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Optical metasurfaces offer the potential to shape and customize light for specific applications, but existing metasurfaces can only control laser light sources, and require bulky, expensive...

A robust, scalable method to introduce chirality into the band structure of semiconductors could advance photonic technologies that rely on controlling light polarization, like displays, sensors, and...

The miniaturization of semiconductor chips has led to a steady decrease in the size and cost of electronic devices and improvements in their design. Similar progress has been more difficult to...

Researchers at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology developed an atomic-scale, spin-optical laser. To do so, they incorporated a WS2 monolayer into a heterostructure microcavity that supported...

The Z110 Series from Optimal Engineering Systems are sub-micron z-axis positioning stages for mounting fixtures, optics, cameras, lasers, and wafer handling. The black anodized aluminum alloy stages...

Edmund Optics’ line of sapphire aspheric lenses is designed for high-power laser and material processing applications. The lenses deliver diffraction-limited performance with a 50% reduction in...

The GVCM-032-025-02M from Moticont is a compact linear voice coil servo motor for applications including medical devices, laser machining and drilling, scanners, laser beam steering and filtering,...

The Meller Sapphire Substrates for Optical Coaters from Meller Optics are a line of sapphire lenses and windows among other shapes. Available in sizes from 0.5 in. to 5 in. O.D. with ±0.00025...

One of the most critical elements of any time-resolved spectroscopy and dynamics experiment is the optical delay line. A typical optical delay line consists of a retroreflector or folding mirrors on...

When purchasing an industrial laser system, the astute buyer will look for a Class 1 laser product — a system where the laser beam hazard is completely enclosed and there is no potential laser...

What are thin-film coatings? The purpose of any optical thin-film coating is to modify the transmittance and reflectance properties of the substrate material to which they are applied. Most coatings...

Given the pace at which technology advances, there always seems to be a learning curve. With the abundance of consumer electronics available, there typically is no right or wrong way to use these...

MKS Newport spectral optics product overview providing a summary of competencies in diffraction gratings, optical filters, optical mirrors, OptoFlash multichannel spectrometer engines, and design &...

Master Bond UV15 has been selected for use in the fabrication of polymer optical waveguides for a variety of applications. In a research project conducted at RMIT University, UV15 was used for both...

Optical products, traditionally used for visible light tasks, are moving aside to make room for more specialized optical components that are being manufactured for use in ultraviolet (UV) and...

OPTOMAN takes innovation very seriously and makes sure that optical components are able to resist the ongoing increase of laser power and decrease in pulse duration, thus high LIDT is OPTOMAN‘s bread...

LASER COMPONENTS brings together some of the brightest minds in the industry for a one-hour workshop. Doctoral students from MIT, Princeton University, and Stanford University share how they are...

Please download the above “associated file” for a pdf copy of this webinar. From military airborne applications to harsh industrial uses, optics can be subjected to considerable...

Surface and wavefront measurements demand increasing precision and accuracy as specifications tighten on high-performance components. This is true even when production or test environments are...

The most common optical thin-film coating produced today (and for more than 80 years!) is the antireflection (AR) coating. This webinar will present the concepts and design principles of AR coatings,...

Optical thin film adhesion specifically refers to the adhesion properties of thin films used in optical applications. Here’s a detailed definition: Thin film materials: Optical thin films...

Nanophotonics is a branch of science and technology that explores the behavior of light on the nanometer scale, typically at dimensions smaller than the wavelength of light. It involves the study and...

A head-up display (HUD) is a transparent display technology that presents information directly in the field of view of a user, typically without requiring the user to look away from their usual...

Nanoplasmonics is a branch of nanophotonics that focuses on the study and manipulation of optical phenomena at the nanoscale using plasmonic materials and structures. Plasmonics deals with the...

On this month's episode of Light Matters, we take you on a brief tour of the Higgins Laboratories at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Quinsigamond Community College and WPI received a $4M grant...

In this month's Light Matters Extra, we take you to the Quantum Photonics Laboratory at MIT run by Dr. Dirk Englund. Dr. Englund's group, the Quantum Photonics Group, is made up of postdocs and...

Students from large and small size companies and bigger Department of Defense affiliates of the AIM Photonics Institute took part in the recent AIM Photonics Summer Academy at MIT. This was the third...

Luminate NY, the only optics, photonics and imaging (OPI) accelerator and investment fund in the world, announced the final winners at the Light Tomorrow with Today event in Rochester, NY. For the...

A metallic coating is a thin layer of metals deposited on the surface of a substrate. The film may serve as a reflector, beamsplitter, neutral density filter or electromagnetic interference filter.

A dichroic coating is an optical coating designed to selectively transmit or reflect certain wavelengths of light while simultaneously absorbing or transmitting other wavelengths. Dichroic coatings...

Ultraviolet coatings are specialized optical coatings designed to operate in the ultraviolet region of the electromagnetic spectrum, typically ranging from 10 nm to 400 nm. These coatings are used to...

A polarizing coating is a coating made up of particular birefringent materials having polarizing properties. It may be used, in some cases, to replace Polaroid or polarizing prisms.

OHARA manufactures more than 130 environmentally safe optical glass types, free of both lead and arsenic. More than 300 tons of optical glass are melted per month, available in the following forms of...

The LaCroix name is synonymous with quality precision optics. Since 1947, three generations of family leadership have guided LaCroix Precision Optics to become the premier precision optics...

FOCtek provides customers with all types of custom manufactured lenses, Precision Optical Components, Polarizing Optics, Prisms, Filters, Coatings, Optical Systems, Crystals, Nonlinear Crystals,...

Avantier Inc. is an unparalleled leader in providing innovative imaging systems solutions and optical systems solutions. We offer advance precision custom optical design, optical engineering...