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- Article (Technology)
Hydrophobic and Oleophobic Coatings
Applications in Imaging Optics Oleophobic refers to the physical property of a molecule that repels oil.
- Article (Products)
Sunex Part Number Tutorial
Sunex has many online tools designed to help you find a lens according to your specifications that is best suited to your application.
- Article (Technology)
The Art of Making an HDR Lens
HDR (High Dynamic Range, also WDR) – Dynamic range quantifies the ability of a system to adequately image both high lights and dark shadows in a scene.
- Article (Technology)
Finite Imaging; When Focusing to Infinity Doesn’t Cut it.
Many applications require that imaging lenses be optimized for a finite object, that is, for an object distance closer than “infinity.”
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Cleaning Procedure for Optics
The general guideline for cleaning optics is “if it's not dirty, don't clean it”. But if you have to, this is for you.
- Case Study
Lens Customization- What You Need to Know
One of the questions we frequently get at Sunex is some variation of, “Can I modify a standard lens, and what does this entail?”
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Boresight Stabilization™
Lenses designed with Boresight Stabilization™ can enhance survivability, reduce pointing error, and improve MTF stability.
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Lens mapping function and distortion
The concept of distortion describes how a lens maps a shape on the object plane to the image plane while assuming other aberrations are negligible.
- Article (Technology)
The Advantages and Disadvantages of Stopping Down a Lens
One modification that is commonly requested by our Customers is changing the F/# of a standard lens.
- Article (Technology)
Tailored Distortion®: Distortion Correction at the Speed of Light
Tailored Distortion® is an innovation from Sunex to manipulate the distortion to achieve the best image quality in accordance with a client’s requirements:
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When Does a Hyperspectral, or “Day-Night” Lens Make Sense?
A hyperspectral lens (also “Day-Night” or RGBIR) refers to a lens that has been optimized to maintain performance throughout the VIS and NIR bands.
- Case Study
Automotive Camera Trends Driving Changes in Optical Designs
The imaging applications in the automotive industry go through rapid changes.
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“Scaling” as a lens design tool
"Scaling' refers to a method where a known lens design is proportionally enlarged or reduced geometrically to meet a different image size requirement.
- Article (Technology)
Why is lens design so hard?
The difficulty arises primarily because of all the trade-offs involved in a lens design namespace constraint, performance targets, and cost.
- Article (Technology)
What is Active Alignment?
The value of Active Alignment (AA) lies in compensating for sensor plane to image plane variance in up to 6-axis..
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FOV Cone for Housing Design- Why the “Edge Ray Entrance Pupil” is Important
By definition, the entrance pupil of a system is the image of the aperture stop as seen from the object side of a lens system.
