Optical Components are used to alter the state of light through focusing, filtering, reflecting, or polarizing to be used in a limitless number of applications in diverse industries.
Sapphire Optics
Sapphire has some properties excellent properties that make it a great choice for high-performance optics. It has an extreme hardness, high strength, and fracture toughness, resistance to scratching and many kinds of chemical erosion, plus its ability to withstand pressurization and extreme temperature variations. Sapphire optics are used in a wide array of applications such as military, aerospace, medical, industrial and consumer industries. As it is capable of transmitting over a broad wavelength region, it is an ideal material for remote sensing technologies. Most reputed manufacturers offer a Plano-convex, biconvex and concave sapphire lens solutions. These lenses can also be anti-reflective coated to increase efficiency in UV and IR applications.
UV Optics
UV optics are used for many applications such as semiconductor processing, fluorescence microscopy, and laser micromachining. With a surge in UV optics applications, there has been an increase in the demand for optical components designed to work at those wavelengths. Most of the reputed manufacturers provide a range of high-quality optical components optimized for ultraviolet wavelengths for UV applications. UV grade fused silica is often used as a substrate. Alternatively, precision UV windows and lenses may be manufactured from quality calcium fluoride crystal to meet any legitimate specification.
Silicon Optics
Silicon optics are used in a variety of infrared applications such as NIR imaging or IR spectroscopy. Similarly, Silicon optical lenses are suitable for collimation or focusing applications using monochromatic light.
In the beginning, it was used as key technology related to the short-distance optical communication systems, however, now Silicon-Photonics are also being used for completely different applications, ranging from gas and liquid sensing to biological analyses.
Laser Diode Optics
A laser diode is a semiconductor laser similar to a light-emitting diode (LED). It is used in laser pointers and bar-code scanners. However, the most common laser diodes can be found in CD-ROM and CD players.
Optical components are often developed using specific substrates or anti-reflection coatings to optimize performance in designated ultraviolet, visible, or infrared wavelengths or wavelength ranges. One should look for reputed manufacturers having expertise as a premier fabricator of high precision optical components.
