Caring For And Cleaning Your Optics
The purchase of optics for your business or laboratory is an investment you will want to care for so that it provides a long life and a return on your investment. Cleaning and proper care [...]
The Benefits Of Hard Coating For Lenses
Traditionally, lenses and optical components were coated in soft coating. This is a process that might become obsolete because of the development of a high performing technique known as hard coating. This coating provides myriad [...]
What Are The Benefits Of A Custom Bandpass Filter?
UKA Optics, who designs and manufactures optical lenses for industrial, medical, high tech and electronic applications, explains that bandpass filters are “optical filters that allow for the transmission of specific range of wavelengths or band.” [...]
Uses For Optical Filters
An optical filter is used to “attenuate or enhance an image.” An optical filter can also reflect unique wavelengths, split images into two identical images or transmit an image. The importance of choosing the correct [...]
Thermal Imaging Moving Into The Personal Use Realm
The use of thermal imaging is not a new technology. It’s used by law enforcement when searching for runaways or others who may be lost. The thermal imaging can show a heat profile and helps [...]
What Is A Fresnel Lens?
Most typically utilized in light-gathering applications, a Fresnel lens is a compact lens originally developed by French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel for lighthouses. These lenses are lightweight and available in myriad sizes, provide ideal light gathering [...]
What Are The Advantages Of Fresnel Lenses?
A Fresnel lens is typically used in “light gathering” applications including condenser systems, light emitter, detector setups, magnifiers and in projection lens or illumination systems. The Fresnel lens is comprises of a “series of concentric [...]
Optical Coatings Improve Lens Performance
Precision optical elements, in many segments of today’s optics industry, include adding coatings to the lenses as a way to enhance their transmission or reflection of wavelengths. Anti-reflective (mirror), beam splitter and filter are the [...]
Benefits of Meniscus Lenses In Infrared Technologies
A meniscus lens is not a usual off-the-shelf purchase as they have a specialized use in small spot size focusing and collimation. These lenses provide greater performance specifications at a minimal price increase over typical [...]
The Benefits of AR Coating On Lenses
This application of anti-reflection (AR) coatings to lenses can improve the efficiency of the optics through increasing its transmission, enhancing contrast and eliminating any “ghost” images that may appear. The application of an AR coating [...]
Cellphone Camera Technology
Many smart phone users are leaving their DSLR cameras at home in favor of the cameras that are built into their smart phones; learn more at universeoptics.com