Behind the Science: The Omega Optical Blog

This month in the blog, meet Nick Castine! A native of Hinsdale, NH (just across the river), Omega was one of his first jobs. Like many of our Engineers, Nick has worked throughout the company and has learned a lot along the way. He is always ready to jump in to help wherever needed.

Pinholes are a problem for every coating manufacturer, but not for every customer! Depending on where in the optical path your filter is positioned, your system may be more or less sensitive to pinholes. Read this blog to learn more about what causes pinholes and when you need to worry!

This month in the blog, meet Stephanie Dean, Manager of the Production Support Group. Stephanie has held many support roles at Omega before becoming Manager of one of the most important groups in the company. Her group helps keep products flowing smoothly between departments and ensuring we have what we need to ship customer products out the door on time. Despite all her responsibilities, she has a sunny disposition and great attitude! All the time outdoors keeps her grounded for sure.

Omega helps a client with excellent quality control and quick turnaround. Omega improved on a filter that was obtained from an online auction creating a custom solution that transmitted only in the regions of interest, increasing overall signal-to-noise.

In this post, we will describe how filter performance can reversibly shift with temperature. This can have big implications in outdoor or space applications where the filters are exposed to a large range of temperatures.

Omega Optical employs the widest range of coating technologies in the optical thin film filter industry.  In addition to our high capacity, state-of-the-art Plasma Assisted Reactive Magnetron Sputtering (PARMS) systems, we’ve retained the ability to produce filters made with traditional inorganic compounds, typically zinc sulfide and cryolite.  Each technology has its own strengths. In this post, you will discover more about these methods.

This month, meet Marketing Manager, Dr. Sarah Locknar! After finishing a double major in Biology and Chemistry at Butler University, Sarah received her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Carnegie Mellon University and joined the University of Vermont and then Biotek Instruments before coming to Omega about 12 years ago. As a multi-faceted member of the Omega team, Sarah's work in high-speed multispectral imaging for biomedical applications has led to several publications and grant proposals and an ongoing collaboration with the University of Vermont. Now, Sarah's guides Omega's marketing efforts with a customer-centric focus instilled by her deep technical experience and first-hand knowledge as an optical scientist.

This month in the blog, meet Scott Cohen- business development and sales engineer. He came to Omega about a year before COVID and quickly went to work going to tradeshows and learning all he could about the filter business. His hard work and enthusiasm are contagious. Based out of the Boston area, he is rarely "in the office" but is always just a phone call away with good advice or a helping hand.

This month Omega is proud to bring Raychelle McTaggart to the center stage. Raychelle works in both our purchasing department and our planning department, where she does basically everything under the sun. When she’s not purchasing materials or helping to move work through production you will probably find her tracking customer purchase orders or creating daily shipment lists. Her hard work and dedication to Omega makes her more than deserving of this month’s employee spotlight!

This high-tech lamp is designed to kill COVID and other viruses in high-traffic areas. Read this blog to learn more about how Promethean Hospitality and Omega worked together to bring this sterilization solution to market!