Shanghai Optics Inc

Metuchen, NJ 08840

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About Shanghai Optics Inc

Shanghai Optics is an unparalleled custom optical engineering solution provider offering custom optical manufacturing, design and engineering services.

Product Summary

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.

Contact

425 Main St
Suite 2E
Metuchen, NJ 08840
United States
https://www.shanghai-optics.com
732-692-8175

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We are the leading custom optics supplier of photonics products including high precision optical components, lens systems, and opto-mechanical assembly – UV, VIS, NIR and SWIR applications. We serve OEM customers in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, defense, industrial, commercial and research industries in North America and worldwide.

From rapid prototyping to high-volume production, SO offers a full spectrum of design and manufacturing expertise including our state-of –the-art metrology equipment to ensure optical performance. Our expert engineering team can optimize optical systems with in-depth Design for Manufacturing (DFM). We have years of experience in custom lens design and optical precision assembly, which enables us to bring our clients top quality products with cutting edge functionality in the most cost effective way.

With our business experience in the photonics industry, Shanghai Optics has supplied clients worldwide with top quality optics that have resulted in remarkable savings for them.

Additionally, for 20 years our US Headquarters is the center of our operations with a reputable and successful Sales and Sales Support team. We are established professionals with many years of business experience in the U.S. We have the capabilities and experience to exceed our customer’s expectations by providing custom optics delivered on time with the highest quality, great service and competitive price.

Our Sales Team is experienced and knowledgeable – an added value to our customers by identifying what is important to various customers and offering solutions for their product designs or needs. Our team is very passionate, dedicated, and committed to establishing relationships and working with PhDs, researchers, engineers, scientists in the field of Defense, Security, Industrial, Aerospace, Bioengineering, and Pharmaceutical Industries worldwide.

Our goal is to optimize your design with manufacturing input to bring your visions to life!

Quality Services

  • DFM – Design for Manufacturing Input
  • Optical System Design – Component/Lens System/Instrumental
  • Optical System Assembly and Sub-assembly
  • Optical Design Optimization
  • Custom Optics Fabrication
  • Reverse Engineering
Cutting Edge Advantages
  • Competitive Prices
  • Quality ISO:9001-2015 Registered
  • Short Lead Times
  • Rapid Prototyping
  • Creative Solutions for Lens Design and Optimization
  • 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
  • Complete Box Build Solutions

  

  

Products

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Optical coating & fabrication capabilities

Optical Coatings

You might not think about it daily, but optical coatings are used in virtually every aspect of our lives and are crucial for optimal light performance. From the digital camera...
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Mirrors

Off-Axis Parabolic Mirror

Off Axis Parabolic Mirror for Every ApplicationAn off axis parabolic mirror is an optical device which transforms plane waves into spherical waves and spherical waves into plane...
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Collimators

Fiber Collimators

Fiber Collimator made of stainless steel; size: ∅6.81mm x 9.27mm A fiber collimator is an optical component designed to transform the light emitted by an optical fiber into a ...
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Assemblies

Optical Lens Assembly

Our Optical Lens System Design and Optical Lens Assembly BrochureWe utilize our expertise, optical system design, advanced in-house manufacturing and testing equipment for delivering...
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Lenses

Infrared (IR) Aspheric Lenses

Infrared (IR) Aspheric LensesShanghai Optics has high manufacturing capability of Infrared Aspheric Lenses for substrates such as Germanium (GE), Zinc Selenide (ZnSe) and Silicon...
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Lenses

Axicon Lens

Axicon Lens IntroductionAn axicon lens is a special lens with one plano (flat) surface and one conical surface. Also known as a rotationally symmetric prism, an axicon lens creates...
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Medical systems

Medical Device Optics

Medical Device Optics OverviewMedical device optics play a key role in every type of medical technology, from diagnostics to treatment to cutting-edge research. At Shanghai Optics...
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Lenses

TIR Lens

A TIR lens is an optical lens built on the principal of total internal reflection (TIR). TIR lenses collimate light, sending out a concentrated beam of full intensity. They are...
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Lenses

SWIR Imaging Lenses

A SWIR lens, or short wave infrared lens, is optimized for light in the 0.9 – 1.7μmwavelength range. At Shanghai Optics we manufacture high quality SWIR lenses for surveillance...
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Lenses

Telecentric Lenses

Telecentric lenses are special lenses which can be used in machine vision systems and imaging systems to maximize performance and provide highly accurate, repeatable measurements...

