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Achromats consist of two or more elements, usually of crown and flint glass, that have been corrected for chromatic aberration with respect to two selected wavelengths. They are also known as achromatic lenses. This area includes micro achromats as well.
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Acrylic adhesives and acrylate adhesives provide excellent environmental resistance and fast-setting times when compared to other resins systems. They are created by polymerizing acrylic or methylacrylic acids through a reaction with a suitable catalyst.
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Anaerobic adhesives and anaerobic sealants cure in the absence of air or oxygen.
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Ball slides are simple linear motion devices that provide smooth linear motion, accurately controlled by the rotation of the drive mechanism.
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Cable assemblies are collections of wires or cables banded into a single unit with connectors on at least one end.
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Calcite polarizers are crystals used to separate unpolarized light into two separate plane polarized beams.
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Calipers typically use a precise slide movement for inside, outside, depth or step measurements. Some caliper types are used for comparing or transferring dimensions.
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Charge coupled device (CCD) cameras contain light-sensitive silicon chips that detect electrons excited by incoming light. They also contain micro circuitry that transfers a detected signal along a row of discrete picture elements or pixels, scanning the image very rapidly. CCD cameras use two-dimensional CCD arrays with many thousand of pixels.
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Coaxial cables have one conductor insulated with a dielectric material and then surrounded by the other conductor, usually referred to as the center conductor and shield. Triaxial cables are specialized coaxial cables.
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Coaxial connectors are composed of an insulated central conducting wire wrapped in another cylindrical conductor (the shield). The cable is usually wrapped in another insulating layer and an outer protective layer. Coaxial cables and connectors have the capacity to carry vast quantities of information. They are typically used in high-speed data and CATV applications.
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Color filters include a wide range of filter types that are distinguished by their specific color spectrums and wavelengths, as well as their Schott glass compositions.
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Cylindrical lens have at least one surface that is formed in the shape of a cylinder. Cylindrical lenses are used to correct astigmatism in the eye, and, in rangefinders, to produce astigmatism, stretching a point of light into a line. This area includes micro cylindrical lenses as well.
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A diffraction grating uses a substrate with parallel grooves to disperse light into its spectra. Eschelles are included in this area.
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Dimensional gages and instruments provide quantitative measurements of product or component dimensional and form attributes such as wall thickness, depth, height, length, inner diameter (ID), outer diameter (OD), taper or bore.
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Diode lasers use light-emitting diodes to produce stimulated emissions in the form of coherent light output. They are also known as laser diodes.
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Drill bits are drill accessories that are used as rotary cutting tools for drilling holes.
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Electric rotary actuators drive components rotationally via electromagnetic power. They typically have control and indexing capabilities.
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Electrical connectors are devices that join electrical circuits together. Male connectors plug into receptacles, jacks, and outlets. Female connectors contain sockets to receive other devices.
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Energy meters measure the total energy of a single pulse and optical power meters measure the average power of a continuous light beam.
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Fiber optic attenuators are devices that reduce signal power in fiber optic links by inducing a fixed or variable loss. They are used to control the power level of optical signals at the outputs of light sources and electrical-to-optical (E/O) converters. They are also used to test the linearity and dynamic range of photo sensors and photo detectors.
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Fiber optic cables are composed of one or more transparent optical fibers enclosed in protective coverings and strength members. Fiber optic cables are used to transmit "light" data.
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Fiber optic circulators are nonreciprocal devices that direct a light signal from one port, via a fiber optic line, to another sequentially.
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Fiber optic connectors are used to align and join two or more fibers together to provide a means for attaching to, or decoupling from, a transmitter, receiver, or other fiber optic device.
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Fiber optic couplers are optical devices that connect three or more fiber ends, dividing one input between two or more outputs, or combining two or more inputs into one output.
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Fiber optic linear position sensors use fiber optic technology to sense position and displacement.
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Fiber optic power meters are instruments that measure the average power of a continuous light beam. They are used to test signal power in fiber optic networks.
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Fiber optic switches route an optical signal without electro-optical and opto-electrical conversions.
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Fiber optic test equipment is used to detect the signal loss/change through a fiber optic cable.
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Fiber optic test sources review the performance of a system by injecting light through the fibers.
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Fibre Channel connectors are high-speed connectors used in Fibre Channel systems.
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Filter wheels hold and position multiple filters for various imaging applications such as machine vision and spectrophotometry.
