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Over the past eighteen years, Labsphere has been involved with on going research to improve the state-of-the art in reflectance coatings and materials used as artifact standards for reflectance. Our journey has led us in many directions. To evaluate coatings and materials, our Reflectance Research Laboratory has accumulated perhaps the world's finest collection of UV-Vis, UV-Vis-NIR, and FT-IR spectrometers dedicated to the measurement of diffuse and specular reflectance. This enables us to continue research for the improvement of our current reflectance materials and coatings as well as the development of new materials. Our applications base is the largest in the industry- as we work closely with our customers to fill their particular optical or reflectance needs. Our coatings and materials have literally spanned the solar system (the Mars Observer used a Labsphere Infragoldª infrared calibration panel and lunar and asteroid probes employ InfraGold-LF panels) to the depths of the seas. The airplanes you fly in, the photos you have developed, the checks you receive from the bank, the medical test instrument that analyzes your blood- all are likely to contain Labsphere reflectance coatings or materials.



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Category: Distribution

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Category: Distribution

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Category: Static Control Flooring And Esd Tiling

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Category: Distribution

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Manufactures and engineers Aerogels used for applications in the High Technology industrial marketplace.

Category: Aerogels

North American company selling to Manufacturing groups plasma systems. AST Products Inc has been listed in MA Manufacturing since 1999.

Category: Plasma Systems

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Category: Ferrofluidic Seals

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Category: Raman

A producer of specialty integrating sphere components for the NH High Technology retail space.

Category: Integrating Sphere Components

Offers a range of nuclear metals engineering, formulation and production consulting services and is posted in the Corporate High Technology market.

Category: Nuclear Metals Engineering, Formulation And Production

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Category: Liquid Handling Automation

Industrial company designs, manufactures and markets products, services and technologies including nitrogen laser, used in the High Technology vertical marketplace.

Category: Nitrogen Laser

A High Technology company that develops, manufactures and blends performance-enhancing optical lasers for the Manufacturing market.

Category: Optical Lasers

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Category: Photonics

Applied Science Labs

Category: High Technology

Optelec

Category: High Technology

Senko Semiconductors

Category: High Technology

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Provides and builds gauging equipment. Found in the Manufacturing, Materials and Heavy Equipment group in this directory.

Category: Gauging Equipment

Offers a range of services including shipping supplies. Horn Packaging- Ayer has been a member since 1997 in the Materials and Heavy Equipment directory.

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Distributor with worldwide sales capacity and industrial supply, Wilevco in the Manufacturing market sells and services high capacity commercial food service preparation equipment in MA, and has been a member since 2001.

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Provides and engineers print production and laminates. Found in the Manufacturing, Materials and Heavy Equipment group in this directory.

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Bascom Turner

Category: Materials And Heavy Equipment

Broomfield Laboratories

Category: Materials And Heavy Equipment

Manufacturing- Contract Manufacturing

As one of the area's privately-owned Manufacturing corporations, NES Technologies in MA Manufacturing provides component manufacturing and assembly work. Member since 1999.

Category: Component Manufacturing And Assembly Work

North American company selling to Manufacturing groups residential and commercial stone paving. Nantucket Pavers has been listed in MA Manufacturing since 2002.

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As an institution, PMES Engineering has been a good corporate sponsor for the VA hot forging metals industry. A member of the directory since 2012 in the Manufacturing section.

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Supplies material assemblies and subassemblies manufacturing in the Contract Manufacturing service arena.

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Sells new and used Fiber Optics parts, attenuators, repeaters, splicing equipment at competitive prices, primarily as a Contract Manufacturing manufacturer and distribution warehouse company.

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Provides a complete range of Manufacturing and subcontracting services. Located in MA, Lavelle Machine services a broad range of retail, business, and institutional clients. Filed with Contract Manufacturing.

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Industrial company designs, manufactures and markets products, services and technologies including Couplers, Attenuators, used in the Distribution industry

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Nytek offer our customers the greatest possible values on quality space age material production services. Member since 2001.

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Category: Reused Medical Equipment

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Offers a range of services including static control flooring and ESD tiling. Julie Industries has been a member since 2001 in the Distribution directory.

Category: Static Control Flooring And Esd Tiling

Manufacturing- High Technology

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A High Technology company that develops, manufactures and blends performance-enhancing optical lasers for the Manufacturing market.

Category: Optical Lasers

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Optelec

Category: High Technology

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Category: Specialty Spheres And Goniometers

Applied Science Labs

Category: High Technology

Manufactures and engineers Aerogels used for applications in the High Technology industrial marketplace.

Category: Aerogels

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Category: Ferrofluidic Seals

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Category: Printing Equipment

Senko Semiconductors

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Offers a range of nuclear metals engineering, formulation and production consulting services and is posted in the Corporate High Technology market.

Category: Nuclear Metals Engineering, Formulation And Production

As one of the area's privately-owned Manufacturing corporations, Thermo Electron Colorado in CO Manufacturing provides liquid handling automation. Member since 2000.

Category: Liquid Handling Automation

Thermo Keytek

Category: High Technology

Industrial company designs, manufactures and markets products, services and technologies including nitrogen laser, used in the High Technology vertical marketplace.

Category: Nitrogen Laser

Manufacturing- Materials & Heavy Equipment

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Category: Shipping Supplies

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Category: Chemical Substrates

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Category: Gauging Equipment

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Category: Precision Machined Components, Cnc Swiss Screw Machining

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Category: Large Scale Food Service Production Equipment

Bascom Turner

Category: Materials And Heavy Equipment

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Category: Curb, Vibration Isolation, Curb Machine, Burglar Bar

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Offers Materials and Heavy Equipment services for synthetic fiber. Since 2001, Majilite has been listed in the Manufacturing directory.

