Optical Components and Optics Reference Materials
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Photonic Glasses
Description: Photonic Glasses Introducing the fundamental mechanism of photonic glasses, this book puts emphasis on new developments in the structure, spectroscopy and physics of new glassy materials for ...
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The Principles of Semiconductor Laser Diodes and Amplifiers: Analysis and Transmission Line Laser Modeling
Description: The Principles of Semiconductor Laser Diodes and Amplifiers: Analysis and Transmission Line Laser Modeling Focusing on the principle applications of SLAs, this book illustrates the growing importance ...
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Airy Functions And Applications To Physics
Description: Airy Functions And Applications To Physics Containing examples that succinctly illustrate the use of Airy functions in classical and quantum physics, this comprehensive text is devoted to the ...
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Classical And Quantum Dynamics of the Multispherical Nanostructures
Description: Classical And Quantum Dynamics of the Multispherical Nanostructures Presented from a skill-oriented point of view, this text provides calculation details of important properties of multilayered ...
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High-Speed Optical Transceivers: Integrated Circuits Designs And Optical Devices Techniques
Description: High-Speed Optical Transceivers: Integrated Circuits Designs And Optical Devices Techniques Exploring the unique advantages and large inherent transmission capacity of optical fiber communication ...
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Liquid Crystals: Frontiers In Biomedical Applications
Description: Liquid Crystals: Frontiers In Biomedical Applications Providing a review of the interdisciplinary research already performed, this text reviews the advances being made in displays, spectroscopy, ...
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Crisis Management in the Tourism Industry
Description: Crisis Management in the Tourism Industry Illustrating the theories and actions that can be taken to better understand consumer, economic and environmental reaction to crises, this text shows ...
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Phase Conjugate Laser Optics - Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: Since the discovery of the laser in the 1960s, a great amount of research activity has led to an impressive increase of the overall performances of the sources emitting in the visible or in the ...
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ROHM's Ambient Light Sensor Applications in Portable Electronics (.pdf)
Description: In portable electronic products, reducing the power consumption to provide the user with increased battery life is one of today's critical design considerations. The liquid crystal display (LCD) and ...
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Unified Optical Scanning Technology - Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: What is Optical scanning? Let me offer a definition. Optical scanning is a systematic articulation of light to provide information transfer. Then, what is information? Consider that it means simply ...
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Fundamentals of Solid State Engineering, 2nd Edition
Description: Fundamentals of Solid State Engineering, 2nd Edition Combining concepts from physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, materials science and mechanical engineering, this book introduces the basic ...
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Introduction to Optics
Description: Introduction to Optics Including the tools and methods currently used by researchers and engineers, this book covers the essential concepts of comprehension and reports the great progress of the ...
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Distributed Feedback Semiconductor Lasers
Description: Distributed Feedback Semiconductor Lasers This text covers the materials, operation and design strategies of DFB lasers. It provides detailed accounts of large-signal time-domain numerical modeling ...
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Fiber Optic Reference Guide: A Practical Guide to Communications Technology, Third Edition
Description: Fiber Optic Reference Guide: A Practical Guide to Communications Technology, Third Edition This guide is an ideal primer for newcomers to the fiber optics industry as well as a useful reference guide ...
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Fundamentals of Optical Waveguides, Second Edition
Description: Fundamentals of Optical Waveguides, Second Edition An essential resource for any researcher, professional or student involved in optics and communications engineering, this clear, concise text offers ...
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Radar Imaging and Holography
Description: Radar Imaging and Holography Focusing on holography and tomography for quasimonochromatic and broadband signals, this book provides a detailed coverage of the basic physical methods, inverse problems ...
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Recent Advances in Gossamer Spacecraft
Description: Recent Advances in Gossamer Spacecraft Focusing on the advances in structures, materials, testing, and systems engineering, this book offers accurate and up-to-date information that has been ...
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Solitons in Optical Fibers: Fundamentals and Applications
Description: Solitons in Optical Fibers: Fundamentals and Applications Covering the soliton from both a theoretical and practical side, this indispensable reference contains all the industry professional or ...
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Specialty Optical Fibers Handbook
Description: Specialty Optical Fibers Handbook Including essential facts and details at the beginning of each chapter, this book aims to describe and explain the design, fabrication, operating characteristics, ...
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Theory of Beam Columns: Space Behavior and Design, Volume 2
Description: Theory of Beam Columns: Space Behavior and Design, Volume 2 With design procedure summaries as well as several examples, this book presents principles and methods of analysis for beam-columns in ...
