Published Papers
How Well Can the Point Source Microscope (PSM) Locate the Source of a Single Mode Fiber?
I needed to measure the height of a free space fiber termination above an optical bench the other day and in the process remembered a question I had been asked in passing. Since I had the pieces of such an experiment in front of me, all I had to do was save a couple of […]
News & Announcements for January 2021
GOOD NEWS FOR THE NEW YEAR, THE STANDARD PSM WORKS IN THE NEAR IR Many times potential customers have asked “How far does the PSM work into the infrared?” I told them the standard PSM works as far out as 1050 nm with the CMOS camera that comes with every new PSM because I have […]
News & Announcements for December 2020
How well can the Point Source Microscope (PSM) find a point in space? A POTENTIAL CUSTOMER FOR A PSM RECENTLY ASKED “WHAT IS THE ACCURACY/REPEATABILITY OF ALIGNMENT OF OPTICAL AXIS?” The question is a little ambiguous as to exactly what he was asking for, but my own experience in the lab is that the PSM […]
News & Announcements for November 2020
I am sorry to say I did not get to meet any of you personally at either the SPIE Optics and Photonics show in San Diego or the American Society for Precision Engineering Exhibit scheduled for Minneapolis in October. THE CENTERING STATION DOES PRECISION CENTERING WITHOUT THE NEED OF A ROTARY TABLE. THIS MAKES CENTERING […]
Recent Posts
- Chapter 23 Alignment of Convex Surfaces
- Chapter 22 – Simulation of the alignment of a Cooke triplet using a Bessel beam reference
- Chapter 21 – Bessel Beam Alignment of a Single Lense
- Chapter 20: Aligning Off-Axis Parabolas with a Bessel Beam — It’s Much Easier
- Chapter 19 – Microscope Objective to Tube Lens Alignment