Optical prisms are transparent, solid optical components with flat, polished surfaces that refract and reflect light, playing a crucial role in manipulating light beams. They are used to redirect, split, or combine light, and can also separate white light into its component colors (dispersion). Different prism types are designed for specific functions, such as deflection, rotation, or displacement of light.
Our wide range of high-grade Optical Prisms are divided into 10 main categories to allow easier identification and matching towards your research application.
A prism can be used to break light up into its constituent spectral colors (the colors of the rainbow). Prisms can also be used to reflect light, or to split light into components with different polarizations.
Right Angle Prisms can bend light at either 90-Deg or 180-Deg and can be used for retro-reflectors, telescopes, and mirror substitutes etc. The right angle surfaces may come with anti reflection coating at different wavelength.
CORNER CUBE RETRO-REFLECTOR PRISMS
PHOTONIK retro-reflector is a trihedral prism manufactured from fine BK7 optical glass. Three total internal reflections send a fully inverted reflection of the input beam or image backwards toward the original direction. This reflection is parallel to the input beam or image, making the retro-reflector useful in applications involving beam alignment and beam delivery. The insensitivity of the prism’s physical orientation ensures that even when the beam or incident light enters the prism off its normal, there will still be a 180-deg inverted reflection.
A roof penta prism is a type of optical prism used to deviate light by a precise 90-degree angle, while also correcting the image’s lateral inversion. It’s a variation of the penta prism, incorporating a “roof” section (two surfaces meeting at a 90-degree angle) on one of its reflective faces. This roof section effectively flips the image laterally, compensating for the reversal that occurs when light passes through a lens and is reflected by a mirror in a single-lens reflex camera, for example.
Dove prisms are reflective prisms which are commonly used to invert an image, especially when the inverted image cannot be laterally transposed. The shape of a Dove prism follows that of a truncated right-angle prism. The applications of Dove prisms are based on the theory of total internal reflection, causing the images that pass through the Dove prism to be flipped.
The Dove prism is designed as an image rotator. If the Dove prism is rotated along its longitudinal axis, the image transmitted through the prism will rotate by an angle twice of that of the rotation of the prism. Therefore Dove prisms can rotate a beam of light by an arbitrary angle, an important feature required in astronomy and interferometry.
CIM-500A-R1030/1200 Series input pump laser cavity mirrors allow 500-980nm laser light with 0-deg angle of incidence to go into the laser cavity and reflect 1030-1200nm laser light in the laser cavity.
CIM-808A-0532/1064 Series input laser cavity mirrors allow 808nm laser light with 0-deg angle of incidence to go into the laser cavity and reflect 532nm and 1064nm laser light in the laser cavity.
CIM-808B-1064 Series input laser cavity mirrors (input pump mirrors) allow 808nm laser light with 45-deg angle of incidence to go into the laser cavity and reflect 1064nm laser light in the laser cavity.
CIM-940A-1030/1080 Series input laser cavity mirrors allow 940nm laser light with 0-deg angle of incidence to go into the laser cavity and reflect 1030nm – 1200nm laser light in the laser cavity.
PHOTONIK BRAND Broadband Dielectric Mirrors offer excellent reflectivity of R>99% for 400-900nm spectrum.
A dielectric mirror is a type of a mirror composed of multiple thin layers of dielectric material, typically deposited on a substrate of optical material (e.g. glass). By careful choice of the type and thickness of the dielectric layers, we can design an optical coating with specified reflectivity at different wavelengths of light. Dielectric mirrors are also used to produce ultra-high reflectivity mirrors: values of 99.999% or better over a narrow range of wavelengths can be produced using special techniques.
Alternatively, they can be made to reflect a broad spectrum of light, such as the entire visible range or the spectrum of the Ti-sapphire laser. Broadband Dielectric Mirrors of this type are very common in optics experiments, due to improved and advanced techniques that allow inexpensive manufacture of high-quality mirrors. Examples of their applications include laser cavity end mirrors, hot and cold mirrors, thin-film beamsplitters, and the coatings on modern mirrorshades.
PHOTONIK BRAND Broadband Dielectric Mirrors offer excellent reflectivity of R>99% for 400-900nm spectrum.
A dielectric mirror is a type of a mirror composed of multiple thin layers of dielectric material, typically deposited on a substrate of optical material (e.g. glass). By careful choice of the type and thickness of the dielectric layers, we can design an optical coating with specified reflectivity at different wavelengths of light. Dielectric mirrors are also used to produce ultra-high reflectivity mirrors: values of 99.999% or better over a narrow range of wavelengths can be produced using special techniques.
Alternatively, they can be made to reflect a broad spectrum of light, such as the entire visible range or the spectrum of the Ti-sapphire laser. Broadband Dielectric Mirrors of this type are very common in optics experiments, due to improved and advanced techniques that allow inexpensive manufacture of high-quality mirrors. Examples of their applications include laser cavity end mirrors, hot and cold mirrors, thin-film beamsplitters, and the coatings on modern mirrorshades.
PHOTONIK BRAND Broadband Dielectric Mirrors offer excellent reflectivity of R>99% for 400-900nm spectrum.
A dielectric mirror is a type of a mirror composed of multiple thin layers of dielectric material, typically deposited on a substrate of optical material (e.g. glass). By careful choice of the type and thickness of the dielectric layers, we can design an optical coating with specified reflectivity at different wavelengths of light. Dielectric mirrors are also used to produce ultra-high reflectivity mirrors: values of 99.999% or better over a narrow range of wavelengths can be produced using special techniques.
Alternatively, they can be made to reflect a broad spectrum of light, such as the entire visible range or the spectrum of the Ti-sapphire laser. Broadband Dielectric Mirrors of this type are very common in optics experiments, due to improved and advanced techniques that allow inexpensive manufacture of high-quality mirrors. Examples of their applications include laser cavity end mirrors, hot and cold mirrors, thin-film beamsplitters, and the coatings on modern mirrorshades.
PHOTONIK BRAND Broadband Dielectric Mirrors offer excellent reflectivity of R>99% for 400-900nm spectrum.
A dielectric mirror is a type of a mirror composed of multiple thin layers of dielectric material, typically deposited on a substrate of optical material (e.g. glass). By careful choice of the type and thickness of the dielectric layers, we can design an optical coating with specified reflectivity at different wavelengths of light. Dielectric mirrors are also used to produce ultra-high reflectivity mirrors: values of 99.999% or better over a narrow range of wavelengths can be produced using special techniques.
Alternatively, they can be made to reflect a broad spectrum of light, such as the entire visible range or the spectrum of the Ti-sapphire laser. Broadband Dielectric Mirrors of this type are very common in optics experiments, due to improved and advanced techniques that allow inexpensive manufacture of high-quality mirrors. Examples of their applications include laser cavity end mirrors, hot and cold mirrors, thin-film beamsplitters, and the coatings on modern mirrorshades.