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Optical Bit Error Rate - Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: Preface The key objectives in telecommunications—wired, wireless, or optical—are safe and cost-effective transportation and prompt delivery of the client’s undamaged data. How this ...
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Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: Preface The term lightwave technology was coined as a natural extension of microwave technology and refers to the developments based on the use of light in place of microwaves. The beginnings of ...
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Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: PREFACE DWDM, dense wavelength division multiplexing, is a new technology that, with the help of photonic components, "bootstraps" many individually modulated optical wavelengths in a single ...
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Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: Preface This book grew out of a series of courses that I developed and taught over many years in the areas of lasers, optoelectronics, and photonics. Although these courses have been taught in the ...
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Diffraction, Fourier Optics and Imaging - Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: Preface Diffraction and imaging are central topics in many modern and scientific fields. Fourier analysis and sythesis techniques are a unifying theme throughout this subject matter. For example, many ...
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Adaptive Optics for Vision Science: Principles, Practices, Design, and Applications - Forward
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: The rationale for this handbook is to make adaptive optics technology for vision science and ophthalmology as broadly accessible as possible. While the scientific literature chronicles the dramatic ...
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Optical Switching - Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: Preface Although the widespread use of personal computers is often cited as one of the factors contributing to the crisis of human relations manifested by estrangement and lack of interpersonal ...
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Overview of NEC / CEL Optocoupler Products for Motor Control Applications (.pdf)
Description: This paper addresses various applications where NEC/CEL optocouplers offer galvanic isolation for driving MOSFET / IGBT devices in industrial applications including general-purpose inverters, AC ...
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Optical Shop Testing
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: Preface Since the publication of the second edition of this book, many important advances have taken place in the field of optical testing. On one hand, the requirements for faster and more precise ...
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Choosing a Lens Tutorial
From: Banner Engineering Corp.Description: Welcome to "Choosing a Lens," a tutorial about selecting a lens based on the application. You'll find this tutorial useful if you: * Plan on purchasing a vision sensor system * Want to use your ...
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Neutron Hardness of Photodiodes For Use in Passice Rubidium Frequency Standards (.pdf)
From: OSI OptoelectronicsDescription: The photodiode used for optical detection of the atomic resonance in a passive rubidium frequency standard (RFS) is a critical component that can limit the radiation hardness of the standard at high ...
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Practical Electro-Optic Deflection Measurement System (.pdf)
From: OSI OptoelectronicsDescription: This paper describes an electro-optic displacement measurement system which measures both angular and lateral displacements simultaneously. The system consists of a CW laser, lenses, interference ...
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Silicon Photodiodes with Stable, Near-Theoretical Quantum Efficiency in the Soft X-Ray Region (.pdf)
From: OSI OptoelectronicsDescription: Silicon photodiodes have practically no carrier recombination at the Si-Si02 interface or in the front diffused region have been developed by defect-free n-type impurity diffusion into the p-type ...
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Stability of Silicon Photodiodes for Laser Emission Measurements (.pdf)
From: OSI OptoelectronicsDescription: The introduction of laser emission safety regulations will necessitate simple instruments for user monitoring and regulatory purposes. These instruments must be capable of being accurately calibrated ...
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Stable, High Quantum Efficiency, UV-Enhanced Silicon Photodiodes By Arsenic Diffusion (.pdf)
From: OSI OptoelectronicsDescription: Very high, quantum efficiency, UV-enhanced silicon photodiodes have been developed by arsenic diffusion into p-type silicon as an alternative to the inversion layer photodiodes commonly used in ...
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The Effect of Neutron Irradiation on Silicon Photodiodes (.pdf)
From: OSI OptoelectronicsDescription: Neutron radiation testing was performed on a total of 125 silicon photodiodes to investigate the changes in the device parameters after neutron exposure. Califonium-252 source was used to irradiate ...
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Using Photodetectors for Position Sensing (.pdf)
From: OSI OptoelectronicsDescription: Applications are expanding rapidly in the use of electro-optical instruments to measure angle, distance, heights, centering, surface uniformity, and other parameters related to position sensing. ...
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Silicon Photodiodes Physics and Technology (.pdf)
From: OSI OptoelectronicsDescription: Silicon photodiodes are semiconductor devices used for the detection of light in ultra-violet, visible and infrared spectral regions. Because of their small size, low noise, high speed and good ...
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Fiber Optic Cylindrical Diffuser
Description: A fiber optic, cylindrical, light diffuser for medical use includes an unclad distal fiber end where the exposed core end has a conical shape. The core end is enclosed by a sleeve which contacts the ...
