Shanghai Optics

Shanghai Optics offers a large variety of custom achromatic lenses for our customers including achromatic spherical and aspherical lenses, achromatic singlets, doublets and triplets. Combined with one of our advanced AR coatings (covering 400–700 nm, 650–1050 nm, 1050–2500 nm), these optimized lenses are ideal for ensuring high resolution image quality and durability. With our in-house state-of the-art metrology and professional testing personnel, Shanghai Optics is able to provide a full range of inspection reports and CoC (Certificate of Conformance) for full optical characterization such as surface quality, dimensions, centricity, coating transmittance/reflectance (with SHIMADU UV3600 spectrophotometer), and overall/partial surface accuracy (with 6-inch ZYGO interferometer). FAI inspection reports are available upon request.

Shanghai Optics provides custom anti-reflection coatings with appropriate materials and optimized configuration on a substrate material specified by the customer, with specified transmittance and a specified wavelength region.

Precision aspheric lenses reduce visual defects and produce clearer images, making them ideal for many applications. In addition, because the surface of an aspheric lens is designed and formed to effectively reduce aberration in specific applications, custom aspheric lenses make flexible solutions to complex problems. At Shanghai Optics, we use two main methods to produce custom aspheric lenses: molding and traditional polishing with the state-of-the-art manufacturing and metrology equipment.

Shanghai Optics offers custom-made ball lenses. Please contact us for manufacturing limit or custom specifications. We can offer balls lenses e.g. with a diameter tolerance of ±50 μm, scratch & dig 20/10, surface quality 40-20, and with <50 μm deviation from a sphere.

Shanghai Optics Inc's custom beam expanders are used in many applications such as laser ranging, laser illumination, interferometry, etc. In high-power laser systems, beam expanders are used increase the beam area without significantly affecting the total laser energy. This results in a reduction of the laser power density which reduce the risk of damaging the coatings and optical materials of optical components. In a laser ranging system, a beam expander is used to minimize the laser divergence, resulting in a smaller collimated beam at a long distance.

Shanghai Optics manufactures custom cubic beamsplitters, plate beamsplitters, and lateral displacement beamsplitters. All our beamsplitters are made of high quality glass, with high surface quality to allow tight tolerance on all parameters.

Shanghai Optics is a custom optics manufacturer with over 55 years of optics manufacturing experience. Our cold mirrors are perfect for applications that require high reflectance in the visible spectrum and excellent transmission in the infrared. These cold mirrors are manufactured using a special proprietary all dielectric coating technique that yields the most durable commercially available product. Our cold mirrors will pass Mil. C-675, snap tape tests and are capable of operation at temperatures as high as 600°C. They will also operate and survive in extreme humidity environments. Cold mirrors are available from stock in one inch and two inch diameter round or one inch, two inch and four inch square configurations. Larger sheets are also available and may be cut into custom sizes.

Shanghai Optics Inc. custom corner cube prisms are used for applications in spectroscopy, satellites, or battlefield technology, also in land surveying, laser resonator cavities, electronic distance measurement, and space vessel docking.

Shanghai Optics relies on over 55 years of design and manufacturing experience and advanced metrology to provide our customer with world-class lens design and manufacturing services. Our engineering team can provide various types of lens design and assembly, covering all aspects of imaging and illumination design, from LED to gas discharge lamp illumination system design, as well as the design of the overall opto-instrument components and customized optical modules.

Shanghai Optics offers cylindrical lenses e.g. with a dimension tolerance of ±30 μm or even ±10 μm, λ/4 or λ/8 surface irregularity and a centration better than 3 arcmin or even 1 arcmin.

Shanghai Optics manufactures a wide range of optical filters or mirrors for engineering, scientific, and photographic applications. Our hard coated optical filters are dichroic filters/mirros. They are composed of a single substrate with a dense hard coating. These hard sputtered filters are expensive to produce, but they have excellent performance and are ideal for applications where precision is of paramount importance. We use cutting-edge IBS technology to give our dichroic filters uniform dielectric coatings, and no adhesives whatever are involved in manufacture. This ensures a quality product with a very long filter life. Since they have only one substrate covered with a thin film, Shanghai Optics customized dichroic filters are much thinner than traditional coated filters and offer much higher transmission.

Shanghai Optics can provide all types of anti-reflective, high reflective, and partial reflective coatings. We produce a wide variety of coatings from a single layer of anti-reflective coating to complex multi-layer dielectric stacks. Types of dielectric coatings are BBAR, V-coatings, dual wavelength coatings, and sharp cut-on and cut-off filters.

