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Equilateral Prisms are used routinely as dispersing elements where spectral separation is required. They provide better brightness (lower stray light) than diffraction gratings. They also have greater power handling capabilities and avoid possible confusion when trying to interpret overlapping spectral orders. It must be remembered ...

Specifications

Material: SF10
Wavelength Range: 400-2400nm
Dimension (A): 60 mm
Dimension (B): 60 mm
Dimension (C): 60 mm
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Data Sheet
Equilateral Prisms are used routinely as dispersing elements where spectral separation is required. They provide better brightness (lower stray light) than diffraction gratings. They also have greater power handling capabilities and avoid possible confusion when trying to interpret overlapping spectral orders. It must be remembered ...

Specifications

Material: SF10
Wavelength Range: 400-2400nm
Dimension (A): 30 mm
Dimension (B): 30 mm
Dimension (C): 30 mm
...
Data Sheet
Equilateral Prisms are used routinely as dispersing elements where spectral separation is required. They provide better brightness (lower stray light) than diffraction gratings. They also have greater power handling capabilities and avoid possible confusion when trying to interpret overlapping spectral orders. It must be remembered ...

Specifications

Material: N-BK7
Wavelength Range: 330-2100nm
Dimension (A): 60 mm
Dimension (B): 60 mm
Dimension (C): 60 mm
...
Data Sheet
Equilateral Prisms are used routinely as dispersing elements where spectral separation is required. They provide better brightness (lower stray light) than diffraction gratings. They also have greater power handling capabilities and avoid possible confusion when trying to interpret overlapping spectral orders. It must be remembered ...

Specifications

Material: N-BK7
Wavelength Range: 330-2100nm
Dimension (A): 30 mm
Dimension (B): 30 mm
Dimension (C): 30 mm
...
Data Sheet
Equilateral Prisms are used routinely as dispersing elements where spectral separation is required. They provide better brightness (lower stray light) than diffraction gratings. They also have greater power handling capabilities and avoid possible confusion when trying to interpret overlapping spectral orders. It must be remembered ...

Specifications

Material: N-BK7, F2, SF10
Wavelength Range: 330-2100nm
Dimension (A): 20 mm
Dimension (B): 20 mm
Dimension (C): 20 mm
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Data Sheet
A Right Angle Prism is used to turn or deflect a beam through 90° or 180°. In either case this is achieved by total internal reflection and produces a very efficient broadband reflector. It is important that the incoming beam is collimated and enters the prism at a normal angle of incidence. This is so that total internal ...

Specifications

Material: BK7, FS
Dimensions (A): 25.4 mm
Dimensions (B): 25.4 mm
Dimensions (C): 25.4 mm
Data Sheet
A Right Angle Prism is used to turn or deflect a beam through 90° or 180°. In either case this is achieved by total internal reflection and produces a very efficient broadband reflector. It is important that the incoming beam is collimated and enters the prism at a normal angle of incidence. This is so that total internal ...

Specifications

Material: BK7, FS
Dimensions (A): 12.7 mm
Dimensions (B): 12.7 mm
Dimensions (C): 12.7 mm
Data Sheet
A Right Angle Prism is used to turn or deflect a beam through 90° or 180°. In either case this is achieved by total internal reflection and produces a very efficient broadband reflector. It is important that the incoming beam is collimated and enters the prism at a normal angle of incidence. This is so that total internal ...

Specifications

Material: BK7, FS
Dimensions (A): 25.4 mm
Dimensions (B): 25.4 mm
Dimensions (C): 25.4 mm
Data Sheet
Please note that PG&O\'s prisms are available from 3 mm x 3mm x 3mm up to 200 mm x 200 mm x 200 mm.

Specifications

Material: BK7, Other
Dimension (A): 50 mm
Dimension (B): 50 mm
Dimension (h): 50 mm
Mounting: Unmounted
Data Sheet
Brewster Prisms are designed to have an apex angle such that a p-polarized ray incident at Brewster’s angle will pass through the prism parallel to the base at minimum deviation, and exit also at Brewster’s angle. In this case surface reflection losses are negligible. Brewster Prisms are often used in situations where surface ...

Specifications

Dimension (A - Height): 15 mm
Dimrnsion (B - Length): 15 mm
Dimension (C - Width): -- mm
Material: UVFS
Data Sheet
Brewster Prisms are designed to have an apex angle such that a p-polarized ray incident at Brewster’s angle will pass through the prism parallel to the base at minimum deviation, and exit also at Brewster’s angle. In this case surface reflection losses are negligible. Brewster Prisms are often used in situations where surface ...

Specifications

Material: UV Grade Fused Silica, SF10
Dimension (A): 15 mm
Dimension (B): 15 mm
Surface Quality (scratch-dig): Not Specified
Surface Flatness: Not Specified
Data Sheet
Dove Prisms are a truncated form of right angle prism. They use total internal reflection to produce an inverted image which emerges without any beam deviation. The main application for these prisms are as image rotators. Rotating the prism about an optical axis results in the image rotating at double the angular velocity of the ...

Specifications

Material: BK7
Dimension (A): 10 mm
Dimension (B): 42 mm
Dimension (h): -- mm
Mounting: Unmounted
Data Sheet
Penta Prisms deviate an incident beam through 90° without inverting or reversing it. They also show constant deviation (i.e. the beam is deviated through 90° irrespective of the orientation of the prism). The accuracy of the 90° deviation is therefore only dependent on the manufacturing tolerances of the prism. These prisms are ...