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High Density, Angled Optical Fiber Array and Method
Description: A system of making high density optical fiber arrays that includes securing the optical fiber ends in the housing front mask openings, then lapping the fiber ends and front mask forward surface to ...
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High Precision Optical Fiber Array Connector and Method
Description: An optical fiber array connector in which the tolerance of the diameter of the mask openings are not factors in the overall positioning of the plurality of fibers. The array includes a mask element ...
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Large Optical Fiber Array Assembly and Method
Description: A high density optical fiber array assembly and assembly method includes a housing securing a front array mask etched with extreme precision to define openings arranged in a predetermined pattern. A ...
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Optical Fiber Array With Precise Fiber Positioning
Description: Optical fiber array apparatus comprising housing front mask having a matrix of fiber seating openings each opening having one or more side walls. An optical fiber extends through each opening and ...
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Optical Fiber Array With Precise Hole Sizing
Description: A method of making and an etchable wafer substrate for use in making optical fiber array plates includes forming a progressively increasing series of metrology holes when the plate holes are formed. ...
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Solar Resistant Optical Fiber and Method
Description: Solar resistant fused silica optical fiber is made by heating the starter rod, drawing the fiber, and preferably immediately diffusing hydrogen into the fiber, then promptly covering the hydrogen ...
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Selecting the Right Display for White Goods Applications
Description: The days when all washers and dryers were finished in white enamel and had a couple of large electromechanical dials or controllers, are fading into the past. Today's consumers are looking for ...
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The Importance of LED Thermal Management
Description: Everywhere you go, LEDs are touted as the practical solution to a world going 'green.' ...
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Liquid Crystals - Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: Preface Liquid crystal science and applications now permeate almost all segments of the society—from large industrial displays to individual homes and offices. Nondisplay applications in ...
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Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: The dramatic reduction in transmission loss of optical fibers coupled with very important developments in the area of light sources and detectors have resulted in phenomenal growth of the fiber optic ...
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Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: "For Credible Lasers, See Inside." THE LASER IS LESS THAN three years younger than the space age. Just days after the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I on October 4, 1957, Charles Townes and Gordon ...
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Monitoring Coating Processes in Vacuum Chambers
From: AvantesDescription: Important parameters that need to be monitored during coating processes, such as layer thickness, composition, surface finish, light transmission, reflectance, polarization ability, and others can be ...
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Femtosecond and Nanosecond Laser Micromachining of Oxidized Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube Doped Morthane
Description: New and innovative polymer composite materials are being developed to meet the increasing mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties of materials within industries ranging from automotive to ...
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Femtosecond Verses Nanosecond Laser Machining: Comparison of Induced Stress and Structural Changes in Silicon
Description: Laser micromachining has proven to be a very successful tool for precision machining and microfabrication with applications in microelectronics, EMS, medical device, aerospace, biomedical, and defense ...
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Optical Networking Best Practices Handbook
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: Traffic growth in the backbone of today’s networks has certainly slowed, but most analysts still estimate that the traffic volume of the Internet is roughly doubling every year. Every day, more ...
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PICDIM Lamp Dimmer for the PIC12C508
Description: The PIC12CXXX family of devices adds a new twist to the 8-bit microcontroller market by introducing for the first time fully functional microcontrollers in an eight pin package. These parts are not ...
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Complementary LED Drive
Description: Light Emitting Diodes, or LED's, are discrete components able to produce light when a current passes through them. Most microcontroller designs use one or more LED's. This application highlights the ...
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Drive High Intensity White LEDs Efficiently Using the PIC16C781
Description: High intensity white LEDs are rapidly gaining popularity because of their high light output for relatively low input current. Applications include small flashlights, backlighting, night visibility ...
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Fundamentals of the Infrared Physical Layer
Description: Infrared light, commonly referred to as "IR", is a common, easy-to-use, low power and low-cost media to transmit information. Among the few "wireless" communication choices, IR has the significant ...
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Efficiently Powering Nine White LEDs with the MCP1650
Description: The number of applications that utilize white LEDs has steadily increased due to the increased usage of Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs) in automotive and cellular telephone displays, PDAs, handheld ...
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Maintaining your Laser System: Regular Cleaning Makes for a Long Laser Life
From: Epilog Laser Corp.Description: As with most pieces of equipment, preventive maintenance is an important part of owning any CO2 laser engraving system. This month we'll discuss common maintenance techniques that will keep your laser ...