Shanghai Optics is a custom optics manufacturer with over 55 years of optics manufacturing experience. We produce high precision broadband dielectric mirrors according to customer’s specifications. These mirrors have the same exceptional specifications as our laser mirrors except that they use special multi layer coatings to achieve a very high degree of reflectance for both s- and p-polarizations over a broad wavelength range. For white light or tunable laser use these mirrors provide the ultimate in high reflectance and insignificant polarization effect. The reflectance of these coatings is consistently greater than 99.5% average. However, this figure includes very small dips in the p-reflectance which can never be completely eliminated. The s-polarization component has a reflectance greater than 99.9% over the entire range.

Shanghai Optics can produce a large number of high-performance lighting lenses, including lighting aspheric lenses, Fresnel lenses, spherical lenses, flat pieces, prisms and other products. Main applications are automobile lights, airport runway lights, projection lighting, LED lighting, etc.

Hot and cold mirrors are both specialized dielectric mirrors which are used for heat control; to filter unwanted energy from a light source. A cold mirror will reflect 90% of the visible light spectrum while efficiently transmitting (and thus removing from the site of interest) infrared wavelengths. A hot mirror will reflect 90% of infrared and near infrared light, and transmit a large portion of visible light (up to 80%). Shanghai Optics can manufacture custom hot and cold mirrors mirrors for any angle of incidence desired, from 0 to 45°.

At Shanghai Optics we design and manufacture a wide variety of custom optical IR components. Our state of the art equipment allows us to achieve unparalleled precision and surface quality, and every piece we manufacture is subject to stringent quality controls.

We offer a wide range of IR substrates, including Ge, Si, ZnSe, ZnS, ZnS , CaF₂, BaF₂ and GaAs. Our lenses and windows are available with multiple anti-reflection coating options that can increase durability and improve performance.

Optical components are used in a wide range of applications, such as microscopy, imaging, life science, testing and measurement. Shanghai Optics custom made optical components are designed with specific substrates, custom coatings to optimize the performance in UV, visible, SWIR, MWIR, LWIR wavelength. With the help of state-of-the-art metrology, Shanghai Optics is committed to high quality and top performance optical components.

Shanghai Optics specializes in custom lenses for all applications, from prototype to volume production.

Shanghai Optics provides custom metallic coatings which provide high reflection in some wavelength range, and are widely used in laser system and other optical elements. Our metallic coatings provide more effective and efficient spectral performance due to the low absorption properties. These mirror coatings can also be further customized to provide additional high pass or low pass wavelength performance in addition to the specified reflection band.

Shanghai Optics Inc custom micro-lenses are made from high index optical glass. They are precision polished to very high tolerances, so that they can be mounted into complex imaging systems.

Shanghai Optics Inc custom micro-lenses are made from high index optical glass. They are precision polished to very high tolerances so that they can be mounted into complex imaging systems.

Shanghai Optics custom micro-optics are very small optical systems, typically between a few micrometers to a millimeter in size. They include optical fibers with a microscale core diameter, miniature diffractive optical elements, optical micro-mirrors, lens prisms and arrays of lenses. Shanghai Optics produces a wide range of custom micro optics, and we can work with you to design and develop micro-optic lens assemblies to meet your exact specifications.

Shanghai Optics custom microscope objectives are designed with the assistance of CAD, Solidworks and Zemax software using top quality glass having highly specific refractive indices. This enables us to produce microscope objectives that are very low in dispersion and corrected for the most of the common optical artifacts such as coma, astigmatism, geometrical distortion, field curvature, spherical and chromatic aberration.

At Shanghai Optics we manufacture custom optical precision mirrors for a wide range of applications. Life sciences, astronomy, metrology, and solar engineering are only a few of the industries which depend on our precision mirrors and other optical components.

Shanghai Optics is an unparalleled custom optical engineering solution provider offering custom optical manufacturing, design and engineering services. We're one of the top custom lens manufacturers that specializes in custom lens assembly and delivers the best cost-effective custom optical solutions in the photonics industry. By combining high-quality custom components with the latest state of the art advanced metrology, our experts deliver breakthrough custom optical design solutions and engineering consulting for the toughest optical problems.

Shanghai Optics manufactures optical domes in a wide variety of substrates, suitable for visible, IR or UV light. Our custom domes are available in sizes from 5 mm to over 200 mm diameter, with custom sizes on request.

Shanghai Optics manufactures a wide range of custom optical filters for engineering, scientific, and photographic applications.

With state-of-the-art optical metrology equipment, Shanghai Optics is capable of producing and also testing precision optical components and systems. We inspect and qualify the produced parts in accordance with MIL-SPEC and/or customers’ specific requirements.

Shanghai Optics offers a wide range of lens system assembly services covering visible to UV & IR wavelengths. We serve customers ranging from biomedical, imaging & illumination, to industrial and military applications. With extensive experience in manufacturing optical components, we have an excellent understanding between manufacturability and design expectations.