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Flat mirrors are smooth, highly polished, flat surfaces, for reflecting light. The actual reflecting surface is usually a thin coating of silver or aluminum on glass.
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Fresnel lenses resemble a planoconvex or planoconcave lens that is cut into narrow rings and flattened. If the steps are narrow, the surface of each step is generally made conical and not spherical.
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Helium neon (HeNe) lasers have an emission that is determined by neon atoms by virtue of a resonant transfer of excitation of helium. They operate continuously in the red, infrared and far-infrared regions and emit highly monochromatic radiation.
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Hot mirrors and cold mirrors are dichroic filters that have a sharp transition between rejecting and transmitting at the near-infrared-visible area of the spectrum.
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Industrial adhesives consist of hot melt adhesives, epoxy adhesives, polyurethane adhesives, sealants, thermoset adhesives, UV curing adhesives, silicon adhesives, acrylic adhesives and other related industrial products.
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Industrial enclosures are used to house electronic components, equipment and devices. They are designed to protect personnel from accidental injury and to prevent the ingress of environmental contaminants.
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Interferometers measure distance in terms of wavelength and determine the wavelengths of light sources.
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Laser mirrors are designed for high reflectance and durability at individual laser wavelength ranges.
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Laser mounts are devices that keep a laser in position on a optical table.
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Lasers are devices that produce intense beams of monochromatic, coherent radiation. The word "laser" is an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
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Lens holders are used to stabilize and maintain the position of all the optical components of a lens assembly.
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Electric linear actuators have an output rod that provides linear motion via a motor driven ball screw, lead screw, or ACME screw assembly. The actuator's load is attached to the end of a screw or rod and is often unsupported.
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Linear polarizers transmit light waves along one axis and absorb them along the other. The transmitting and absorbing axes of linear polarization are oriented at 90 degrees to each other.
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Linear position sensors is a general search form for all linear position / displacement detection product areas.
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Linear slides are simple linear motion devices composed of a stationary base and a moving carriage. Linear stages are slides with a drive mechanism that provide controlled, precise positioning along a linear axis.
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Long pass filters transmit a wide spectral band of long wavelength radiation while blocking short wavelength radiation. Short pass filters transmit a wide spectral band of short wavelength radiation and block long wave radiation.
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Micrometers are instruments for precision dimensional gaging consisting of a ground spindle and anvil mounted in a C-shaped steel frame. Noncontact laser micrometers are also available.
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Mirror mounts are used to hold and support mirrors of all sizes and shapes.
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Network cable assemblies are used in the transmission of data across networks. Choices include Fibre Channel, FireWire or IEEE 1394, GPIB, serial, parallel, patch, SCSI, Ethernet and USB.
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Neutral density filters are designed to reduce transmission evenly across a portion of the spectrum. They are slightly sensitive to angles but they are much more forgiving than interference filters.
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Nonpolarizing cube beamsplitters provide a true 50/50 split regardless of the incoming polarization. They consist of a pair of precision right-angle prisms carefully cemented or mounted together to minimize wavefront distortion.
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Optical bandpass filters are designed to transmit a specific waveband. They are composed of many thin layers of dielectric materials, which have differing refractive indices to produce constructive and destructive interference in the transmitted light.
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Optical choppers are mechanical or electronic devices that pass and then interrupt a beam of light for a known brief interval. Optical shutters are used to control the amount of time that a light sensitive material is exposed to radiation.
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Optical diffusers scatter incident light, thereby reducing the sensitivity of a detection system to slight positional or angle changes in an incoming beam.
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Optical flats or test plates are polished surfaces that are used as references against the flatness of unknown surfaces for comparison. They use the property of interference to measure the flatness of a test surface.
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Optical isolators are optical devices that allow light to be transmitted in only one direction. They are most often used to prevent any light from reflecting back down the fiber, as this light would enter the source and cause feedback problems.
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Optical lenses are transparent components made from optical-quality materials and curved to converge or diverge transmitted rays from an object. These rays then form a real or virtual image of the object. This area includes micro lenses.
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Optical mirrors have a smooth, highly-polished, plane or curved surface for reflecting light. Usually, the reflecting surface is a thin coating of silver, or aluminum on glass.
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Optical mounts are specialized holders designed for use with a variety of optical assemblies.
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Optical polarizers are optical devices that can transform unpolarized or natural light into polarized light, usually by the selective transmission of polarized rays.
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Optical prisms are blocks of optical material with flat, polished sides that are arranged at precisely controlled angles to one another. They are used in optical systems to deflect or redirect beams of light. They can invert or rotate images, disperse light into component wavelengths, and separate states of polarization.
