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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 ...
- DPSS Lasers & Marking Systems
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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 ...
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Fiber Optics Technology Improves Shipboard Antenna Links
Description: Fiber optics (FO) technology has been used in many commercial applications over the last decade and is now transitioning into Navy combat system modernization programs. The Office of the Chief of ...
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Teaching Analog New Tricks
Description: Many scanning, alignment and spectroscopy applications require optical power metrology coordinated with motion, with positioning precisions that often necessitate piezo-class motion devices. ...
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Simultaneous XRD/XRF with low-power X-Ray tubes
From: MOXTEK, Inc.Description: A test bench instrument constructed at Moxtek, Inc. is capable of simultaneously capturing x-ray diffraction (XRD) and x-ray fluorescence (XRF) information using a charge-coupled device (CCD) as the ...
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High Numerical Aperture Silica Core Fibers
Description: Many medical applications have need of 'broad' irradiation patterns, but benefit from small diameter fibers to provide minimal invasive surgery. These applications also benefit from using the low ...
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Properties & Reliability of Improved Large Acceptance Optical Fibers
Description: The high power diode laser systems, but must be flexible, and have not only good strength but also good fatigue behavior. Th with their laser diode bars and arrays not only require special fibers to ...
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Advances in Design and Development of Optical Fibers for Harsh Environments
From: OFS
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Aging Behavior of Optical Fibers in Aqueous Environments
From: OFS
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Application Note: Fiber Strength and Reliability
From: OFS
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Epoxy / Polish Termination of HCS® Fibers: Application Notes
From: OFS
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Fiber Optic Solutions from S.I. Tech, Inc.
From: S.I. Tech, Inc.Description: 2550 * Supports 10 Base-FL FOIRL standards * Link Status, Power, Transmit and Receive LEDindicators * Multimode or Single mode * ST connectors (Options available) * Ruggedized option 2150-10/100-A * ...
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How to Tell if a Surface is Coated, and Which Surfaces are Coated
Description: How can you tell which side of an optic is coated? Let's say you consult the print and it says Side 1 should be coated. So which is Side 1? Assuming your design team anticipated this question, you ...
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Keep Your Laser Cool for Peak Performance
Description: Lasers make find furnaces - they are electrically very inefficient sources of light. Depending upon the laser type, somewhere between only .01% and 30% of the power drawn from the wall is converted to ...
- Cleanliness on the Fiber Optic Manufacturing Floor
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Laser Sighting Guide
Description: There are several sighting options for IR thermometers. By understanding the sighting choices available, you can select the most appropriate balance of features and price for your application. From ...
- Manufacturing Flow in a Fiber Optic Environment
- Optical Fiber Handling