OPTICAL COMPONENTS, COATINGS, & MATERIALS INSIGHTS
Highly-Dispersive Mirrors
The positive chirp introduced by most optical media in ultrafast systems can be compensated for using optical components, such as highly-dispersive mirrors, that feature negative dispersion.
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![Armadillo - Manufacturing And Testing Of All-Silica Fibers Resistant To UV And Gamma Radiation]( "Manufacturing And Testing Of All-Silica Fibers Resistant To UV And Gamma Radiation")
Manufacturing And Testing Of All-Silica Fibers Resistant To UV And Gamma RadiationThis study examined the influence of the composition of the core material, preform production technology and posttreatment with hydrogen on the optical stability of the all-silica optical fibers to UV radiation.
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![SSI - Diffraction Gratings]( "Diffraction Gratings: An Introduction")
Diffraction Gratings: An IntroductionThis introduction to diffraction gratings guides us through the various types of gratings and understanding their advantages and disadvantages as well as including some useful grating equations.
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![Dielectric Coating Processes]( "Dielectric Coating Processes")
Dielectric Coating ProcessesAs comparisons by institutes and laser manufacturers continue to prove, Laser Components' dielectric coatings have the highest damage thresholds in the industry thanks to an optimized manufacturing process.
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![Low Sparkle Non-Glare Glass For Uniform Diffuse Reflection]( "Low Sparkle Non-Glare Glass For Uniform Diffuse Reflection")
Low Sparkle Non-Glare Glass For Uniform Diffuse ReflectionLow Sparkle Non-Glare Glass provides sharp rendering of images with increased clarity touch displays, tablets, e-readers, and digital signage and more, making them easily readable in direct sunlight.
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![Screenshot 2022-08-10 151800]( "How To Enhance Optical Blocking Using Multiple Filters")
How To Enhance Optical Blocking Using Multiple FiltersAny background light that reaches the detector of an optical system can greatly compromise signal-to-noise ratio. Using more than one blocking filter is a solution that requires careful consideration.
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![medical optics GettyImages-810600330]( "Common Mistakes In Measuring Medical Optics And How To Avoid Them")
Common Mistakes In Measuring Medical Optics And How To Avoid ThemGovernment regulations and health and safety standards guide the development process for optical medical devices from beginning to end. Unlike other industries where engineers can correct an optical design misstep after the prototype phase, governmental compliance, schedules, and budgets leave little room for changes or improvements after product introduction. Learn some of the key measuring mistakes to avoid ahead of time.
OPTICAL SOLUTIONS
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![Medical Imaging]( "Optical Solutions For Bio-Medical And FDA-Regulated Devices and Biochips")
For two decades, Abrisa has supplied optical solutions for manufacturers of bio-medical and FDA-regulated devices and biochips with a critical need for quality control, consistency, and reliability.
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![Solutions For Imaging, Sensing, And Laser Scanning Applications]( "Solutions For Imaging, Sensing, And Laser Scanning Applications")
Abrisa Technologies offers custom coating services and innovative total solutions of coated and fabricated technology glass for imaging, sensing, and laser scanning applications.
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![G&H pockels cells image]( "Pockels Cells")
G&H's Pockels Cells enable higher performance and reliability across numerous laser applications, providing increased optical power. The standard product ranges can accommodate wavelengths from from UV to IR (200 nm -12 μm).
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![SCHOTTBorofloatTechNote.jpg]( "SCHOTT Borofloat 33 Floated Borosilicate Glass")
BOROFLOAT® 33 is a UV-NIR transparent borosilicate float glass with excellent optical properties and smooth low scatter surfaces straight off the float process. It is an economical high performance material, making it ideal for the volume manufacture of windows, mirrors, filters, display glass, 3D build platforms, and other components.
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![abs]( "Precision Thin Film Optical Coatings")
ZC&R Coatings for Optics (ZC&R), an Abrisa Technologies company, designs and manufactures innovative precision thin film coating solutions for micro-electronics, defense and avionics, display, industrial automation, optical sensors and imaging, photonics, medical/dental, life science analytics, and other market applications.
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![Lori]( "Anti-Abrasion Hard Coat Clear Glass: PRO-HC-VIS1")
Abrisa Technologies offers the PRO-HC-VIS1, a protective anti-abrasion hard coat clear glass coating option for high traffic contact scanner applications, which delivers up to 40X more linear taber abrasion resistance when compared to uncoated glass and HIE chemically-strengthened glass surfaces.
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![sp]( "Superpolishing Capabilities")
G&H’s Superpolishing process delivers Scratch-Dig of 5-2, less than 0.5 Å of surface roughness, and zero defects at 300x magnification for ring laser gyroscope (RLG) mirrors, R&D applications, short wavelength and ultrafast lasers.