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Laser Engraving Equipment - Features, Accessories and other Must-haves (.pdf)
From: Epilog Laser Corp.Description: Laser engraving systems have come a long way since their inception. Today's systems are faster, more powerful, have more features, and best of all, are more affordable than ever. If you're in the ...
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3 Steps to Better Laser Maintenance
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Laser machine users know it, but often ignore it. Laser manufacturers swear by it, but often don't push it. It's maintenance, and it should be the watchword of anyone who owns and operates a laser. ...
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A Commitment to Quality
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Aero Manufacturing is a 40-year-old, family-owned company specializing in the fabrication and machining of precision parts for the power generation and aerospace industries. The company had its ...
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Combining 2-D and 3-D Laser Applications
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Right now at least 4,000 laser job shops in the U.S. are competing in a "virtual" service market that continues to be characterized by downward pricing pressure. Practically speaking, ...
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Expanding Upward and Outward
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: A sheet storage tower helps Watson Engineering's laser operations grow up It's elementary for Watson. If Watson Engineering wanted to keep up with its customers in the heavy-duty equipment ...
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Family Business Grows with Laser Cutting
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Auto-generating abstract. This may take a moment... ...
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Growing Gains with Laser
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: It took one phrase to change Jeff Adams' direction in manufacturing: "At some point in the future, this is all going to be done with lasers." Today he owns and operates Laser Precision ...
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In Medical Manufacturing, Laser Makes the Cut
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: The manufacturing industry is cyclical, transitioning every few years from one hot market to the next. A company's success is dependant on its ability to evolve with those changes. The right ...
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Key Factors to Consider When Choosing a Laser Cutting System
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: The marketplace is experiencing a quick shift toward laser cutting systems as manufacturers explore ways to stay competitive with foreign competition in today's U.S. economy. The most recent shift ...
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Laser Facilitates Quicker, Thicker Cutting
From: MC Machinery SystemsDescription: Tornqvist, Inc., established in 1876, manufactures component parts for the industrial, architectural and pharmaceutical industries. Three years ago, the Wayne, New Jersey company moved into a new ...
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An Introduction to Optical Coatings
From: Edmund Optics Inc.Description: Optical coatings are used to manipulate the reflectance and transmittance of an optical component. Typical coating examples include: Antireflection Coatings which reduce the amount of light reflected ...
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Anti-Reflection Coatings
From: Edmund Optics Inc.Description: Optical coatings can be critical in an application. Coatings are used to either increase the transmission of light by reducing back reflections (as in the case of lenses, windows, etc.) or to increase ...
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Choosing the Correct Eyepiece
From: Edmund Optics Inc.Description: The eyepiece is an integral part of any compound visual system. Its purpose is to magnify the real image formed by an objective or intermediate relay system. For this reason, the eyepiece design ...
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Choosing the Correct Illumination
From: Edmund Optics Inc.Description: Often, a customer struggles with contrast and resolution problems in an imaging system, while underestimating the power of proper illumination. In fact, desired image quality can typically be met by ...
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Choosing the Correct Testing Target
From: Edmund Optics Inc.Description: Test targets can be used to evaluate or calibrate an imaging system's performance. Correct assessment of an imaging system is used in certifying proper measurements, establishing a baseline between ...
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Fundamentals of Lasers
From: Edmund Optics Inc.Description: The basic structure of any laser is based on an active medium (either a gas or semiconductor) contained between two reflectors. A laser's reflectors contain light by oscillating it through a medium ...
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Gauging Depth of Field in Your Imaging System
From: Edmund Optics Inc.Description: Over the years, we have answered countless questions regarding lens performance. Of those questions, none have been more difficult to define than requests for depth of field. The reason for this ...
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Using Laser Beam Expanders
From: Edmund Optics Inc.Description: Laser Beam expanders are designed to decrease the laser's beam spot size at large distances. There are two main types of beam expanders: Keplerian and Galilean. In its simplest form, the Galilean type ...
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Using Optical Flats
From: Edmund Optics Inc.Description: An optical flat is a precisely polished flat surface, used as a reference against which the flatness of an unknown surface may be compared. Edmund Optics offers both single surface and dual surface ...
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Choosing the Right Galvanometer and Servo for the Job
Description: Galvanometer-based optical scanners are the preferred positioning solution for an increasingly broad range of industrial, scientific, imaging, and medical laser applications. While a number of ...
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Human Interface Device (HID) Tutorials
From: Silicon LabsDescription: This application note applies to all Silicon Labs USB MCUs. The Human Interface Device (HID) class specification allows designers to create USB-based devices and applications without the need for ...
