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Don't Miss Holo/Or's End Of Year Sale!

 

Our annual tradition continues, applying a 15% discount to orders placed before December 26th, for items available from stock (limited to 3 pieces per PN).  This is a wonderful opportunity for you to order your desired products with special prices for a limited time!

 

Place your order now and take advantage of this special sale! Beam Splitter Products  Beam Shaper Products Beam Foci Products For more information, please contact us.

 

BIOS & Photonics West 2020

 

We would like to invite you to visit us at  booth #8119 at SPIE BIOS, and at booth #3119 at SPIE Photonics West Exhibition in San Francisco, California on February 1-6, 2020.

 

Come and meet our professional optical engineers, discuss your project and requirements, learn about diffractive opticical applications, and get answers to all of your questions. At these events, we will be displaying our unique DOEs along with our latest technology and developments. Click here and schedule a meeting with us today! BIOS, February 1-3.2020: Moscone Convention Center, Booth #8119, South Hall F. Photonics West, February 4-6.2020: Moscone Convention Center, Booth #3119, Hall D. We look forward to meeting you in San Francisco.

 

New Publications

 

It is difficult to achieve realistic, diffraction-limited results using Zemax OpticStudio™ simulation software tool when designing a system with DOEs integrated in it. This is especially true near the focal point of the system, and for multi-mode lasers. Nonetheless, Zemax geometrical RayTracing methods are much faster and better developed than physical optics methods. Therefore, and due to the fact that many of our customers use this modelling software to design their systems, Holo/Or has recently published an article on a new method to achieve realistic, diffraction-limited results using scattering models. This is especially useful for modelling multi-mode laser behavior with focusing systems, and for getting realistic transfer region in beam shapers. Read our full article.

 

Fig 1: spot diagram at lens focus in normal Zemax raytracing simulation (right) vs using our method (left).

 

New Products

 

Scanning HEDS Beam Splitters Customers involved with many laser applications- including welding, cutting, brazing and perforation, can benefit from the use of our HEDS family of 1X2 beam splitters, which offer high efficiency splitting.  Based on your feedback, we have designed an improved version of the HEDS, optimized for scanning double lines. These Scanning HEDS have no effect on the line width of the scanned lines, even for single mode lasers. They also maintain diffraction-limited line width when used in scanning applications while maintaining high efficiency (>95%).

 

Fig 2: Scanning HEDs (left)  vs. Normal HEDS (right)

 

DS-291-J-YA DS-292-J-YA Type Scanning HEDS Wavelength 1030 nm Material Fused Silica Element size 50.8mm Clear aperture 45 mm Thickness 2.29 mm Optical function: separation between spots 2.67 mRad (0.8 mm@ EFL 300mm) 5.67 mRad (1.7 mm@ EFL 300mm)

 

Diffractive Lens Arrays

 

Many laser applications require precise and efficient diffusers at low angles. Holo\Or’s new diffractive lens array diffusers have total (<10-5) ROC accuracy and feature diffraction efficiencies of ~ 95%, with no dead zones between the lenses.