Collimators
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Collimators
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The collimator and object generator combination project a test target at a particular subtended angle depending on the focal length of the collimator.
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Collimators
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Collimators are optical systems used to imitate standard targets placed in "optical infinity" (very long distance). The collimators are used for projection of image of reference targets into direction of tested imagers. According to type of optical elements used in design, collimators are divided into two groups: reflective collimators and refractive collimators. Reflective collimators due to their wide spectral range are almost exclusively used in systems for testing thermal imagers and are also preferable in systems testing TV cameras, SWIR imagers, laser systems or multi-sensor surveillance systems. Refractive collimators are mostly used in systems for testing night vision devices or TV cameras working in visible/near infrared range.
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Laser Diode Collimators, 520nm - 785nm, Elliptical Beam
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The Optoelectronics Company Ltd
Custom lasing wavelengths and power options are available. Both standard and custom configurations provide OEMs, end-users and systems integrators with complete, cost-effective laser solutions.
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Collimators
STC Series
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The STC Series Off-axis Newtonian Collimators from Santa Barbara Infrared provide superior performance in a compact, light weight, readily integrated package. These collimators accurately project targets at infinite focus for critical visible, IR, SWIR, MWIR and LWIR system testing. STC Series Collimators integrate with SBIR’s Infinity Blackbodies and 300 Series target wheels to create the 14000 Series Target Projectors. These target projectors are available in many standard sizes to satisfy the test requirements of most sensor systems. Additionally, their modular design allows for easy customization of components.
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Monochromator Gratings - Type IV
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HORIBA Scientific produces a wide range of holographic master gratings from which high precision replicas are manufactured.Using Type IV aberration-corrected monochromator gratings, a single concave grating disperses, collimates, and refocuses the light from the entrance slit onto the exit slit. Wavelength scanning is obtained through a simple rotation of the grating.The groove spacing of these gratings is computer-optimized to produce high quality images with a minimum of astigmatism and coma, even at large numerical apertures. Compared with Czerny-Turner monochromators (equipped with one plane grating, one collimating mirror and one focusing mirror), Type IV aberration-corrected monochromator gratings provide much better light collection efficiency and signal-to-noise ratio.
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Long Light Source
LM-A
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The long light source is compatible with the LM-101 or the LMC-20. The light is supplied with a 50 watt tungsten halogen convection cooled light source which provides suffcient energy for use with narrow band pass filters or monochronomators in the wave length range of .35 to 2.5 microns. The light beam is chopped at 200 hz by a quiet, vibration free, synchronous motor. The housing also contains a secondary LED light source and detector for synchronization of the amplifier, plus an electro-mechanical shutter to block the light output when the instrument is zeroed. An internal collimating lens produces a narrow beam (<1") so the LM-A can be used in bell-jar and large coating systems.
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Tunable, Pulsed THZ OPO Integrated Pump Laser
Firefly-THz
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A high brightness practical alternative for generating terahertz laser light. Firefly THz is compact, efficient and convenient with its integrated pump laser, sealed maintenance-free laser head, and novel optical parametric oscillator design that produces widely tunable, high power THz output. With automated tuning, a readily collimated output beam, microwatt average powers, and Watt-level peak powers.
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Astronomy Solutions
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For more than 40 years, Thales has delivered high accuracy optics for ground-based Astronomy all around the world. These optics range from single, but challenging, unmounted optical components up to fully integrated opto-mechanical systems. Our design heritage and past experience in this field cover the design, manufacture and AIT activities of many optics and sub-assemblies used in Telescope instrumentation, such as focal plane assemblies as well as the direct production of telescope mirrors themselves. Several major achievements of Thales ground-based Astronomy products were the Optical wide field corrector for the Dark Energy Survey (lien), the Reference Body for future Deformable Secondary Mirror of the VLT (lien) and different challenging spectrograph optics (Collimator and Cameras) for different Observatories (lien). One advantage Thales has with this activity is that most part of the manufacturing steps involved (i.e. opto-mechanical design, milling/grinding, lightening, polishing and coating) are directly under our control in our own facility. Our current capabilities for the production of optics for ground-based Astronomy are from a few centimeters size up to 2 meters. Thanks to the continuous efforts in R& D and investments into new production machines, Thales is now ready for future industrial challenges including the optical production of some key elements of the E-ELT, GMT and TMT programs.
