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Although a common misconception, individual optical lenses do not always form an image when the object plane is placed a focal length away from the lens.

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

The Future Depends on Optics®

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.

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

Large Diameter Gimbal Optical Mounts available from Edmund Optics are used to integrate large precision optical components, such as mirrors, into OEM and benchtop systems.

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

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 how to assemble a microscope system using the award-winning Edmund Optics 120i Plan APO Infinity Corrected Objectives.

Learn how to specify imaging system components.

Learn how to specify imaging system components.

To select the best translation stage, it is important to understand key specifications such as resolution, load capacity, travel, accuracy, repeatability, and wobble.

Quick demonstration with step-by-setup instructions for building an optical cage system swivel joint assembly.

TECHSPEC® Liquid Lens M12 Imaging Lenses from Edmund Optics combine a high-resolution with the electronic auto-focus of an integrated liquid lens

Edmund Optics (EO) manufactures over 5 million optical components every year at our global facilities in the Americas and Asia.

Join Stefaan Vandendriessche, Sales and Applications Engineer, as he demonstrates a Differential Interference Contrast (DIC) microscope built from stock components found in the Edmund Optics catalog.

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.

Learn about EO's most popular family of optical lenses and discover if achromatic lenses are ideal for your next application.

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

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

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.

The success of your machine vision application depends on the quality of your optical components.

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

Learn how to specify imaging system components.

Aspherized Achromatic Lenses, exclusive to Edmund Optics, are doublet lenses consisting of two cemented optical elements that are matched for their color-correction ability and small RMS spot size.

Telecentric illumination is quickly becoming the illumination of choice for precision metrology due to its ability to produce "hard" edges that can be easily analyzed.

Learn how to specify imaging system components.

Edmund Optics is a sponsor of Victor Tango AutoDrive, a team of Virginia Tech students who competed to design and build a fully autonomous vehicle