Optical Components, Coatings & Materials News
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Emission Filters For Single-Point Measurements
9/17/2025
Fluorescence detection requires precise filter selection. High OD blocking, steep edges, and proper excitation–emission alignment minimize noise, crosstalk, and aberrations, ensuring accurate, sensitive, and reliable measurements.
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What's Your Spectral Challenge?
9/17/2025
SearchLight™ is a free, intuitive online tool that streamlines fluorophore and filter selection, enabling users to model, optimize, and share fluorescence system designs with confidence and efficiency.
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Using Fiber Optics For High-Speed Internet, Remote Sensing, And … Detecting Icequakes?
9/4/2025
Fiber optics have been used in many ways by many industries. Now, the technology is being used to help detect earthquake’s little brother, icequakes.
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How Optical Coherence Tomography Is Helping Shape The Future Of Photonics
8/18/2025
OCT is a noninvasive imaging method that uses reflected light to create pictures of the back of your eye. It helps eye care providers diagnose and manage common eye diseases, and its popularity is helping shape the future of photonics.
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What's Driving The Future Of Optical Networking
8/7/2025
Fiber optics has grown from a small experiment to a reliable resource for networking, and its development into how we use it today is an interesting tale.
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The Advantages Of Schneider-Kreuznach Optical Filters
7/28/2025
Schneider-Kreuznach optical filters offer precise, high-transmission performance with steep edges, <1% tolerance, robust construction, and custom coatings—ideal for demanding industrial and scientific applications.
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Imaging Tissue In SWIR
7/28/2025
Small animal imaging using NIR light enables deep tissue visualization by leveraging reduced scattering and absorbance, enhancing drug tracking, tumor detection, and vascular mapping in vivo.
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Unlock Precision And Performance
7/28/2025
IDEX Health & Science provides integrated, custom optical solutions—filters, lenses, and assemblies—designed to optimize performance, reduce development risk, and ensure consistency in life science instruments.
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The Science Of Sight: Intro To Tristimulus Filters
7/28/2025
Semrock tristimulus optical filters from IDEX replicate human color perception with unmatched precision, durability, and cost-effectiveness—ideal for accurate, reliable color measurement across industries.
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The Impact Of Aberrations On Imaging Performance
7/28/2025
Optical aberrations degrade image quality. Understanding and minimizing them is essential for achieving diffraction-limited imaging and high performance in custom microscope objective lenses.