Online thin film coating design software

We have made major improvements to our free online optical design software in the past few months.

The most significant changes have been made to our thin film coating design package. The software now enables users to design up to 12 layer coatings quickly and easily. It even calculates polarization effects and accounts for the angle of incidence.

It's no TFCalc, Essential MacLeod, or FilmStar but it is a remarkably powerful tool. Even someone who has no idea how to design coatings can follow the simple instructions and design a good AR in about 5 minutes.

Fluid Jet Polishing is turning heads

We started running ads in Photonics Spectra over the summer to help generate interest in our new fluid jet polishing technology. The ads worked.

Requests for more information have been numerous.

We are working on the final details (mostly user-interface features) of a new fluid jet polishing machine and we expect to be able to formally introduce our machine within the next few weeks.

In the meantime, feel free to contact us for more information about fluid jet polishing and what it can do for you.

Photonics West, Supplier Awards, and completed expansion

We were very pleased to recognize four of our most reliable suppliers with Superior Performance awards at Photonics West in San Jose.

United Lens, Mindrum Precision, Corning (Canton NY), and Iridian Spectral Technologies received the awards. All four have enabled us to meet our goals by delivering quality product, on-time, and at reasonable prices.

Meanwhile, our facility expansion is complete. We have found space for everyone and everything just in time to respond to a number of orders for tunable etalons and thin etalons from our online catalog.

Galvo Mirrors

We added galvo mirrors to our website this week after our sales engineer pointed out that they were strangely absent.

If you have a tight tolerance or prototype galvo mirror requirement, don't hesitate to get in touch!

Calculator Support Forum launches

We launched a support forum (http://lightmachinery.com/phpBB2/) for our optical design calculators today.

The calculators, located at http://www.lightmachinery.com/optical-calculations.php, are growing in popularity and as a result we are handling an increasing volume of questions from users. The support forum will allow users to look up answers to commonly asked questions, ask their own questions, or assist other users.

If you haven't already tried our optical calculators - you should. We use them every day.

Thin Etalons for Laser Line Narrowing

We added thin etalons, 25 microns thick, to our online catalog today.

Our customers have been using these to line narrow their lasers.

At 2mm x 4mm they are quite robust, but have been a little bit tricky to package.

You can link to directly to the thin etalon product page here:
http://lightmachinery.com/catalog/product_info.php/cPath/21_26/products_id/43

New calculator for line narrowing lasers with etalons

We have released a beta version of our laser line narrowing calculator. If you want to line narrow your laser using an etalon, or series of etalons, you should check this out.

The calculator allows you to define design parameters for your laser cavity and two etalons, then resolves the laser output for your defined configuration.

http://www.lightmachinery.com/etalon-combiner-r4.php