Manufacturing & Assembly
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Global Capabilities We manufacture optical assemblies and components in our US facility in Rochester, NY and with our off-shore manufacturing partners. Our component manufacturing capabilities include spherical (singlets, achromats/doublets), plano (windows, mirrors, beamsplitters, prisms) and cylindrical optics. Multi-element lens assemblies incorporate the optical components we and our off-shore partners manufacture. Below are summaries of our current manufacturing capabilities for: We also provide thin film coating services including standard and custom coatings. |
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Spherical Optics – Capabilities and Tolerances
Size Range: 4mm – 500mm
Material Types: all the optical glasses, fused silica and Zerodur™
Volume Range: Prototype to Production Quantities
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Parameter |
Standard Tolerance |
Precision Tolerance |
Current Manufacturing Limit |
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Index of Refraction (%) |
+/- 0.0005 |
+/- 0.0005 |
Melt Controlled |
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Diameter (mm) |
+0.00/-0.10 |
+0.00/-0.025 |
+0.00/-0.013 |
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Center Thickness (mm) |
+/-0.10 |
+/-0.05 |
+0.00/-0.03 |
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Power-Irregularity (fringes) |
5-1 |
3-1/2 |
1-1/10 |
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Centration (Total Included Angle (TIA) in ARC minutes) |
1 |
1 |
0.5 |
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Scratch-Dig |
60-40 |
40-20 |
10-5 |
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Plano/Plane/Flat Optics – Capabilities and Tolerances
Sizes Range: 4mm – 400mm
Material Types: all the optical glasses, fused silica and Zerodur™
Volume Range: Prototype to Production Quantities
| Parameter | Standard Tolerance | Precision Tolerance | Current Manufacturing Limit |
| Index of Refraction (%) | +/-0.0005 | +/-0.0005 | Melt Controlled |
| Diameter (mm) |
+0.00/-0.18 rounds +/-0.25 squares |
+0.00/-0.025 rounds +/-0.10 squares |
+0.00/-0.013 rounds +/-0.05 squares |
| Thickness (mm) | +/-0.10 | +/-0.05 | +/-0.025 |
| Flatness (waves) | 1/4 | 1/10 | 1/20 |
| Scratch-Dig | 60-40 | 40-20 | 10-5 |
| Parallelism (Arc minute) | 2 | 0.5 | 2 Arc seconds |
| Angular (Arc min) | 3 | 1 | 1.5 Arc seconds |
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Multi-Element and Component Assembly Tolerances – including optics assembled in a nitrogen environment
| Parameter | Standard Tolerance | Manufacturing Limit |
| Lens Centration within the Barrel/Cell (inches) | +/-0.0375 | +/-0.0200 |
| Lens Group Centration within the Barrel/Cell (inches) | +/-0.0375 | +/-0.0200 |
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Airspace between Elements in a Barrel (inches) |
+/-0.0250 | +/-0.0127 |
| Doublet Centration (inches) | +/-0.0375 | +/-0.0200 |
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