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Knowing how to properly clean your optical components is an easy way to maintain system performance and save money by decreasing the risk of component damage.

Acktar Advanced Coatings produces light-absorbing components and materials to control stray light and eliminate noise from specular reflection.

Learn how Highly-Dispersive Mirrors compensate for dispersion and compress pulse duration in ultrafast laser systems, which is critical for maximizing performance.

Many laser applications are prone to specular reflections back into the source, causing overheating and decreased stability and lifetime.

Join Greg Hollows, Director of the Imaging Business Unit and EO’s Imaging Expert, as he reviews some best practices to consider when designing an imaging system.

Although a common misconception, individual optical lenses do not always form an image when the object plane is placed a focal length away from the lens.

Collimated light is required for many fiber optic applications. Using the proper setup, fiber optic collimating lenses or ball lenses, and some optical know-how, you can achieve optimal collimation.

Collimated light occurs when light rays travel parallel to each other.

First Contact Polymer Solution is an easy-to-use liquid polymer for cleaning the surfaces of lenses and other optical components (see below for a more extensive list)

Polarization Directed Flat Lenses, which are formed with polymerized liquid crystal thin-film, create a focal length that is dependent on polarization state.

Are you unsure of proper optics handling techniques?

Join Greg Hollows, Director of the Imaging Business Unit and EO's Imaging Expert, as he reviews some best practices to consider when designing an imaging system.

Monitoring and regulating air pollution is an essential step towards creating a cleaner environment.

Join Stephan Briggs, Biomedical Engineer at Edmund Optics, as he discusses tips for verifying filter performance.

LC (Low Cost) Fixed YAG Beam Expanders are simple 2-element, cost-effective solutions to beam expansion.

Watch EO employees as they take optics on adventures all around the world.

Polarizers are used in a wide range of imaging and research and development applications.

What is an aspheric lens? In what applications are aspheric lenses used?

Mirrors are commonly used to fold or compact an optical system.

Optotune Focus-Tunable lenses feature a liquid polymer substrate with continuous focusability.

Edmund Optics now features an improved specification search! This specification search allows you to quickly find products by selecting specifications based on the specific product you are looking for.

Liquid lenses can be used to maximize imaging system flexibility across a wide variety of applications requiring rapid focusing.

Beamsplitters do exactly what their name implies: split incident light beams.

Learn about EO's most popular family of optical lenses and discover if achromatic lenses are ideal for your next application.

Edmund Optics® (EO) manufactures millions of precision optical components and subassemblies every year in our 5 global manufacturing facilities.

Learn how to specify imaging system components.

Learn how to specify imaging system components.

Optical Filters are used to selectively transmit or block certain wavelengths or wavelength ranges within optical systems.

Axicons are conical-shaped optical components used to create a ring-shaped beam.

Confused about the differences between traditional-coated and hard-coated optical filters?