Designed with new manufacturing technology that creates lenses with shapes that are difficult to fabricate using other methods, Olympus’ new X Line™ series objectives and the UPLAPO-HR objectives for ...

At SPIE Photonics West 2012, Jenoptik will introduce new F-Theta Fused Silica Lenses for laser powers up to 2 kW The High-Power series of Jenoptik´s F-Theta-JENar® Lenses is now extended with new ...

Figure 1 (a) Structure of the mesoscopic objective, (b) Aberration distribution of the mesoscopic objective, (c) Wide-field imaging system built with the mesoscopic objective, (d) Laser point-scanning ...

STAR Optical offers a 6-inch (152 mm) f/10 achromatic objective lens. The lens features hand-figuring and full multi-coatings. The lens is housed in a precision-machined, push-pull aluminum ...

Shanghai Optics offers a large variety of custom Infrared IR Lenses and components for focusing, collimating and collecting light in near-infrared (NIR), short wave infrared (SWIR), middle wave ...

Shini talks to us about optical instruments and how they make magnification possible. How do lenses work? How do they form images? Well, in order to understand how optics work, we have to understand ...

Binoculars have three main parts: the objective lens, prisms and the ocular lens. Binocular lenses are thicker in the middle and taper out to a thinner edge, which bends light toward the middle. These ...

Every area of interest, particularly if it’s the least bit technical, has its own specialized vocabulary. For example, when the Global Positioning System (GPS) came along and I decided to get a ...