Edmund Optics

Edmund Optics offers a wide range of industrial and pointing lasers, including visible laser diode modules, DPSS pointing lasers, red and IR alignment laser diodes, violet alignment diodes, compact LDM focusable laser diode modules and others.

Edmund Optics offers argon-ion lasers as ultra-compact units with internal power supply. This line of air-cooled lasers provides a stable, high quality output beam from a rugged yet efficient package. The wavelength options make these lasers ideal for a variety of scientific and OEM applications. The maintenance-free sealed mirror laser tube is ruggedly supported for exceptional resistance to vibrations and rough handling. Embedded dual cooling fans, combined with an exclusive "Dual Channel" airflow design, provide quiet and highly efficient cooling of the laser tube while isolating the state-of-the-art power supply from potential airborne contaminants.

Edmund Optics offers various aspheric lenses, including CNC polished lenses, infrared lenses with diffraction-limited performance, precision glass molded lenses, color-corrected lenses, condenser lenses and plastic molded lenses.

Edmund Optics offers a wide range of measuring tools suited for many optical measurement needs. Measuring gauges offer precise, easy-to-use measurement capabilities in a range of different sizes or types including calipers or micrometers. Spherometers are extremely specialized measurement tools that determine the surface radii of convex or concave objects. Standards tables are also included for quickly referencing radii information.

Our compact ultrafast autocorrelator is used to characterize ultrafast laser pulses originating from Ti:sapphire and Yb:doped lasers. Featuring a built-in two-photon absorption (TPA) detector, this autocorrelator is ideal for measuring ultrafast femtosecond and picosecond laser pulses at wavelengths from 700 to 1100 nm. The highly sensitive TPA detector allows for measurements of ultrafast laser pulses with high sensitivity by eliminating the need for angle tuning of the SHG nonlinear crystal.

Edmund Optics offers a wide range of specialty lenses, including Bessel grade and ring grade axicons.

Ball lenses are commonly used to improve signal quality in fiber coupling applications, or for use in endoscopy or bar code scanning applications. Our ball lenses feature short back focal lengths to minimize the distance needed from the ball lens to the optical fiber. Edmund Optics offers a variety of ball lenses in a range of substrates for performance in the ultraviolet to the NIR. Half-ball lenses are also available to ease mounting or system integration.

Edmund Optics offers a wide range of laser accessories, including different kinds of beam collimators and expanders. In particular, we have fiber-coupled collimators which are suitable for FC/PC, FC/APC and SMA connectors.

Edmund Optics offers Acktar blackened laser beam traps and blocks and other kinds of beam dumps.

Edmund Optics has a variety of beam expanders, including devices for different wavelength regions (e.g. Nd:YAG and CO₂), rotating or non-rotating optics for divergence adjustment and research-grade devices.

Edmund Optics offers the world’s largest inventory of off-the-shelf optical components. The majority of Edmund Optics’ light pipes are hexagonal in shape, which leads to 35% less light loss than for comparable square light pipes. Fused silica light pipe homogenizing rods are ideal for applications utilizing UV LED light sources. Tapered light pipe homogenizing rods offer several magnification options, including 2× or 3×. Edmund Optics offers light pipe mounts for either tapered or hexagonal light pipes, designed to offer easy system integration solutions, or to ease handling.

Edmund Optics offers Coherent® Lasercam™ beam profilers as well as an own series of beam profilers, designed to measure a wide range of laser beam sizes, providing information to optimize laser system operation. These laser beam profilers feature high resolution and large area sensors to ensure accurate profiling of both small and large laser beams.

Edmund Optics offers laser beam shaping solutions to collimate laser beams, transform beam profiles, convert beam shapes, and much more. Flat top beam shapers, used to convert Gaussian beams into flat top beams with a uniform intensity distribution, are available optimized for laser wavelengths associated with Nd:YAG, fiber, and CO₂ lasers. Cylinder Lenses, offered in broadband and laser line versions, are ideal for laser machining or medical applications, which require laser light shaping in only one axis. Slow axis collimators and fast axis collimators are also available, which are ideal for collimated laser bars and laser diodes, respectively.

