OPTICAL COMPONENTS, COATINGS & MATERIALS FEATURES
G&H's A&D Business Development Manager, Trevor Cook discusses approaches to high-performance SWIR lens designs, by explaining technical challenges in more detail, addressing effective solutions.
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![image1]( "4 Advantages Of Optical Active Alignment")
4 Advantages Of Optical Active AlignmentOptical alignment and micro-optic positioning are challenging, time-consuming processes. Tiny positional variations in photonic and optical manufacturing can mean the difference between success and failure. This article discusses active alignment as a technology that improves the performance, profitability and yield in manufacturing advanced optics and photonics components for the modern era.
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![AdobeStock_342902329]( "Advanced Fiber Optics Enhance Visualization For Robotic Surgery")
Advanced Fiber Optics Enhance Visualization For Robotic SurgeryFor robotic surgery, light guides made from specialty glass fibers can deliver the high-quality light needed to provide a realistic and clear view of the surgical field.
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![Picture1]( "The Application Of WDM Channel Skip Filters")
The Application Of WDM Channel Skip FiltersChannel skip filters enable precision band splitting in telecommunications options, offering improved performance over edge pass filters at a cost adaptable to any project budget.
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![Capture2]( "Lens Condition Analysis: Exploring Lens Failures And Their Causes")
Lens Condition Analysis: Exploring Lens Failures And Their CausesThis white paper gathers customer feedback on cases of lens condition analysis and captures their experience in operating their laser systems.
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![375_250-capture1]( "The Power From The Mirror")
The Power From The MirrorHigh-power lasers can only be as strong as their optical components allow. Thus, the further development of laser technology depends crucially on the development of complex coating systems with a high damage threshold.
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![imag1]( "Laser Forensics: The Invisible, Revealed And Measured")
Laser Forensics: The Invisible, Revealed And MeasuredAccording to the developers at Scanovis, brushes, powder and chemicals will soon be tools of the past for securing evidence at crime scenes. The company has developed a laser-based solution that, among other things, uses IR laser radiation to detect fingerprints at the scene of a crime, quickly making them visible in a 3D scan and recording them digitally. Decisive factors for this technological breakthrough are the precision of the results delivered by the laser scanner and the easy handling of the system. But how to adjust the optics of a system using a low power laser in the mid-infrared spectrum? Working together with Ophir's measurement experts, the company was able to combine different measurement methods to this end.
OPTICAL COMPONENTS, COATINGS & MATERIALS PRODUCTS
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![purefocus]( "Laser Autofocus System: PureFocus850")
With the ability to be utilized in many applications including materials, life sciences, and semiconductor, the PureFocus850 Laser Autofocus System by Prior Scientific is fast and easy to set up and use. This system also features the ability to autofocus on different interfaces including slides, glass bottom dishes, flow chambers and many more.
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![single mode coupler]( "Fused Fiber Optic Components: Single-Mode Couplers")
Applied in many fields, including avionic and space communications, biomedical instrumentation, fiber laser systems, industrial micromachining, interferometry, LIDAR, medical diagnostics, optical coherence tomography (OCT), sensing, and telecommunications, G&H's Single-Mode Couplers play a vital role in aligning and marrying individual cable fibers.
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![Fiber Optics]( "Fiber Optic Assemblies For Passive And Optical Components")
G&H designs and manufactures custom modules including fiber assemblies of passive and/or active optical components. Customers sourcing fiber optic assemblies are looking to reduce time to market and development costs.
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![NightCrawlIR]( "NightCrawlIR™ HD MWIR Lens Series")
G&H NightCrawlIR™ series utilizes unique aperture specific foreoptics and a modular base to maximize performance, while staying budget-friendly. These lenses are purpose-built from the ground up for the demands of high resolution applications.
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![family page]( "IR Lightweight Zoom Lenses: 680389, 680314, 680386")
Ophir's family of LightIR lenses are compact yet offer high-performing features. While optimized for stabilized payloads, the 680389, 680314, and 680386 products are also suitable for a wide range of applications.
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![3.16.21]( "LightIR 16-180mm f/3.6 Folded-Optics Zoom Lens: 680389")
The compact, yet powerful 680389 from Ophir is a Folded-Optics Zoom Lens that features a motorized, continuous zoom functionality. This product is designed for reduced SWaP MWIR 10μm pitch VGA detectors.
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![duennfilm-polarisatoren]( "Trichroid Thin-Film Polarizer For Separating Polarization Of Three Wavelengths Simultaneously")
LASER COMPONENTS has developed a new optics layer design that has the ability to separate the polarizations of three wavelengths simultaneously. These new trichroid thin-film polarizers can be used to combine linearly polarized laser beams from several sources, even if they have the same or different wavelengths.
