Optical Surfaces Ltd is an established supplier of large diameter mirrors, optical flats, windows, lenses, beam expanders and collimators to leading research establishments worldwide. Typically, such ...

Many optical systems include mirrors as a component. They are used to direct and focus light, combine wavelengths, and reject specific wavelengths in imaging and a host of other applications. Multiple ...

Adaptive optics is a transformative technology that corrects distortions in optical wavefronts in real time, thereby enhancing image clarity in a diverse set of applications ranging from astronomical ...

Ball Aerospace is celebrating today’s launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) from French Guiana. The Colorado-based company designed and built the advanced optical technology and ...

X‐ray mirror metrology and optics is a rapidly evolving field that underpins the performance of advanced X‐ray imaging systems and next‐generation light sources. The discipline focuses on the precise ...

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have created mirrors that pack the same 99.9% reflectivity as current distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) mirrors, but do so in packages 20 times ...

Manufactured using optical fused silica for extra thermal stability, the 1/20 Wave Tech Spec optical flat mirror is available coated or uncoated. The mirror's primary surface is precision ground and ...

Co-author Georg Winkler working on a set-up used to characterize the high-performance mirrors under vacuum. (© 2019 Barbara Mair, Universität Wien) Low-loss, highly-reflective “supermirrors” – that is ...

As frustrating as having an atmosphere can be for physicists, it’s just as bad for astronomers, who have to deal with clouds, atmospheric absorption of certain wavelengths, and other irritations. One ...

Unless you’re in a carnival funhouse, mirrors are generally dead flat and kind of boring. Throw in some curves and things get interesting, especially when you can control the curve with a touch of ...