Optical Components, Coatings & Materials News

  1. Photonics Redefined: Crystalline Coatings And Graphene In Advanced Optics 9/24/2025

    Explore the latest breakthroughs in crystalline optical coatings and graphene-based photonic components, highlighting their mechanisms and transformative applications.

  2. Overmolding: The Basics For Successful Optical Manufacturing 9/24/2025

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

  3. Emission Filters For Single-Point Measurements 9/17/2025

    Fluorescence detection requires precise filter selection. High OD blocking and proper excitation–emission alignment minimize noise, crosstalk, and aberrations, ensuring accurate measurements.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.