Capabilities
We offer a comprehensive set of capabilities for designing and manufacturing precision polymer optics.
Optical and Mechanical Design
- Design for manufacture
- Design verification of an existing optical design
- Tolerance analysis
- Design for imaging and illumination (non-imaging) systems
Single-Point Diamond Turning
- Diamond turned optics from plastic (Acrylic, Styrene, Zeonex, Zeonor, Ultem), Nickel, Brass, Copper, Aluminum and many other materials
- Capabilities to machine many optical surfaces like conics, diffractive, fresnel, toroidal, aspheric, spheres, plano and more
- Extensive in-house design and testing infrastructure to support our SPDT services
Polymer Injection Molding
- Innovative optical solutions with injection-molded polymers
- Molding technology that produces consistent, high quality parts
- Low and high-volume assembly experience
- Unique bonding processes for fabrication of polymer doublets and triplets.
Injection Molding
- Wide range of uses, including consumer electronics, packaging, toys, and miniature
- Complex industrial uses like medical technology and automotive manufacturing
- We can design and create a variety of optical components in-house, including anti-reflective and evaporative coatings, custom optical diffusers, diffractive surfaces, and spherical, aspheric, and Fresnel surfaces.
Commercial Products -section slated for removal
- Projection Systems
- Semiconductor Inspection Equipment
- Barcode
- Scanner/Print-head
- Solar Concentrators
- Fiber Optics
- Anti-counterfeit
Diffractive Optics
- Create large aperture, lightweight optical elements
- Improve the performance over conventional all-refractive systems
- Significantly reduce system weight, complexity and cost
- Reduce the need for exotic materials
Microlens Arrays
- Injection-molded microlens arrays
- Produced from masters fabricated using RPC Photonics state-of-the-art laser writing process
- Manipulate light for use in a wide variety of optical systems and applications
Evaporative Coatings
- Anti-reflection (AR) and reflective thin film optical coatings
- All coating fixtures designed and built in-house
- Coatings can be applied to plastic and glass
- Coating materials: gold, silver, aluminum, magnesium fluoride & more
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