What is a cold mirror useful for?

Referencing our recent post on hot mirrors can help greatly in understanding how a cold mirror functions as they are both heat control coatings.
Cold mirrors are much like hot mirrors in that they are used to separate IR from the non-IR. The major difference between the two is that cold mirrors transmit IR bands [...]

What is a hot mirror?

A hot mirror is in essence a thin film coating applied to substrates in effort to reflect infra-red radiation either as a means to harness the reflected wavelengths for an application or to remove them from an application.
Hot mirrors are often misunderstood due to their name and understandably so. Judging by the name it [...]

Protect Fiber-Optic Cable from UV and IR damage with Hot Mirrors and Cold Mirrors.

How are hot mirrors and a cold mirrors used to prevent UV and IR radiation from damaging fiber-optic cable?
Recently we’ve been getting a few questions about the effects of UV and IR radiation on optical fiber that is often used in high speed local area fiber-optic communications equipment and image displays or lighting systems. [...]