The new LA1V-XY and LPV-1 Compact Lens Positioners provide an economical solution for applications requiring two (XY) or five (XYZ XY) axes of precision adjustment. Their compact size makes them ideal for OEM applications, or research projects with limited table space. Precise positioning is achieved with the integration of 100 TPI drive screws. Additionally, an integral 5/64 (M2) hex hole in the drive knobs allows for optional Allen key adjustment. Each unit is supplied with two non-marring Delrin retaining rings to safely secure optical elements with a maximum outer diameter of 1.0 in. (25.4mm). Post mounting on the LA1V-XY is achieved by accessing one of the tapped 8-32 or M4 threaded holes in the mount body. The LPV-1 is post mounted via a counterbored hole sized for 8-32 or M4 screws.

The following volume discount schedule is automatically applied when ordering bare optical fiber: 6 - 50 m with 15 %, 51- 1,000 m with 22 %, 1,000 m with 25 % Newports new F-NUV-320-K1 fiber is designed for single mode operation in the near ultra-violet region. The single mode design makes this fiber ideal for an array of fiber optic probes used in a variety of UV-VIS spectroscopy applications such as color monitoring, film thickness, chemical and nuclear processing, pharmaceuticals, emission monitoring and other applications in the near UV spectrum.

In this section we give a brief introduction to getting light into a monochromator, and how much you can expect to get out. While the emphasis is on coupling Oriel Light Sources to Oriel Monochromators, the same general principles apply to collecting light from any source for analysis.

Newport's new SCG-800 is a polarization maintaining supercontinuum device for use with 800 nm femtosecond lasers. It contains 12 cm highly nonlinear, polarization maintaining photonic crystal fiber with zero dispersion at 750 nm. The fiber ends are sealed and mounted in quartz ferrules, with their polarization axis aligned to a line on the end of the device. The nonlinear fiber is mounted in a robust, 25mm diameter, 120 mm long aluminum housing, which can be easily mounted onto a translation stage. The device features built-in beam expansion at the end facets, facilitating easy coupling of the laser input beam and a higher damage threshold.

The Oriel IS-Series of Minispectrometers offer significant advantages over traditional minispectrometers. We took our 30+ years of designing and manufacturing spectroscopic instruments, combined with the feedback from you, our customers, and designed a family of instruments that truly addresses the needs of both the Researcher, and the Systems Integrator. We offer models to cover various spectral ranges, in both fiber-coupled and free-space configurations, for high resolution and moderate resolution needs.

New! Oriel Apex Sources with a Rear Reflector are now available. Potentially up to 60 % throughput improvement can be achieved as a portion of the backwards emitted radiation is captured to the output. Newports Apex Series of quartz tungsten halogen systems are "plug-and-play" sources of VIS-NIR radiation. These sources use an integrated housing - lamp, electronics and condensing optics in a single enclosure. The lamp is held in a pre-aligned mount, so there is no need for lamp adjustments. The power supply is pre-set to operate the specified lamp. You don't need to adjust the current or voltage. Simply install the lamp, turn the source on, and you're ready to begin working. These systems are ideal for Researchers or Systems Integrators who have fixed power applications (i.e. no need to adjust the lamp's power), and don't need the versatility of our modular systems.

The URS Series provides precision 360 continuous motion in a low profile package. They meet the requirements of numerous research and industrial applications and are directly compatible with our VP (URS75), XM, GTS, ILS (URS100), IMS (URS100 and URS150) and other series of linear stages.

The following volume discount schedule is automatically applied when ordering bare optical fiber: 6 - 50 m with 15 %, 51- 1,000 m with 22 %, 1,000 m with 25 % Newport's Photonic Crystal Fibers (PCFs) can provide characteristics that ordinary optical fiber cannot, such as: single mode operation from the UV to IR with large mode-field diameters, highly nonlinear performance for super continuum generation, numerical aperture (NA) values ranging from very low to about 0.9, optimized dispersion properties, and air core guidance, among others. Applications for PCFs include spectroscopy, metrology, biomedicine, imaging, telecommunication, industrial machining, and military, and the list keeps growing as the technology becomes a mainstream. Photonic crystal fibers are generally divided into two main categories: Index Guiding fibers that have a solid core, and Photonic Bandgap or air guiding fibers that have periodic micro-structured elements and a core of low index material (e.g. hollow core). A Classification tree is shown below in Fig. 1. Newport offers F-SM Series Large Mode Area, endlessly single-mode PCFs, F-NL Series Highly Nonlinear PCFs, and F-AIR Series Photonic Bandgap fibers, manufactured by Crystal Fibre, the biggest commercial supplier of photonic crystal fibers. Also offered is the SCG-800 self contained Supercontinuum Generator (see Supercontinuum Fiber Module, SCG-800). Please refer to our Fiber Tutorial Section (see Tutorial on Fiber Optics) for more detailed information on the properties of Photonic Crystal Fibers. Newport's broad photonic crystal fiber selection provides the customers with the highest performance, most widely used fiber products.

With the expertise and years of experience at Richardson Gratings, Newport now offers customers the largest selection of plane ruled gratings. Designed for use in first order, these gratings are blazed for specific wavelengths and generally have high efficiency at those wavelengths. Flexibility in substrate material, size and coating type allow you to build the grating for your system.

The Newport Prism Compressor (PC) for Ultrashort Pulses is an easy to assemble setup to deliver the shortest pulse to your sample or device. A typical femtosecond pulse can have anywhere from 5 to 100 nm of bandwidth around the center wavelength of the laser. When a femtosecond pulse with that much bandwidth passes through any optical material such as a lens, beam-splitter, or Faraday isolator, it will experience pulse broadening due to group velocity dispersion (GVD). The good news is that the pulse broadening effects of GVD can be reversed and recompressed by using pairs of prisms, gratings or chirped mirrors.