Optical Components and Optics Reference Materials
Reference Articles 701 - 800 of 1232
-
Knight Optical answers the question: What are Optical Payloads?
From: Knight Optical (UK) LtdDescription: The term 'payload' is theoretically defined as a vehicle's revenue-producing cargo; however, in terms of aerospace, the name denotes the elements of a spacecraft that have been deployed to generate ...
-
What You Need to Know About Optical Filters
From: ECOPTIK (CHANGCHUN) LTDDescription: Compared with the film age, photographers in the digital age need a lot fewer filters, but there are still some optical filters that are still necessary. Part of it is because it takes time and effort ...
-
Achromatic Lenses
From: Shanghai OpticsDescription: An achromatic lens, often called an achromat, is a type of optical lens capable of correcting chromatic aberration, a distortion that occurs when glass splits white light into multiple ...
-
Aspheric Lenses
From: Shanghai OpticsDescription: As the name suggests, an aspheric lens is a lens with a shape other than that of a regular sphere or cylinder. These lenses, which come in a variety of shapes, are used to correct spherical aberration ...
-
Beamsplitters
From: Shanghai OpticsDescription: A beam splitter (or beamsplitter) is an optical component used for splitting light into two separate beams, usually by wavelength or polarity. It can also be used, in reverse, as a beam combiner, to ...
-
Colored Glass Filters
From: Shanghai OpticsDescription: Shanghai Optics colored glass filters are high quality absorption filters made of colored glass. They allow certain wavelengths of light to pass unimpeded, while blocking other wavelength ranges to a ...
-
Custom Shapes
From: Shanghai OpticsDescription: Rod Lens, Light Pipe Homogenizing Rods ...
-
Cylindrical Lenses
From: Shanghai OpticsDescription: As the name suggests, a cylindrical lens is an optical lens with a cylindrical or semi-cylindrical shape. Like a spherical lens, a cylindrical lens has one curved and one flat side. Unlike a spherical ...
-
Freeform Optics
From: Shanghai OpticsDescription: A freeform optical component is not symmetric around its optical axis. It provides some attractive features to optical designers to correct multiple aberrations with fewer optical surfaces, and make ...
-
Fresnel Lenses
From: Shanghai OpticsDescription: While originally made of glass, the Fresnel lens can be found in a large variety of substrates and sizes. Nowadays, Fresnel lenses are made of plastic because of the lightweight traits of plastic ...
-
Infrared Optics
From: Shanghai OpticsDescription: At Shanghai Optics we produce a wide range of quality infrared optics, including lenses, prisms, windows, mirrors, and laser and imaging assemblies. Our state of the art equipment allows us to achieve ...
-
Laser Optics
From: Shanghai OpticsDescription: Laser optics includes all the optical elements and optical systems used within lasers, or for manipulating-or transmitting-laser light. Laser optics components have more stringent requirements on ...
-
Light Pipe Homogenizing Rods
From: Shanghai OpticsDescription: Light Pipe Homogenizing Rods are tubes which transits natural light collected by light collection. Light pipe Homogenizing Rods could be distinguished into straight light pipe and bending light pipe ...
-
Micro Optics
From: Shanghai OpticsDescription: Micro optics are very small optical systems, typically between a few micrometers to a millimeter in size. They include optical fibers with a microscale core diameter, mini diffractive optical ...
-
Optical Filters
From: Shanghai OpticsDescription: Optical filters selectively allow certain wavelengths of light to pass freely while blocking other wavelengths. Shanghai Optics manufactures a wide range of optical filters for engineering, ...
-
Optical Mirrors
From: Shanghai OpticsDescription: Optical mirrors are precision optics with a highly polished plane or curved surface which reflects light. At Shanghai Optics we manufacture custom optical mirrors for a wide range of applications. ...
-
Optical Windows
From: Shanghai OpticsDescription: Optical windows are flat plates made of optically transparent material, designed to allow light into an optical instrument. They can also be used to protect a light source from an outside environment. ...
