Customers will have access to the highest of quality polished optical glass filters from Schott, with the exceptional customer service and fast shipping of Edmund Optics
A technician loads a wedged focus lens, a key element in the NIF final optics assembly, into a cleaning/coating frame
Keely Portway finds out how the latest advances in photonics have enhanced the research environment, and how they have translated to the commercial sector
Schott has entered into an agreement to acquire Primoceler, a Finnish specialist in glass micro bonding, to advance its competance in the field of hermetic packaging. Primoceler’s technology creates new possibilities for protection of sensitive electronics
Schott will be presenting the newest updates to its established product Zerodur, which has now been used for five decades as a high precision glass-ceramic material. Currently, the product is being used in the manufacture of the primary mirrors for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) of the European Southern Observatory, which will consist of 798 hexagons. Astronomers rely on Zerodur because all of the stability and the ability to handle extreme temperature fluctuations.
Schott has developed two inorganic ceramic phosphor materials that are temperature-stable, heat-conductive, and energy-efficient
The European Extremely Large Telescope project is well underway, and is stretching the capabilities of the optical industry, as Matthew Dale discovers
Contracts for the manufacture of the 39-metre primary mirror of the European Southern Observatory’s Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) were signed on 30 May during a ceremony at ESO’s headquarters near Munich
The European Southern Observatory has awarded four contracts for the development of major components of the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT)
Schott presented its new 'eye-safe' laser glass LG-960 at Optatec 2016. The laser glass is ideal for operation with 1.5 micron laser systems in range finding, LIDAR and medical applications
Schott has announced the improved photo-sensitive glass Foturan II. This material is characterised by advanced photosensitivity and homogeneity
Professor Paul Shore led the team that micromachined the complex mirrors within James Webb’s mid-infrared instrument. He chats about the technical lessons learnt
EMF invested a great deal of time and effort in developing a coating system for producing long-lasting diamond like carbon (DLC) coatings on chalcogenides at scale
The properties of chalcogenide glass optics have opened up a number of use cases in infrared optics applications and beyond. This article assesses how some of the associated manufacturing and handling challenges of this material can be overcome
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We detail the commercial offerings from some of the main players in optical mirrors
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Shining a light on the latest products and solutions in the diode laser space
Optical technologies offer researchers a powerful new toolkit to explore the structure and function of the brain. (Image: Sergey Nivens/Shutterstock.com)
Advances in optical fibres and microscale LEDs are furthering neuroscientists’ understanding of the brain
The nulling interferometry devices under development at Caltech’s Exoplanet Technology Laboratory cancel out starlight to help detect and identify foreign worlds. (Credit: Shutterstock/Dotted Yeti)
Nemanja Jovanovic, lead instrument scientist at Caltech’s Optical Observatory and Exoplanet Technology Laboratory, on emerging astrophotonic technologies on his radar
Robert Smith is a professor at the University of Alberta and historian to JWST since 2002
As James Webb Space Telescope beams back images from the edge of space and time, space historian Robert Smith recalls some of the decisions made to bring the $10bn NASA project to fruition. David Stuart reports
