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Practical guides to optical cutting, grinding, polishing and inspection—from material selection to process troubleshooting.
- NEWS & INSIGHTS
Look up a CNC glass cutting machine and prices can skyrocket by tens of thousands of dollars. Two machines can look almost identical on paper. So what’s all
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- Process Technology
Automotive thermal imaging systems require IR lens blanks cut to tighter dimensional tolerances than standard industrial optics — because a lens that passes incoming inspection can still fail
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- Process Technology
A 200 mm germanium ingot costs $6,000–$10,000 at current spot prices. Traditional core-drilling wastes 5–10 mm of material per blank cut; diamond wire saw cutting reduces that kerf
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- 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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- NEWS & INSIGHTS
An industrial glass wafer slicing machine must fit the material, workpiece dimensions, target slice, and production pattern. The word “industrial” alone does not define a machine’s capacity or
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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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