Key Considerations for Choosing the Right Optical Filters for Your Application

Controlling what wavelengths are transmitted, reflected, and absorbed with optical filters is essential to countless optical applications. In this presentation, Callaghan breaks down the different types of filters and key considerations for specifying the right filters for your unique needs. Learn about the key design, manufacturing, and metrology challenges faced during filter development and how to optimize your system performance by choosing the right optical filters.

About the presenter
Kathrin Callaghan, Ph.D., is the product line manager for hard-coated optical filters at Edmund Optics UK. She has 12 years of postdoctoral and professional experience in life sciences and optical technologies, particularly microscopy and spectroscopy. Callaghan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in biochemical sciences from the University of Salford, UK and a doctorate in drug design and biophysics from the University of Salford, UK.