Sapphire Optics are manufactured to OEM specifications.
Press Release Summary:
Custom optics include balls, plano convex and plano concave lenses and windows, rectangles, squares, and cones. Design characteristics include steps, wedges, precision holes, and radical curves. Optics exhibit Moh 9 hardness, diameter tolerances to ±0.001 in., and thickness tolerances to ±0.0005 in. With surface finishes to 10-5 scratch-dig, products have better than 2 arc-sec. in./in. parallelism. Units transmit UV to IR with up to 99% transmission.
Original Press Release:
Custom Sapphire Optics Manufactured to OEM Specifications
Custom manufactured high-precision sapphire optics that can be produced in a wide range of shapes as balls, lenses, windows, and waveplates are available from Meller Optics, Inc. of Providence, Rhode Island.
Meller Custom Sapphire Optics are manufactured to OEM specifications as balls from 0.005" to 0.5" dia., as plano convex and plano concave lenses and windows from 0.5" to 6" dia., and as rectangles, squares, and cones. Featuring design characteristics such as steps, wedges, precision holes, and radical curves, sapphire optics exhibit Moh 9 hardness, making them ideal for applications requiring greater durability than glass or quartz.
Providing diameter tolerances to ±0.001", thickness tolerances to ±0.0005", and surface finishes to 10-5 scratch-dig, Meller Custom Sapphire Optics have a surface figure to 1/10th wave in the visible and <2 arc-sec. in./in. parallelism. They are capable of transmitting from the UV to IR with up to 85% transmission uncoated and up to 99% with A/R coatings on two sides.
Meller Custom Sapphire Optics are priced according to configuration, size, and quantity. Literature and price quotations are available upon request.
For more information contact:
Meller Optics, Inc.
Steve Lydon, Marketing
120 Corliss St.
Providence, RI 02904
(800) 821-0180 FAX (401) 331-0519
e-mail: sales@melleroptics.com
www.melleroptics.com