-
Spherical Lenses
From: Shanghai OpticsDescription: Spherical lenses, also known as singlets, are optical lenses with curved surfaces that cause light rays to converge or diverge. They are widely used in imaging applications. Conjugate ratio, lens ...
-
Optical Delay Line Stages - How Do They Work?
Description: Today, very precise path length control in optical delay lines are critical to techniques in transient absorption spectroscopy (using pump-probe), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), and ...
-
Alluxa's Optical Filters Landed on Mars
From: Alluxa, Inc.Description: Alluxa's optical filters, specially designed for the advanced fluorescence spectrometer on the Mars Perseverance Rover, landed safely on Mars, Feb. 18, 2021. ...
-
Knight Optical Puts Planoconvex Lenses in the Spotlight
From: Knight Optical (UK) LtdDescription: Here, Knight Optical - the leading supplier of custom-made and stock premium-quality optical components - uncovers all you need to know about Planoconvex Lenses. What are Planoconvex Lenses? As the ...
-
The Exoplanet Transmission Spectroscopy Imager (ETSI)
From: Alluxa, Inc.Description: "ETSI and the CMI technique may offer a gateway for characterizing almost all transiting exoplanets and potential habitability from ground-based observatories," according to the collaborative white ...
-
Going the Distance with Serial Digital Coax
From: Belden Inc.Description: In the late '80s, the Society of Motion Picture Television Engineers (SMPTE) developed a standard for transmitting serial digital interface (SDI) video signals. These uncompressed, unencrypted digital ...
-
What is the Penta Prism?
From: ECOPTIK (CHANGCHUN) LTDDescription: The penta prism uses the reflection of the two surfaces to deflect the beam by 90° while maintaining the parity of the image. The deviation of the beam does not change the slight rotation of the ...
-
Mimicking Mother Nature: Biomimicry and Optical Components
From: Knight Optical (UK) LtdDescription: There's so much that we can learn from the natural world that surrounds us, and unbeknownst to some, there are elements within our lives that imitate organic movements and strategies. Here, Knight ...
-
Alumina 94%
From: Insaco, Inc.Description: Alumina is produced by firing a tightly packed powder form of Al2O3 which includes some binder material. ...
-
Alumina 99.5%
From: Insaco, Inc.Description: Alumina (Al2O3) is one of the most widely specified, general-purpose technical ceramics. All aluminas are very hard and wear resistant, with high compressive strength even against extreme temperatures ...
-
Sapphire
From: Insaco, Inc.Description: Sapphire is an anisotropic, rhombohedral crystal form of Aluminum Oxide. ...
-
Knight Optical Knows Its Optical Components for UVC Sterilization & Disinfection
From: Knight Optical (UK) LtdDescription: As a leading supplier of custom-made and stock optical solutions, Knight Optical drives the industry with premium-quality optics for the increasingly popular field of UVC sterilisation and ...
-
In the Spotlight: Interference Bandpass Filters
From: Knight Optical (UK) LtdDescription: How do Interference Bandpass Filters Work? Used for a wide range of uses and across a broad spectrum of industries, Interference Bandpass Filters are extremely useful for applications that require ...
-
Automotive Exterior Lighting Systems
From: ROHM Semiconductor GmbHDescription: An automotive lighting solution that combines the LED driver ICs req. for LED lighting control along with compact high reliability LEDs ...
-
The Working Principle of Aspheric Lenses
From: ECOPTIK (CHANGCHUN) LTDDescription: Optical Thin Film Coating Beam Splitter Coatings Anti-Reflection Coating (AR) High Reflective Metal Coatings High Reflective Coatings Partial Reflective Coatings Aspheric lenses can improve image ...
-
Coatings Corner: What is a Dichroic Filter?
From: Abrisa TechnologiesDescription: A dichroic filter, thin-film filter, or interference filter is a very accurate color filter used to selectively pass light of a small range of colors while reflecting other colors. By comparison, ...
-
Fabrication Facts: Solid Colored Glass Has Many Popular Uses
From: Abrisa TechnologiesDescription: Generally used for architectural projects, entertainment lighting and landscape lighting, the soda-lime or borofloat based glass can be heat strengthened for additional resistance to thermal shock. ...