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Optical switches are optoelectric devices, consisting of a light source and a detector that produces a switched output.
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Optical tables and optical breadboards effectively dampen working surfaces with superior flatness. They are used in the precision mounting of optical components.
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Optical windows are used to isolate different physical environments while allowing light to pass relatively unimpeded.
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Patch cables and cords are flexible cables that are terminated at both ends with a plug and used to interconnect circuits on patch panels.
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Pellicle beamsplitters are constructed from thin, nitrocellulose films that are stretched and cemented to rigid supporting rings. They are very delicate and liable to resonate to certain vibration frequencies.
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Photodiodes are used for the detection of optical power (UV, Visible, and IR) and for the conversion of optical power to electrical power.
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Photosensor modules are compact light detectors with built-in power supplies. They use photomultiplier tubes, avalanche photodiodes, PN photodiodes, or PIN photodiodes.
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Plate beamsplitters are semi-mirrors, which reflect part of the incident energy (absorb a relatively small part) and transmit the rest. Some are neutral and some are spectrally selective.
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Polarimeters determine the amount of polarization of light.
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Polarizer mounts are used to hold and support polarizers.
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Polarizing cube beamsplitters divide unpolarized light into two orthogonally polarized beams at 90° to each other. The transmitted beam is mostly polarized parallel to the plane of incidence (p-polarized), and the reflected beam is mostly polarized perpendicular to the plane of incidence (s-polarized).
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Polka dot beamsplitters consists of an ultraviolet grade fused silica substrate with a vacuum deposited aluminum coating applied in a manner that gives the beamsplitter a polka dot appearance. They have a constant 50/50 reflection-to-transmission ratio over a large spectral range.
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Position probes measure the position of a target surface, usually with a high degree of accuracy. This search form covers many different linear position products.
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Rack enclosures (rack cabinets, laboratory enclosures) are used to house standard 19 in. rack-mounted components or other standard-sized devices.
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Rotary positioning stages are devices with tables or shafts that may be rotated to any angular position. They may be driven or simple slides.
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Serial cables are used for the serial transmission of data. They support communication standards such as RS232, RS422, and RS485, as well as Fibre Channel, IEEE 1394 or FireWire® (Apple Computer, Inc.), and universal serial bus (USB).
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Specialty optical fiber is modified, usually by doping, for a specialized function. It consists of one or more transparent fibers enclosed in a protective covering.
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Spectrometers are analytical instruments which disperse an emission (such as particles or radiation) according to some property of the emission (such as mass or energy) in order to measure the amount of the dispersion. This product area includes Portable / Miniature, visible, infrared (IR), ultraviolet (UV), atomic absorption (AA), optical emission (OE), Raman, X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and mass spectrometers. Specific search forms are also available.
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Spectrum analyzers and signal analyzers display raw, unprocessed signal information such as voltage, power, period, wave shape, sidebands, and frequency. They can provide the user with a clear and precise window into the frequency spectrum.
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Spherical lenses, also known as singlets, are transparent optical components consisting of one or more pieces of optical glass with surfaces so curved that they serve to converge or diverge the transmitted rays from an object, thus forming a real or virtual image of that object. This area includes micro spherical lenses as well.
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Spherical mirrors are curved so that reflected beams converge on a focal point.
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Stepper motor drives power unipolar and bipolar stepper motors in full step, half step, and microstep motion control applications.
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Terminal and junction boxes are used to house electrical components and facilitate wiring. They are T-shaped or rectangular, made from a variety of materials, and available in many different sizes, sealing configurations and mounting styles.
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Thermoelectric coolers are solid-state heat pumps used in applications where temperature stabilization, temperature cycling, or cooling below ambient levels are required.
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Video cameras take continuous pictures and generate signals for display or recording. They capture images by breaking them down into a series of lines. This search form does not include consumer devices such as camcorders.
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Wavelength division multiplexers (WDM) are passive devices that combine light signals with different wavelengths, coming from different fibers, onto a single fiber. They include dense wavelength division multiplexers (DWDM), devices that use optical (analog) multiplexing techniques to increase the carrying capacity of fiber networks beyond levels that can be accomplished via time division multiplexing (TDM).
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Waveplates and retardation plates are optical elements with two principal axes, one slow and one fast, which resolve an incident polarized beam into two mutually perpendicular polarized beams. The emerging beam recombines to form
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