News and Events
Visit Iridian at SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing 2024
Iridian will be exhibiting at the SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing event taking place in National Harbor, Maryland, USA between Apr 21 -25.
Please visit us at booth #834 to discuss your needs for optical filters sensing and imaging applications including Earth observation, gas detection, LiDAR, and machine vision.
Visit the Iridian Booth at OPIE’24!
Iridian will be exhibiting at the OPIE’24 event in Pacifico Yokohama, Japan between Apr 24 – 26.
Please visit us to discuss your needs for optical filters for communications (telecom, datacom, satcom), spectroscopy instrumentation (Raman, fluorescence, bio-analytical, molecular diagnostics), and sensing/imaging (Earth observation, gas sensing, LiDAR, machine vision).
IDEX Corporation Continues Strategic Capital Deployment with Agreement to Acquire Iridian Spectral Technologies
IDEX Corporation Continues Strategic Capital Deployment with Agreement to Acquire Iridian Spectral Technologies, a Global Leader in Thin-film Dielectric Optical FiltersNorthbrook, Illinois, (April 26, 2022) – IDEX Corporation (NYSE:IEX) today announced it has entered...
Iridian Filters Chosen for Dragonfly Telescope
Ottawa, Canada, June 7, 2021 Iridian Spectral Technologies congratulates the team at the Dunlap Institute at the University of Toronto on securing nearly $2 million in support from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) for the development and expansion of their...
Iridian Announces New Optical Filters Designed for PCR Testing
Ottawa, Canada, Dec.14, 2020 In an effort to support the rapidly growing use of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in rapid diagnosis of diseases such as COVID-19, Iridian Spectral Technologies has introduced a line of ultra performance optical filters specifically...
Iridian Welcomes India’s FII to Its Distributor Network
Ottawa, Canada, Nov.30, 2020 Iridian Spectral Technologies, Ltd. (Iridian) is pleased to announce that it’s long standing Indian distributor for aerospace filters, Futuristic International Inc (FII), is now available to address any and all Indian optical filter...
Germany’s IMM Photonics Join Iridian’s Distributor Network
OTTAWA, Ontario, October 20, 2020 - Iridian is pleased to announce that IMM Photonics GmbH, Unterschleißheim, Germany has joined us as a distributor of our optical filter solutions. IMM-Photonics has a long and successful history supporting its customers with custom...
Iridian Supplying Key Components for New COVID-19 Testing Kit
Iridian Spectral Technologies would like to congratulate Spartan Bioscience on obtaining Health Canada approval this week for use of the Spartan Cube for COVID-19 testing. We are proud that Iridian’s optical filters are a key component in this instrument.
Letter from Iridian President Regarding COVID-19
Iridian Spectral Technologies is maintaining normal operations during this COVID-19 pandemic period. We continue our dedication to delivering your filters on time with the highest quality.
Our manufacturing capacity and lead times are unaffected; we have adequate supplies of raw materials onsite and have not been notified of any interruption in material supply from our key suppliers.
Iridian Expanding LiDAR Filter Capacity
Ottawa, Canada, August 26, 2019 – Iridian has recently expanded our filter capacity for LiDAR sensing application. Our Iridian LiDAR filters feature narrow bandwidth, higher transmission and low angular wavelength shift for wider AOI range. For more information on...