-
Frit Ink for Robust Graphics on Glass Ideal for Harsh Environmental Conditions
From: Abrisa TechnologiesDescription: Components with frit ink pass through a tempering oven where temperatures are highly elevated and the graphics essentially become part of the glass itself. The graphics are then scratch and abrasion ...
-
Machine and Human Readable Laser Engraved Graphics on Glass
From: Abrisa TechnologiesDescription: CO2 laser engraving "marking" of select coated and uncoated glass Laser etched graphics, icons and unique identifiers (QR codes and barcodes) ...
-
Off-Axis Parabolic Mirror
Description: Off-axis parabolic mirror (OAP) can get beam focused or collimated at certain angles, and infinite focus is possible, too. The total reflection design eliminates the absorption loss, chromatic ...
-
Liquid Lens
From: Foctek Photonics, Inc.Description: A lens is both a telephoto lens and a macro lens. This is a magical innovation, the principle of bionics, just like the human eye is inserted into the lens of a mobile phone. The flowable liquid is ...
-
What are the Technical Terms for Optical Filters?
From: ECOPTIK (CHANGCHUN) LTDDescription: The optical filter is made of plastic or glass, added with special dyes. The red filter can only pass the red light and so on. The transmittance of the glass sheet is originally similar to the air, ...
-
Optics for Photography: Examining Optical Components
From: Knight Optical (UK) LtdDescription: When you think of optics, perhaps one of the most commonly considered applications is photography. Here at Knight Optical, we have provided custom-manufactured optical components for all categories of ...
-
Drone Development on Autopilot: How are Optical Components Used in Drones?
From: Knight Optical (UK) LtdDescription: Last month, NASA made a huge announcement - the success of its Ingenuity helicopter taking flight on Mars, making the UAV the first-ever aircraft to "make a powered, controlled flight on another ...
-
Application of High-Power Laser
From: ECOPTIK (CHANGCHUN) LTDDescription: High-power lasers have a wide range of applications, including precision industrial processing, laser imaging/ranging, and strong field physics applications. Optical lenses and lenses, as the key core ...
-
How Does a Cylinder Lens Work
From: ECOPTIK (CHANGCHUN) LTDDescription: Cylinder lenses are similar to spherical lenses because they all use curved surfaces to focus or diverge light, but cylindrical lenses only have the ability to converge or diverge in one direction, ...
-
On Femtosecond Laser
Description: Femtosecond, or fs for short, is a unit measuring time length. 1 femtosecond is equal to 10-15 second. Femtosecond laser has a pulse width of a femtosecond magnitude. By far it is the commercially ...
-
What is a Double Concave Lens?
From: ECOPTIK (CHANGCHUN) LTDDescription: A double concave lens is also called a negative spherical lens. The middle of the lens is thin, the edge is thick, and it is concave, so it is also called a concave lens, which has a divergent effect ...
-
Optical Components Used for Marine Biology and Deep-Sea Exploration
From: Knight Optical (UK) LtdDescription: Here at Knight Optical, we supply a range of stock and custom-made optical components for an array of scientific fields of study. In our most recent blogs, we've explored how our optics are used ...
-
Bus Bars for Transparent Conductive Coatings
From: Abrisa TechnologiesDescription: The primary function of a bus bar is to conduct electricity. Typical bus bar applications for optics include heater windows and EMI Shielding. ...
-
Grinding Technology and Classification of Optical Lens
From: ECOPTIK (CHANGCHUN) LTDDescription: In the process of planar planetary grinding, the uniformity of the grinding disk wear is closely related to the grinding quality of the optical lens; through the analysis of the movement law of the ...
-
Shining a Light on Optical Components and Solar Observation
From: Knight Optical (UK) LtdDescription: To celebrate the spectacular views of the solar system recently captured by NASA's arsenal of solar observation aircraft1, Knight Optical - the leading supplier of metrology-tested, custom-made and ...
-
GCG-Plane Diffraction Grating
Description: Grating is a common optical dispersion component. It is an object or device that has a spatial periodic distribution within a certain spatial range and can amplitude modulation or (and) position phase ...
