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Innovative ultra-thin filters provide flexibility, scratch resistance, and durability comparable to most hard oxide coatings. Learn more at Edmund Optics.

Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machines used for complex geometry manufacturing are expanding their material capabilities. Learn more at Edmund Optics.

Semiconductor supermirrors offer high reflectivity and outperform many IR mirrors on the market. Learn more about these new supermirrors at Edmund Optics.

Additive manufacturing is revolutionizing rapid prototyping, IP protection, and the job market in the optics industry

Beam Conditioning Optics for UV, IR, and Broadband Lasers

A new generation of small, cost-effective, CW ultraviolet (UV) lasers allows more applications to move to UV wavelengths for increased power and precision.

New optical filters are being developed due to the advancements in applications and technologies. Learn more about the future of filters at Edmund Optics.

Schwarz Mirrors eliminate stray light using black, engineered fused silica substrates that maintain desired characteristics while absorbing unwanted light.

Cinema lenses designed to create content tailored for online streaming utilize aspheres to shoot with a shallow depth of field while maintaining quality.

Time to Replace Spherical Elements with Aspheric Lenses

Pushing Optics to the Extreme

Superpolished optics with sub-angstrom surface roughness are ideal for precise laser optics applications

Beam Shaping for High Power and Short Pulse Durations

Pulse Compression and Dispersion Compensation for Ultrafast Lasers

Trimming the Fat: Truncating Lenses to Shrink Systems

Traditional spherical lenses are evolving due to the increasing demands of applications. Learn about the future of spherical lenses at Edmund Optics.

Mounting flat mirrors by their edges in a kinematic mount imparts stress onto the mirror surface. This results in distortion and reduced quality of the reflected wavefront, which is especially noticeable when using high-quality mirrors. Stemmed mirrors, on the other hand, are mounted from a smaller diameter “stem” protruding from the back of the mirror, resulting in significantly reduced stress on the mirror surface, high stability, and cost reduction and can be used as a replacement for a more expensive and complex kinematic mount and a conventional mirror.

Quickly Respond to Collapsing Product Lifecycles

Specialized coatings can minimize thermal lensing in ultrafast laser systems, which are particularly susceptible to detrimental thermal effects.

Athermalization is a type of ruggedization that mitigates the harmful effects of thermal expansion and defocus in optical and imaging systems.

Advances in microscopy, imaging, and extreme ultraviolet optics

The unique absorption properties of 2µm lasers allow them to create small and precise cuts for medical and materials processing applications

The growth of automation has introduced machine vision lenses to more harsh environments involving shock, vibration, contaminants, and temperature swings.

Sensor Manufacturing Designs & Methods

The future of high-speed technology: integrated photonics use light instead of electricity for computing and signal processing

23 unique imaging systems help the Perseverance Mars rover look for signs of water and ancient life on the red planet.

Quickly Autofocus and Overcome Depth of Field Limitations

Computer Generated Hologram metrology provides a new solution for overcoming traditional asphere metrology. Learn more about CGH metrology at Edmund Optics.