Holo/Or Newsletter – Q1 2025

Publications and conferences

Come meet us at SPIE Photonics west 2025, 28-30 January, Booth #1665

We are excited to meet our customers at the  photonics west conference  this year. Our team of experienced application engineers will be happy to help you with your  beam shaping needs and optical challanges . drop by our booth #1665 at The Moscone Center  for a chat or contact us to book an appointment beforehand for an in-depth discussion.

Diffractive optics in the service of quantum computing- trapping atoms with Diffractive Axicons

In a recently published article  , researchers from Atom Computing  have  used Holo/Or’s  Diffractive axicon to generate a magneto-optic trap for 171Yb Atoms, as a stage in creating an optically trapped  atomic array that serves as a qbit array.  Our Axicon has no apex region, making it suitable for applications requiring rings or annular beams with no disturbance in center.  Other diffractive optical elements such a beam splitters have many application in quantum computing- read more here.

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Products and Applications

New Product launch- Variable Depth of Focus Bessel Objective for glass cutting

Holo/Or is proud to present our new  laser glass cutting solution , the Variable Depth of Focus Bessel objective.

This full optical solution can generate a waist of 2um over an adjustable range of 0.08-1.8mm (in air), enabling cutting of different glass thickness with the same optics. The variable DOF objective can accommodate different input beam size while still maintaining the same waist diameter over different DOF ranges , making it ideal for laser glass cutting process development. Green and Uv wavlength customization  options are a available in addition to or standard IR solution.

Contact us for a quote  or more details.

Upcoming Product: Double sided cylindrical lens arrays with improved homogeneity

Driven by market demand, Holo/Or has developed the abilty to produce double sided element with precise alignemt, allowing us to offer  broad band line diffusers with unmatched integrated uniformity. Unlike simple double sided homogenizers, our BH line diffuser have both a sharp transfer region and good uniformity, without strong one-dimensional speckle modulations. The BH line diffusers are useful for biological  microscopy applications, thermal treatments and many pther applications utilzing high power multi mode lasers. Find out more details will in  our new article at photonicsviews

Technical Tips

Using DOE tuner for fine adjustments of the shape or input beam

To get the best performance out of beam shpaers, precise adjustment of input beam size is often required. Standard variable beam expanders often have large ranges of 1X-X8 magnification, making fine adjustmet challenging . For this purpose, Holo/Or offers our DOE tuner. This continous magnification module can be adjusted between X0.8-1.2 magnification, enabling fine control of the magnifcation and optimal shaping perforamnce for TH shapers placed after the module. It can also be used to fine tune the output from the beam shaper, enabling adjustment of the shape t ocompenstate for system tolerances such as EFl variabilty.

Contact us for a quote.