Beam shutters are used to control the level of light exposure to an optical lens or lens system in a range of applications such as imaging or microscopy. Shutters are manually or motor controlled irises that may be opened or closed to control the level of light that passes through the aperture. Shutters provide an accurate, stable level of light transmission that may be easily adjusted or maintained for repeated implementation. A number of motorized shutters are also available that include several iris control modes for increased versatility.

Edmund Optics offers plate, cube, pellicle, polka dot, and specialty prism beamsplitters in a variety of anti-reflection coatings or substrates. Standard beamsplitters, which split incident light by a specified ratio that is independent of wavelength or polarization state, are ideal for illumination subassemblies or as one way mirrors. Dichroic beamsplitters, which split light by wavelength, are often used as laser beam combiners or as broadband hot or cold mirrors. Non-polarizing beamsplitters, ideal for laser beam manipulation, split light by overall intensity. Polarizing beamsplitters, often used in photonics instrumentation, split light by polarization state. Edmund Optics’ anti-reflection coatings are designed for the ultraviolet (UV), visible, or infrared (IR).

Edmund Optics offers blue lasers in the form of solid-state lasers from the Coherent OBIS™ series. Also, we provide violet and blue focusable laser diode modules.

Edmund Optics offers a wide range of analog and digital cameras designed for a variety of imaging applications, including video microscopy or industrial use. Cameras use a wide range of video outputs to display an image on a monitor. Digital cameras are available with a variety of digital interfaces, such as USB 2.0, USB 3.0, FireWire.a, FireWire.b, Gigabit Ethernet, or Camera Link® to ensure maximum compatibility with any number of applications’ needs. A selection of camera accessories is also available including mounting adapters, capture cards, or cables.

Edmund Optics offers various kinds of mirrors for ultrafast laser technology, including highly dispersive chirped mirrors for different spectral regions such as 0.8 μm, 1 μm and 2 μm, but also UV and other infrared versions.

Coherent® Diamond C-Series CO₂ lasers offer reliability with more than 50,000 operating hours, along with superior beam quality and stability. These lasers are ideal for a wide range of applications from marking and engraving to material processing. They are a compact option with an integrated RF power supply. Maximum output power ranges from 20 to 40 watts, and can be controlled through pulse width modulation (PWM).

Edmund Optics offers different kinds of cold mirrors, including versions with 0° and 45° angle of incidence and high performance versions with multi-layer dielectric coatings.

Edmund Optics offers mounted and unmounted retroreflection prisms in a range coating options. Reflective surfaces are available with reflection coatings including aluminum and silver. Entrance surfaces are available with VIS 0° anti-reflection coatings. Due to their complex shape, mounting a retroflection prism can be difficult. To ease system integration, mounted retroreflection prisms featuring ¼-20 tapped holes are available.

From design to prototype to production, Edmund Optics manufactures over 2 million optical components every year, manufactures over 175.000 optical assemblies including imaging lenses, laser beam expanders or microscope objectives and provides in-house expertise and metrology to support your custom manufacturing. Edmund Optics’ engineers can design and manufacture fully-custom components, build-to-print following customer-supplied designs, and quickly modify any of our thousands of off-the-shelf optics sold in our Marketplace.

Edmund Optics selection of cylinder lenses include achromatic, acylinder, plano-convex, or plano-concave. Achromatic cylinder lenses provide additional color correction by minimizing chromatic aberration. Hybrid acylinder lenses are ideal for color correction, in addition to minimizing spherical aberration. Edmund Optics offers cylinder lenses with glass or plastic substrates, or with circular, rectangular, or oblong dimensions. Multiple anti-reflection coating options are available from the ultraviolet to the infrared, including UV-AR, UV-VIS, MgF₂, VIS-NIR, VIS 0°, or NIR I. Edmund Optics offers full prescription data, in addition to 2D or 3D models.

