Optical Start-up

Rochester-based optics manufacturer Optimax is launching Starris: Optimax Space Systems, a business operating under the Optimax corporate structure. Starris will focus on the development of...

According to NVIDIA, the computing company’s cuLitho software library for computational lithography is being integrated by leading players in the semiconductor industry. The technology serves...

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a laser that can produce extremely short pulses with peak powers up to 100 MW and 550 W of average power. The researchers, led by Ursula Keller, a professor...

LaCroix Precision Optics has added optical assembly and design departments in a move that the company said solidifies its status as a vertically integrated optics firm. According to LaCroix president...

The Peacock XT 355 from Quantel Laser is a tunable pulsed nanosecond laser source in the visible and NIR wavelengths. The device includes a Q-smart series Nd:YAG laser pumping an optical...

Chilas BV’s compact narrow-linewidth widely tunable laser module is suitable for a range of sensing applications like structural health monitoring using Fiber Bragg gratings, lidar, optical...

The PowerSpector JSAz 550 from Mek is a 3D desktop automated optical inspection (AOI) system for inspection applications of components such as printed circuit boards. Capable of accommodating boards...

The VALO Tidal from HÜBNER Photonics is a femtosecond fiber laser that can be used for simultaneous second and third harmonic imaging using standard microscope objectives, broadband terahertz...

With a specific gravity of 1.85 g/cm3, beryllium is the lightest metal that is workable. It is 45 percent lighter than aluminum and approximately five times as stiff. Its stiffness to weight ratio...

Many linear materials proceseqsing applications call for lasers with continuous-wave (CW) output. For example, early stereolithography systems were based on CW lasers such as argon-ion or HeCd. To...

The basic setup in laser perforation includes a pulsed laser, a lens and either a moving mirror, a rotating web or both. Each laser pulse creates a hole in the material. During the blank time in...

Illumination design has developed rapidly to include not only automotive headlamps and street lamps, but also backlit displays, fluorescent panel lighting, light-emitting diode or laser sources, and...

Shanghai Optics offers first-class Design for Manufacturing (DFM) services. We are proud of our track history helping customers improve product quality and reduce their manufacturing cost...

While high laser-induced damage threshold is a buzzword when talking femtosecond & picosecond optics, it is not (only) the nominal LIDT value that matters. Color-change effect is an arch-enemy and a...

Highly customized and application optimized laser optics for demanding applications from demanding markets.

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...

FREE WEBINAR Webinar Questions and Answers from Dr. Rubenchik: Dr. Alexander Rubenchik Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, Calif. The Promise of Pulsed Lasers in...

Metaoptics is a flat optics technology that uses an array of subwavelength nanostructures to bend and steer light. A typical metalens can use an array of sub-100-nm-diameter pillars to implement the...

For too long, thermoelectric technology has lagged behind the advancing needs of optoelectronic devices and systems. While the optoelectronics field has seen significant improvements in transmission...

Measuring a pulsed laser is complex. Besides power, you also need to worry about pulse energy, frequency, and pulse width (duration). If you need to measure laser pulse energies — perhaps to...

Optical design and engineering services involve the development, customization, and optimization of optical systems and components to meet specific performance requirements and application needs....

Freeform mirrors refer to reflective optical components that deviate from traditional symmetric or rotationally symmetric shapes, such as spheres or paraboloids. Unlike conventional mirrors, which...

Photonic crystals are artificial structures or materials designed to manipulate and control the flow of light in a manner analogous to how semiconductors control the flow of electrons. Photonic...

Metasurfaces are two-dimensional arrays of subwavelength-scale artificial structures, often referred to as meta-atoms or meta-elements, arranged in a specific pattern to manipulate the propagation of...

Video was exclusively made to give a proper "goodbye" to our old logo and to "welcome" our new logo in all its glory!

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of Coherent Inc., which has grown from a Palo Alto laundry room startup to become a world leader in laser technology.

Tune into this month’s edition of Light Matters for the complete list of Photonics Media’s Industry Beacon award winners. We’ll also introduce you to an Industry Beacon in the Educator category, and...

Telecentric Lenses are widely used in metrology instruments, laser marking systems, and AOI (Automatic Optical Inspection) machines. Here’s a 360 view of one of our custom Telecentric Lenses which...

A nonlinear crystal is an optical crystal that possesses a strong nonlinear dielectric response function to optical radiation. A material with a strong second-order nonlinearity must not possess a...

An ultrafast pulsed laser is a type of laser that emits extremely short pulses of light with durations typically on the order of femtoseconds (10^-15 s) or picoseconds (10^-15 s). These lasers are...

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...

Excelitas Technologies® Corp. is a leading industrial technology manufacturer focused on delivering innovative, market-driven photonic solutions to meet the illumination, optical, optronic,...

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...

ISO 9001 & ISO 13485 certified and D&B DUNS # 113515303 Shanghai Optics is an unparalleled custom system solution provider offering advance precision custom optical design, engineering,...