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Sensor technology company Lumotive secured additional funding from new investors USAA and Uniquest in a $13 million round of strategic funding led by Samsung Ventures, bringing the total amount...

Returning to the San Diego Convention Center, the SPIE Optics + Photonics trade show will run Aug. 18-22 with the exhibition portion of the conference set for Aug. 20-22. Attendees can expect over...

Edmund Optics established a 34,000-sq-ft laser optics center in Oldsmar, Fla. The center is dedicated to manufacturing optical components with high laser damage thresholds from the ultraviolet to the...

Coherent Corp. CEO Vincent "Chuck" Mattera has informed the company’s board of directors that he will retire as CEO, following the hiring of a successor. The board has retained a leading...

The WaveMaker™ 4000A, WaveShaper® 1000B, and WaveShaper® 4000B from Coherent are instruments made to test optical networks. The WaveMaker instrument series operates in the C-band, and...

The NeuraLeap™ digital focusing module from Bruker is a digital micromirror device (DMD) which enables variable depth-of-field collection for advanced neuroscience research. The module provides...

The Solstice™ temperature-controlled batch photoreactor from Uniqsis Ltd. is designed for small-scale photochemical reactions. The compact device can be used in synthesis labs working...

The TITANITE lens from Schneider-Kreuznach is a lens specifically for microscopy applications in medical and biological research. The lens is optimized for 5× magnification and enables the...

A lens collects light from a point on an object and focuses it to a corresponding conjugate point on an image. Under most conditions, the lens fails at this task because of some error in the...

Lenses come in a variety of shapes, sizes and materials. They can be made of a single piece of glass or have multiple elements; their surfaces can be spherical, aspheric or cylindrical; they can be...

Attentuation Region (or Blocking) The spectral region over which very low transmission is required. Attenuation requirements are generally specified in percent transmission over a given spectral...

Plate beamsplitters Plate beamsplitters consist of a thin plate of optical crown glass with a different type of coating deposited on each side. The first surface is coated with an all-dielectric...

The datasheet highlights the importance of optical components in the aerospace industry, emphasizing the critical role of materials and substrates in ensuring high precision under harsh conditions....

4D SWIR interferometers are used to test optical components and systems involved in transmitting, relaying, and receiving laser communication signals in space - at every functional wavelength in the...

This data sheet describes our capabilities to fabricate master molds and manufacture low volume replications of custom micro and nano structures.

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...

Optical fibers are an important component in modern spectroscopy, enabling remote sampling, flexible measurements, and smaller instruments. But using fiber optics in spectroscopy systems entails...

Two- and three-dimensional photonics arrays are commonly used for coupling light in photonic integrated circuits (PICs). With increasing demand for ultralow-loss transmission in applications such as...

Freeform optics are a great choice when designing off-axis optical systems. Understanding and specifying total error for freeform optical components can help with integrating the components during...

The range of applications in the NIR spectrum is expanding. Many of these are laser-based. Finding the most suitable fused silica for a particular application can be challenging. In this webinar,...

Free-space optics (FSO), also known as optical wireless communication or optical wireless networking, refers to the transmission of data using modulated beams of light through free space (air or a...

In optics and photolithography, a phase mask refers to a device that modifies the phase of light waves passing through it. The phase mask is used to control the spatial distribution of the light's...

Optofluidics is an interdisciplinary field that combines principles from optics and fluidics to create devices and systems that integrate the manipulation of light and fluids. This field focuses on...

A breakout cable, also known as a fan-out cable or breakout assembly, is a type of cable that combines multiple individual cables into a single, larger cable. The breakout cable is designed to...

Hyperion Optics is a leading optics supplier of photonics products including optical components, lens systems and opto-mechanical assemblies in UV, Visible, NIR, SWIR applications. Our clients...

NY CREATES’ Albany NanoTech Complex will be the site of a new National Semiconductor Technology Center. The University of Tokyo has found a way to make Raman spectroscopy 100 times faster. The...

At Avantier, we specialize in the design and production of cutting-edge optical solutions and high-performance optics for a diverse range of applications in optical metrology equipment. Our expertise...

Midwest Optical Systems is showing off their latest lenses at VISION 2024.

A wide-angle lens is a type of camera lens that has a shorter focal length than a standard or normal lens, allowing it to capture a broader field of view. Wide-angle lenses are characterized by their...

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

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...

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...

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...