Edmund Optics offers a range of laser mirrors for use from the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) to the far IR. Laser mirrors designed for dye, diode, Nd:YAG, Nd:YLF, Yb:YAG, Ti:sapphire, fiber, and many more laser sources are available as flat mirrors, right angle mirrors, concave mirrors, and other specialty shapes. Ultrafast laser line mirrors designed to provide high reflection with minimal group delay dispersion (GDD) for femtosecond pulsed lasers including Er:glass, Ti:sapphire, and Yb:doped laser sources are also available.

Edmund Optics offers a wide range of transmission and reflection gratings for the ultraviolet (UV), visible and infrared (IR) regions. This includes both ruled and holographic gratings. We also offer polarization gratings, transmission grating beamsplitters and other variants.

Edmund Optics offers a wide range of diode laser sources, including machine vision lasers, life science lasers, metrology lasers, industrial and point lasers, and material processing lasers.

Edmund Optics offers a wide selection of laser safety products including personal safety equipment and lab safety components. Laser safety eyewear provides CE certified laser radiation protection at wavelengths of common industrial lasers, including Nd:YAG and CO₂, with various style and frame options for user comfort.

Edmund Optics free-space optical isolators incorporate a Faraday rotator and are specifically designed and manufactured to provide superior performance with high isolation, transmission, and power densities. Each option effectively reduces feedback in the external cavity of diode laser systems and blocks reflections from free-space fiber coupling. These isolators enable state of the art protection for the most stable lasers in the world and are ideal for demanding laser applications.

Edmund Optics offers fiber-optic collimators for FC/PC, FC/APC and SMA connectors and different wavelength ranges around 350 nm to 1600 nm.

Edmund Optics offers a variety of fiber optics, including jacketed or unjacketed optical grade or communications grade optical fibers. Optical grade fiber is ideal for general industrial lighting or short distance data transmission. Communications grade fiber is designed for optimal visible light transmission for digital or analog links. Jacketed fiber has increased durability while decreasing stray light. Edmund Optics also offers optical fiber components, including patchcords, collimators, faceplates and image conduits, fiber connectors, and the tools needed for cutting or stripping fibers.

Edmund Optics offers various fiber-coupled diode lasers, including visible and infrared emitters with high brightness fiber output, frequency-stabilized laser diodes, class IV high-power devices, Coherent® Diamond FLQ-Series fiber lasers and Coherent®high performance OBIS™ LX/LS fiber-pigtailed laser systems.

Edmund Optics offers a range of laser, flat, metal substrate, focusing, or specialty optical mirrors in a multitude of reflective coating options, including protected aluminum, enhanced aluminum, protected silver, protected gold, and dielectric.

Edmund Optics offers various kinds of gas lasers, e.g. helium–neon lasers from Lumentum with up to 22.5 mW output power and improved stability, used in interferometers and metrology, and Coherent Diamond C-Series CO₂ lasers.

Our GRIN lenses are designed to provide a 0.55 numerical aperture, and are available with two working distance options. Lenses with a zero working distance are ideal for collimation of single and multi-mode optical fibers and laser diodes because the lens can be positioned and glued directly to the emission source. For focusing applications, or in instances where the lens can’t be in direct contact with the emission source, all lenses are available with a small working distance as well. Each lens is available uncoated (approximately 12% reflection loss), or with a BBAR coating option for R < 0.5%.

Edmund Optics offers different kinds of green lasers, including argon-ion lasers, diode lasers and diode-pumped solid-state lasers.

Edmund Optics offers helium–neon lasers from Lumentum with up to 22.5 mW output power and improved stability. They are used in interferometers and metrology, for example.

