Capabilities | Equipment and Products
- 600+ Stock Aspheric Lenses Ready for Purchase
- Optical Glass, Low Tg Moldable Glass, Fused Silica, Germanium, Zinc Selenide, and Chalcogenide Substrates
- Stock to Custom, from Design and Prototype to Volume Production
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Edmund Optics designs and manufactures stock and custom aspheric lenses to suit any application. Whether your need is for an aspheric lens in glass, plastic, or infrared crystalline material, with low-cost or high performance specifications, for either monochromatic or broadband illumination, we have an aspheric lens to meet your needs. Explore our aspheric capabilities, state-of-the-art equipment, and most innovative aspheric product families. To learn more about aspheric lenses and their benefits, read our All About Aspheric Lenses application note. Contact us today to speak with an expert!
ASPHERIC CAPABILITIES
Edmund Optics is a premier manufacturer of aspheric lenses. Our manufacturing capabilities include polishing and molding in glass, plastic, and a variety of crystalline substrates. Our state-of-the-art manufacturing capabilities are supported by world-class metrology that includes surface profilometry and aspheric stitching interferometry (ASI).
Whether you need just a few aspheric lenses for prototype, a few dozen for pre-production, or a large volume for full production, Edmund Optics wants to ensure your project is successful.
Aspheric Manufacturing Specifications |
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| Commercial | Precision | High Precision | Molded | |
| Diameter | 15 – 120mm | 15 – 120mm | 15 – 120mm | <30mm |
| Aspheric Departure | – | – | <50μm | <200μm |
| Asphere Figure Error | ±5μm | ±1μm | ±0.25μm | ±0.5μm |
| Vertex Radius (Asphere) | ±1% | ±0.1% | ±0.05% | ±0.05% |
| Radius (Spherical) | ±0.5% | ±0.1% | ±0.025% | ±0.1% |
| Power (Spherical) | 8 fringes | 2 fringes | 0.2 fringes | 4 fringes |
| Irregularity (Spherical) | 2 fringes | 1 fringe | 0.1 fringes | 1 fringe |
| Centering (Beam Deviation) | 3 – 5 arcmin | 1 – 3 arcmin | 0.25 – 1 arcmin | 1 – 3 arcmin |
| Center Thickness Tolerance | ±0.100mm | ±0.050mm | ±0.010mm | ±0.020mm |
| Diameter Tolerance | +0/-0.050mm | +0/-0.025mm | +0/-0.010mm | +0/-0.025mm |
| Surface Quality | 80–50 | 60–40 | 20–10 | 60–40 |
| Bevel | 1.0mm | 0.1mm | 0.02mm | 0.1mm |
| Typical Volume | 1 – 1000 | 1 – 500 | 1 – 50 | 500+ |
