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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.

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

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

Edmund Optics® manufactures thousands of precision aspheric lenses per month in our asphere manufacturing cell that operates 24 hours a day.

Aspherized Achromatic Lenses, exclusive to Edmund Optics, are doublet lenses consisting of two cemented optical elements that are matched for their color-correction ability and small RMS spot size.

Learn about the metrology that Edmund Optics® uses to guarantee the quality of all optical components and assemblies.

Join Chris Williams as he briefly explains the basics of how to align a laser system onto a target.

When doing basic imaging, how do you determine the magnification an optical lens will provide?

Edmund Optics utilizes Diamond Turning to produce a wide range of high precision optical components.

Fresnel lenses are composed of a series of concentric grooves etched into one side of a sheet of plastic. Fresnel lenses are unlike typical spherical or aspherical optical lenses.

Continuing from where Part I: X-Y Setup ends, learn how to add a Z-axis to an existing X-Y configuration to achieve three degrees of freedom.

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 over 5 million optical components every year at our global facilities in the Americas and Asia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The success of your machine vision application depends on the quality of your optical components.

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

Celebrate 70 years with EO! Take a journey from 1942 to 2012 and beyond.

As a family owned business for almost 75 years, the bond between family has long been the foundation of Edmund Optics.

Edmund Optics is a sponsor of Victor Tango AutoDrive, a team of Virginia Tech students who competed to design and build a fully autonomous vehicle

Edmund Optics offers both fixed power and zoom beam expanders. Knowing which beam expander is right for your application can greatly improve system efficiency.

Compound Parabolic Concentrators (CPCs) are concentrator lenses made from rotated parabolic shapes to create specific acceptance angles through which divergent light is collected.

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

Edmund Optics® manufactures several different types of ruggedized imaging lens assemblies.

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

Monolithic Reflective Beam Expanders are ideal for applications requiring broadband or achromatic beam expansion.