Edmund Optics offers various specialty mirrors, including hot mirrors which reflect 90% of NIR and IR light. We also have extended hot mirrors with improved NIR reflectance and high performance versions with an optimized multi-layer dielectric coating.

Edmund Optics offers a wide range of infrared optics, using materials like aluminum, calcium fluoride, fused silica, germanium, magnesium fluoride, sapphire, silicon, zinc selenide, zinc sulfide and other infrared materials.

Edmund Optics offers high resolution 1550-nm converters for CCD cameras and handheld infrared viewers, apart from simple laser detection products such as laser beam visualizers, IR cards and laser alignment papers.

Our general purpose integrating sphere systems are designed to spatially integrate radiant flux in order to measure optical radiation. They can be coupled with a sensor to create radiometers, photometers, or spectroradiometers in order to measure the total geometric flux emanating from a light source or the flux density of an illuminated area. Additionally, these sphere systems can be used to measure the output of high power lasers and laser diodes or to measure the reflectance and transmittance of materials.

Edmund Optics offers an extensive selection of large diameter optics including achromatic lenses or aspheric lenses. Many of Edmund Optics’ lenses are offered with a variety of coating options for the ultraviolet (UV), visible, or infrared (IR) spectral range.

Laser beam analysers from Edmund Optics include devices such as profiler systems that evaluate data from beam images to provide information such as beam location, peak intensity position, stability, or beam density. For example, there are different kinds of laser beam profilers and autocorrelators for ultrashort pulse characterization.

A wide range of laser accessories is available, including fiber-optic beam collimators and focusers and various kinds of beam expanders.

Edmund Optics offers a wide range of diode laser modules, containing diode lasers or diode-pumped solid-state lasers.

Edmund Optics offers a wide variety of laser line optics, including laser lenses, laser mirrors, laser filters, along with a variety of other components designed for laser use. Laser lenses are designed to focus, homogenize, or shape laser beams. Laser mirrors are ideal for beam steering applications. Laser filters transmit or reflect a portion of the laser light. Laser windows are used to transmit designated wavelengths or protect sensitive components or work areas from stray light.

Edmund Optics offers a range of laser mirrors for use from the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) to the far IR. Laser mirrors designed for dye, diode, Nd:YAG, Nd:YLF, Yb:YAG, Ti:sapphire, fiber, and many more laser sources are available as flat mirrors, right angle mirrors, concave mirrors, and other specialty shapes. Ultrafast laser line mirrors designed to provide high reflection with minimal group delay dispersion (GDD) for femtosecond pulsed lasers including Er:glass, Ti:sapphire, and Yb:doped laser sources are also available.

Edmund Optics offers a wide variety of laser optics, including laser lenses, laser mirrors, laser filters, along with a variety of other components designed for laser use. Laser lenses are designed to focus, homogenize, or shape laser beams. Laser mirrors are ideal for beam steering applications. Laser filters transmit or reflect a portion of the laser light. Laser windows are used to transmit designated wavelengths or protect sensitive components or work areas from stray light.

Edmund Optics offers a wide range of industrial and pointing lasers with different colors (red, green, violet, infrared). Some are handheld devices, while others come with cylindrical houses for easy integration.

Edmund Optics offers a wide selection of laser safety products including personal safety equipment and lab safety components. Laser safety eyewear provides CE certified laser radiation protection at wavelengths of common industrial lasers, including Nd:YAG and CO₂, with various style and frame options for user comfort. Acrylic laser windows, also referred to as laser viewing windows, provide high visible light transmission and high optical densities at specified design wavelengths, allowing for the safe observance of lasers applications. Lab laser safety components, including laser warning signs and beam traps, are also available.

Optotune laser speckle reducers remove local interferences and significantly reduce speckle noise in laser systems by dynamically diffusing the laser beam. Offering a compact size, integrated drive electronics, and vibration-less speckle reduction, Optotune laser speckle reducers are ideal for beam homogenization, 3D scanning, metrology, microscopy, and interferometry.

