Selection Guides

As the interface from a photonics experiment to electronic instruments, photodetection is critical to extracting and preserving experimental results. Newport's optical receivers and detectors make photodetection easy and provide the lowest noise and cleanest response possible.

Our sensor finder allows you to easily find the sensor that best suits your application.

A complete fiber alignment solution requires alignment hardware, control electronics, software and system integration. MKS can provide any or all of the components, software and expertise required.

For a plane ruled diffraction grating, the groove spacing and blaze angle determine the distribution of energy. The blaze direction for most gratings is specified for first-order Littrow use. In Littrow use, light is diffracted from the grating back toward the source. Gratings used in the Littrow configuration have the advantage of maximum efficiency, or blaze, at specific wavelengths.

A holographic diffraction grating has a sinusoidal groove shape, created by recording interference fringe fields in photoresist material. Since the grooves are symmetric, they do not have a preferred blaze direction. The range of useful diffraction efficiency is controlled by varying the modulation (the ratio of groove depth to groove spacing). The lower the modulation, the shorter the wavelength limit to which the grating can be used, but the peak efficiency may be lowered as well. Holographic gratings contain no periodic errors or “ghosts” as they are generated optically.

An echelle diffraction grating differs from a conventional grating (called an echelette) in many ways. An echelle is coarse with fewer grooves per millimeter and is used at high angles in high diffraction orders. The virtue of an echelle lies in its high efficiency and low polarization effects over large spectral intervals. Together with high dispersion, this leads to compact, high-resolution instruments. An important limitation of echelles is that the orders overlap unless separated optically, for instance by a cross-dispersing element. A prism or echelette grating is often used for this purpose. This combination leads to an output format well matched to CCD arrays.

Find a linear motorized stage that meets you travel, speed, MIM, load capacity or other requirements.

As the trusted leader in laser beam profiling, Ophir provides a complete range of solutions for beam characterization for any wavelength, at any power and for any beam diameter. The BeamGage® camera-based laser beam profiling system is for real-time viewing and measuring of a laser’s structure. The NanoScan™ scanning slit laser beam profiler is for sub-micron precision for measuring beam position and size.

Newport offers a wide variety of Optical Tables including our broadband damped RPR Series Optical Tables, precision tuned damped RS Series Optical Tables, and actively damped SmartTable Optical Tables with IQ Damping Technology. Our optical table solutions are designed to fit any performance, budget and delivery need.

Newport offers a wide variety of metallic mirrors with different coatings and on different substrates.

Newport offers a wide variety of dielectric mirrors with different coatings and on different substrates.

FemtoOptics™ is the premier optics product line at Newport which is specifically optimized for femtosecond pulse manipulation. It consists of innovative, high-quality, easy-to-use, cutting-edge optical components and assemblies including transmission optics designed for minimized material dispersion, AR-coatings with ultra-broad bandwidth and metallic mirrors combined with low dispersion dielectric over-coatings.

Some optical components are too thin for typical mounts to easily hold and position. Thus, Newport offers standard mounts and accessories that are specifically designed to provide precision pitch/yaw adjustment for thin lenses and other optics.

Plate beamsplitter mounts are designed to effectively manage beam transmission, beamsplitting angle and paths of both the reflected and transmitted beams.

Newport offers standard mounts and accessories specifically designed for "set-and-forget" OEM applications. These products all include the key features of compact/space-saving geometry and locking Allen-Key adjustments, and certain products include additional elements such as alignment pin holes, adhesive wells, and extra stiffness. Kinematic, flexure and platform mounts are most typical for OEM applications.

Mirrors are probably the most commonly used optical elements in your lab, and their quality, performance, and reliability are key to the success of your experiment. That's why we provide a variety of mirrors so you can be assured to find what you need.

Our offering ranges from a low cost, hand-held meter to the most advanced dual channel benchtop power meter available in market. Our 1936-R/2936-R series boasts state-of-the-art analog boards with a whopping 250 kHz sampling rate and femtowatt level resolution, easily dwarfing competition.

Newport's Oriel® Instruments light source offerings are varied and significant. With so many options, it can be difficult to choose the best system for your application. For light source technical information and a summary of the major advantages of each type of light source please view this guide.

Motorized Linear Actuators provide customers the ability to upgrade and motorize Newport optical mounts or manual positioners for remote and computer control. As stand-alone units, these motorized actuators are used in alignment, read head production, optical inserters, in adaptive optics, etc.

We offer the widest range of off the shelf Mirror Mounts from low cost entry level to the highest performing, most stable mounts available anywhere. Use the selection guide below to find exactly what you need.