Optical Colored Filter Glass
Polished Colored Glass Filters
Optical colored filter glass selectively transmits or absorbs specific light wavelengths, providing a durable, easy-to-maintain, and polarization-free filtering solution for astronomy, photography, scientific research, and sensor systems. This material type is available from Valley Design Corp. in customizable sizes, shapes, and thicknesses.
Colored optical filter glass is glass that has been tinted to selectively transmit or absorb specific wavelengths of light. Selective transmission allows for applications such as color separation, contrast enhancement, and spectral filtering. The advantages of colored filter glass include durability, ease of maintenance and cleaning, and the fact that it does not cause polarization effects. Polished colored filter glass can also serve as a cost-effective alternative to thin-film coated filters.
Applications for colored filter glass include:
- Astronomy: used to isolate specific wavelengths of light from celestial objects
- Photography: used for special effects, contrast enhancement, and color correction
- Scientific Research: used in microscopy, spectroscopy, and where precise spectral filtering is required
- Sensor Systems: blocks unwanted wavelengths of light, improves the signal-to-noise ratio
Valley Design Corporation offers standard and custom-sized colored glass filters polished from high-quality optical glass. Colored filter glass components range from as small as .127mm square to 300mm, with thicknesses from as thin as 75μm to 10.0mm.
Standard Sizes of Optical Glass Filters
- 50mm square x 1mm thick
- 50mm square x 2mm thick
- 50mm square x 3mm thick
Custom Colored Glass Filters in all shapes, tolerances, and thickness with reasonable lead times:
| SHAPES |
TOLERANCES AND THICKNESSES |
| Squares and Rounds |
Geometries from 2mm to 200mm |
| Rectangles |
Ultra-thin to 50 microns |
| Odd shapes |
Thicknesses up to 15mm thick |
| Filters with holes |
Angstrom level super-polished finishes |
| Protection Chamfers |
Micron level tolerances |
Colored Filter Glass Specifications and Stock Lists
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