Our laser alignment phosphor products offer greater performance and safety to users of UV, visible, and IR lasers. They reduce problems associated with beam visualization, profiling and alignment in many applications. All ranges available in three formats. The laminated credit card-style is for low power sources and reflective viewing only. The 25-mm disk and clip-on wand style is used when frequent component positioning is required. The removable disk is positionable at an optics location to enable precise alignment, while wand format permits handling into beam path. Optical bench-mountable head format has large active area and ¼-20 threaded mounting for standard imperial post/post holder integration.

Edmund Optics offers a wide range of laser sources, including machine vision lasers, life science lasers, metrology lasers, gas lasers, industrial and point lasers, and material processing lasers.

Edmund Optics offers the world’s largest inventory of off-the-shelf optical components, which includes an extensive selection of stock optical lenses such as achromatic lenses or aspheric lenses. Many of Edmund Optics’ lenses are offered with a variety of coating options for the ultraviolet (UV), visible, or infrared (IR) spectrum.

There is a wide range of metal-coated mirrors, including flat and focusing (concave) mirror, off-axis mirrors, specialty mirrors, broadband dielectric mirrors and other infrared mirrors.

Edmund Optics offers a wide variety of microscopy components including microscope objectives, inverted and stereo microscopes, or optical filters that are ideal for use in microscopy setups. Microscope objectives are available in a range of magnifications and include infinity corrected, finite conjugate, and reflective objectives in industry leading brands such as Mitutoyo or Olympus. Microscope objectives are ideal for a range of research, industrial, life science, or general lab applications. Microscopy filters are ideal for isolating specific wavelengths in fluorescence imaging applications.

Edmund Optics offers stereo microscopes and inverted microscopes by industry leading manufacturers, including Mitutoyo and Olympus. The Mitutoyo FS70 inspection microscope is compatible with the Mitutoyo infinity corrected objectives. The Olympus stereo microscopes offer various mounting configurations for a variety of application and system spaces. Edmund Optics also offers a variety of stereo microscope accessories, including cameras or vibration isolation tables which minimize vibrations from interfering with image quality.

TECHSPEC® laser mirror substrates are manufactured from high quality fused silica and are designed for use with high power laser sources. These mirrors feature excellent surface specifications, including λ/10 surface flatness and 10-5 surface quality, to limit the possibility of reduced performance due to surface defects. The high surface quality of these mirror blanks also makes them ideal for use in demanding intra-cavity laser applications.

Edmund Optics offers a range of laser mirrors for use from the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) to the far IR. Laser mirrors designed for dye, diode, Nd:YAG, Nd:YLF, Yb:YAG, Ti:sapphire, fiber, and many more laser sources are available as flat mirrors, right angle mirrors, concave mirrors, and other specialty shapes. Ultrafast laser line mirrors designed to provide high reflection with minimal group delay dispersion (GDD) for femtosecond pulsed lasers including Er:glass, Ti:sapphire, and Yb:doped laser sources are also available.

Edmund Optics offers a variety of fiber optics, including jacketed and unjacketed optical grade or communications grade optical fibers. Optical grade optical fiber is ideal for general industrial lighting or short distance data transmission. It is designed for optimal visible light transmission for digital or analog links. Jacketed fiber has increased durability while decreasing stray light. Edmund Optics also offers optical fiber components, including patchcords, collimators, faceplates and image conduits, fiber connectors, and the tools needed for cutting or stripping fibers.

Edmund Optics offers narrow-linewidth lasers, e.g. in the form of metrology lasers with ±0.002 nm wavelength stability.

Edmund Optics offers a wide variety of neutral density filters for ultraviolet (UV), visible and infrared applications. Neutral density filter kits are available, which include a number of filters in a range of optical densities. Stepped ND filters are also available, which offer a number of optical densities on a single filter, ideal for lab or R&D integration.