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![680356_411X300_shadow]( "Ophir® SupIR 50-1350mm f/5.5 Motorized Continuous Zoom Lens")
The SupIR 50-1350mm f/5.5 is a motorized continuous zoom lens with the longest available focal length and zoom ratio. It is designed for use in UAV payloads with its excellent detection range of more than 25 km.
OPTICAL COMPONENTS, COATINGS & MATERIALS NEWS
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![PR]( "MKS Launches Ophir® MWIR Folded Zoom Lens With Disruptive Range And SWaP Capabilities For Drone And Small Gimbal Applications")
Innovative LightIR 16-180mm f/3.6 folded zoom lens addresses market shift toward smaller size, weight, and power (SWaP) 10μm VGA FPA detectors.
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![logo]( "Optical Components Enabling LiDAR: Recent Trends And Developments")
The ADAS Sensors 2021 Virtual Conference features NH-based laser components. Susan Wells, Sales Manager, IR Components, APD and PLD will present on the topic of Optical Components Enabling LiDAR: Recent Trends and Developments.
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![PR - Perseverance Rover on Mars]( "Alluxa’s Optical Filters Landed On Mars")
Alluxa’s optical filters, specially designed for the advanced fluorescence spectrometer on the Mars Perseverance Rover, landed safely on Mars, on February 18, 2021.
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Nonlinear optics, a study of how light interacts with matter, is critical to many photonic applications, from the green laser pointers we’re all familiar with to intense broadband (white) light sources for quantum photonics that enable optical quantum computing, super-resolution imaging, optical sensing and ranging, and more.
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The micronucleus can be described as an optical tuning fork, or a light ruler. It is created using a laser and an optical microresonator. The light circulates in a small resonant box and forms a comb that emits a myriad of colors - or frequencies.
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PI is extending its offering of fast steering mirrors. The new V-931 two-axis fast steering mirror platform (FSM) is based on a frictionless, precision flexure guiding mechanism, with differential voice-coil drives and optical feedback for accurate closed-loop angular position control.
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POET Technologies Inc. (“POET” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: PTK; OTCQX: POETF), the designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer and Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for the data center and tele-communication markets, announced that it has extended the Optical Interposer into new applications and markets with a fully-integrated, multiplexed light-source for optical computing chipsets and sensing applications, named “LightBar-C™”.
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Researchers at Tampere University have successfully used artificial intelligence to predict nonlinear dynamics that take place when ultrashort light pulses interact with matter. This novel solution can be used for efficient and fast numerical modelling, for example, in imaging, manufacturing and surgery. The findings were published in the prestigious Nature Machine Intelligence journal.
OPTICAL COMPONENTS, COATINGS & MATERIALS VIDEOS
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![video]( "Video: Lightweight, Reduced SWaP, Infrared Zoom Lenses For Cooled MWIR/Uncooled LWIR Cameras")
Video: Lightweight, Reduced SWaP, Infrared Zoom Lenses For Cooled MWIR/Uncooled LWIR CamerasDesigned specifically for use in unmanned aerial vehicles, payloads, drones and hand-held devices. The outstanding optomechanical design ensures that it is the smallest, lightest and most compact lens on the market today, whilst still achieving the highest levels of IR thermal imaging performance.
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![NightCrawlIR]( "Video: StingRay NightCrawlIR")
Video: StingRay NightCrawlIRG&H NightCrawlIR™ series utilizes unique aperture specific foreoptics and a modular base to maximize performance, while staying budget-friendly. These lenses are purpose-built from the ground up for the demands of high resolution applications.
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![video3]( "Ophir Infrared Optics Jerusalem Production Site - A Virtual Tour")
Ophir Infrared Optics Jerusalem Production Site - A Virtual TourJoin us for a virtual tour at our Jerusalem production site to learn how we provide a one-stop-shop solution, from design to manufacture, assembly and QA, for optical components and assemblies for IR thermal applications.
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![video2]( "A Virtual Tour At The Ophir Laser Optics Jerusalem Production Site")
A Virtual Tour At The Ophir Laser Optics Jerusalem Production SiteJoin us for a virtual tour at our Jerusalem production site to learn how we provide a one-stop-shop solution, from design to manufacture, assembly and QA, for optical components and assemblies for high-power laser applications.
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![video]( "Live Demo Video: Ophir's Long-Range MWIR 48.5-700 mm f5.5. Now That's A Long Detection Range!!")
Live Demo Video: Ophir's Long-Range MWIR 48.5-700 mm f5.5. Now That's A Long Detection Range!!With an impressive 40km detection range, caught via Sierra Olympics’ Ventus-700, Ophir's long range 48.5-700mm f/5.5 continuous zoom lens provides a crisp image over the full zoom range, with MTF close to the diffraction limit. Providing outstanding detection, recognition, and identification (DRI) ranges, this lens is suitable for a wide range of commercial, surveillance and homeland security applications.
