The company says it is particularly renowned for singlets and air spaced doublets for astronomical use, meniscus and cylindrical lenses, Schmidt plates, and purpose built camera objectives
Working with a range of materials including fused silica, germanium and a range of glasses Optical Surfaces is able to supply high precision lenses, including aspherics, up to 600mm in diameter.
With workshops and test facilities deep underground where temperatures remain constant and vibration is practically non-existent, Optical Surfaces routinely produces lenses with a surface accuracy of lambda/20 and surface quality of 20:10 scratch dig or better.
Working with a comprehensive inventory of tools and test plates Optical Surfaces can produce lenses with focal lengths up to 30m and radii accuracy measured to within 0.01mm.
Optical Surfaces's ISO 9001-2000 approved manufacturing facility provides the flexible resources to supply from single specialist requirements to OEM quantity high precision lenses and lens systems.
Benefiting from its stable environment, lens quality testing becomes quantifiable and reliable.
All lenses and lens systems up to 600mm diameter are provided with a complete quality test assurance report.