Nonlinear crystals of either β-barium borate (BBO) or lithium triborate (LBO) are used for frequency conversion of laser sources. BBO crystals feature thicknesses from 0.2 mm to 0.5 mm to minimize group velocity mismatch and are ideal for frequency doubling or tripling of Ti:sapphire and Yb:doped laser pulses. The critical and noncritical phase matching LBO crystals are ideal for second or third harmonic generation of Nd:YAG and Yb:doped lasers.

Nonlinear crystals with 20-10 surface quality and λ/10 (LBO) or λ/8 (BBO) surface flatness provide the broad transparency range and large nonlinear coefficient needed for the harmonic generation of fundamental laser frequencies. Each crystal features a protective anti-reflection (AR) coating that minimizes reflection and limits fogging from ambient conditions.

Edmund Optics offers a range of optical tables and breadboards. Both imperial and metric versions are available in a range of dimensions.

Our high stability variable frequency optical choppers each include a set of chemically blackened photoetched chopping discs. The mini chopper is an excellent choice for applications requiring a compact package. The chopping discs come in a variety of slot apertures. We also supply lock-in amplifiers.

Nonlinear crystals of either β-barium borate (BBO) or lithium triborate (LBO) are used for frequency conversion of laser sources. BBO crystals feature thicknesses from 0.2 mm to 0.5 mm to minimize group velocity mismatch and are ideal for frequency doubling or tripling of pulses from Ti:sapphire and Yb-doped lasers. The critical and noncritical phase matching LBO crystals are ideal for second or third harmonic generation of Nd:YAG and Yb-doped lasers. Nonlinear crystals with 20–10 surface quality and λ/10 (LBO) or λ/8 (BBO) surface flatness provide the broad transparency range and large nonlinear coefficient needed for the harmonic generation of fundamental laser frequencies. Each crystal features a protective anti-reflection (AR) coating that minimizes reflection and limits fogging from ambient conditions.

Edmund Optics offers a variety of optical filters for many applications, including bandpass interference, notch, edge, dichroic, color substrate, or ND. Edmund Optics also offers highly durable hard coatings for applications that require high optical densities with maximum performance.

Laser power and energy meters are available from Edmund Optics in a wide selection of wavelength ranges for customization over a large number of laser measurement needs.

Edmund Optics’ optical windows are offered in a variety of substrates, such as germanium (Ge), silicon (Si), N-BK7, UV fused silica, zinc selenide (ZnSe), and potassium bromide (KBr). Multiple anti-reflection coating options are available for the ultraviolet (UV), visible, or Infrared (IR).

Edmund Optics offers a wide range of optomechanics that are ideal for many optical applications. The TECHSPEC optical cage system provides excellent versatility as well as easy assembly of any number of optical system configurations. Kinematic mounts or translation stages are available to ease system adjustment or positioning. A wide selection of optomechanical accessories or adapters is also available to increase system compatibility, modularity, or versatility.

Edmund Optics offers various kinds of off-axis parabolic mirrors, where the mirror coatings can be made of aluminum, silver or gold. Mirrors with alignment holes are also available.

Optical grade fiber plastic optics are designed to provide higher transmission in the visible region of the spectrum. They can be used for a wide range of applications, from general industrial light guides to short-distance data transmission. The fiber is tough and flexible but is not designed to bear loads.

Edmund Optics offers a wide range of dichroic, crystalline, and wire grid polarizers which can also be used for polarization beam combining.

Our compact ultrafast autocorrelator is used to characterize ultrafast laser pulses originating from Ti:sapphire and Yb:doped lasers. Featuring a built-in two-photon absorption (TPA) detector, this autocorrelator is ideal for measuring ultrafast femtosecond and picosecond laser pulses at wavelengths from 700 to 1100 nm. The highly sensitive TPA detector allows for measurements of ultrafast laser pulses with high sensitivity by eliminating the need for angle tuning of the SHG nonlinear crystal.

