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Understanding the Role of Optics for Consumer Electronics in 2024
Consumer electronics have become an integral part of our daily lives, shaping people’s communication, work processes, and entertainment. Behind the sleek and compact designs of...
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IR windows should allow all infrared radiation to pass through it with zero losses. These infrared windows are made of materials like Germanium and Silicon.
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Laser Beam Expanders: Keplerian vs. Galilean Beam Expanders and Other Configurations
Laser beam expanders are critical optical devices that manipulate and enhance laser beams in various applications.
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CO2 Laser Optics at the Forefront: Pushing Boundaries with CO2 Laser Lenses and CO2 Laser Mirrors
CO2 lasers have become a cornerstone technology in numerous industries and it relies on quality CO2 laser optics.
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Precision optics is at the forefront of technological advancements and plays a pivotal role in shaping the world, enabling us to explore many applications.
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Infrared Thermal Imaging Technology in Non-Destructive Inspection of Ship Structures
The infrared thermal imaging system plays a key role in the non-destructive structural investigation in the shipbuilding industry.
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Additive manufacturing, otherwise known as 3D printing or rapid prototyping, is the process of building a three-dimensional object from a computer-aided design (CAD) model. A...
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What is Infrared Optics? An Introduction to Infrared Optics.
Infrared optics are used to collect, focus or collimate light in the near-infrared (NIR), short-wave infrared (SWIR), mid-wave infrared (MWIR) or long-wave infrared (LWIR) spectra....
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Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) Guide: All You Need to Know About an AOI Machine.
Optical inspection plays an important role in optics manufacturing to check and maintain the optics quality, such as inspecting optics surface scratches and digs based...
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What is a Spectrometer? UV, VIS and IR Spectrometer Explained
Spectrometer is an umbrella term which describes an instrument that separates and measures spectral components of a physical characteristic. They are devices that measure a...
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Beam Expander
The Ronar-Smith® Beam Expander demands the highest beam broadening and collimation quality without compromising on the...
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Beam Shaper
Laser beam shaping is a potential technique to optimize laser-material processing applications in improving the surface...
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Bessel Lens
A bessel lens consists of axicon lenses and two sets of focusing lenses. The collimated light...
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DOE: Beam Splitter & Shaper
DOE are added to laser systems to control the incident beam’s phase and amplitude, to ‘shape’...
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DOE: How to Select a Beam Shaping DOE
In laser optics, diffractive optical elements (DOEs) are designed to transform collimated Gaussian beams into a...
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F-Theta Scan Lens
Ronar-Smith® F-Theta Scan Lenses are meticulously designed and crafted for a broad range of laser applications....
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Fibre Bundle Imaging Lens
A fibre optic bundle is defined as any fibre optic assembly that contains more than one...
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Handling and Cleaning Optics
Optical components require special methods to be followed to maximize their performance and lifetime. Daily use...
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IR Objective Lens
The infrared objective lens is an integral part of the infrared vision system, which is used...
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Laser Attenuator
A laser attenuator is an optical device capable of reducing the optical power or intensity of...
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Laser Calroimetry
MatCalorie™ is the world’s first commercial absorption measurement system for optical components. In compliance with the...
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Laser Cleaning Introduction
Laser cleaning technology refers to the use of high-energy laser beams to irradicate the surface of...
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Laser Dazzler
The laser dazzler is a new type of instrument that temporarily disables its target with flash...
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Laser Processing on Power Batteries
The demand for power batteries is growing fast with the rapid development of new energy vehicles....
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Laser Rangefinder
The laser rangefinder module has the capability to measure a target distance and send the distance...
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Laser Resonant Cavity Optics
Highly and partially reflective mirrors are the key optical components in the laser resonant cavity. The...
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LaserEllips™
Most surfaces of optical components display isotropic polarizability. However, the non-normal incidence may break the symmetry,...
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LWIR Fresnel Rhomb Retarder
Fresnel Rhomb Wave Retarders are made of common glass. The Retardation of Fresnel Rhomb retarders only...
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Machine Vision for Translucent Materials
Image processing capability integrated together, with optical/mechanical/electronics capabilities, can deliver system-level solutions for the manufacturing industry.
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Micro-Lens Array
Micro-lenses are sub-micrometer lenses (often up to 10 microns), typically made with fused silica due to...
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Mid-IR Borescope
Mid-IR borescope is an imaging instrument with customizable requirements for clear inspection of hard-to-access areas, such...
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Mid-IR Spectrometer
Mid-IR regime is proven to have rich absorption “finger-prints” of materials, demonstrated by benchtop measurement tools,...
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Precision Glass Molding
Chalcogenide material is gradually taking over Germanium in the broad IR regime. It performs especially well...
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Super-Polished Optics
One of the technology engines in high value-add photonics service is in the area of high-power...
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UV Lens Detectors
When high-voltage equipment discharges electricity, arc discharge may occur depending on the electric field strength, during...
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Variable Beam Splitter
Precision laser applications require fine power control. A variable beam splitter with a large dynamic range...
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