-
Fast Steering Mirrors for Deep Space / Free Space Optical Communication
Description: Laggy Communication via Satellites? ...
-
Interesting Optical Phenomenon
From: ECOPTIK (CHANGCHUN) LTDDescription: Interesting optical phenomenon 1. The small hole imaging--The straight line propagation of light. ...
-
The Feature of Fiber Collimators
Description: Facing the ever-increasing market demand, Daheng New Epoch Technology Inc. (“Daheng Optics”) has developed a series of high-precision fiber collimators and fiber couplers of enhanced ...
-
How Optics Are Used in State-of-the-Art Airborne Applications
From: Knight Optical (UK) LtdDescription: While General Aviation (GA) is temporarily grounded as the world endeavours to vaccinate the planet's population against COVID-19, other essential aircraft categories are still in flight, such as ...
-
World's Brightest Compact Sight Glass Luminaire Offers ETL Approval and UL Conformity
From: LJ StarDescription: One of the best sight glass lights just got even better. The LJ Star LumiStar®1000, the world's brightest compact sight glass luminaire, is now Intertek ETL approved and conforms to UL 2108; in ...
-
Damage Threshold
Description: Colloquially speaking, Laser-Induced Damage Threshold (LIDT) represents the critical value of a laser intensity at which an optical device can withstand without being permanently damaged. The LIDT of ...
-
Optical Components and the Rise of Renewables
From: Knight Optical (UK) LtdDescription: Here, Knight Optical - the leading supplier of on-spec, metrology-tested optical components - looks at how the pandemic has created a sea change in how we want to live our lives on planet earth. The ...
-
The Central Principle of Optical Cemented Lenses
From: ECOPTIK (CHANGCHUN) LTDDescription: In the process of optically cemented lenses, no matter whether the resin glue method or the photo glue method is used, it must be centered to ensure that the optical axes of the positive and negative ...
-
Material Solutions to Seal Out the Elements in Automotive Lighting Applications
Description: The engineering design of any automobile is extensive. From the engine to the power train and axles and wheels. Fuel systems. Steering. Restraints and safety systems. Infotainment. ...
-
Get to Know White Space, Gray Space and Meet-Me Rooms
From: Belden Inc.Description: Within any data center are two distinct and separate spaces known as "white space" and "gray space." Although these two areas function differently, are managed differently and serve unique purposes, ...
-
Environmental Control In The Processing of Optical Components
From: ECOPTIK (CHANGCHUN) LTDDescription: The optical system composed of various optical components, the quality of its components plays a very important role on the quality and basic performance of optical instruments, so high-quality, ...
-
Photoelectric System Design and the Advantages of a Distributed System
From: Light in Motion LLCDescription: A photoelectric system uses visible or infrared light to perform a variety of functions in both industrial and commercial applications, such as measuring distance or detecting the presence or absence ...
-
Processing of High Power Laser Optics
From: ECOPTIK (CHANGCHUN) LTDDescription: OEM cylinder lenses supplier to share with you: In recent years, the development of high-power lasers, deep ultraviolet / X-rays and other fields has not only extended the choice of optical materials, ...
-
Optics Are All Around Us
From: Knight Optical (UK) LtdDescription: Wherever we go in the world, we are never too far from an optic. In fact, nature itself provides us with everyday examples of the universality of optical phenomena and light; such as rainbows and ...
-
Tiny Tech: The World of Nanotechnology
From: Knight Optical (UK) LtdDescription: As the name suggests, nanotechnology is a branch of technology (as well as science and engineering) that is conducted at a nanoscale (1 to 100 nanometres). In other, more layman-friendly, words, it is ...
-
E-Book-The Latest Info on Optical Metrology in Additive Manufacturing
From: Evident ScientificDescription: Ten years ago, 3D printing might have conjured up images of replicators from popular sci-fi shows and movies, where anything can be created on a whim. Today, however, 3D printing-also known as ...