Edmund Optics offers different kinds of red lasers, including diode lasers and diode-pumped semiconductor lasers.

Designed for use in a variety of laser and imaging systems, these components are available in a range of micro sizes for integration into a host of OEM applications. Custom sizes, variations in polishing/ ground surfaces and additional coatings are available upon request.

TECHSPEC® rod lenses are polished on the circumference and ground on both ends. Optical performance is similar to a cylinder lens. Collimated light passing through the diameter of the rod lens will be focused into a line. N-BK7 and UV fused silica substrates are available for a variety of UV, visible and NIR applications.

Edmund Optics offers a wide range of diode laser sources, including machine vision lasers, life science lasers, metrology lasers, industrial and point lasers, and material processing lasers.

Edmund Optics offers a wide variety of spectrometers, including spectrometers that have been optimized for Raman or fluorescence spectroscopy. Raman spectrometers are ideal for Raman applications in the visible to the near infrared. The fluorescence spectrometers are ideal for use in low light fluorescence applications where the ability to detect weak signals is crucial for proper measurement. Additionally, fluorescence spectrometers feature broadband spectral response ranges for detecting wide wavelength bands along with a wide slit width for increased throughput.

Edmund Optics offers superpolished laser window substrates where both surfaces have <1 Å r.m.s. surface roughness. The low scatter surfaces are ideal for UV and high power laser applications. We use UV fused-silica substrates with polished bevels and edges. Our in-house manufacturing enables custom versions with dimensions from 6 mm to 76.2 mm and different shapes; the surface roughness can be even <0.5 Å.

Edmund Optics’ telecentric lenses are available with a range of features for a variety of machine vision or inspection applications. TECHSPEC® GoldTL™ telecentric Lenses feature focus adjustment, along with iris adjustment. TECHSPEC® SilverTL™ telecentric measuring lenses includes iris adjustment in addition to a double telecentric design. TECHSPEC® CompactTL™ telecentric lenses feature compact designs ideal for high volume system integration. TECHSPEC® compactTL™ telecentric lenses are available in in-line models. PlatinumTL™ telecentric Lenses are also available to cover large sensor sizes.

Edmund Optics offers different products for Transmissive Diffraction Gratings, like Transmission Grating that are ideal for In-Line Configurations, UV Transmission Gratings that are ideal for Fixed Grating Applications or Transmission Grating Beamsplitters ideal for Laser Beam Division.

Edmund Optics provides a breadth of ultrafast optics, including low GDD ultrafast mirrors, highly dispersive ultrafast mirrors, compression prisms, reflective objectives and beam expanders, and nonlinear crystals. These products are designed for common femtosecond lasers, including Ti:sapphire, Yb:doped fiber, thulium (Tm), and holmium (Ho).

Edmund Optics is a premier supplier of UV optics including mirrors, lenses, filters, and beam expanders. We work with ISO 9001 certified and MIL-spec quality systems, and use a wide range of metrology including interferometers, cavity ring-down (CRD) spectrometers, Shack–Hartmann wavefront sensors, profilometers, and coordinate measurement machines (CMMs). We provided guaranteed laser damage threshold specifications.

Edmund Optics offers a variety of waveplates with crystalline or polymer materials, including multiple order, zero order, or achromatic waveplates. Polymer waveplates offer superior performance over a wider range of incidence angles. Multiple order waveplates are ideal for use with monochromatic light that deviates less than 1% of the waveplate’s design wavelength. Zero order retarders offer high performance over wider wavelength or temperature ranges. Achromatic waveplates offer the most constant performance over the widest wavelength or temperature ranges.

Edmund Optics offers a variety of specialty prisms to choose from, including wedge prisms.

Edmund Optics offers yellow and orange lasers in the form of solid-state lasers from the Coherent OBIS™ series.