Industry Insights

  1. The Calibration Process 10/2/2025

    Explore instruments that offer NIST-traceable calibration using Gold Standards and PWCTM for ±1% total accuracy, ensuring reliable, comparable, and regulation-compliant laser measurements.

  2. Extra-Terrestrial Connections: Enabling Optical Mesh Networks In Orbit 9/24/2025

    Optical filter implementation into orbital mesh networks must consider how price, performance, and delivery timeline can be optimized together to align with specific customer needs.

  3. 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.

  4. Advantages Of Multiple Band Pass Filters In Telecommunications Applications 9/23/2025

    Multi band filters help optimize price-performance balance while also conserving space, simplifying design, and improving (or offering equivalent) performance versus single band filters.

  5. Improved Fluorescence Detection Performance 9/17/2025

    Discover how Semrock Avant™ optical filters enhance fluorescence imaging of small Stokes Shift probes by providing steeper edges, reduced variation, and stronger blocking.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Precision IR Emitters And Detectors For Gas Analysis And Monitoring 9/10/2025

    Environmental sensing demand is growing. Opto Diode’s IR emitters and PbS/PbSe detectors enable precise, compact, and reliable gas analysis for medical, industrial, and environmental monitoring applications.

  9. Driving Innovation In Semiconductor Lithography And Metrology 9/4/2025

    Discover industry-leading UV and EUV photodiodes engineered for semiconductor lithography, metrology, and inspection, pairing high sensitivity, reliability, and customized solutions for demanding applications.

  10. Measuring Scanning Motion Flatness With AFM 9/2/2025

    Learn how scanners used for high resolution metrology measurements should be designed and tested for flatness of motion, particularly for atomic force microscopy (AFM).