Category: Synthetic Fiber

Broomfield Laboratories

Category: Materials And Heavy Equipment

Provides and builds specialty custom cranes. Found in the Manufacturing, Materials and Heavy Equipment group in this directory.

Category: Specialty Custom Cranes

Distributor with worldwide sales capacity and industrial supply, Wilevco in the Manufacturing market sells and services high capacity commercial food service preparation equipment in MA, and has been a member since 2001.

Category: Automatic Batter Mixer With Viscosity Control

Provides and engineers print production and laminates. Found in the Manufacturing, Materials and Heavy Equipment group in this directory.

Category: Print Production And Laminates

 

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While many of the readers of this page will have started their career in optics dealing with traditional diffuse reflectance coatings and materials such as Opal glass, Eastman 6080, G-E Sphere paintª, or even fumed magnesium oxide, this page will serve to update that knowledge to the best coatings and materials available. This page will guide the newcomer to the best possible coating for their application, taking into consideration the wavelength range of interest, the desired reflectance, functional consideration of environmental and physical properties, as well as any limitations that are inherent with any reflectance coating or material.

While Labsphere is not the only company to produce optical coatings and reflective materials, we are unique to the field in that we supply such a wide range of such materials. Labsphere products cover the spectral range from the deep ultraviolet to the far-infrared in reflectance ranges from 99% to less than 1%.Labsphere produces standards for color analysis, grey scale, and fluorescence. All of these materials have been intensely studied for their BRDF properties, environmental stabilty, and physical properties.

This page should be considered a 'work-in-progess' as we are continually improving and developing innovative new reflectnace products. Current research projects include new fluorescent materials, diffuse selectively reflective and fluorescent coatings, alternative mid to far-IR diffuse reflectance materials, and new low reflectance coatings for the UV-Vis-NIR-mid-IR.

We hope you find this page useful and informative and, as always, we appreciate your comments and suggestions.


Diffuse Reflectance Coatings
Traditionally, diffuse reflectance coatings have been used to improve the performance of integrating spheres for lamp measurement photometers and uniform light sources. These materials have also been used as remote sensing targets. Labsphere produces a number of such coatings. Spectraflectª and Duraflectª are predominantly used for the Vis-NIR region of the spectra, though both can be used in the UV under certain conditions. InfraGold(2) and Infragold-LF(3) are used for near to mid-IR and mid to far-IR applications, respecively. In the past four years, Labsphere's patented Spectralon® technology has increased the efficiency of devices dependent on high reflectance, lambertian devices in the UV-Vis-NIR region. Applications are as varied as diffuse reflectors for line illuminators for film processing, well plates for increasing the sensitivity of fluorescence measurements, and for lamp measurement photometry in the UV. All of these materials have certain physical and spectral properties that make them ideal for most diffuse reflectance applications.


Reflectance Standards
Labsphere reflectance standards have become the standard of choice the world round. Spectralon® grey scale is used as the standard reference materials of national laboratories in the United States and Great Britain, and is used as a linearity standard in most commercial NIR spectrometers. The base material, Spectralon SRS-99, is the white standard of choice in UV-Vis-NIR reflectance spectroscopy along with remote sensing applications due to its environemtal stability. A particular, highly purified and documented form of this materials known as Space Grade Spectralon®, is the standard of choice on low-earth orbit imaging systems. A related material, Spectralon® SRS-99L, is used as a reflective diffuser in many solid-state lasers.

Infragold and Infragold-LF are widely used as diffuse reflectance materials and targets for near- to far-IR spectrometer systems. These materials are chemically stable and highly lambertian over a wide wavelength range.


Fluorescent Standards

Labsphere offers two types of fluorescent standards. The first type, Spectralon-based materials named Spectralon® SFS- materials, exhibit a high degree of photolytic and environmental stability. These materials are inorganic fluor based, UV activated materials. These have found uses in typical applications for fluorescent standards- paper whiteness, optical whitening agents, and the like. More recently, applications in fluorescence microscopy and as remote fluorescent targets have been developed. These materials are still very much in their infancy in terms of applications, with more applications and materials being developed on a regular basis.

The second type of fluorescent standard is used in the traditional application of determining instrument stability for users concerned with optical brightness and flourescent whitening agents (FWA's) in paper and textiles. Supplied to Labsphere and calibrated by F.T.Simon, Inc., the FTS-Fluorescent Standards are a new addition to Labsphere's product line.


Wavelength Calibration Standards
Typically, to calibrate spectrophotometers for wavelength accuracy, spectrocopists have used holmium oxide or dydimium oxide filters. The reflectance equivalent of these materials are available under appelation of Spectralon WCS These materials are used in reflectance spectrometers to assure the accuracy of the monochromator or position of peaks in a diode array spectrometer.


Specular Standards
When the reflectance of specular or mirror-like materials is performed, the best technique is to use a similar materials as a standard. Labsphere offers Specular Reflectance Standard (SPRS) standards. These standards are aged, magnesium fluoride coated first surface aluminum mirrors for the calibration of other specular materials in hemispherical geometry.


Transmittive Diffusers
Diffusers are used to give a lambertian response to a detector, either in a sphere system or as a solar collector. Typical transmittive diffusers such as opal glass or ground quartz are either not transmittive in part of the spectra (as is opal glass in the UV) or not particularly lambertian in response (typical of ground quartz). Spectralon SDM diffusers have the ability to transmit UV and also act as an extremely lambertian diffuser over a wide spectral range. These materials can also be tailored for either high or low transmittance to fit particular applications.

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