Shanghai Optics Inc offers rapid optical prototype solutions. Reducing custom optical product life-cycles and delivering true rapid prototyping is critical to the success of devices, instruments, and platforms that rely on optics and imaging. With new technologies being introduced at such lightning speed, decreasing the time it takes to develop prototypes has become a necessity. The faster customers can prototype, the faster a product can get to market. Depending on the customer’s timeline and sourcing requirements, Shanghai Optics (S.O.) different solutions and resources to quickly create solutions and optimize the speed of prototyping for our customers.

Shanghai Optics Inc state of the art factory is able to manufacture both large optical windows and micro windows for nano-sized optical assemblies. A wide variety of optical substrates are available to choose from, and since production is carried on in-house our design team, will be able to match your exact specifications when carrying out your order.

Shanghai Optics Inc has more than 55 years of experience in designing and manufacturing opto-mechanical products. We offer cost-effective solutions and fast delivery services for our customers. Our engineering design experience and streamlined production methods help us create optimum design and production processes. Comparing with other optical manufacturers, we provide:

- cost-effective solutions

- 20% faster time to delivery for research and engineering projects

- 20% to 30% faster time to market for manufactured products

At Shanghai Optics, we design and manufacture custom and standard off-axis parabolic mirrors for companies and institutions around the world. Please contact us for a free quote!

At Shanghai Optics we produce some of the highest quality dichroic polarizers. Our dichroic plate beamsplitters are manufactured with a special design and proprietary manufacturing approach, allowing us to attain steep edges and flat, high reflection and transmission bands.

The almost complete transmission and reflection provided by our dichroic polarizers means that very little stray light gets through the imaging system. This results in high contrast image and a very good signal to noise ratio, as compared to other polarizers.

Our dichroic polarizers feature a UV grade fused silica, JGS1, or JGS2 substrate, coated with a hard dielectric coating. These glass polarizers have a much higher damage threshold than their plastic counterparts, and are suitable for precision applications. Our coatings fully meet MIL-STD-810F and MIL-C-484971 requirements, and we have a variety of different options available.

Shanghai Optics can provide custom high-precision prisms with arbitrary angles, sizes below 300 mm and angular accuracy of 1 arcsec. Customized coatings are available for different UV, visible and infrared wavelengths according to customer requirements.

Shanghai Optics can provide all types of anti-reflective, high reflective, and partial reflective coatings. We produce a wide variety of coatings from a single layer of anti-reflective coating to complex multilayer dielectric stacks. Types of dielectric coatings are BBAR, V-coatings, dual wavelength coatings, and sharp cut-on and cut-off filters.

Shanghai Optics offers rapid optical prototype solutions. Reducing custom optical product life-cycles and delivering true rapid prototyping is critical to the success of devices, instruments, and platforms that rely on optics and imaging. With new technologies being introduced at such lightning speed, decreasing the time it takes to develop prototypes has become a necessity. The faster customers can prototype, the faster a product can get to market. Depending on the customer’s timeline and sourcing requirements, Shanghai Optics (S.O.) different solutions and resources to quickly create solutions and optimize the speed of prototyping for our customers.

Shanghai Optics custom rod lenses are polished on the circumference and ground on both ends. They act as a cylinder lens, focusing collimated light into a line. Our fused silica rod lens offers high transmission in the UV and through the NIR as well as a low coefficient of thermal expansion, 0.55 × 10^-6 /K.

Our pre-engineered lenses give our customers the option to choose from a variety of preliminary designs based on what suits their application best. Just tell us your application requirements (dimensions, wavelength range, field of view, etc.) and our team of expert engineers will optimize our preliminary designs to meet your exact needs. This will save you the hassle of fully designing a product from scratch and help reduce or eliminate design fees!

Shanghai Optics can quickly and cost effectively provide customers custom high performance telecentric lenses for use in a variety of applications including machine vision, inspection, metrology, image sensor test, projection system, etc.

Shanghai Optics can provide all types of anti-reflective, high reflective, and partial reflective coatings. We produce a wide variety of coatings from a single layer of anti-reflective coating to complex multilayer dielectric stacks. Types of dielectric coatings are BBAR, V-coatings, dual wavelength coatings, and sharp cut-on and cut-off filters.

Shanghai Optics custom-made optical components are designed with specific substrates, custom coatings to optimize the performance in UV, visible, SWIR, MWIR, LWIR wavelength. With the help of state-of-the-art metrology, Shanghai Optics is committed to high quality and top performance optical components.

Shanghai Optics manufacturers micro-waveplates as small as 0.35 mm × 0.35 mm with tolerance of ±0.05 mm and thickness about 0.19 mm. Please contact us for manufacturing limit or custom specifications.