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Optical Surfaces Ltd, a leading supplier of high precision reference optical flats to leading research establishments and national standards laboratories worldwide, reports on growing demand for larger (350 - 600mm clear aperture) diameters.
As the power of laboratory lasers increases, aspheric lenses and mirrors have been pushed to deliver extremely high intensities.
Around the world, nuclear research laser facilities are increasingly using powerful, amplified, ultrashort-duration pulses of coherent light in order to deliver massive energy densities at a given target. Synchronizing the delivery of these high-power pulses creates extreme conditions, in which scientists can carry out state-of-the-art nuclear research.
It also allows research into conditions that exist only in distant and exotic environments, for example, the core of our sun and beyond. Facilities such as these also provide opportunities for researchers to advance knowledge in fields such as materials science, astrophysics and particle and nuclear physics. The resulting applications range from medicine to nuclear energy.
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New Polishing Technique Improves Finesse of Fabry Perot Etalons
Optical Surfaces Ltd. reports on the development of a new polishing technique that has been shown to reproducibly improve the spectral filtering capability (finesse) of Fabry Perot etalons.
Fabry Perot Etalons for ultra-high resolution interferometry (courtesy: Optical Surfaces Ltd.)
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For over two decades - Optical Surfaces has supplied precisely matched Fabry-Perot etalon pairs to Table Stable Ltd. (Mettmenstetten, Switzerland) for use as a key component in their ultra-high-resolution JRS Series interferometers.
Operating in a uniquely stable manufacturing environment, Optical Surfaces is able to produce the required 50-mm diameter fused silica Fabry Perot Etalons pairs with matching accuracies of better than lambda/200.