The Lumenarium: The official blog of Lumetrics, Inc.

Very cool news from the official blog of the New York Photonics organization:

filed under: Optics & Photonics News, Photonics

Great re-cap on the 2014 RRPC Annual Meeting- which was a huge success, as always. The push for the national manufacturing institute in Optics and Photonics to be created here in Rochester, NY is stronger than ever and hopefully our dreams will become a reality with lots of continued hard-work to make it happen. Read the full article on the New York Photonics blog!

filed under: Photonics, Thickness Measurement

Lumetrics was featured in a Glass International publication about how glass thickness measurement is a critical parameter in a successful operation. Vice President Steve Heveron-Smith described how an all fiber-based interferometer, like Lumetrics' OptiGauge™ can work in different glass applications.


Common methods for measuring glass include laser triangulation, spectrometers, digital micrometers, and manual touch gauges of various types. Manual touch gauges have all the issues inherent to manual measurements including variability based on user, longer time to measure, data integrity, and operator error. Automated gauges like spectrometers, and laser triangulation gauges remove the data integrity and time to measure issues, but often result in issues with set-up and usability.


Lumetrics® has developed an all-fiber based interferometer called the OptiGauge™. Traditional white light interferometers use a mechanical rotating flywheel with mirrors to provide the core function of creating interference fringes- what the system measures. The rotating flywheel is used in conjunction with free space optics, which channel a light beam through a series of mirrors and prisms and then out through an optical fiber to the probe and measured surface. These mirrors can be subject to alignment and use issues over time.


Read the full article here.

filed under: Engineering, glass thickness measurement, Non contact thickness measurement, optical interferometry, Thickness Measurement

filed under: medical balloon inspection, Medical Balloon Measurement, medical device inspection, Non contact thickness measurement, Optical Interferometry, Thickness Measurement

filed under: adhesive thickness measurement, medical device inspection, multi layer films, Non contact thickness measurement, Optical Interferometry, Thickness Measurement

filed under: Dimensional Measurement, Non contact thickness measurement, Optical Interferometry, Thickness Measurement

1) Absorbable Stents - Read a great article on how a New Standard Focuses on Testing of Absorbable Stents 

filed under: Catheter Measurement, cell phone, Dimensional Measurement, medical device inspection, NIST Traceable, Non-Contact Measurement, Non contact thickness measurement, Optical Interferometry, Thickness Measurement

From our file of "thickness measurement" challenges comes cell phone glass and its structure.  It's very easy for the OptiGauge™ to measure multiple layers of a product, but how does an engineer know what is good or bad?  Protective film, adhesive, outer glass- no problem.  We're often asked to measure the structure, especially the inner layers, and we do that very well! Read more

filed under: cell phone, Non contact thickness measurement, Optical Interferometry, Thickness Measurement

A few Lumetrics engineers were sitting around talking about what sorts of things we have measured and what interesting, or ordinary, things we can measure the thickness of. So, as we are asked to make thickness measurements of different objects, or as we think of things that would be fun to measure, we'll be bringing them to you.  Next up- rock salt! Read More

filed under: Non-Contact Measurement, Non contact thickness measurement, Optical Interferometry, Thickness Measurement

From our file of “Thickness Measurement” challenges comes a depth measurement application. Here’s another aspect of thickness measurement that the OptiGauge is ideal for – high precision depth measurement. Read More

filed under: Non-Contact Measurement, Non contact thickness measurement, Optical Interferometry, Thickness Measurement