cameras. The Cricket™² fitted with a single MCP (microchannel plate) based IIT (image intensifier tube) enables an all in one camera upgrade for high...
Photonis Netherlands BV
Wed, Apr 24, 2024
Textured Antireflective Surfaces for High-Power Applications
Thorlabs’ Textured AR Surfaces present a powerful alternative to traditional coatings. The treated surface provides significantly higher resistance to laser damage alongside lower reflectance across a broader wavelength range with minimal sensitivity to angle. This technique can be applied across a...
Thorlabs Inc.
Wed, Apr 3, 2024
Tunable Bandpass Filters with Wide Deep Out-of-Band Blocking
This technical white paper describes how tunable bandpass filters with wide and deep out-of-band blocking can be built using continuously variable edge filters combined with homogeneous blocking filters.
Delta Optical Thin Film A/S
Thu, Mar 28, 2024
Angle-Resolved Polarized Raman Microscopy for Determining the Orientation of Carbon Nanotubes
Determining the orientation of carbon nanotubes can expose crucial structural information about the material, which can help explain its properties and potential applications. A technique used to investigate this is angle-resolved polarized Raman microscopy. Carbon nanotube architectures are...
Edinburgh Instruments Ltd.
Mon, Mar 25, 2024
Meet Stretto.
DRS Daylight Solutions has launched Stretto, a family of external cavity diode lasers operating from ultraviolet wavelengths through to the infrared. Drawing its name from the intricate overlapping of musical notes, Stretto exploits precision and sophistication in laser technology to provide...
DRS Daylight Solutions Inc.
Wed, Mar 20, 2024
Olive Oil Quality Assessment with UV-Vis Spectrophotometry
UV-Vis spectrophotometry is a simple and efficient technique for the analysis and evaluation of the quality of olive oil. Extra virgin, virgin, and lower-quality olive oils can be distinguished by measuring their absorbance at four UV wavelengths. The full UV-Vis absorption spectrum provides...
Edinburgh Instruments Ltd.
Mon, Mar 18, 2024
Monolithic Hollow Corner Cube Retroreflectors for Precision Metrology
This white paper compares the advantages and disadvantages of different types of retroreflectors. It highlights the advantages of monolithic, hollow retroreflectors which do not suffer from chromatic aberration making them ideal for use with broadband or multiple frequency light sources....
Spectrum Scientific Inc. (SSI)
Mon, Mar 4, 2024
Coherent Optical Comb Characterization
The ultra-low noise and GHz repetition rate of the MENHIR-1550 optical frequency comb (OFC) series are important features for many applications such as high-speed telecommunication or photonics analog to digital convertor. We describe here the characterization of the coherent comb using the...
Menhir Photonics AG
Thu, Feb 15, 2024
A Guide to Lighting for Your Multispectral Imaging System
With the rapid advances in multispectral cameras and lighting, the range of applications continues to expand. As the camera technology improves, multispectral lighting becomes even more important in ensuring crisp, clear images are achieved. Optimized lighting can reduce the system's complexity and...
ProPhotonix Ltd.
Wed, Feb 7, 2024
Direct CPA-Free Pulse Amplification
The whitepaper describes how femtosecond pulses from a Menhir Photonics MENHIR-1030 seeder can easily be amplified using the modular neoYb amplifiers from neoLASE. The advantages of the presented approach lie in a direct amplification which does not require any chirp of the pulse and its...
Menhir Photonics AG
Thu, Jan 18, 2024
Semiconductor Inspection Using the CRONUS-2P Laser
Inspection plays a critical role in today’s semiconductor manufacturing. Nonlinear optical techniques present compelling advantages, but require lasers producing femtosecond pulses at adjustable wavelengths. Here, we discuss the application of Light Conversion’s CRONUS-2P femtosecond laser for...
Light Conversion