Events
Hoya Corporation
Wednesday 13 October @ 12:45 - 13:00
Optical Filters - A Commodity?
Optical filters are often overlooked, but they are important or even crucial components in every optical instrument. While working at an optical filter company for almost 10 years, Pust witnessed customers' widespread and increasing tendency to consider optical filters a commodity that only needs to be thought of at late stages during the development process of a new optical instrument. By this point, customers are often told that filters with the desired requirements cannot be designed, or that they can only be produced at prohibitive cost.
A good optical measurement almost always starts with a high-performance optical filter. Therefore, it is necessary to understand optical filters and to consider them from the beginning of the design process. It is also a good idea to involve the filter manufacturer early on, to obtain valuable insights and tips to prevent blind spots and unnecessary cost.
Pust provides a technical and market-centric overview of optical filters in 2021 and speaks to current and emerging trends, technologies, and applications.
Speaker
Dr.-Ing Oliver Pust, Director of Sales, Europe, HOYA
Dr.-Ing. Oliver Pust has a background as a mechanical engineer. He earned his doctoral degree within the field of laser optical fluid measurement techniques. He has long-term experience working with international partners and in sales of high-tech equipment to research and industry customers. Pust recently joined HOYA Optics Europe as director of sales and marketing. For the 10 years prior, he worked at Delta Optical Thin Film A/S, where he was responsible for global sales and marketing activities. Pust enjoys sharing his extensive knowledge and experience in workshops, customer visits, exhibitions, and, most recently, webinars. He takes great interest in his customers' applications and helps them to design innovative optical instruments by providing coloured glass filters, raw glass materials, NIR polarizer glass, thin-film filters coated on coloured or optical glass, and lenses, as well as UV lamps for the printing industry.
