Industry Insights

1. Keeping Your Additive Manufacturing Laser In Spec 7/6/2020

   Additive manufacturing allows for more customized parts using more specialized materials, and will eventually create a more localized, rapid, and agile distribution network. This white paper discusses important laser performance characteristics, how to measure them, and how to keep the laser in spec.

2. Measuring Surfaces Of Thin Plane-Parallel Optics, The Quick And Easy Way 11/6/2019

   Innovative technology enables form measurement of both front and back surfaces of thin optics, simultaneously.

3. Advanced Plasma Deposition Improves Ultra Narrowband Optical Filters 6/18/2020

   Narrowband filters are a critical technology for a variety of applications such as lidar (light detection and ranging), laser cleanup, chemical and gas sensing, instrumentation, and astronomy. Creating multicavity filters is a challenge for deposition process control systems. It invariably introduces undesirable ripple, resulting in signal loss in the pass band, the spectral range over which the filter has high transmittance. Alluxa uses a computer-controlled variation on the turning point method of thickness control for each individual layer, where the filter is constantly measured and variations in thickness compensated for, taking into account thickness errors associated with multiple layers.

4. Application Of ND filters in LCD And CRT Panels For Aviation 3/10/2021

   This article discusses how to improve the visibility of displays in the cockpit during daytime with ND filters.

5. Zygo Accumold Case Study 5/14/2021

   Accumold is a pre-eminent micro molding company experienced in fabricating precision micro, small, and lead-free injection-molded plastic components. Accumold relies on ZYGO coherence scanning interferometer equipment to maximize efficiency.

6. Elevated Body Temperature Screening 10/21/2020

   In a pandemic, the world is looking for solutions that provide quick, preliminary screening for large groups at critical spots such as airports, train stations, company entrances, schools, government sites and others. The goal is to improve efficiency by focusing on more thorough and accurate testing techniques, on the most relevant people: the ones with the highest probability of infection. Xenics thermal cameras can help in this first pass screening.

7. Optical Filter Specifications 6/16/2020

   This white paper covers the basics of a number of optical filter specifications.

8. Get the Facts: UV And COVID-19 4/27/2020

   UVC light has been used extensively for more than 40 years against a whole suite of human pathogens. All bacteria and viruses over hundreds of years that have been tested, including other coronaviruses, respond to UV disinfection. 

9. Understanding How A BSI Sensor Has Advanced High-Speed Imaging 4/14/2021

   With speeds of over 1 million frames per second, high-speed imaging is an invaluable research tool capable of capturing the most fleeting events in scientific and engineering applications. Yet achieving this speed comes with strings attached. 

10. Temperature Measurement Of Power MOSFETS Using FLIR Thermal Cameras 4/21/2021

    From individual component temperature measurement to thermal dynamics across a PCB, camera-based thermal imaging provides a cost-effective, accurate, and versatile solution.