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Optical Engineer Kevin Quist explains how cameras work, describing sensors, lenses, and pixels in a kid-friendly way

Should you use a camera with a color or monochrome sensor for your imaging application? - Quick and fun video guide

Watch this video to learn all about lasers, what makes them special compared to other light sources, and how they impact our lives

Collimated light occurs when light rays travel parallel to each other.

Learn how to specify imaging system components.

Edmund Optics offers a variety of ball bearing, crossed roller bearing, dovetail, and rack and pinion translation stages for linear translation, rotary, and tip-tilt movement.

Learn about ghost images in optical systems, which are faint second images caused by reflections within an optical component, from Kristina Kaszei.

Learn about the growth of the optics, lasers, and photonics market in India with Deepthi Sasikumar, Technical Engineering Manager at Edmund Optics.

Edmund Optics® utilizes a wide range of CNC machining equipment including ultrasonic machining and high speed cutting (HSC) technology from DMG MORI® for the machining of complex optical component geometries.

Learn how to choose the right beam expander for your laser system in this tutorial from Dr. Mary Turner, Technical Fellow at Edmund Optics

Knowing how to properly clean your optical components is an easy way to maintain system performance and save money by decreasing the risk of component damage.

SWIR, or short-wave infrared, is light invisible to the human eye but detectable by specialized infrared imaging lenses and cameras.

Edmund Optics utilizes Diamond Turning to produce a wide range of high precision optical components.

These compact, high-resolution, infinite conjugate lenses are ideal for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and other mobile robotics systems.

First Contact Polymer Solution is an easy-to-use liquid polymer for cleaning the surfaces of lenses and other optical components (see below for a more extensive list)

The UAV Series Lenses are compact, high-resolution, infinite conjugate lenses ideal for UAVs and other mobile robotics systems.

The Future Depends on Optics®

Edmund Optics offers a variety of kinematic, bar-type, translating, ring, and modular mounting components.

Join Chris Williams as he briefly explains the basics of how to align a laser system onto a target.

Confused about the differences between traditional-coated and hard-coated optical filters?

Waveplates and retarders are optical components designed to transmit light while modifying its polarization state without attenuating, deviating, or displacing the beam.

The TECHSPEC® MercuryTL™ Liquid Lens Telecentric Lenses combine the parallax error correction and high image quality of a telecentric lens with the flexibility of an integrated liquid lens.

Continuing from where Part I: X-Y Setup ends, learn how to add a Z-axis to an existing X-Y configuration to achieve three degrees of freedom.

When measuring minuscule particles, many advanced Life Science applications require more power than one laser produces.

Learn how to make repeatable adjustments in more than one direction for any demanding optics, imaging, or photonics application with this simple, three minute video.

Fresnel lenses are composed of a series of concentric grooves etched into one side of a sheet of plastic. Fresnel lenses are unlike typical spherical or aspherical optical lenses.

When doing basic imaging, how do you determine the magnification an optical lens will provide?

Edmund Optics® (EO) manufactures millions of precision optical components and subassemblies every year in our 5 global manufacturing facilities.

Edmund Optics® manufactures thousands of precision aspheric lenses per month in our asphere manufacturing cell that operates 24 hours a day.

Polarizers are optical components designed to filter, modify, or analyze the various polarization states of light.