Thursday, 1 March, 2018
In 2014, Marty accepted a new role with Tower Optical Corporation as its Director of Strategic Alliances focused on shoring up existing business relationships in this […]
Thursday, 15 February, 2018
Meet Donald Avritt, Director of Manufacturing for Tower Optical Operations. Don’s 40 year career in optics has taken him to many different parts of the United […]
Friday, 23 December, 2016
All you need to split a beam into two beams is a single partially reflective plane surface, and something to hold it up. That surface can […]
Friday, 23 December, 2016
While a plano-convex spherical lens focuses to a spot, a plano-convex cylindrical lens focuses to a line. In one cross-section it is drawn with two parallel […]
Friday, 23 December, 2016
Almost every precision optical component includes at least one coated surface. Whether a window, mirror, lens, prism, filter, etalon, beamsplitter, waveplate, polarizer, or something else, your component will […]
Friday, 23 December, 2016
Most optical filters are plane-parallel items like precision optical windows, except that they select exactly which portion of light to transmit. The remaining light may be […]
Friday, 23 December, 2016
Lenses are probably the first thing people associate with precision optics – but what kind of lenses? The simplest lenses consist of one piece of glass […]
Friday, 23 December, 2016
As the name suggests, a beam splitter refers to an optical device which is used to split or divide a beam of light into two. A […]
Friday, 23 December, 2016
Tower Optical Corporation belongs to the industrial group that is considered optical components manufacturers. The parts supplied by this group are used in research, medical devices, […]