Spherical Lens and Cylindrical Lens

Our lenses are designed to meet demanding requirements of laser Electro-optic applications. We offer a large selection of both spherical and cylindrical lenses in materials like fine annealed BK7 glass and UV fused silica. These lenses are available in either uncoated or antireflection coated, with choice of high transmission broadband coating or laser line V-coating. Extensive selections of standard diameters and focal lengths can be found. Our lenses include plano-convex, bi-convex, plano-concave, bi-concave, achromatic doublet, aspheric condenser, gradium, gradient index micro lenses, spherical ball micro lenses, microspot objective, telecentric lenses and more.

Mirrors

Selecting the proper mirror for your application requires making a number of choices. A few of the many considerations include reflectivity, laser damage resistance, coating durability, thermal expansion of the substrate. Hence, we are pleased to offer more than 600 off-the-shelf mirrors with extensive range of dimensions and reflective coating covering: the UV, visible, near infrared and infrared region. Our mirrors are designed and manufactured utilizing meticulous procedures to resist laser damage for use with high energy CW lasers and pulsed lasers. Besides the standard, we do have exceptional performance super and ultrafast mirrors that have a high reflectivity of better than 99.97%. These are designed to minimize dispersion effects and deliver maximum bandwidth. Laser output couplers are available in both 0° and 45° incident angle.

Prisms / Beamsplitters / Polarization Optics

A series of prisms, beamsplitters, waveplates and polarizers are available. They are designed to provide applications from the ultraviolet to infrared. We are able to deliver superior performance polarization optics with low wavefront distortion, high transmission efficiency with antireflection coating, and high laser damage resistance. They come in different dimensions for convenient mounting.

Filters & Attenuators

We offer a wide range of center wavelengths and bandwidths for optical filters. They are of high optical quality with excellent temperature stability. They are designed in different shapes and sizes for convenient mounting.

Optics Kits

Optics kits can speed up the assembly of complex optical setups and facilitate engineering prototype evaluation. It is a useful tool for demonstrating fundamental optical principles to students. We provide precision singlet kits as well as comprehensive optics kits with a collection of mirrors, lenses, filters, beamsplitters and objectives. Our kits contain research quality lenses in convenient focal length from –1000mm to 1000mm. Sizes are available for both 25.4mm and 50.8mm diameter in either BK 7 optical glass or UV grade fused silica lenses.

Windows

Our windows are ideal for applications that require low distortion, low scatter and excellent parallelism. Available types include parallel windows, high energy laser wedged windows, UV fused silica flats for interferometers, windows for thermally demanding applications, optical disk diffusers, laser beam characteristics viewers and beam collimation testers.

Diffraction Gratings

Designed for Littrow configuration, we provide diffraction gratings for many applications requiring high resolution such as spectroscopic instrumentation and laser tuning.

• Ruled gratings can be blazed for specific wavelengths and generally have high efficiency. These gratings are often used in systems requiring high resolution.
• Holographic gratings will often have lower scatter since they are generated optically. These gratings can be designed to minimize aberrations and can have high efficiency in a single plane of polarization.
  
  
  

Reflectivity, polarization, bandwidth, scatter, and laser damage resistance are typical performance characteristics of concern for laser optics. Targeting these concerns, we provide a wide range of Ultrafast laser optics including mirrors, angle dispersing prisms, wave plates, thin film polarizers, beamsplitters and accessories.

Optical Mounts & Holders

We offer an extensive array of opto-mechanical products from inexpensive fixed mounts to sophisticated five axis adjustable units. The mounts we offer are primarily intended for holding and adjusting mirrors, lenses, beamsplitters, prisms, and other optics. We have a series of kinematics and gimbal mounts with superior thermal stability and flexible configuration. The mounts come with actuators that can be operated manually or motorized. Thus, all optical mounts can be interfaced with post mounting, rod mounting, optical rail, linear stage and optical table system.

Post & Rod

We are pleased to offer a vast series of fixed and translating post, and rod systems. The precision ground stainless steel posts, rods and accessories come in different diameters, length and tapped holes.

Base & Bracket

Our base plates and brackets are designed to allow two components or more of different sizes, and without a common holes pattern that can be attached together. We offer a series of base plates, slotted bases, rotation adapters, universal mounting plates, modular riser plates and intermediate adapter plates. Magnetic bases and kinematics bases are available to remove and replace components with high repeatability. Besides bases, rigid clamps and brackets, that are also in our product line, can securely clamp components to any tapped surfaces and allow multi-axis assembly.

Rail System

The rail and carrier system is designed to provide maximum versatility in minimum table space. We offer a series of rails such as dovetail rail, mini optical rail, stainless steel precision rail and cruciform cross-section rail. Our carrier enables fast, easy mounting and secured clamping of components at any point along the rails. Indexing block is also available to be butted against any carrier and lock in place, allowing the carrier to move and repeatedly return to original position.

Modulators

Acousto-optic modulators are used to vary and control laser beam intensity. We have a wide range of modulators with various optical ranges, apertures and frequencies. Main applications include fast optical switches, printing and marking application, and laser noise eater.

Deflectors

A deflector is used to scan a laser beam over a range of angles, or to control with accuracy the output angle of the laser beam. Two deflectors are used in series and at right angles to give full two-dimensional scanning. Main applications include generation of pictures and graphics, compensation of tracking errors in rotating polygon mirrors, optical tweezers, and two-to-three dimensional measurements.

Q-Switches

Q-switch is a special modulator that introduces high repetition rate losses inside a laser cavity (typical 1kHz to 100kHz). They are designed for minimum insertion loss and able to withstand very high laser powers.

AO Tunable Filter (AOTF)

The AOTF is a solid-state, electronically tunable bandpass filter which uses the acousto-optic interaction inside an anisotropic medium. These filters can be used with multi-lines sources or with broadband light sources. They allow selecting and transmitting a single wavelength from incoming light. The main applications include spectroscopic analysis (fluorescence and transmission) and laser shows.

Frequency Shifters

A frequency shifter uses the shift inherent in the acousto-optic interaction to up or down shift a laser's frequency. We have both fixed and variable frequency shifters. The main applications include optical heterodyning and interferometry, and laser Doppler velocimetry for particle velocity analysis in sprays.

RF Drivers

We have a wide range of standard RF devices that offer up to 3GHz and power amplifier of 500W CW. These drivers are specially designed for modulators, Q-switches, deflectors and AOFT. The RF output can be externally modulated and the settling time varies from 2ns to 100ns. We also offer drivers that consist of multiple PPLs in the same enclosure that are designed for spectroscopic and laser shows applications. Each channel can be tuned electronically in 5kHz steps between 80MHz to 150MHz for 450nm to 700nm.

Scan Heads

Designed for X, Y and Z axis scanning, these scan heads provide ease for manufacturers by reducing the need for specialized tooling and highly skilled assemblers. Available range from 3 to 30mm and can be configured for a variety of applications and OEM solutions.

Galvanometers

Using the patented ceramic rotor technology, galvanometer scanners are available to position laser beams fast and accurately over million of cycles. The limited rotation moving magnet motor is coupled to a highly sensitive position detector. The device is controlled through a PID based servo driver to provide amazingly fast and accurate closed loop control. Available mirror aperture range from 3 to 50mm.

Scanning Mirrors

Complementing the scanners, these mirrors optimize beam aperture and minimize inertia for high speed performance. Substrate materials are selected to maximize reflectivity and minimize absorption, flatness and inertia. Mounted mirrors are mass balanced and adjusted so that they are parallel to the axis of rotation. Available range of sizes from 3 to 30mm.

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