Acton Optics & Coatings will have a display inside Princeton Instruments’ booth (727), where it will be discussing its capabilities and products – including excimer and UV laser optics and coatings, VUV/UV optical filters, high-performance UV aluminium and enhanced silver coatings, as well as its Metachrome CCD-enhancement coatings. The firms’ new, UV-NIR neutral density filters will also be highlighted, which provide exceptional broadband performance.
Acton Optics & Coatings provides high-power excimer and UV laser optics, Al and MgF2 broadband mirrors and coatings, VUV/UV optical filters, detector enhancement coatings and optical sub-assemblies
Acton Optics & Coatings provides high-power excimer and UV laser optics, Al+MgF2 broadband mirrors and coatings, VUV/UV optical filters, detector enhancement coatings and optical sub-assemblies
Acton Optics & Coatings has redesigned a portion of its suburban Boston manufacturing facility specifically in order to enhance and expand the production and processing of two proprietary UVconversion coatings
Acton Optics & Coatings has introduced two new broadband coatings that provide UV reflectivity while maintaining high reflectance up to the mid-IR wavelength range
Acton Optics & Coatings has developed a 193nm XL high-reflectance coating for low-fluence, high-repetition-rate excimer laser applications, particularly those associated with semiconductor R&D and test
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After the test disk is placed inside the chamber, some fine tuning is required to ensure they are horizontal and perfectly centred (credit: Caltech)
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LLNL optical engineers Justin Wolfe (left) and Simon Cohen are seen through the 'r' filter (credit: Garry McLeod)
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