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SAXS
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Anton Paar’s precise and reliable solutions for SAXS/WAXS/GISAXS/RheoSAXS studies provide excellent resolution and the best possible data quality for your daily research of nanostructured materials. The robust systems employ brilliant X-rays as well as scatterless beam collimation and are equipped with a wide range of sample stages to cover many different applications.
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Day Camera Testing
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CI Systems' CCD test stations are used to carry out all the necessary tests to verify and compare the quality of a CCD based camera. These stations are based on CI Systems' reflective collimators, Visible Radiation Sources, special targets and integrated software, to project standard patterns with known geometry and intensity to the Unit Under Test. As a result, these stations are turnkey solutions for the CCD camera testing needs.
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Large Area UV Light Source
Model 30L
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The OAI UV Light Source Grande is a large area collimated light source. The device is available with output power up to 10KW. Utilizing collimating mirrors, the UV Light Source Grande is a highly efficient UV light source intended for a variety of larger-scale applications.
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Filters / Splitters / Detectors
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DiCon’s 100 GHz WDM is designed to multiplex and demultiplex signals in multi-wavelength systems based on the ITU 100 GHz grid. The component uses a thin film filter mounted between a pair of GRIN lens collimators. The 100 GHz WDM is housed in a compact, environmentally stable package that offers superior resistance to humidity and temperature and is suitable for mounting on a printed circuit board or within a module.
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Incoherent Sources
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Our Incoherent Sources include unmounted LEDs, mounted LEDs, collimated LEDs, LED light sources, superluminescent diodes, and broadband light sources. Our collimated LEDs are particularly popular and are compatible with many microscopes. Versions are available with center wavelengths from the UV into the NIR or that emit white light.
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Modular Infinity Microscope
MIM
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Applied Scientific Instrumentation
ASI Modular Microscope components consist of tube lenses along with adapters and accessories that either are primarily used in the collimated light space or adapters that are to be used on the image side. Collimated light adapters use the 38mm diameter C60-RING system to connect components. Focus-side adapters attached to lens tubes with either a 30mm diameter coupling to the I.D. of the C60-TUBE, or with a 50mm coupling on the O.D. of the lens tube.
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Optics
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Welcome to Thorlabs; below you will find links to optical components and systems, a subset of our entire line of photonics products. All single element optical components can be found under the optical elements link with the exception of optical components that have polarization properties since they have a separate link. Multi-element systems like beam expanders and objective lenses as well as interferometers, fiber collimators, reference cells, modulators, and other optical devices can be found by choosing the optical systems link. Thorlabs also manufactures an extensive line of free-space and fiber optic isolators; stock items ship the same day that they are ordered while our custom orders benefit from our streamlined design and manufacturing process, which minimizes lead time.
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Standard IR Target Projectors
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Santa Barbara Infrared’s 14000Zi Series reflective infrared target projectors are turnkey test systems for electro-optical (E-O) testing of FLIRs and other infrared (IR) imaging systems. The standard target projectors are assembled from SBIR’s STC Series Collimators, Infinity Blackbodies and 300 Series Target Wheels. SBIR also offers a standard athermal target projector with a 5.7° field of view (FOV).
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Expanded Beam Connectors
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Amphenol Fiber Systems International
Expanded Beam uses a lens in front of the fiber to collimate the light coming out of the fiber. The lens expands the size of the beam from 9 um to 285 um for SM. Expanded Beam connectors have distinct advantages and disadvantages compared to Physical Contact connectors. Read our White Paper on Expanded Beam Connectors for more in-depth details.
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Optics Test Systems
Mirror Collimator And Autocollimator
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Optik Elektronik Gerätetechnik GmbH
Mirror collimator and autocollimator for the entire wavelength range from UV to MIR The compact mirror collimator can be used both as an autocollimator and as a telescope.
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Beam Characterization
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Thorlabs offers a wide range of products that can be used for beam characterization. Properties such as intensity, degree of collimation, power, wavefront shape, and spectral properties can be measured.
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Laser Module
LDM200
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Artifex Engineering GmbH & Co. KG
The LDM200 series of laser diode modules are specialized units for high-end applications. The fibre coupled design allows flexible installation and separation of the electrical and optical sections. High quality optics and precision adjustment provide for excellent beam quality and very long collimation distances up to 100m. Customized fixed focus distances may also be provided. The option of choice of pola
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Camera Testing
FLIR
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CI Systems' FLIR turn-key test stations carry out all the necessary tests to verify and compare the quality of an infrared/thermal camera. The FLIR test systems are based on CI Systems' NIST traceable blackbody radiation sources, collimators and special thermally controlled targets, designed to provide very accurate IR test patterns. All these combine to project standardized targets with known geometry and intensity to the Unit Under Test(UUT).
