New Agilent beamsplitters promise precision

Agilent’s beamsplitters are available in displacement, cube, and plate geometries. (Photo: Agilent)

Feb. 22, 2007&#8212Agilent Technologies Inc. announced its new family of high-performance thin-film beamsplitters, designed to provide precision beam control for nanotechnology measurement and other applications. The polarizing, non-polarizing and wavelength beamsplitters are available in multiple geometries to fit a variety of requirements.

Agilent’s beamsplitters promise near-distortionless beam splitting with the option for parallel or orthogonal output, and eighth-wave to tenth-wave TWD in both output beams. Agilent says its displacement beamsplitters accurately split an input beam into two or more displaced output beams with industry-leading parallelism, accurate to 25 arcseconds. The company’s cube beamsplitters are designed to separate an input beam into two beams exiting at a 90-degree angle to each other. Compact plate beamsplitters promise low thermal mass with lower wavefront distortion and arcsecond wedge tolerance for precise 90-degree separation between the output beams. In addition, Agilent boasts that its polarization beamsplitters offer performance with a 1,000:1 contrast ratio in both transmitted and reflected beams.

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