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Gold and Aluminum Buffered Optical Fibers - What, Why, and Where (.doc)
Description: Optical fibers are typically manufactured from a preform consisting of a silica core which may be doped silica or pure silica and a cladding classically of silica having a lower refractive index than ...
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High-Volume Production of Rubber Stamps
From: Trotec Laser, Inc.Description: Production times in stamp production can be reduced thanks to the automated processes of laser engraving machines. Which is why stamp engraving with laser machines has become the standard in stamp ...
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Laser Cutting in Architectural Model Making
From: Trotec Laser, Inc.Description: Architectural model making is an extremely precise craft. All parts used for a model must be of outstanding accuracy and quality. Therefore, the cutting system has to provide excellent results on ...
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Laser Marking in the Medical Industry
From: Trotec Laser, Inc.Description: Traceability of medical products: UDI laser marking of surgical instruments and implants. Marking of stainless steel and plastic. ...
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Acrylic Processing
From: Trotec Laser, Inc.Description: The beam of a laser machine is its universal "tool" for acrylic cutting, and is ideal acrylic processing regardless of the material thickness and shape. There are endless advantages that a laser ...
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Laser Cutting in Education
From: Trotec Laser, Inc.Description: How do you turn product ideas into prototypes in just a few steps? With a laser cutter, pupils and students can quickly create their first scale models: Whether in model making, design or fashion. ...
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The Big Three in Metal Marking - Applications for Etching, Polishing and Annealing
From: Epilog Laser Corp.Description: Today nearly every industry has a need for permanent metal marking. Whether it's marking tools with serial numbers, medical devices with logos or even producing architectural signage that calls for a ...
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Pretty as a Picture - Tips and Tricks for Engraving Photographs (.pdf)
From: Epilog Laser Corp.Description: Photographs are one of the most popular items for engraving purposes. Taking a captured memory and engraving it upon a different material such as wood or marble truly takes photographs to the next ...
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Settings for Success: Techniques for Most Popular Engraving Materials (.pdf)
From: Epilog Laser Corp.Description: When it comes to laser engraving, CO2 engravers are capable of handling almost any material, from wood to acrylic, treated aluminum to glass and well beyond. But how do you know what speed and power ...
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Fiber Laser Welding of High Integrity Implantable Medical Devices
Description: Medical implantable devices like pacemakers, ICDs and leads are progressively becoming more compact and lighter. Some of the components used for hermetic and structural welding are still large and ...
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LaserStar Workstations - The Jeweler's Tool of Choice!
Description: Today's manufacturing retail jewelers have a wide range of new technologies available to enhance their ability to provide the highest level of quality, craftsmanship and service to their clients. One ...
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Manual Laser Micro-Welding Systems are an Alternative to Traditional GTA Welding!
Description: Today's small precision welding shops specializing in plastic injection mold, dies and tooling repair have a wide range of new technologies available to enhance their ability to provide the highest ...
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Manual Laser Welders - The Tool of Choice for Eyewear Repair!
Description: Today's precision optical repair shops specializing in fast, high quality repairs of eyewear frames and accessories have a wide range of new technologies available to enhance their ability to provide ...
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New 7500 Series FiberStar Workstations Extend the Capabilities of Fiber Laser Micro-Welding Applications
Description: High consistency of performance among fiber lasers of a given type means that the degree of repeatability between workstations is also much higher. For the end-user, this means setting up and ...
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Fiber Optic Antenna Link OFW-5800 GPS
Description: The OFW - 5800/GPS is a "Next Generation" Global Positioning System (GPS) Fiber Optic Antenna Link (FOAL) subsystem that is a designed to operate in the Naval shipboard environment. The OFW - 5800/GPS ...
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Design Considerations in Using the Inverter Gate Driver Optocouplers for Variable Speed Motor Drives - White Paper (.pdf)
Description: Inverter Gate Driver optocouplers are ideally suited for IGBT and MOSFET applications for variable speed motor drives. Their high output peak currents coupled with high voltage safety standards ...
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Industrial Fiber Optic Products for Wind Turbine and Wind Farm Applications - White Paper (.pdf)
Description: Global warming and climate changes from CO2 emissions of traditional energy sources, such as those powered by fossil fuels, have created huge markets for alternative power generation. Wind turbine ...
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Specialty Polyphenylene Sulfide (PPS) Compound for New Generation of Fiberoptic Connectors
From: Celanese CorporationDescription: A new linear polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) compound has been introduced to meet the expanding needs of businesses and individual consumers as they convert to rapid transmission fiberoptic technology ...