-
Sapphire Windows Application
Description: Sapphire Windows used for short and long wavelength applications (UV and IR) exceed other optical materials in harsh environments, providing a barrier between elements. This is due to sapphire ...
-
Aspheric Optics
From: Foctek Photonics, Inc.Description: Spherical optical element refers to a constant curvature from the center to the edge of the element, and the surface is spherical; for aspheric optical elements, the curvature continuously changes ...
-
High-Quality Imaging Demands High-Quality Optics
From: Knight Optical (UK) LtdDescription: Thermal imaging, medical imaging, geospatial imaging, imaging technology for food quality; there's an abundance of imaging categories used across a diverse spectrum of industries. Although each ...
-
PCR Fluorescence Analyzer Filter Kits
Description: Excitation, Emission, and Dichroic Filters for Fluorescence Imaging ...
-
Surface Preparation for Reliable Optical Coatings in Photonics Manufacturing
From: Brighton ScienceDescription: Coatings are an indispensable part of manufacturing photonics. The coatings help determine the most basic functionality of the lenses they are applied to. How much light passes through, what happens ...
-
Do You Know Double-Concave Lenses?
From: ECOPTIK (CHANGCHUN) LTDDescription: A biconcave lens is similar to a plano-concave lens, with a negative focal length, but the rays of light incident in parallel diverge outward. The two sides of the biconcave lens have the same radius ...
-
Common Use of Lenses
From: ECOPTIK (CHANGCHUN) LTDDescription: Optical spherical lenses are optical components made of transparent material and the surface is a part of the spherical surface. The lens is composed of several lenses. Lenses can be widely used in ...
-
Polishing of Optical Glass Lenses
From: ECOPTIK (CHANGCHUN) LTDDescription: Over the past half century, people have put forward various opinions on the exploration of the polishing mechanism of optical glass, and there is no unified understanding so far. When discussing the ...
-
Application of Reticle on Telescope
From: ECOPTIK (CHANGCHUN) LTDDescription: The reticle is generally installed on the focal plane of the right eyepiece of the telescope or scope. It is made of thin glass with a reticle dense line engraved on the surface. Since this thin glass ...
-
Optical Prism
From: ECOPTIK (CHANGCHUN) LTDDescription: Before delving into the theory of light guide prism, consider its manufacturing process. ...
-
Application of Laser Processing Technology in the Industrial Field
Description: Application of laser processing technology in the industrial field ...
-
Photoelectric Sensors: from Useful to Ubiquitous
From: Light in Motion LLCDescription: In this webinar, we will analyze the reasons that made Photoelectric Sensors prominent, look at the evolution of the enabling technologies starting with the LED, how that has made Photoelectric ...
-
Case Study: ANPR Filters
From: Knight Optical (UK) LtdDescription: Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras and intelligent transportation systems (ITS) have become an essential requirement of law enforcement and road safety. ANPR cameras need to operate ...
-
Case Study: Medical
From: Knight Optical (UK) LtdDescription: The medical sector puts further demands on quality in optics. Accuracy and reliability is of utmost importance for systems of medical diagnostics and analysis. Knight Optical was approached to supply ...
-
The Industrial Sequel: Optical Components That Are Used Within the Manufacturing Sector
From: Knight Optical (UK) LtdDescription: Following on from its previous blog on optics used in the manufacturing sector , Knight Optical - the leading manufacturer of premium-quality, metrology-tested optical components - explores additional ...
-
UV Optical Components Used for Sterilisation
From: Knight Optical (UK) LtdDescription: At a time when sterilisation, hygiene and disinfection has never been more critical, Knight Optical - the leading supplier of on-spec, metrology-tested, premium-quality optical components - explores ...
-
New Automotive Monolithic LED Driver that Ensures Stable Lighting Even During Battery Voltage Drops
Description: In the automotive market, vehicle lamps are increasingly adopting LEDs due to their longer life and high-density mounting. Conventional onboard LEDs support various designs and functions by combining ...
-
Frequently Asked Questions
From: Insaco, Inc.Description: Frequently Asked Ceramic Fabrication Questions ...
