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Alkor Technologies provide a large variety of optical mirrors from flat to concave spherical mirrors. Please contact us for pricing and delivery terms.
Flat mirrors do not form images. They are used to change the path of the optical system. Designers often use flat mirrors to fold a large system so that it fits within the envelope of a small product. Designers also use mirrors to invert images left to right or up and down. Flat mirrors come in a variety of shapes - square, round and rectangular Alkor's flat mirrors are available with many different coatings as well as substrate materials.
The optical power of a concave mirror is positive, like that of a convex refracting surface. Like a singlet lens, a concave mirror can produce a magnified or reduced, inverted image. The quality of the image produced by a spherical concave mirror is comparable to that obtained
with a single lens element but the mirror surpasses the lens in its color performance (a mirror has no aberrations of color since all colors experience the same geometry of reflection.)
When laser engineers specify a reflecting surface they require precisely polished surface contours and high reflectance at specific wavelengths. For high-power laser applications, they also require coatings with high thresholds for laser-induced damage.
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