
Additive and Subtractive Dichroic Color Filters
Additive and Subtractive Dichroic Color Filters
Ideal for machine vision, dichroic filters are commonly used for color separation and contrast enhancement applications. Provided in unmounted versions, these filters are easily integrated into a variety of existing camera and illumination setups. In addition, dichroic filters provide wider fields of view not obtainable using narrow bandpass interference filters. A complete set of these dichroic filters is available in a Pre-Loaded filter wheel.
Typical configurations include photo enlargers, beam separation, and placing filters in front an imaging lens to selectively isolate spectral regions/colors. If the light source is already colored (ie, red LEDs), then a filter in front of the lens can be used to filter out unwanted ambient light.