Tunable Optical Components

Tunable Optical Components for Wavelength Selection and Laser Pulse Shaping

PerkinElmer Life Sciences offers an award-winning portfolio of solid-state Liquid Crystal Tunable Filters (LCTFs) and linear-array Spatial Light Modulators (SLMs) for researchers and engineers in need of robust no-moving-parts multispectral/hyperspectral imaging and laser modulation solutions. All components feature superior optical quality and the Cambridge Research & Instrumentation, Inc. (CRi) 25-year reputation for excellence in design, manufacturing, and intuitive operation.

VariSpec™ filters digitally tune through the VIS or NIR spectrum for precise wavelength selection for your imaging and even non-imaging applications. Micro*Color™ & Macro*Color™ filters create exquisite color images from your high-resolution grayscale camera. Thousands of our solid-state liquid crystal tunable filters (LCTFs) have been sold for biomedical imaging, industrial metrology, forensics, remote sensing, and historical document imaging. SLMs enable ultrafast femtosecond laser pulse-shaping by modulating amplitude and/or phase in your experiments. Choose from 12-bit 128- or 640-pixel optical masks, and phase, amplitude, or simultaneous phase & amplitude control.

Liquid Crystal (LC) technology is not only used in our own Nuance™ EX, Nuance™ FX, TRIO™, Vectra™ , and Maestro™ imaging systems, but also in thousands of other instruments distributed by our OEM partners in other industries.



Products

MicroColor and MacroColor Tunable Color Filters

Wavelength Tuning for Exquisite Color with Grayscale CamerasMicro*Color™ sliders and optical coupler-mounted...  View more

Spatial Light Modulators (SLMs)

Amplitude and Phase Modulation in a Compact Form FactorThe initial development of modern liquid crystal...  View more

VariSpec LC Tunable Filters

Wavelength Tuning for Multispectral ImagingVariSpec™ tunable filters perform like high quality interference...  View more