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Omega optical releases Optical filter technical catalog At Photonics West

Omega Optical
17 Jan 2006

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Omega Optical is releasing its new and expanded catalog Precision Optical Filters for OEM Instrumentation and Research at Photonics West in San Jose, CA in January 2006.

This technical handbook encompasses optical interference filter theory, filter design, coatings, filter types, and system design considerations. It also includes company capabilities, core technology, and intellectual property as related to coatings and filter design. In addition, there are sections on collaborative engineering services, sub-assembly contracting, and standard product lines, rounding out the company’s ability to provide comprehensive filter solutions for OEM partners and researchers worldwide. The catalog is targeted at OEMs and researchers designing biomedical and industrial instrumentation for a wide variety of markets and applications.

Since 1969, Omega Optical has partnered with the world’s leading OEMs and researchers, developing a comprehensive understanding of the needs of instrument designers and manufacturers and one of the largest ranges of product lines and capabilities in the optical filter industry. Omega’s custom and standard filter products are being used as a critical component in the optical systems of a wide variety of instrumentation applications including life science, astronomy/aerospace, photolithography, Raman spectroscopy, color imaging, and many others.

Omega Optical is the leading supplier worldwide of custom optical filters for fluorescence based instrumentation and applications. The company’s filters are used extensively in research and clinical instruments in the biomedical, biotech, and drug discovery markets. This extensive assortment of life science instrumentation includes: microplate readers and scanners; flow cytometers and cell sorters; DNA sequencers and analyzers; Lab-on-a-Chip and Gene-Chip readers; real-time PCR analyzers; gel documentation readers; scanners and imaging systems; high throughput and high content systems; fluorescence and Raman spectroscopes; and epi-fluorescence, confocal, and multiphoton microscopes.

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