Industry Insights

1. How Do Ultraviolet Lasers Work? 7/6/2022

   UVs span from 150 to 400 nanometers. This is a short wavelength for a laser, and that has a lot of advantages. UV lasers can also cut and mark with almost no thermal distortion. What’s more, they are compatible with a plethora of materials. All this combines to make them the go-to laser for sensitive high-precision applications.

2. 3 Things To Know About The Average Power Of Pulsed Lasers 7/6/2022

   If you owned a fleet of delivery trucks, how much would it actually help you to know just the average delivery time per parcel? On a fast day, what could you really conclude? Are drivers getting lucky? Using less traffic-prone routes? Driving outside of rush hour? Stopping for coffee less often? Pushing the trucks way past the speeding limits?

3. Fiber-Coupled Acousto-Optic Modulators: How A Clever Little Package Continues To Shape The Future 6/29/2022

   For many OEMs involved in material processing within manufacturing, fiber and fiber-coupled lasers are at the heart of the value they deliver to their end clients across different application areas.

4. Defense & Avionics Optical Solutions 6/28/2022

   Abrisa Technologies provides optical solutions designed for the extreme field conditions of defense and avionics applications. Proven performers are used in cockpit and vehicle displays, field instruments, HUD and HMD displays, specialty imaging applications, heat reduction, and more. 

5. Filter Specs Vs Functional Specs – The Pitfall Of Double Margining 6/13/2022

   In designing a filter solution, the filter manufacturer takes the values requested by the user and adds additional design margin to account for both functional effects and filter manufacturing effects such as edge steepness, nonuniformity, and wavelength targeting.

6. How A Filter Is Specified 6/13/2022

   In order to achieved a desired optical functionality in an application, it is critical that key use parameters are communicated. Understanding the filter function and use conditions allows the filter design team to create a filter specification that will ensure the functional requirements are met by a filter that is manufacturable under the commercial constraints (cost, lead-time, volume) of the customer.

7. Spectral Bands: What They Are And Why They Matter For Imaging Applications 6/13/2022

   Learn about light across the spectrum, its uses and advantages/disadvantages in the systems and solutions that depend upon it, and how technology can pick and mix spectral bands to deliver optimum outcomes for specific purposes.

8. Building Active Feedback Control: Methods At The Nanoscale 6/10/2022

   Active feedback control can be accomplished in either a closed-loop system or an open-loop system, using various combinations of software and hardware, depending on the demands of the experiment.

9. Fast Steering Mirrors (FSM) - Design, Performance, And Tuning Of Piezo-Based Mechanisms 6/7/2022

   In free space optical communication (FSO), large amounts of data are “beamed” between two points – on earth, on aircraft or between satellites in space. Fast steering mirrors (FSM) are one means to compensate for disturbances that could keep the laser beam from hitting its target receiver precisely. 

10. What Is A Gantry Stage / Cartesian Robot? 6/7/2022

    A precision gantry stage or gantry system is sometimes called a linear robot or Cartesian robot. Gantry robots typically provide overhead motion in 2 or 3 linear degrees of freedom (X-Y and X-Y-Z) and are often used for pick and place applications, 3D printing or laser machining, precision handling, and electronics applications.