Newsletter | October 15, 2025

10.15.25 -- From Incandescent To LED: The Evolution Of Efficient Artificial Lighting

From Incandescent To LED: The Evolution Of Efficient Artificial Lighting

LED lighting offers 80-90% energy efficiency, vastly outperforming incandescent bulbs, saves costs, lasts longer, and reduces environmental impact due to the use of fewer toxic materials.

 

INDUSTRY INSIGHTS

What Is A Transparent Heater Window?

Discover the many uses and benefits of Transparent Heater Windows, which are used for a wide range of purposes, from keeping food hot or cold to preventing aircraft windows from frosting over.

How To Avoid Exceeding Your Laser Power Meter's Damage Threshold

Excessive power, average power duration, power density, pulse width, and wavelength absorptivity can all damage laser power meters, requiring careful usage and consideration of these factors.

From Pixels To Probes: Demystifying AFM Software

AFM users cannot draw meaningful data from different hardware components, as well as the overall AFM system, without smooth interoperability between those elements.

Filter Specs Vs. Functional Specs – The Pitfall Of Double Margining

Wavelength “padding” can result in over- or under-margining of transmission/blocking wavelengths. This often leads to a more expensive solution with compromised performance.

Overmolding: The Basics For Successful Optical Manufacturing

Optical micro overmolding combines micro molding with lead-frame or insert processes to achieve precision, clarity, and integration, demanding early collaboration to ensure manufacturability and cost efficiency.

See The Heat: High-Temperature Thermography With InGaAs SWIR Cameras

Discover how InGaAs SWIR cameras enable high-temperature thermography from 100°C to 1600°C, ideal for monitoring furnaces, inspecting hot glass, and detecting impurities in molten metals.

Flat Top, Ultra-Narrow Filters Using Plasma Deposited Hard Oxide Coatings

Explore a new class of ultra-narrow filters designed for applications such as laser cleanup, lidar, telecommunications, and instrumentation that offer the narrowest and “squarest” filter profiles.

Glossary Of Optics Industry Terms

Navigate the complex landscape of optics and photonics using our extensive glossary of technical terms and their definitions, designed to help you navigate industry jargon with ease.

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FEATURED MULTIMEDIA

Turnkey Fluorescent Microscope Demonstration

Examine a turnkey fluorescent microscope, demonstrating integrated optical subsystems that deliver diffraction-limited imaging and scalable, reconfigurable solutions for diverse microscopy applications.

 

FEATURED EDITORIAL

How Cleanroom Testing Protects Sensitive Optics And Lasers

Engineers know that a pristine optical path is critical, but keeping it that way requires rigorous cleanroom testing, precise handling, and an understanding of how contaminants interact with light at both the particulate and molecular levels. 

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Customizable DUV & EUV Photodiodes (AXUV & SXUV Series)

Opto Diode offers customizable EUV and DUV photodiodes with integrated filters, high responsivity, and precision packaging for semiconductor, scientific, aerospace, and metrology applications requiring accurate, reliable ultraviolet detection.

FEATURED SOLUTIONS

Motion Control Products: DC Motors

Explore a variety of brushless, coreless, and ironcore DC motors that are custom-manufactured with the necessary attachments to achieve the exact speed, power, and current required for OEM applications. 

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High-End 6-Axis Piezo-Nanopositioning System

The P-562.6CD PIMars is a 6-axis high-precision nanopositioning system that provides fast and highly accurate multi-axis scanning and nanopositioning in a variety of applications involving biotechnology and metrology.

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