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Practical guides to optical cutting, grinding, polishing and inspection—from material selection to process troubleshooting.
- Process Technology
A Φ14 mm germanium blank cut on a conventional coring machine leaves a 5–10 mm kerf ring — that’s often more material wasted than the lens itself weighs.
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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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