Specifications

Material: BK7
Dimension (A): 7 mm
Dimension (B): 6 mm
Mounting: Unmounted
Data Sheet
Anamorphic Prism Pairs are used mainly to correct the asymmetric beam shape of a Laser Diode – from elliptical to near circular shape. This is done by expanding (or contracting) the beam in one direction only while the other direction remains unchanged. The aspect ratio of the elliptical beam varies according to the laser ...

Specifications

Material: N-SF11
Dimension (A): 12 mm
Dimension (B): 12 mm
Dimension (C): 8,5 mm
Data Sheet
Equilateral Prisms are used routinely as dispersing elements where spectral separation is required. They provide better brightness (lower stray light) than diffraction gratings. They also have greater power handling capabilities and avoid possible confusion when trying to interpret overlapping spectral orders. It must be remembered ...

Specifications

Material: N-BK7, F2, SF10
Wavelength Range: 330-2100nm
Dimension (A): 30 mm
Dimension (B): 30 mm
Dimension (C): 30 mm
...
Data Sheet
A Right Angle Prism is used to turn or deflect a beam through 90° or 180°. In either case this is achieved by total internal reflection and produces a very efficient broadband reflector. It is important that the incoming beam is collimated and enters the prism at a normal angle of incidence. This is so that total internal reflection ...

Specifications

Material: BK7, FS
Dimensions (A): 12.7 mm
Dimensions (B): 12.7 mm
Dimensions (C): 12.7 mm
Data Sheet
We make a wide variety of prisms with some of our best sellers are ATR prisms in IR materials. 

Specifications

Material: BK7, FS, UVFS, IRFS, N-SF11, ZnSe, Ge, Other
Dimension (A): 5-100 mm
Dimension (B): 5-100 mm
Dimension (h): 5-100 mm
Mounting: Unmounted, Mounted
Data Sheet
Wedge prism has plane inclined surfaces. It deflects light toward its thicker portion. It can be used individually to deflect a beam to a special angle. Two wedge prisms work together can assembly an anamorphic prism to correct the elliptical shape of laser beam. The wedge prism is ideal for laser beam steering applications. By ...

Specifications

Diameter: 25.4 mm
Thickness (T): 3 mm
Wedge Angle: 1 deg
Material: BK7, FS, UVFS, N-SF11, BaF2
Data Sheet
Dove prism is always used to rotate image. If you rotate the prism around a longitudinal axis, the image rotates through twice the angle the prism rotates through. Sometimes, dove prism is also used for 180deg reflection

Specifications

Material: BK7, UVFS
Dimension (A): 21.1 mm
Dimension (B): 5 mm
Dimension (h): 5 mm
Mounting: Unmounted
Data Sheet
Porro prism is a type of reflection prism which can be used to alter the orientation of an image. Light enters the large face of the prism, then hits on the roof, by total internal reflection twice from the roof, the beam exits again through the large face. An image traveling through a Porro prism is rotated by 180deg but not inverted.

Specifications

Material: BK7, UVFS
Dimension (Height): 12.7 mm
Dimension (Width): 12.7 mm
Dimension (Length): 12.7 mm
Data Sheet
Half Penta prism is exactly an half cut from penta prism, it is widely used in telescope

Specifications

Material: BK7, FS, UVFS
Dimension (A): 10 mm
Dimension (B): 10 mm
Mounting: Unmounted
Data Sheet
An incident beam can be deviated by 90 degree without inverting or reversing through a Penta prism. Penta prism has five sides, four of them polished. Two reflective sides are coated with metal or dielectric HR coating and these two sides can be blackened. The deviation angle of 90deg will not be changed if the penta prism is ...

Specifications

Material: BK7, FS, UVFS
Dimension (A): 10 mm
Dimension (B): 10 mm
Mounting: Unmounted
Data Sheet
Right Angle Prism can be used to bend a beam by 90deg or 180deg, depending on which face is entrance face. Please refer to following image to see how it works. Now Union Optic can provide right angle prisms from 0.5mm to 50.8mm size. Special size can also be offered upon request.

Specifications

Material: BK7, FS, UVFS, Other
Dimensions (A): 10 mm
Dimensions (B): 10 mm
Dimensions (C): 10 mm
Data Sheet
Half-Penta prisms or Semipentaprisms are used to deviate the line of sight by 45° without inverting or reverting the image. The beam is reflected twice in the prism, with one reflection happening at less than the critical angle, therefore the prism requires aluminized and over-coated with Inconel and black paint for ...

Specifications

Material: BK7
Dimension (A): 25 mm
Dimension (B): 15 mm
Mounting: Unmounted
Angle Tolerance: 3 arc min
Data Sheet
Right-Angle Prisms can be used to deviate a light path by 90° or 180°, depending on which surface is used as the input for the light source. These prisms are fabricated from N-BK7, UV fused silica, N-SF11 etc They can be AR coated or metal coated.  

Specifications

Material: BK7, FS, UVFS, N-SF11, Ge
Dimensions (A): 12.7 mm
Dimensions (B): 12.7 mm
Dimensions (C): 12.7 mm
Angle Tolerance: 10 arc Sec
Data Sheet