Window and Prisms News

  1. Theater Projection Port Glass Windows Provide Eye Popping Optical Clarity For On-Screen Viewing 3/29/2023

    Abrisa Technologies’ ClearView projection port window glass features increased transmissivity, thereby ensuring a high quality, bright, and sharp screen image, with a transmission rate between 98% and 99%.

  2. When The Goal Is Large Scale Optics 1/26/2023

    When companies need to scale up the size of their windows and mirrors while maintaining the most exacting of optical specifications, the competence of a chosen partner is essential.

  3. Bright Ideas: 9/22/21 — NASA & LISA To Catch Ripples in Gravitational Field, Nikon Picks 'Small World' Winners 9/22/2021

    Bright Ideas presents the most captivating news and innovations in photonics. This week, a 3-mile laser beam successfully transmitted data across the Congo River and between two African cities, a new polarimetric imaging method is helping take clearer pictures in murky water, and the secret to cooking juicier chicken is... lasers?

  4. Bright Ideas: 9/15/21 — DoD Gives $7.5M To HBCU, Lasers Used To Zap Bugs & Bird Poop 9/15/2021

    Bright Ideas presents the most captivating news and innovations in photonics. This week, scientists invented a clock 30 times more precise than an atomic clock (and split a $3 million prize for the feat), three new photonics institutes opened up, and rainbow road signs could one day hit the streets.

  5. What Is A Transparent Heater Window? 10/17/2019

    Transparent Heater Windows are used for widely differing purposes from keeping food hot or cold to preventing aircraft windows from frosting over. This article covers their many uses and benefits.

  6. Tweaking Quantum Dots Improves Double-Pane Solar Window Electricity Generation, Shading, And Insulation 1/2/2018

    Using two types of “designer” quantum dots, researchers are creating double-pane solar windows that generate electricity with greater efficiency and create shading and insulation for good measure.

  7. TU Wien Researchers Develop Cloaking Technology 9/14/2017

    Researchers at TU Wien (Vienna) have developed a type of cloaking technology that renders opaque materials invisible by letting the flow of light pass through the medium unperturbed.

  8. Wide Angle, VIS To SWIR Sensor And Scanner Window Solutions 1/24/2017

    ZC&R Coatings for Optics (ZC&R), a division of Abrisa Technologies, now offers high throughput efficiency Wide Angle, Broad Spectrum Sensor and Laser Scanning Window solutions for the visible 425-675nm (VIS), visible to near infra-red 425-1050nm (VIS-NIR), short wave infrared 700-1800nm (SWIR) and popular laser and LED wavelengths from 405 to 1550nm. Designed for image sensors and scanners these optics are used in industrial 3D metrology, machine vision, automotive obstacle avoidance, security and surveillance, document scanners, 3D scanning, gesture recognition and other digital imaging applications.

  9. PG&O® Provides Customized Optical Components For Avotec's Real Eye Nano™ 3/14/2016

    Precision Glass & Optics recently announced the customization of two thin film optical components for a high-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) accessory. They developed the dielectric cold mirror and cylindrical prism mirror for the Real Eye Nano; an advanced visual presentation and eye-tracking system constructed of glass and plastic with a reduced size for operation in confined MRI spaces.

  10. 4D Technology FlexCam Wins 2016 Prism Award 2/19/2016

    4D Technology Corporation, manufacturer of optical measurement systems, announced that its FlexCam Metrology Module was awarded a 2016 Prism Award for best new metrology instrumentation at SPIE Photonics West.