Manufacturing

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Need custom optical manufacturing? Volume manufacturing?

With five global manufacturing locations and an extensive network of optical partners, Edmund Optics offers a wide range of manufacturing capabilities from simple optical flatwork to complex optical sub-assemblies. Equipped with both innovative production machines and an experienced global staff of manufacturing experts, EO is ready to take your project from Design to Prototype to Volume Production.

EO Manufacturing locations employ over 500 people and produce over 5,000,000 optical elements annually:

• EO Barrington, New Jersey
• EO Pennsburg, Pennsylvania
• EO Shenzhen, China
• EO Singapore
• EO Akita, Japan

Each EO manufacturing location offers it own unique strength, creating a dynamic range of services to meet your needs.

Our capabilities include:

Spherical Component Manufacturing

Fully integrated spherical manufacturing featuring lens sizes from 3mm to 150 mm diameter.

Quantities

• Prototypes
• EO Standard Catalog – Mid to High volume
• Custom – Mid to High Volume
• Medium / High volumes leverage Asian manufacturing

Specifications

• Prototypes and low volume - 1/10 wave figure accuracy
• Mid to High volume - ½ wave power, ¼ wave irregularity
• Center thickness - + /- 0.01 mm
• Centering error - < 30 arc seconds
• Cosmetic - 10 - 5 scratch, dig
• Materials - All optical glass types
• Coating - A wide variety of standard and specialized coatings

Metrology

• Zygo Verifire High Res. Interferometer
• Trioptics OptiCentric
• Fogale non contact Center Thickness measurement

Aspherical Manufacturing

Precision Grinding & Polishing

• Volumes - Prototype, Low, Medium
• High departure aspheric geometries
• 1/10 Wave Surfaces featuring MRF corrections
• Size - 15 mm to 150 mm
• Material – Glass, Crystalline, Ceramics

Precision Glass Molding

• Volumes - Medium, High
• Geometry – per print review
• Size – 5 mm - 50 mm
• Surface Accuracy e – ½ wave PV
• Material - Glass / Chalcogonide > 650 C Tg

Metrology

• Tally Surf 1260 Profilometer
• Zygo VeriFire High Res Interferometer
• QED SSIa aspheric stitching interferometer
• White light interferometers

Prism Manufacturing

Fully integrated prism manufacturing featuring all prism geometries.

Quantities

• Prototypes
• EO Standard Catalog – Mid to High volume
• Custom – Mid to High Volume

Specifications

• Size – 3mm – 200 mm
• Cosmetic - 10 - 5 Scratch Dig
• Angle tolerance – 1 arc second
• Material – All optical glass types
• Coatings supplied per request

Custom Coatings

Available in Prototype to High Volume

Coating Designs

• Per print specification
• Custom designs by request
• EO or Customer supplied substrate

Spectral Capability

• UV
• Visible
• IR
• Dual Wavelength

Process Capability

• Evaporative deposition
• Ion Assisted deposition
• Dual Beam Magnetron Sputtering
• Multi layer up to 150 layers

Coating Types

• Broadband AR
• V-Coat AR
• Polarizing Beam splitters
• Non-polarizing Beam splitters
• Laser coatings
• Metal mirror coatings
• ITO Conductive
• Narrow band pass / notch filters

Assembly Capability

• Volume – Prototype, Medium, High
• Commercial - Leveraging Asia assembly
• Military – US Based Manufacturing (ITAR Compliant)
• Custom designed per request
• Build to print to meet performance specification

Capability / Testing

• Class 100 Clean Room
• ESD
• Active Alignment
• MTF
• Stray Light
• Veiling Glare
• Shock / Vibration
• EFL / T # / Distortion / BFL
• Relative Illumination
• Environmental – Heat, Cold, Humidity
• Full documentation of system performance upon request

Buy from Edmund Optics – Leverage a world of optical manufacturing locations with certified quality inspection.

Equipment at these locations includes:

• Balzer Thin-Film Coating Chamber
• CNC Metal Lathes
• Digital Optical Design Workstations
• E-Beam with Ion assist Coating Chambers
• ESD Assembly Workstations
• Laminar Flow Assembly Booths
• LOH Laser Centering Machines
• Optical Coating Chambers
• OptoTech Grinders, Polishers, and Interferometer
• QED Technologies Q22-Y Magnetorheological Finisher (MRF)
• Saida Centering Machines
• Schneider SCG_A 121 Generator and SCP_A 121 Polisher
• Strasbaugh 10J Edge Grinders
• Strasbaugh Four Spindle Polishers
• Taylor Hobson PGI 1240 Profilometer
• Tenney Environmental Chambers
• Trioptics Test Equipment including OptiCentric® Active Alignment
• Yoshikawa Generators
• Universal Drapers
• Varian Cary 500 Spectrophotometer
• Zygo Phase Shift Interferometers

Our preferred materials include typical optical glasses from:

• Schott
• Hoya
• Pilkington
• Hikari
• Chengdu

Plus:

• Fused Silica
• Amtir, Cleartran®
• Silicon, Supersil
• Zerodur®
• Pyrex®
• CaF2