-
Replacing Metal Components with Hard Materials (PDF)
From: Insaco, Inc.Description: Many times we are asked at Insaco if we could machine a thin metal rod, or drill a small metal plate, often requiring extremely tight tolerances and precision cuts. Unfortunately we don't machine ...
-
Custom Woodblock Stamps with Lasers: More Creativity with Less Effort
From: Epilog Laser Corp.Description: As one of the oldest printing techniques, woodblock printing is a form of relief printing. It can create beautiful designs on wallpaper, fabric, maps and many other materials. ...
-
Ultraviolet Laser
Description: With the increasing demand for small electronic products and microelectronic components, UV lasers are ideal tools for processing plastic and metal materials commonly used in microelectronic ...
-
Optical Components That are Used Within the Manufacturing Sector
From: Knight Optical (UK) LtdDescription: Optical components and manufacturing have long gone hand-in-hand, and in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic and with the Government's attempt to push the sector in a bid to save the UK economy from ...
-
1064nm&532nm System-A Typical and Common E-O Q-Switch Nd:YAG Laser Medical System
From: CRYSTECH, Inc.Description: It is a typical and common E-O Q-Switch Nd:YAG laser medical system. The system is working as dual wavelength(1064&532). ...
-
2100nm System (A Popular Laser Medical System)
From: CRYSTECH, Inc.Description: The main applications are: 1.treating urologic conditions such as BPH, stones, tumors or strictures 2.other surgical fields including gastroenterology, pulmonology, orthopedics and others ...
-
Fiber Optic Utility Probes
Description: With deep applications know-how and responsive service and support across the globe, AE builds collaborative partnerships to meet rapid technological developments, propel growth for its customers and ...
-
How Knight Optical Components are Helping to Feed the Nation
From: Knight Optical (UK) LtdDescription: At a time when food is in-demand more than ever before, Knight Optical - the leading supplier of on-spec, metrology-tested premium-quality optical components - looks at how optics are used across the ...
-
Partnership with Lucid Scientific
From: BakerDescription: The Baker Company has partnered with Lucid Scientific, a manufacturer of the most sensitive and accurate optical oxygen sensors available, to distribute its novel product line in North America. ...
-
Test High Speed OC-3/STM-1 and OC-12/STM-4 Networks with GL's SonetExpert
From: GL Communications, Inc.Description: Welcome to another issue of GL's newsletter providing information and insight into our new SonetExpertâ„¢ test platform for High Speed OC3/12 and STM1/4 Analysis and Emulation. GL's SonetExpert™ ...
-
Knight Optical and the Dawn of the Domes
From: Knight Optical (UK) LtdDescription: Optical Domes are ubiquitous. You're certainly never too far from a technical device that makes use of the curved, sturdy component, and as a trusted protective solution, it's easy to see why they are ...
-
Visual Output: 5S and Poka-Yoke
From: item America, LLCDescription: The transparency visual output provides and motivates staff to drive forward the continuous improvement process (CIP). We've decided to take a fresh look at the two well-known lean methods of 5S and ...
-
Case Study: Photonic Array Device Assembly
Description: PI's Fast Multichannel Photonic Alignment (FMPA) technology was introduced in 2016. It quickly amassed prestigious honors like the R&D 100 Award and the Lightwave Innovations Award for its ...
-
Optical Components on Track for a Future of Fitness
From: Knight Optical (UK) LtdDescription: Suffice to say, 2020's Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has taken the world by storm. Life, as we know it, has changed. The UK and USA's theatrical hubs, the West End and Broadway, have both closed ...
-
Practical Examples of Parallel Alignment Automation
Description: PI's Fast, Multi-Channel Photonics Alignment (FMPA) technology is a set of firmware-level commands built into its highest-performance digital nanopositioning and hexapod controllers. These commands ...
-
Custom-Made Germanium and Silicon Optics Meet the Spec for High-Tech Surveillance Systems
From: Knight Optical (UK) LtdDescription: As a leading supplier of custom-made, high-quality components, Knight Optical strives to keep abreast of recent technological innovations within the Security and Defence sectors to meet the ...