Edmund Optics Expands

Edmund Optics established a 34,000-sq-ft laser optics center in Oldsmar, Fla. The center is dedicated to manufacturing optical components with high laser damage thresholds from the ultraviolet to the...

Edmund Optics named Marisa Edmund chair of the board of directors, succeeding Robert Edmund, who will retire from the position. Marisa Edmund has more than 25 years of experience in the photonics...

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...

QDI Systems, a developer of imaging devices for medical applications, has secured €5 million ($5.4 million) in series A funding. The company, a 2019 spinoff of the Zernike Institute for Advanced...

TECHSPEC® Dual-Band Antireflection (AR) Laser Windows from Edmund Optics Inc. feature <0.25% reflection at 532 nm and <0.1% reflection at 1064 nm for high laser throughput. ...

The TECHSPEC® Nonpolarizing Cube Beamsplitters from Edmund Optics Inc. have a 50/50 reflection/transmission ratio and are constructed from high-tolerance N-BK7 right angle prisms. Three...

The 1064-nm 2X – 8X Gemma® Variable Beam Expander from Edmund Optics Inc. features a high laser-induced damage threshold and fixed housing length for high-power laser applications with...

Mounted Machine Vision Filters from Edmund Optics Inc. are color filters optimized for use with popular LEDs with ≥85% transmission and blocking capabilities. The hard-coated filters are...

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...

With the understanding of aspheric lens manufacturing provided in part one of this article, designers have the tools to optimize their aspheres; the next step is to understand how to specify and...

Aspheric surfaces are powerful tools that combine the optical corrections of multiple lenses into a single element (Figure 1) and affect performance in ways that spherical optics cannot. For example,...

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...

This application note demonstrates the use of ATR-FTIR spectroscopy for the analysis of human serum albumin. An IR5 FTIR spectrometer was used, equipped with a heated ATR accessory, to help tackle...

OPTOMAN takes innovation very seriously and makes sure that optical components are able to resist the ongoing increase of laser power and decrease in pulse duration, thus high LIDT is OPTOMAN‘s bread...

This whitepaper looks at the unique challenges associated with optical systems by exploring two extremes, an ultra-high precision instrument, and a low-cost consumer product, and the different...

The FISBA READYBeam™ is our answer to customers' increasing demand for compact, powerful, and reliable multicolor laser source that can be easily integrated into existing set-ups. The multicolor...

As our understanding of optical surface dynamics has improved, the definition of what constitutes a superpolished surface has evolved, although an exact definition is still debated and varies,...

In this webinar, Edmund Optics’ asphere experts will discuss the benefits of using aspheres in optical system design and the factors to take into account during the design process. You will...

Photonics Media invites you to join us for our upcoming FREE digital conference, "Photonics for Ophthalmology." The event will feature several 15-minute online presentations on the use of light-based...

Microscope objectives are critical for high magnification machine vision applications such as semiconductor inspection. There are different key considerations when choosing the right objective...

A small card (10 x 15 cm) that has been treated with a photographic emulsion to record and store the microimages of documents and graphic information projected on it by a microfilm camera. A...

In optics and photolithography, a phase mask refers to a device that modifies the phase of light waves passing through it. The phase mask is used to control the spatial distribution of the light's...

A term describing an antireflection coating that may be applied to optics that cannot tolerate the high temperatures usually required for normal "hard'' coatings. Such coatings lack durability...

Second-harmonic generation (SHG) is a nonlinear optical process that occurs when two photons with the same frequency combine within a nonlinear material, resulting in the generation of a new photon...

On this month's episode of Light Matters, we take you on a brief tour of the Higgins Laboratories at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Quinsigamond Community College and WPI received a $4M grant...

Welcome to the movies and inside the home of laser optics and coatings! Get an impression of our daily routine and enjoy our thin films film stars ...

Katie Walker, a Product Line Engineer at Edmund Optics, showcases Edmund Optics' Optical Cage System and how it can be used to build a digital video fluorescence microscope. The Optical Cage System...

Differences between hard and traditional coated filters. Discusses how they are both manufactured and the benefits of one type of coating over the other.

A fourier transform spectrometer is an instrument using a Michelson interferometer, a beamsplitter, two plane mirrors and a detector to give Fourier analysis of the detector signal to provide the...

FOCtek provides customers with all types of custom manufactured lenses, Precision Optical Components, Polarizing Optics, Prisms, Filters, Coatings, Optical Systems, Crystals, Nonlinear Crystals,...

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...

Photonics Media is the publisher of Photonics Spectra, BioPhotonics, and Vision Spectra magazines in print, digital and mobile app formats; the Photonics Marketplace featuring the Photonics Buyers'...

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...