Collimators
Align and line up rays.
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Collimators
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
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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Collimators
STC Series
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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Collimators
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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Rotary wheels
Rotary wheels are one of basic blocks of systems for testing imaging EO systems. They are needed to enable motorized exchange of active target at collimator focal plane. There are usually 8 holes in the wheel for targets (other numbers are also possible). Wheels are covered with a black high emissivity coating (emissivity at least 0.97).
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Pro-Line Laser Kit
The Pinpoint Pro-Line Laser Kit combines the features of a transit, an infinitely long straightedge and a laser alignment system all in one compact, portable and versatile design. Precision laser alignment for production, maintenance and plant engineering projects, both large and small, has never been so easy. The Pro-Line Laser produces a crisp, collimated laser reference beam that forms a bulls-eye pattern for easy visual alignment and measuring. A finely ruled target and magnetic base are easily moved around for checking alignments, allowing one person to do the work of several.
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Diode Lasers
Laser Diode Micro-Modules
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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Atomic Oven
Atomic oven with collimated output for ultra-high vacuum systems, loaded with Sr, Yb or Ca. The oven provides superior heat isolation while achieving high atomic flux. Its low power consumption results in exceptionally low pressures during normal operation for temperatures up to 650 °C. The chamber is shipped in an ultra-high vacuum storage chamber supplied by AOSense. Customers can provide AOSense with a previously purchased storage chamber for repeat orders. Please contact us for more information.
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Spectroelectrochemical Flow Cell
SEC-2F
Using the spectroelectrochemical flow cell, it is possible to have a different optical path length changing the gasket. We offer, as an optional item, a silicon and Teflon gasket with a 100, 250 and 500 m of the thickness. SEC-2F Spectroelectrochemical flow cell was designed to fit perfectly in the SEC2000 Spectrometer, and it eliminated the use of the optical fiber to connect the Spectrometer to the SEC-2F. Even for another brand of the spectrometer, you can connect the SEC-2F using the collimating lens and optical fiber.
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SAXS
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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Tunable, Pulsed THZ OPO Integrated Pump Laser
Firefly-THz
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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Polarization Maintaining Collimator
Zhongke Rayzer Optical Technology Co.,Ltd
The basic element for in-line PM fiber optics components, such as PM Isolator, PM FWDM, PM Filter Coupler and PM Circulator. It has high extinction ratio, low insertion and high return loss. The unique processing and high quality AR coating also enable this collimator tohandle high power.
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Optical Components and Instruments
Optical Surfaces Limited are a UK based company supplying the world with optical components and instruments. We specialise in large optics, beam expanders, collimators and prototypes, plus custom systems and optics.
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Astronomy Solutions
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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Multi-Spectral Target System
IR-704
Infrared Systems Development Corp.
The IR-704 system integrates a Blackbody source, Motorized Aperture wheel, Motorized Filter Wheel, High Speed Shutter and High Speed Filter Shutter. The system was designed as a forced air-cooled Multi-Spectral, Multi-Aperture target system for direct integration with collimator / target projection systems, but can also be used as a direct target system.
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Electro-Optical System Test Bench
IRCOL
Optical collimators and universal electro-optical test benches.
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Large Aperture Beam Profilers
Modern laser applications seldom require large beam profiling, combined with high resolution. The BeamOn HR 1" is the perfect solution enabling both relatively large beam characterization, with a high resolution detector of 20 MP. By implementing a diffuser to present the beam to a smaller detector via dedicated optics, one of the largest beam profilers of 60 mm is offered, i.e BeamOn LA U3. Even further than that, for collimated beams the Laser Analyzing Telescope offers an input aperture of 100 mm combined with high resolution, attitude and divergence measurement of the laser beam.
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Optics Test Systems
Electronic And Visual Autocollimators
Optik Elektronik Gerätetechnik GmbH
OEG GmbH specializes in the use of autocollimators, collimators and telescopes for special applications in optical measurement technology in the wavelength range from 380nm to 1550nm (SWIR).
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Fiber Optomechanics
The versatile FiberBench product line includes Single and Multi-Axis FiberBenches as well as a wide variety of compatible components ranging from beamsplitter modules to wave plate units. FiberBenches form the foundation of a nearly infinite array of miniature fiber optic systems that customers have been building for the last decade. When used with the FiberPort Collimators/Couplers, a complete optical circuit can be constructed. The Fiber Launch Platforms are ideal for coupling a free space laser into a single mode, multimode, or polarization-maintaining fiber. Other accessories include fiber mounts, fixed and kinematic collimator adapters, and L-bracket mating sleeves.
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IR/Visible Target Projectors
Santa Barbara Infrared’s reflective infrared and visible target projectors are turnkey test systems for electro-optical (E-O) testing of FLIRs and other infrared (IR) and visible imaging systems. The standard target projectors are assembled from SBIR’s STC Series Collimators, Infinity Blackbodies, Infinity VSX Integrating Spheres and 300 Series Target Wheels.
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Expanded Beam Connectors
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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COLOSUS
The COLOSUS line of electro-optical test systems from Santa Barbara Infrared Inc. and Labsphere Inc. include collimated optics, software and uniform sources for the optical characterization of sensors and cameras.
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Optical Systems
Thorlabs' optics can be incorporated together to create packages with new functionalities. Some of the packages highlighted here range from beam expanders and collimators to interferometers and spectroscopy kits. Optical isolators, Pockels cells, and modulators are other examples.
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Standard Products
SBIR offers an extensive line of reliable, high performance test equipment used to characterize and calibrate IR, Visible and Laser systems. Products include blackbodies, visible sources, target wheels, targets, collimators, target projectors, laser test modules/systems and IRWindows™ software for automated testing. These modular, cost effective instruments are user-friendly and easily integrated into automated test systems. For more information, including printable data sheets, select a product from the list.
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Picosecond Laser
PIXEA
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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TriSOL Class AAA 0.25º Collimation Angle Solar Simulators
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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Microscope Platforms
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 38 mm diameter C60-RING system to connect components. Focus-side adapters attached to lens tubes with either a 30 mm diameter coupling to the I.D. of the C60-TUBE, or with a 50 mm coupling on the O.D. of the lens tube.
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XRF
L Series
The L Series is the most versatile instrument that Bowman offers. It combines all of the features of the P Series with a larger sample chamber and greater X-Y stage travel. For samples larger than ~12 inches (300 mm) in any direction, the L Series is a must-have. The large sample stage and travel allows for both large parts, or large sample fixtures holding multiple parts, to be measured. The chamber is fully enclosed and boasts a capacity to hold samples up to 22″ (550mm) x 24″ (600mm) x 13″ (330mm) (LxWxH). The X-Y stage travel distance is 10″x10″ (254mm x 254mm). The standard configuration includes a 4-position multiple collimator assembly, and a variable focus camera allowing for measurement in recessed areas. As with other models, the collimator sizes and focal distances are customizable for different customer applications. The programmable X-Y stage is included, but can be removed to allow for the maximum sample height capacity (10″ (254mm) z-height with stage, 13″ (300mm) without). The solid-state PIN detector is included along with our long-life micro-focus x-ray tube. The high performance SDD detector is an optional upgrade.
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Incoherent Sources
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
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.
