Optical Surfaces offers a range of high precision, ground telescope and satellite-based space observation optics operating from infrared to x-ray wavelengths.
Based in a production environment that is free from vibration and temperature variation, the company can produce large, high precision aspheric optics, ultra smooth mirrors, high performance prisms, Schmidt camera and Laser launch telescope optics which stretch the limits of conventional optical fabrication techniques.
Investment in large aperture Zygo GPI, Twyman Green, Scatterplate, Fizeau and Laser Unequal Path (LUPI) interferometers allows one-to-one testing of even 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 that the quality of space observation optics from Optical Surfaces of the highest level.
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).
