Optical Shutters

An Optical Shutter is a two-state device used to rapidly open and close a light path. Optical Shutters are typically used to control the amount of time that a light-sensitive material is exposed to optical radiation.

Boulder Nonlinear Systems manufactures and sells liquid crystal based Optical Shutters for applications requiring active timing control of beam transmittance. Key features of our various Optical Shutters include high-speed binary operation, high purity linear polarized output, high transmission, and maximum extinction ratio performance. Since these devices are solid state – undesirable mechanical motion, associated noise, and vibration problems are eliminated.

Boulder Nonlinear Systems offers three different types of Optical Shutters. Key features for each type of Optical Shutter are listed in the table below. Detailed information can be found by selecting the included links.