Photonic Sourcing

Right Angle Prisms can be used to direct a beam of light at 90 degree from the incident beam or to retroreflect a beam. A right angle prism may also be used as a front surface mirror.

Optical mirrors are used to reflect the incident light. Five primary factors need to be considered when specifying a miror: coating, substrate marerial, flatness or surface accuracy, cosmetic surface quality, shape and dimensions.

Plano-Concave cylindrical lenses are negative lenses. They are used primarily to expand an image in a single direction.

Plano-Convex cylindrical lenses are positive lenses. They are typically used either to focus incoming light to a line or to change the dimensions of an image in a single direction.

Achromatic Doublet lenses have superior performance to singlet lenses. The have nearly constant focal length in a broad wavelength range.

Spherical ball lenses are ideal for fiber to fiber and diode laser to fiber coupling.

Meniscus lenses have one convex and one concave surface. They are used to change the focal length of another lens.

Symmetric-Concave Lenses have a negative focal length and two concave surfaces with identical radius. They diverge collimated incident light and form virtual images which can be seen through the lens.

Symmetric-Convex lenses have positive focal lengths and form both real and virtual images.

Plano-Concave Lenses have a negative focal length, they are used to diverge collimated incident light.