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A look at the current market for optical coatings and some of the products and solutions available
At Envin Scientific we design and manufacture High Performance Optical Thin Film Filters for UltraViolet, Visible and Infrared Applications.
The design, manufacture and validation is carried out on-site at our purpose-built premises near Chester (UK) by an expert team with years of experience.
Orion Photonics is an optical thin film company specializing in challenging requirements where optical thin films provide a solution. Now as part of Phoenix Optical Holdings Group, the company provides an innovative coating service from design, prototype manufacture and volume production. The high performance optical thin films are manufactured in large coating systems using plasma assisted deposition, producing coatings that are extremely durable and rugged, insensitive to temperature and humidity variations, exceeding all relevant military specifications.
Veeco Instruments' Spector ion beam sputtering optical coating system has been installed at Gooch & Housego's Moorpark, California facility
The latest dark mirror coatings from Deposition Sciences improve signal-to-noise ratio and contrast in demanding optical systems, such as performance imaging, displays, and hyperspectral sensor
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
