Optical Surfaces can design, manufacture and supply high-precision optics for ground telescope and satellite-based space observation systems.
Optical Surfaces can deliver large, high-precision aspheric optics; ultra smooth mirrors and high performance prisms; and Schmidt camera and laser-launch telescope optics that stretch the limits of conventional optical fabrication techniques.
Over the past 40 years Optical Surfaces has designed, manufactured and supplied high precision space-observation optics operating over the entire spectral range from infrared to x-ray wavelengths.
Notable projects assisted by Optical Surfaces' high-precision optics include the UV optical telescope on the NASA Swift Explorer mission; the XMM optical monitor telescope for the European Space Agency (ESA); a Cassegrain camera for the Nigeriasat-2 satellite and the HROS spectrograph for the 8m Gemini telescope (Chile).
Investment in large-aperture Zygo GPI, Twyman Green, Scatterplate, Fizeau and Laser Unequal Path (LUPI) interferometers allows one-to-one testing of the largest-diameter space-observation optics.
Topographic and fringe analysis provides precise testing of surface roughness and confirms the wavefront of various surface forms.
A rolling programme for calibration of test optics where possible to national standards and production approval to ISO 9001-2000 ensures the quality of space observation optics from Optical Surfaces.