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![dead]( "Dead Front Panels For Backlit User Interfaces")
Abrisa Technologies provides Dead Front Panels for Backlit Display and User Interface applications that afford equipment designers greater flexibility in achieving the overall clean lines and sleek uncluttered aesthetics they seek.
OPTICAL NEWS
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![PI - facility expansion]( "Precision Motion Systems Production Space Increased by 11,000 Sq. Ft at PI Headquarters")
To satisfy the growing need for motion control products, PI has expanded its facilities with a new building addition at PI’s HQ, extending the existing production area by another 11,000 square feet.
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![bright-ideas]( "Bright Ideas — Nuclear Fusion Yields 100 Million K and Lasts 20 Seconds, AI Boosts Fluorescence Microscopy")
Bright Ideas presents the most captivating news and innovations in photonics. This week, scientists demonstrate nuclear fusion at 100 million Kelvin and for 20 seconds — at the same time, for the first time. Plus, biophysicists are speeding up fluorescence microscopy with AI, a new 3D-printed wearable device is helping lupus patients, and the LLNL wins three R&D awards.
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![Zygo Announces A Brand Evolution To Reflect Its Half Century As A Global Leader]( "Zygo Announces A Brand Evolution To Reflect Its Half Century As A Global Leader")
Zygo Corporation, a worldwide supplier of optical instruments, components, and systems, has just completed a refresh of its brand to better reflect its leadership position in the sectors it serves.
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![Zygo Corporation Collaborates With Digital Surf To Launch MX Software With Mountains Advanced Contour Module]( "Zygo Corporation Collaborates With Digital Surf To Launch MX Software With Mountains Advanced Contour Module")
Zygo Corporation has partnered with Digital Surf for the release of Mx™ with Mountains® Advanced Contour, a new software package for users of Zygo Corporation’s range of optical profilers.
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![Small RGB-56G_GRUPPENBILD_MF01]( "TRUMPF and KDPOF Become Strategic Partners For Automotive Data Communication Solutions")
TRUMPF Photonic Components and KDPOF working together for new wavelength standards in optical data communication within the automotive branch. The target is to bring to the market an integrated transceiver for multi-gigabit optical communications into automobiles.
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![anti-reflective-coatings]( "Abrisa Technologies Provides Coated Glass Solutions For Discontinued SCHOTT Conturan® Glass")
As the SCHOTT Conturan® Series is discontinued, we are here to help users identify which Abrisa Technologies Total Solutions best serve their project requirements and retrofit performance needs.
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![visual_nilt1_metaoptics]( "NIL Technology Delivers Strong Results In 3D Sensing Project Funded By The European Innovation Council")
NIL Technology (NILT), a leader in advanced optical solutions, has finalized a prestigious flat optics project with the EIC (European Innovation Council) Accelerator, resulting in breakthrough results. NILT has developed a highly advanced diffractive optics platform for real-time 3D sensing ready for mass production.
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![NILT_figure1]( "VCSELs and Flat Optics — A Gamechanger For ToF Applications")
Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (VCSELs) have strong capabilities compared to light emitting diodes (LED) and edge emitting lasers (EEL). VCSELs have high efficiency, better manufacturability, improved testing, and are therefore replacing LEDs and EELs in the consumer, industrial, and automotive applications.
OPTICAL VIDEOS
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![stus]( "Video: See The Unseen With Ophir Optics")
Video: See The Unseen With Ophir OpticsOphir IR Optics products include highly advanced electro-optical solutions and can be found in the most critical defense and commercial thermal imaging applications. When reliability is the name of the game, Ophir is your trusted partner.
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![ed]( "Optical Trends And Solutions In The Defense Market")
Optical Trends And Solutions In The Defense MarketPhotonics Online met with Kevin Quist of Edmund Optics on the second day of SPIE’s 2022 Defense + Commercial Sensing trade show to discuss upcoming defense trends. Trends such as laser optics systems have led Edmund Optics to acquire a new warehouse in Florida for high-power laser coatings.
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![gh]( "G&H Introduces Two New Lens Series At DCS 2022")
G&H Introduces Two New Lens Series At DCS 2022At Defense + Commercial Sensing, G&H’s J.J. Conboy explained the precision features of the NightCrawlIR and FireAnt lens series and invited customers to learn more about these products and their applications.
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![iridian]( "Optical Filters In Remote Sensing")
Optical Filters In Remote SensingJason Palidwar of Iridian Spectral Technologies talks to Photonics Online at Defense + Commercial Sensing 2022 about Iridian’s optical filters and how they’re used in remote sensing applications including earth observation and gas detection.
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![vfa]( "Introduction To VFA+")
Introduction To VFA+The VFA+ leverages the benefits of Fizeau interferometry through a unique combination of precise, high-resolution, fast, and full aperture metrology for axisymmetric aspheres.
