Takacs Named OSA Fellow

A newly developed microscope housed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames National Laboratory is poised to help researchers understand — and ultimately develop — the inner...

Scientists from Brookhaven National Laboratory showed that ionic liquids provide an efficient means to convert one color of laser light into another. The discovery could lead to a way to create...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility have demonstrated the application of a photon-number-resolving system to accurately resolve more...

Perovskite technology developer Caelux closed a $12 million series A3 funding round. The company’s series A total of $24 million will be allocated to support its factory ramp, R&D, and...

The XYHG series of stages from Optimal Engineering Systems are linear X-axis, linear Y-axis, plus horizontal goniometer stages for metrology, light measurement, mirror positioning, laser scanning,...

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 S-335 from PI is a two-axis fast steering mirror for directing laser light or improving image resolution by correcting errors in a wavefront before it reaches an imaging sensor. The mirror is...

The HVCM-025-022-003-01 from Moticont is a miniature hollow core voice coil servo motor for applications such as medical diagnostic equipment, testing, optical focusing, laser beam steering, wafer...

Flat optics generally perform three main functions: They transmit light (windows), reflect light (mirrors), and fold light (prisms). While most optical manufacturers make spherical and flat optics, a...

Aspheric surfaces are powerful tools that combine the optical corrections of multiple lenses into a single element (Figure 1) and affect performance in ways that spherical optics cannot. For example,...

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...

The use of precision polymer optics is becoming an increasing necessity today as products demand sophisticated light handling components to achieve desired results. Polymer optics can be thought of...

We offer custom prisms, polygons, windows, mirrors, and wedges from one source. FISBA not only has the complete production chain in-house, we can also develop entire systems built-to-spec or support...

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...

MKS' Newport off-axis parabolic replicated mirror manufacturing capabilities provide the excellent focal properties required to attain well collimated light performance in spectrometer and...

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...

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Metrology of optics and optical systems is a challenging tasks without one easy solution. In many ways, metrology in the manufacturing of lenses and mirrors is well understood. But, for the most...

Lenses typically reflect over 4% of the incident light from each uncoated surface. This causes not only loss of light to the image to be formed, but unwanted stray light which may get to the image....

Part 2 of the 2021 Freeform Optics Series Freeform optics can be manufactured by ultraprecision machining processes such as multi-axis diamond turning, diamond milling, and diamond grinding....

Twyman-Green interferometry is a technique used in optics to measure the flatness or surface profile of optical components with high precision. It is based on the principles of interference of light...

An interferometer is a scientific instrument that utilizes the principle of interference to measure differences in the path length, wavelength, phase, or amplitude of coherent electromagnetic waves....

In optics, a motion controller refers to a device or system that precisely controls the movement of optical components, such as mirrors, lenses, stages, or other elements within an optical setup. The...

Motorized positioning equipment in optics and photonics refers to devices and systems that use motors to precisely control the position and movement of optical components and instruments. These...

Technology Transfer Programs are often a concerted effort to share skills, knowledge, technologies, methods of manufacturing, samples of manufacturing, and facilities among governments or...

Grover Swartzlander, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA, recalls childhood memories experimenting with light.

OSA Member and Senior Analyst for the National Research Council Canada (NRC), Canada, Jennifer Decker enjoys collaborating with researchers and organizations for projects in optics and photonics.

Connie Chang-Hasnain, OSA Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, USA, muses over the simplistic beauty of optics and how it inspired her work in semiconductor lasers.

A retroreflector is an optical device or structure that reflects incident light or electromagnetic waves back to their source, regardless of the direction from which the light approaches. Unlike...

A ronchi grating is a transparent plate ruled with black lines and equal, clear spaces. It is used as a multiple knife-edge for testing a concave mirror.

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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...

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