As everyone around the world can attest, 2020 has brought many challenges. Here at Vincent Associates, we continue to strive to maintain production and move forward with new products: FS Series High-Value Shutters The Uniblitz FS series shutters are designed and optimized to operate directly from +5VDC and do not require a separate driver. Removing…
Vincent Associates is proud to announce our exciting new product: the FS Series shutter. The new FS25 and FS35 Uni-stable Optical Shutters are designed and optimized to operate directly from +5VDC and do not require a separate driver. The New UNIBLITZ FS series shutter provides the flexibility and low-cost to fit into numerous customer requirements,…
Rochester, New York – March 14, 2019 – Vincent Associates®, the manufacturer of Uniblitz® Shutter Systems, announces that 2019 is the company’s 50th year in business. The company’s commitment to providing quality state-of-the-art electronic shutter products to the photonics, health science, photography, film, robotics, defense, and aerospace industries has made reaching this milestone possible. Founded…
Behind every good electromechanical shutter is a good actuator; here, novel actuators with uniform force throughout their stroke are described. From laser scanning mirrors to micropositioning slides, electromechanical actuators are used in many areas of optical design. In the case of optical shutters, actuator technology is often shrouded by other features and specifications. As the…
Vincent Associates is proud to announce the Uniblitz MS150B – A bi-stable 150mm aperture optical shutter. This patent pending design is a bi-stable optical shutter featuring our largest aperture to date. The Uniblitz MS150B is suitable for large-scale imagers or where a large optical path needs to be reduced to zero transmittance. The shutter’s lifetime…
April 25, 2018 – Vincent Associates is proud to announce the official launch of their new product, the ES6B series shutter. The Uniblitz ES6B is a 6mm bi-stable laser shutter with a very low-profile construction and guaranteed lifetime of 25,000,000 cycles. Its lack of an external protruding actuator makes it very slim and flexible for…
We look forward to seeing you at LASER World of Photonics Munich 2017. We’ll be showing off our all-new AI25 25 mm motorized iris diaphragm (auto iris), as well the AIC10 auto iris controller. In addition to these exciting new products, we’ll be showcasing a handful of performance Uniblitz shutters such as the VS25 25…
Researchers at the University of Rochester’s Institute of Optics developed a technique that uses lasers to render materials hydrophobic—extremely water repellent. (Photo above courtesy of Matthew Mann) Article courtesy of Opli: The Photonics Magazine. Tiny micro and nanoscale structures within a material’s surface are invisible to the naked eye, but play a big role in…
Launched out of Yasny, Russia in June 2010, PICARD is a satellite designed to provide absolute measurements of the total solar irradiance (TSI) and spectral solar irradiance (SSI), the diameter and shape of the sun, as well as the distance to the sun’s interior using helioseismology. In addition, measurements and images captured by PICARD during its…
The need for a shutter in an optical system sometimes becomes clear late in the development process. Answering some specific questions can help detect this need as early as possible. Electromechanical shutters are vital components in a broad spectrum of optical assemblies and systems. Shutter requirements are sometimes not apparent nor considered during optical system…