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Tip No 5
Tip No 5: Leadtime and cost can be reduced by choosing an ‘off the shelf’ substrate Vortex manufacture a wide range of custom filters, come and...
Tip No 4
Tip No 4: Shape, a square filter is less expensive than a round filter! More tips to follow! Vortex manufacture a wide range of custom filters,...
Tip No 2: Don’t ‘Over specify’
Don’t ‘Over specify’ on those key parameters, see table below which list some standard achievable tolerances within the industry, More tips to...
Tips for Saving Money when Buying Optical Filters
In optical systems a coated optical filter is a key enabling component. When specifying them here are a few useful tips to keep the cost down… Tip...
What are Narrow Band Filters ?
Narrow Band Pass Filters (NBP) are a key component in optical instrument design. They are the critical element that ‘sensitizes or tunes’ the system...
Short Wave Pass Filters what are they?
Short Wave Pass Filters or SWP filters are a commonly used building block in optical instrument design. As the name suggests, they allow light of...
Dichroic filters; What are they ?
In many optical systems splitting of certain parts of the spectrum may be required to guide radiation into certain paths . This is often done by a...
Long Wave Pass Filters; What are they?
Long Wave Pass Filters or LWP filters are a commonly used building block in optical instrument design. Long Wave pass filters, as the name...