Videos

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Optical coating & fabrication capabilities

Optical Coating at Shanghai Optics

An optical coating is a thin-film deposit used to enhance transmission, change reflective properties, or change the polarization of light transmitted through an optical component...
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Lenses

Telecentric Lenses

Telecentric Lenses are widely used in metrology instruments, laser marking systems, and AOI (Automatic Optical Inspection) machines. Here’s a 360 view of one of our custom Telecentric...
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Optics

Shanghai Optics Introduction & Factory Tour

Shanghai Optics is a leading global custom optics manufacturer and optical solution provider with more than 60 years of experience. Our experienced engineering team possesses ...
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Spectrometers

Spectrophotometer Transmittance Measurement

An inside look at how Shanghai Optics engineers measure transmittance using a Spectrophotometer. Spectrophotometers measure transmittance and reflectance of lenses and lens assemblies...
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Spectroscopy

Spectrophotometer Transmittance Measurement

An inside look at how Shanghai Optics engineers measure transmittance using a Spectrophotometer. Spectrophotometers measure transmittance and reflectance of lenses and lens assemblies...
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Medical systems

Medical Optics Introduction

Optics is playing a key role in nearly every modern diagnostic advancement and devices that rely on optics are extensively used for medical research, diagnostics, and treatment...
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Consulting

Rapid Optical Prototyping by Shanghai Optics

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...
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Consulting

Reverse Engineering a Lens

Reverse Engineering a Lens
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Microscopes

How to Choose the Right Microscope Objective

Objective lenses are used in microscopy systems for a range of scientific research, industrial, and general lab applications. A microscope objective is typically composed of multiple...
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Lens & window material (for finished components only)

Custom Optical Manufacturing Facility and Capabilities - Shanghai Optics

Learn about our capabilities, which includes diamond turning aspheric lens manufacturing, high laser damage threshold optical coating and state of the art metrology.

Resources

Autonomous Driving
Imaging systems

Autonomous Driving: How Optical Technology transform the Auto Industry

Autonomous Cars in Today’s MarketThe automotive industry is primed for historic disruption. Practically every car company is investing in autonomous vehicle developments. By 2030...
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Spectrometers

Spectrometer Optics and Spectrometer Design

Spectrometer optics involves measuring light intensity by means of a specialized analytical tool called a spectrometer which separates light by wavelength. Spectrometers are used...
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Imaging systems

Resolution of Imaging Systems

Often the quality of an imaging system is expressed in terms of resolution. Resolution is a measurement of an imaging system’s ability to resolve detail in the object that is ...

Blogs

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Waveplates

What Are Achromatic Waveplates?

Ever wondered how light waves can pass through a glass plate without being blocked? It’s all thanks to an achromatic waveplate! This nifty technology might sound like something...
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Beamsplitters

How Does a Beamsplitter Work?

Beamsplitters are important instruments in various fields, such as interferometry and optics. They come in different types and have numerous applications. However, most do not...
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Lenses

What is a Concave Lens?

Concave lenses are one of the many lenses used in optics. They help create some of the most important equipment you use in your everyday life. These lenses come in various types...

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Lenses

What is a Convex Lens?

A convex lens is used in cameras, telescopes, microscopes, and other essential gadgets, but you might not know what it is or how it works. This article will explain what a convex...
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Lenses

When should I consider Reverse Engineering a lens?

Our customers ask us this question often. Because redesigning lens assemblies involves incomplete materials, tolerance, and performance information, some find it a daunting process...
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Lenses

What is Optical Design? and Why is Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) so important?

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Lenses

Aspheric Lens Basic Knowledge

What is an Aspherical Lens?A spherical surface is defined by a single radius of curvature. Aspherical lenses have at least one surface that is not spherical. Optical Engineers...
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Medical systems

Design for Manufacturing Case Study – Medical Device Application for AR Headsets

Shanghai Optics offers custom optical solution services including Design for Manufacturing (DFM). We are proud of our long history of offering custom optical solutions for helping...
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Consulting

Design for Manufacturing Case Study

A scientific device and instrument company needed to develop an infrared lens with focal length of 40mm and f number of 0.98 for spectral imaging application. The spectral imager...
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Microscope objectives

Learning Optics with Austin: Lesson 18 – Microscope Objectives

Microscope objective lenses are a classic example of optics in our lives. The function of the microscope is to enlarge objects our eyes cannot see. Unlike telescopes which enlarge...
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Spectroscopy

Technical Article: Spectrometer Optics and Spectrometer Design

Spectrometer optics involves measuring light intensity by means of a specialized analytical tool called a spectrometer which separates light by wavelength. Spectrometers are used...
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Learning Optics with Austin: Lesson 17 – Quantitative Descriptions of a Lens

In theory, the entire lens would be up to the qualifications set by the customer. After all, if a customer ordered a 150mm lens, the whole 150mm lens should be up to specification...
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Optics

Deep Dive into Optics: Optical Tolerances

Manufacturing optical tolerances are important factors that impact both performance and cost of an optical component or system. Optical components commonly require tighter optical...
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Apertures

Deep Dive into Optics: Clear Aperture

During the manufacturing process, a lower quality surface near the edge of an optical component is created. The diameter of the area inside of the optical component that must ...
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Cameras

Deep Dive into Optics: Camera Lens Field of View (FOV)

