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Essential Concepts to Understanding Light and Optics

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Esco Optics welcomes you and is pleased to present a series of articles covering the basic concepts used in the field of optical design and manufacturing. Our goal is to provide a foundation of knowledge that is easily accessible for beginners, yet thorough enough to be used as a quick guide for anyone in the industry. As always, we welcome your feedback and encourage you to contact our technical sales engineers with your optical inquiries. At the heart of all optical design is the intent to manipulate light. Opticians bend it, they focus it, disperse, reflect and transmit it using a...

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Esco Supplies Prototype and Short Run Optical Components 

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Esco has seen a growing trend to supply smaller short run custom optics of quantities of 100 or less.

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Join Esco Optics at the 16th annual Western NY Optics Golf Tournament

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Esco Optics is proud to be a leading sponsor of this growing charitable event.

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Esco Optics Continues to Invest in Advanced Metrology

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Esco Optics adds a Zeiss O-INSPECT 322 Multisensor Measuring Machine to their metrology system.

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Esco Optics attends Photonics West 2016

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Photonics West 2016 Recap Esco Optics exhibited once again at the SPIE Photonics West exhibition in late February. It is the premier show for optical components supporting the areas of biomedical optics and biophotonics, industrial lasers and laser sources, optoelectronics devices and materials, nano-photonics and MEOMS-MEMs. The show attendance was 22,000 and 4,900 papers, and talks were presented as well.   Business was brisk at the Esco booth all week. Esco Optics raffled an iPad to attendees that visited the booth, and the lucky winner was Don Curry of MLD Technologies of Eugene, OR. Congratulations to Don! 2nd Annual Beer...

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