White Papers and Case Studies

  1. Diffraction Gratings: An Introduction 9/16/2022

    This introduction to diffraction gratings guides us through the various types of gratings and understanding their advantages and disadvantages as well as some useful grating equations.

  2. Dielectric Coating Processes 9/13/2022

    As comparisons by institutes and laser manufacturers continue to prove, Laser Components' dielectric coatings have the highest damage thresholds in the industry thanks to an optimized manufacturing process.

  3. Low Sparkle Non-Glare Glass For Uniform Diffuse Reflection 8/12/2022

    Low sparkle non-glare glass provides sharp rendering of images with increased clarity touch displays, tablets, e-readers, digital signage, and more, making them easily readable in direct sunlight.

  4. Introduction To Optical Prisms 6/28/2022

    Prisms are solid glass optics that are ground and polished into geometrical and optically significant shapes. The angle, position, and number of surfaces help define the type and function. One of the most recognizable uses of prisms consists of dispersing a beam of white light into its component colors.

  5. Fiber-Q Fiber-Coupled Acousto-Optic Modulator 12/21/2021

    An acousto-optic modulator manipulates light through a transmission medium. The Fiber-Q component line contains offerings from visible through to 2 µm and is fully customizable to meet application requirements with connectors, high power capability, optical fiber pigtails, and more.

  6. Laser Forensics: The Invisible, Revealed And Measured 7/6/2020

    According to the developers at Scanovis, brushes, powder and chemicals will soon be tools of the past for securing evidence at crime scenes. The company has developed a laser-based solution that, among other things, uses IR laser radiation to detect fingerprints at the scene of a crime, quickly making them visible in a 3D scan and recording them digitally. Decisive factors for this technological breakthrough are the precision of the results delivered by the laser scanner and the easy handling of the system. But how to adjust the optics of a system using a low power laser in the mid-infrared spectrum? Working together with Ophir's measurement experts, the company was able to combine different measurement methods to this end.

  7. Abrisa's Guide To Glass 6/24/2020

    Abrisa Technologies’ "Guide to Glass" discusses types of glass and their associated thermal, optical, chemical, mechanical, and electrical properties. This download also helps the reader better understand light and color; glare reduction; and glass strengthening methods using heat and chemicals.

  8. Front-Surface Hard Optical Coatings To Replace Laminated Soft Coatings 6/18/2020

    Alluxa’s proprietary high-speed plasma deposition technology delivers, for the first time, the optical performance and durability of hard-coated thin film optical filters at laminated soft coating prices.

  9. Precision IR Narrow And Dual Bandpass Filters With Low OH-Band Absorption 6/18/2020

    Alluxa’s new precision infrared bandpass and dual bandpass filter technology brings new levels of performance with higher transmissions, steeper slopes, and flatter pass bands than traditional evaporated coatings.

  10. Utilizing Flow Cytometry Filters 6/17/2020

    Used across a variety of biological disciplines, fluorescence-based flow cytometers rapidly and accurately quantify cells and cellular components. As one of the most important components of these systems, flow cytometry filters must be specifically designed to maximize signal-to-noise ratios while minimizing crosstalk between fluorophores.