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Precision Electronic Auto Collimator
TriAngle®
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The new Electronic Autocollimator series of TRIOPTICS integrates a high resolution CCDsensor and is compatible with all TRIOPTICS objective tubes. The compatibility with objective tubes of different focal lengths leads to a variable measuring range and accuracy performance. In this way the TriAngle® series responds optimally to different customer requirements and can cover a large range of applications.
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Fiber Optic Components For Optoelectronic Packaging
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OZ Optics offers a wide range of standard and custom fiber optic components for optoelectronic packaging. Components include collimators, focusers, patchcords, connectors, and metalized fiber. The low backreflection collimators and focusers are available for a wide range of industry-standard connectors and wavelengths. The hermetically sealable patchcords, with glass or metal solder, and metalized fiber meet high Telcordia standards. The polarization maintaining patchcords and connectors use our specially designed ferrules that minimize insertion loss, backlash, and rotational errors.
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Picosecond Laser
PIXEA
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The PIXEA is a high-quality laser system for OEM and R&D applications generating ultra-short optical pulses by using gain-switched laser diode technologies. The laser features high-quality picosecond laser pulses with no satellite pulses and minimize pulse tail. The PIXEA series offer a large variety of centered wavelengths between 375 nm and 2 um. The pulse duration down to 20 ps is optimized for each wavelength. The system is based in two modules or one module, the laser head and the dedicated Control Unit including the GUI software. Different optical output options are available, including free space collimating optics and fiber coupled.
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Incandescent Light Sources
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Collimated, uniform, 1 inch diameter output beamSupports 75W-300W QTH LampsSupports xenon, mercury, & mercury-xenon arc lampsForced Air CooledRefractive condensing optics attachments availableVariable power supply (purchased separately) with optical feedback (option)Vertically mounted arc lampSide exit port with back spherical reflector
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Diode Lasers
Laser Diode Micro-Modules
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Advanced Photonic Sciences LLC
Advanced Photonic Sciences (APS) has introduced a new product line of Laser Diode Micro-Modules (LDMM’s) that address the need for a simple, robust, reliable, and cost-effective platform on which to mount, provide heatsinking for, collimate, and power semiconductor laser diodes. The use of laser diodes in scores of applications has become ubiquitous, and our new products make mounting, collimating, heatsinking, and providing power leads for such applications easier than ever.
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Collimators
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Collimators are devices used to either narrow a beam of light so that the spatial cross-section of the light beam is smaller; or used to focus a beam of light and re-direct it so that it is aligned to a different direction, making it parallel/collimated.
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TriSOL Class AAA 0.25º Collimation Angle Solar Simulators
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For high performance space applications, OAI offers a 0.25 Collimation Angle Solar Simulator. It is engineered with the technology built on OAI’s 47 years of experience working with light. Features include 100mmx100mm beam size, long lens housing, AM 1.5 G and AMO spectrum up to 1800 nm or any custom spectrum, and intensity controlled up to 1.25 SUNS. These solar simulators are built with OAI’s precision, quality and reliability.
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Standard Class AAA Solar Simulator
TriSOL TSS
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Essential for testing virtually any material or product that is exposed to sunlight for long or short periods of time, OAI’s low-cost, Standard Solar Simulators deliver highly collimated, uniform light. Depending on configuration, output on these Solar Simulators is rated at 350W -5,000W.These Class AAA Solar Simulators feature OAI’s Advanced Uniform Beam Optics and are available with a choice of air mass filters to reproduce a wide range of solar spectra. For added flexibility, OAI’s proven lens and collimating mirror technology allows for a variety of exposure area sizes. A Class AAA Solar Simulator is an essential tool for manufacturing as well as R&D; it is indispensable in test labs, industry, and in universities. OAI Standard Solar Simulators are used in photobiology, biomedical, solar cell testing, cosmetic testing, and paints & coatings analysis. Based on 35+ years of proven UV light technology, OAI Solar Simulator Systems deliver repeatable, reliable, constant output, and measurement uniformity.
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Highly Collimated Solar Simulators
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This solar simulator is based on a Fresnel lens to collimate the light beam from the arc lamp source to infinity, which results in highly collimated illumination of the target spot. A 2.5kW xenon ozone free lamp is used as the light source. The spectral distribution of the xenon light source, along with the use of specially calibrated AirMass filters, closely simulates the sun’s true spectral distribution in various conditions on Earth.
