Prism and Retroreflector Selection Guide

Newport prisms offerings include right angle prism, triangular prism, penta prism made from best grade BK7 and fused silica glasses. Optical prism can be purchased with standard anti reflection coating or any other custom coating for various scientific and industrial applications. Newport offers a wide variety of glass retroreflectors and protected gold, protected silver and protected aluminum coated metallic retroreflectors for easy alignment of laser pulses in spectroscopy applications.

Selecting a Prism or Retroreflector

Click Prisms and Retroreflectors to shop or browse all of our standard models, or select a product series below for more information on our products and capabilities.

Prisms		Features
	Right-Angle Prisms	• BK 7 or UV fused silica • Excellent for beam bending and retroreflection applications • Available in different sizes from 3.2 mm to 50.8 mm • AR coatings improve transmission • Optional aluminized hypotenuse avilable for HT and VALUMAX® prisms
	Brewster Angle Dispersing Prisms For Ultrashort Pulses	• For precise dispersion compensation • For external cavity pulse manipulation • UV fused silica, LaKL21 optical glass or NEW SF10 higher index material • 15 mm or 25 mm sizes
	Penta Prisms	• Precise 90° beam deviation • 30 arc sec accuracy • Image neither inverted nor reversed • Insensitive to alignment
Retroreflectors		Features
	Replicated Hollow Metal Retroreflectors	• Monolithic, all metal construction • Integral mount • Multiple return beam accuracy options • Rugged, impact resistant construction
	Broadband Hollow Retroreflectors	• New Silver Coating • Parallelism to 1 arc sec • UV, visible, VIS-IR or IR coatings • Wavefront distortion ≤Λ/3 • Stress-free mounting for thermal stability • 25.4 and 63.5 mm aperture sizes
	Solid Glass Retroreflectors	• 180° reflection independent of angle of incidence • 2 arc sec accuracy • Image inverted and reversed
Homogenizers		Features
	Light Pipe Homogenizer	• Provides highly uniform or homgenized illumination • Square cross section and very sharp edges for most efficient homgenization • Three different sizes • Safe mounting design allows for manual rotation of light pipe

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