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Optical Solutions for Life Sciences: Maximizing Performance, Minimizing Costs | December 2024

Join us for a discussion about the trends and technologies enabling successful optical systems for life science applications.

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Using Video and Social Media for Optics Outreach

Join us for a discussion about how to spread awareness about optics at a large scale by taking advantage of short-form video and social media.

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Building an Optics Educational Outreach Program

Join us for a discussion about creating and scaling an optics educational outreach program for kids based on both in-person and digital efforts.

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Design Considerations for Custom Aspheres

Aspheres used for light collection, light focusing, and optical stack-up consolidation can take different forms and each application requires a very specific set of design considerations and specifications.

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Femtosecond vs. Nanosecond Laser Damage Thresholds

Join us for a discussion about how laser damage threshold (LDT) is affected by laser pulse duration and how to ensure your laser optics are specified properly.

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13 Creative “Hacks” for Rapid Optical Prototyping

Jeremy Govier, Principal Engineer, and Andrew Lynch, Expert Rapid Prototyping Solutionist, discuss 13 creative "hacks" to quickly and efficiently make prototypes of optical systems to address collapsing product lifecycles.

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Harnessing the Power of Light | February 2021

Edmund Optics experts, in partnership with additional industry experts, will discuss glass materials and coating technologies, their fabrication, and how to truly maximize their power in your systems.

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Laser Damage Threshold: A Critical and Often Misunderstood Specification

WEBINAR: Join us for a discussion about the nuances of laser damage threshold (LDT) and why a new LDT standard is under development.

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9 Tips to Maximize Your Machine Vision System

Edmund Optics' experts discuss best practices for creating sophisticated, cost-effective imaging solutions.

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Ultra-Low Surface Roughness Polishing

Superpolished optical surfaces minimize scatter and improve performance in highly sensitive optical applications. Learn how they are made and measured.

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Helpful Tips for Selecting the Correct Diffraction Grating

Learn about the advantages and disadvantages of different types of diffraction gratings and how to choose the best grating for your specific optical application.

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Building a laser damage threshold (LIDT) testbed

Learn how to build a laser-induced damage threshold (LIDT) testing station. The drive towards higher-power lasers makes this more important than ever before.

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Solving the Steep Challenges of Coating Aspheres

Learn about the challenges associated with coating the steep surfaces of aspheres and key considerations to ensure that your lenses function as intended.

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Protecting Your Lasers

Learn how to protect your laser system from damage using optical isolators and coatings designed for high laser-induced damage threshold (LIDT).

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Large Diameter Aspheres

Enabling High-Power Systems. Join us for a discussion about the benefits of using large diameter aspheres and the ways these lenses enable high power systems.

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6 Considerations for Medical Optical Device Development

Master the unique challenges associated with sourcing optical components to produce successful medical devices in this webinar with Edmund Optics experts.

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Computer-Generated Holograms for Asphere Metrology

Learn about measuring aspheric surfaces with computer generated holograms and minimizing errors during measurement in this webinar by Janet Lim.

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Choosing the Right Lasers and Optics for Ultrafast Microscopy

Join us for a discussion on selecting the best ultrafast laser sources and optical components for your ultrafast microscopy system to maximize performance.

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Hot & Cold: Athermalization Ruggedization

Join us for a discussion about athermalization ruggedization, how it is used for imaging lenses in machine vision systems, and the ways in which it can improve the performance of your application.

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The Challenges of Coating Laser Crystals

Watch this webinar to learn about solutions to the unique challenges associated with coating laser crystals and key considerations for sourcing crystals.

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Best Practices to Optimize & Validate Vision Systems

Watch this webinar to learn about solutions to the unique challenges associated with coating laser crystals and key considerations for sourcing crystals.

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Comparing the Performance of Lens Geometries

Optical aberrations affect nominal lens performance even for perfectly manufactured lenses. Learn about how lens geometry affects optical performance.

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Laser Beam Shaping

This 2-part webinar series explores different techniques for laser beam shaping and how they can improve the performance of your laser application.

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Optics for Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)

WEBINAR: Join us for a demonstration on selecting the proper optical components for your OCT system for non-invasive, high-resolution imaging.

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UV Fatigue and Laser-Induced Contamination of Optics

Learn how to minimize laser-induced contamination in ultraviolet (UV) laser systems in this webinar. Improve your throughput and damage threshold!

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Ultrafast Laser Applications: Short Pulse Revolution

Join representatives from Edmund Optics, TOPTICA Photonics, and Rochester Institute of Technology for a virtual discussion about the key benefits of ultrafast lasers and how they are revolutionizing fields as diverse as brain imaging and glass polishing.

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How to Choose the Right Laser Beam Expander for Your System

Join us for a discussion about the many types of beam expanders for laser optics systems. From fixed and variable magnification to ultrafast, there are a variety of different styles of beam expanders with their own sets of design challenges.

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Ushering in a New Era of Edge AI with Sony AITRIOS and IMX500

WEBINAR: Join us for a 40-minute webinar presented by Sony Semiconductor Solutions Americas’ VP of Technology and Business Innovation, Mark Hanson, and Edmund Optics' Director of Imaging, Nicholas Sischka, to understand the nuance between AI, Edge AI, and Vision AI; what makes Sony AITRIOS unique; and how Lucid Vision Labs is putting the IMX500 sensor to action.

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High Reflectivity Mirrors for Laser Applications

Edmund Optics' panel of laser optics experts discuss why the industry standard of measuring transmission to infer the reflectivity of high reflectivity laser mirrors doesn’t tell the whole story.

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Multi-Element Lens Design for Manufacturability Webinar

Designing a high-performance lens is only one part of an optical designer's job. The more elusive challenge is often in the tolerancing of that lens and in linking toleranced performance to as-built performance.

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