Design & Assembly House
Geared for Complex Optical Challenges
Designing optical systems for advanced technologies takes expert knowledge and expert design. When you’re in product development, a partner who will tell it to you straight, provide practical guidance on specifications, manufacturability, and system integration will help you deliver a superior performing product on time.
Rely on Photon Gear for precise integration between design, prototype, and production.
Turn to Photon Gear.
Let's talk about your optical challenges.
Optical Lens Design
For Demanding Applications
Our highly skilled team will solve a specific challenge, optimize your design, or manufacture a complete high performance opto-mechanical system. Recent optical design and assembly projects include:
- High NA lenses (0.9) performing at 0.03 waves RMS
- Deep UV (266 nm) to the Near IR
- UV wide-field scan lenses
- Image relay lenses
- Large field fluorescence objective lenses
- Atom imaging lenses
- Athermalized telecommunication lenses
Design software tools include CodeV, Zemax, FRED, SolidWorks, and AutoCAD as well as in-house software for analysis of special application areas.
Guaranteed
We specialize in the most challenging applications and assemblies. We guarantee: if there’s an easier or less expensive approach, we’ll tell you. And if we can’t solve it, we’ll tell you who can.
High Performance Optical Assemblies
Repeatable Precision That Improves Product Performance
Our skilled optical assembly technicians work on high performance systems in our cleanroom facility, which is equipped with custom assembly stations for sub-micron element alignment.
Examples of lens systems we’ve made:
- Wide angle lenses for AR/VR testing
- Large field laser scan lenses
- Biomedical objective lenses
- Fluorescence imaging systems including high NA objectives
- LED illumination systems
- Ultra-precise null lenses for aspheric testing
- Multi-wavelength, high NA objectives for DNA analysis
- Ultra-small assemblies for remote inspection
- Visual optics for helmet-mounted-display HMD
Some of our most demanding lenses for semiconductor processing operate at high numerical aperture (0.9) and performance is better than diffraction limited, often <0.03 waves rms.
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Photon Gear helps us manage risk. I consider them more of a partner than a supplier.
—Todd Harris, Triple Ring
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Photon Gear is a very strong design and assembly house. Their product is extremely well designed and well built.
—Joe Pinto, Optimax
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If we need a specific type of opto-mechanical assembly, we go to them first.
—Scott Anderson, LensAR
Multi-Wavelength Interferometry
& MTF Testing
Pushing Beyond Traditional Optical Design and Testing
High performance optical testing is required to ensure the performance of the system. Our custom interferometry services test at wavelengths that range from UV to mid-IR wavelengths in a stable, low noise environment for the most accurate data available.
Unique test capabilities:
- Interferometric measurement between 266 nm to 1570 nm
- Modulation Transfer Function testing (MTF)
- Focal length measurement
- Lens metrology
- Autopsy of poorly performing customer-supplied lenses
- Custom instrumentation
- Custom software development for specific analysis
- Precise optical system alignment
