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Practical guides to optical cutting, grinding, polishing and inspection—from material selection to process troubleshooting.
- NEWS & INSIGHTS
The majority of buyers judge a diamond coated cutting wire solely on grit size. They don’t even check the bead spacing. But it’s often the spacing that decides
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- NEWS & INSIGHTS
It’s easy to cut through glass cleanly. A smooth curve is much harder to do. That’s when you really see if a cutting machine for glass is good.
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- Industrial Application
A ZnS optics cutting machine is precision slicing equipment configured specifically for zinc sulfide — a brittle infrared optical material that fractures readily under conventional cutting forces and
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- NEWS & INSIGHTS
How can you cut hard materials and lose less product every time? I have been in the industrial cutting and abrasive wire business for over 7 years. This
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- NEWS & INSIGHTS
Why do certain diamond wires cut well, but others shatter quickly? I have worked in the industrial diamond wire cutting area for the last 8 years. I have
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- Technical Articles
An uncoated ZnSe lens loses approximately 17% of incident light per surface to Fresnel reflection at 10.6 μm — the primary CO₂ laser wavelength. ZnSe AR coating reduces
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- NEWS & INSIGHTS
Are you getting the most out of your cutting machine? I have been working in hard brittle material cutting machine industry for more than 7 years. I have
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How can manufacturers cut sapphire without shattering it? I have been in this industry for 8 years. I will show you an industrial glass wafer slicing machine and
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- Process Technology
Every CO₂ laser cutting head contains a set of zinc selenide optics that the laser beam passes through before hitting the workpiece. Those lenses, windows, and output couplers
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- Case Studies
Case file ZS-2503 Customer: ZnSe optics producer (name withheld) Task: blocks & rods to wafers Machines: SG 20 · SG 40 · SGI 20 · SGR 20 ZnSe
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- Case Studies
Case file GE-2502 Customer: germanium wafer producer (name withheld) Task: rod-to-wafer slicing Machine: SG 20 Germanium puck slicing on the SG 20: 42% more throughput, half the operator
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- Case Studies
Irregular Germanium Lens Cutting: 2 Tests to 4 Orders Case file GE-2401 Customer: Sunny Optical Material: single-crystal germanium Machine: SGI 20 Irregular germanium lens cutting at Sunny Optical:
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