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Choosing the right manufacturing partner can make the difference in meeting and exceeding your requirements for precision imaged optical components, test targets and charts, calibration standards, or photomasks.  How do you know where to start when you need...

  Darren Dixon, an employee at APPLIED IMAGE, experiences life without glasses for the first time. He recently got LASIK and loves his newfound visual freedom. “It’s a borderline miraculous feeling! I have worn glasses since I was in 5th grade (contacts too). The...

As medical professionals continue to improve diagnostic methods and procedures, there has been an increase in development of noninvasive imaging techniques to examine all types of tissue and cells. Most recently, we learned of a team of researches at Lahey Hospital in...

APPLIED IMAGE President, Glenn Jackling was a recent guest on Marketscale's B2B podcast. Glenn and host Daniel Litwin discussed a number of topics related to the Photonics industry's rapid growth, specifically in New York State, over the past few years. Click the...

A principal method of 3D imaging, structured light offers many applications from augmented reality to real-time medical imaging. There are a number of imaging techniques used for structured light. Similarly, sinusoidal arrays have a large number of applications, many...

When customers come to us to design & manufacture a custom component, the conversation usually begins with the substrate. There is a lot to consider beyond just glass, paper, or film. Imaging on each has its advantages, are there are plenty of...

Using USAF-1951 Resolution Test Target Resolution features of the USAF-1951 Resolution Chart are arranged in elements and groups. Each Element is made up of equally spaced bars; three horizontal and three vertical. Groups consist of six elements labeled 1...

Using NBS-1010A Resolution Test Target A resolution test chart is used to allow quick and easy testing of the ability of an optical system to produce images with fine detail. The patterns are in groups which progressively get smaller. The smallest group for which the...

Dropped and broke your stage micrometer? Scratched while cleaning or mishandling it? This can be easily avoided.   Remember. Most stage micrometer’s substrate material consists of a fragile thin piece of glass or opal material and the scale image is manufactured...

Today there are a myriad of off-the-shelf test targets and charts on various substrate materials and in a wide range of sizes from a multitude of companies for general or specific applications. To help narrow your chose of the best target/chart for your application it...

One of the common misconceptions in using a reticle scale in an optical system is that the reticle scale (or pattern) noted dimensions will be the dimensions of the sample being measured within the optical instrument. This is a major misconception and is not true....

To many people defining a specific color is an impossible task. Can you tell what the color is in the primary box area to the left? Beware, it’s color rendition can be different from the original Jpeg file image depending on your viewing monitor, which is in its own...

Millions of products all over the United States use barcodes. Standard UPC barcodes help businesses throughout the supply chain to track and monitor their own products and those of partners, ensuring everything gets to its intended destination on time. Bar codes are...