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Optical Componets / Optical Assemblies

Optical Assemblies

  • Designed from scratch
  • Objective lenses
  • Relay lenses
  • Scan lenses
  • Tube lenses
  • Machine vision lenses
  • Reverse-engineered from customer-supplied samples

Conventional Polished Lenses

  • Spherical
  • Cylindrical
  • Rod
  • Ball
  • Hemisphere
  • Cemented doublet (achromat)
  • Hyper-hemisphere
  • Tiny lenses for endoscope applications
  • Cropped lenses (for cramming into tight spaces)

Liquid Light Guides

  • 300-650nm UV-VIS type
  • For fluorescence microscopy
  • For UV curing
  • For visible LED light sources
  • 2mm to 8mm core

Diffusers

  • Ground glass type
  • Flashed opal type (Schott Opalika)
  • Milky Opal type (Spectrum S200)
  • Prismatic (Water White Crystal Pattern 73)

Windows

  • Pyrex, Quartz, and Sapphire step windows for spectroscopic
  • Zero-distortion windows for HD Cameras
  • Step windows for spectroscopic probes
  • Beam-steering wedges
  • Flatness down to λ/20. Parallelism to 1 arc-sec
  • Scratch-dig down to 0-0 for critical light scattering applications

Sapphire Optics

  • Windows, lenses, rods, lightguides
  • C-axis orientation within 0.5º
  • UV-grade (T>70% at 200nm, 10mm sample)
  • Raman grade sapphire (low Raman noise) for probe windows

Optical Coatings

  • Electron beam
  • Ion-Assisted Deposition (IAD)
  • Ion-Beam Sputtered (IBS)
  • Magnetron Sputtering (MS)
  • Hard-carbon (DLC)

FT-IR Optics

  • Sampling cell windows made from various IR materials
  • ATR (attenuated total reflection) prisms (Si, Ge, ZnSe, Cubic Zirconia)
  • Diamond-turned specialty lenses & ATR crystals
  • FTIR Beamsplitter & Compensator sets (CaF2, ZnSe)

Filters

  • Hard-Coated IBS Filters (long-pass, short-pass, band-pass, all Ion Beam Sputtered)
  • Metallic ND filters, including linear variable and circular variable neutral density
  • Order-sorting filters consisting of two different substrates glued together side-by-side
  • Absorbing ND filters
  • Absorbing color filters

Mirrors

  • Metal-coated (Bare metal or with dielectric protective or enhancement layers) – including Aluminum, Silver, and Gold.
  • Dielectric-coated Mirrors, including high-reflectance IBS-coated type
  • Silicon (for scanners)
  • Zero-phase-shift and low-phase-shift mirrors for specialty laser applications.
  • Silicon (for scanners)

Other IR Optics

  • Detector windows (Ge, ZnSe, Sapphire, MgF2, Sapphire, CaF2)
  • Lenses for thermal imaging
  • Gas Cell mirrors

Plastic Optics

  • Molded plastic lenses & windows
  • TIR lens for collimating LEDs
  • Precision-grade Fresnel lenses

Chrome-On Glass

  • Reticles
  • Stage micrometers
  • Resolution targets
  • All kind of test targets

Aspheric Lenses

  • CNC-machined aspheric, for condensers: We can CNC machine virtually any glass, including fused silica.
  • Standard-molded aspheric, for condensers
  • Precision-molded aspheric, for laser collimating

Waveplates

  • Zero-order
  • Multiple-order
  • Achromatic
  • Cemented
  • Optically-contacted

Crystal Polarizers

  • Glan Taylor
  • Glan Laser
  • Glan Thompson
  • Wollaston
  • Rochon
  • Calcite and BBO

IR Polarizers

  • Wire grid
  • Holographic
  • Polyethylene, Ge, ZnSe, CaF2, BaF2 substrates.

Iris diaphragms

  • All steel & brass construction
  • Manually-actuated
  • Single set of blades or double set (for true zero aperture)

TeraHertz Optics

  • High-resistivity Silicon lenses

Prisms

  • Roof prisms with roof angle accuracy <2arc-sec

Beam-splitters

  • Plate beam-splitters
  • Cube beam-splitters

Interferometer-grade high-precision Retroreflectors

  • TWD λ/10 (producing straight, unbroken fringes) combined with

Domes

Light-pipes, Waveguides,  Homogenizers

Microscope objectives

Cable assemblies for fiber optic sensors

Fiber collimators

Mechanical Components

Surface Treatments

  • Sandblasting
  • Bead blasting
  • Heat treating
  • Powder coating
  • Powder spraying
  • Anodization (any color)
  • Type I, II, III
  • Class 1 & 2
  • PVD coating
  • Electroplating (Zn, Cu, Ni)
  • Oxide coating
  • Silk screening
  • Laser engraving
  • Carburizing
  • Nitriding
  • Surface quenching
  • Chrome plating

Materials

  • Aluminum
  • Brass
  • Bronze
  • Steel
  • Stainless steel
  • Carbon steel
  • Copper
  • Iron
  • Titanium
  • Kovar
  • Delrin
  • Acrylic
  • Engineered plastics

Fabrication Methods (CNC Machining)

  • Turning
  • Milling
  • Bending

Fabrication Methods (Aluminum casting)

  • Gravity
  • Die

Fabrication Methods (Sheet metal)

  • Stamping
  • Punching
  • Plate laser cutting
  • Tube laser cutting

Fabrication Methods (Rapid Prototyping)

  • Vacuum casting
  • 3D printing
  • Reaction injection molding

Fabrication Methods (Grinding)

Fabrication Methods (Grinding)

Metrology

Metrology

  • Our in-house metrology capabilities ensure precise measurement and characterization of optical, mechanical, and assembly components, guaranteeing optimal performance and quality.
  • The SCO team has the expertise to reverse engineer both individual optical components and complete opto-mechanical assemblies.
  • We utilize advanced interferometry, surface profilometry, dimensional analysis, spectrophotometry, and more to verify the specifications of your drawings are met.
  • Additionally, we can develop custom test setups to simulate the specific conditions of the customer's application, ensuring our solutions perform reliably in real-world environments.
  • Our skilled team ensures that every component and assembly is crafted to deliver reliable, high-performance optical solutions tailored to your needs.
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Since 2003, Supply Chain Optics has been serving manufacturers with the highest quality optical components at the lowest possible prices.
We can design and reverse-engineer almost any optical assembly. We lower your cost without risk to your production floor.
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Irvine, CA 92614 USA

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