Shanghai Optics Datasheets for Optical Lenses

Optical lenses are transparent components made from optical-quality materials and curved to converge or diverge transmitted rays from an object. These rays then form a real or virtual image of the object.  This area includes micro lenses.
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Factory Standard Material: fused silica Length: 31mm+/-0.05mm Width: 12mm+/-0.05mm Not cutting edge thickness: 10mm+/-0.05mm Radius: S1:surface S2: 914mm +/-0.25mm CC Flatness: Whole four laps/Local 1 a circle Scratch & dig:...
Freeform Optics Overview A freeform optical component is not symmetric around its optical axis. It provides some attractive features to optical designers to correct multiple aberrations with fewer optical surfaces,...
Fresnel Lens Overview Fresnel lenses are lenses composed of a series of concentric rings. The Fresnel lens construction design allows for large aperture and short focal length with less mass...
Why Asphere? As the name suggests, an aspheric lens is a lens with a shape other than that of a regular sphere or cylinder. These lenses, which come in a...
A Ball Lens consists of a highly transparent spherical ball, usually made of solid glass (fused silica) or another optical material with index of refraction less than 2. Most ball...
A plano concave lens is an optical lens with one concave surface and one flat surface. It has a negative focal length, and can be used for light projection, beam...
A Rod lens is a special type of cylinder lens, and is highly polished on the circumference and ground on both ends. Rod lenses perform in a manner analogous to...
A ZnSe lens is a precision optic commonly used in thermal imaging, high power CO2 laser systems and in the life sciences. At Shanghai Optics we custom manufacture high...
An achromatic lens, often called an achromat, is a type of optical lens capable of correcting chromatic aberration, a distortion that occurs when glass splits white light into multiple colorwavelengths...
As the name suggests, a cylindrical lens is an optical lens with a cylindrical or semi-cylindrical shape. Like a spherical lens, a cylindrical lens has one curved and one flat...
Bk7 Spherical Lenses are useful for a wide range of applications. Bk7 plano-concave, bi-concave, meniscus, plano-convex and bi-convex lenses are manufactured to exacting Shanghai Optics Laser Quality surface figure and...
Calcium Fluoride is often used in spectroscopic windows and lenses due to its high transmission from 350nm to 7µm. Calcium Fluoride is also commonly found in cryogenically cooled thermal imaging...
Fused Silica Spherical Lenses are useful for a wide range of applications. Plano-Concave, Bi-Concave, Meniscus, Plano-Convex and Bi-Convex lenses are manufactured to exacting Shanghai Optics Laser Quality surface figure and...
Germanium lenses are optical lenses made of polished germanium. These lenses are rugged and resistant to corrosion, and are ideal for harsh environments and applications where there is constant exposure...
Laser Lenses Overview Laser lenses are the optical lenses that are used in laser-based devices for a variety of laser applications such as but not limited to laser illumination, laser...
Light pipe Homogenizing Rods are tubes which transits natural light collected by light collector. Light pipe Homogenizing Rods could be distinguished into straight light pipe and bending light pipe according...
MgF2 Spherical Lenses are useful for a wide range of applications. Plano-Concave, Bi-Concave, Meniscus, Plano-Convex and Bi-Convex lenses are manufactured to exacting As the leading optical component manufacturer from China,...
Optical domes are hemispheric windows which provide a protective boundary while allowing a clear field of view between two environments. They are typically made of two parallel surfaces. Shanghai Optics...
Shanghai Optics manufactures high quality plano-convex lens; optical lenses with a positive focal length. These all-purpose lenses are available in a wide variety of sizes, substrates, and coatings, and can...
Si Spherical lens and lens assemblies are available from Shanghai Optics in a wide range of specifications. These lenses are designed to to meet applicationsfrom microscopy to laser processing and...
Single crystal optical grade Sapphire lenses are ideal for demanding applications (such as high power laser systems) and harsh environments because of their extreme surface hardness, high thermal conductivity, high...
These lenses are manufactured from SF11 for VIS and NIR applications and are supplied coated or uncoated. SF11 is generally used instead of BK7 to minimize aberrations from short focal...