Field of view (FOV) is defined as the maximum area that a device can capture. The larger the field of view, the more data can be captured at one time, so it will require fewer...
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Diffraction gratings

Learning Optics with Austin: Lesson 13 – Diffraction Grating and Wave Plates

With the knowledge of interference and polarization, it is time to talk about the practical applications of both! Diffraction gratings are used to change the path of light and...
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Deep Dive into Optics: Surface Accuracy

Surface accuracy is the measurement of the deviation between the actual shape and the intended shape of an optical surface.Surface Accuracy: reference vs. actual shape comparisonSurface...
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Polarizers & accessories

Learning Optics with Austin: Lesson 12 – Polarization Revisited

Now that we have explored light waves, we can dive more in depth into polarization. In how to describe light, we mentioned that sunlight is a form of unpolarized light or natural...
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Lenses

Megapixel Lenses

Megapixel Lens from Shanghai OpticsPlease contact us for latest price on stock parts.Stock Megapixel Lens CatalogStock Megapixel Lens Data SheetClick Here For Our In Stock Megapixel...
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Interferometers

Optics Learning Optics with Austin: Lesson 11 – Fringes and Interferometers

We left off in the interference post using water waves to represent the interference that occurs between light waves. A well known experiment having to do with interference of...
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Deep Dive into Optics Blog: Objective Lenses

An objective lens is an important component of a microscopy or imaging system for a range of science research, biological, industrial, and general lab applications. An objective...
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Consulting

Rapid Optical Prototype Solutions From Shanghai Optics

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...
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Learning Optics with Austin: Lesson 10 – Interference

Besides explaining rainbows, why model light as a wave? The particle model of light is usually drawn with a particle traveling as a ray. Just by staring at a candle or light bulb...
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Medical systems

Medical Optics

Optics is playing a key role in nearly every modern diagnostic advance, and devices that rely on optics are extensively used for medical research, diagnostics and treatment. Shanghai...
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Lenses

Laser Lenses

Laser Lenses OverviewLaser 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...
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Optical filters

Bandpass Filters

Understanding Bandpass FiltersA bandpass filter is designed to pass a specified range of wavelengths with high transmittance while blocking all others. At Shanghai Optics we produce...
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Optical filters

Deep Dive into Optics Blog: Optical Filters

Electromagnetic spectrum covers many wavelength regions from Gamma ray, X ray, ultraviolet (UV), visible light, infrared (IR) to radio wave. Visible light is the portion of the...
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Waveplates

Learning Optics with Austin: Lesson 9 – Light Waves

In “What is Light?”, we described light as both a wave and a particle under the conditions of the wave-particle duality. In the previous posts, we have mostly modeled light as...
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Optical filters

Fluorescence Filters

Fluorescence filters are at the heart of every Fluorescence optical device, and high quality filter sets are essential for high definition imaging and fluorescence microscopy....
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Mirrors

Cold Mirrors

A cold mirror is a specialized longpass filter, an optical mirror which is designed to reflect shorter wavelengths of light at a 45° angle of incidence while transmitting undesired...
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Lenses

Build Your Own Lens

This document specifies the requirements for manufacturing a Shanghai Optics lens for imaging lens system.Please fill in the form with the lens requirements and upload your document...
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Mirrors

High Reflectivity Mirror

A High Reflectivity Mirror for Laser ApplicationsA high reflectivity mirror, also known as a supermirror, is a dielectric mirror that has been carefully designed to provide optimal...
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Mirrors

Dichroic Mirror

Dichroic Mirror OverviewA dichroic mirror, also down as a dual-band mirror, dual-wavelength mirror, or dichroic reflector, is a specialized mirror which has different optical ...
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Optics

Freeform Optics

Freeform Optics OverviewA freeform optical component is not symmetric around its optical axis. It provides some attractive features to optical designers to correct multiple aberrations...
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Consulting

Optical Engineering Services

The optical engineering services provided by Shanghai Optics is our way of making more than 55 years of experience in optical engineering, opto mechanical engineering, product...
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Lenses

Laser Lenses

Laser Lenses OverviewLaser 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...
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Windows

Si Window

Silicon is the principal component of most semiconductor devices, most importantly integrated circuits or microchips. Silicon is widely used in semiconductors because it remains...
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Optical filters

Shortpass Filters

Shortpass FiltersA shortpass filter is a type of edge filter designed to pass wavelengths of light shorter than a given cut off wavelength while blocking long wavelengths. At ...
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Prisms

Learning Optics with Austin: Lesson 8 – Prisms and Total Internal Reflection

Besides lenses and mirrors, prisms are another group of common optical elements. White light that enters a prism leaves as many different colors due to the different refractive...
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Consulting

Volume Production

Our engineers study every step of manufacturing process at the prototyping stage and do in-depth analysis about the product performance and manufacturing cost when we ramp up ...
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Consulting

System Integration

Shanghai Optics offers a variety of System Integration services for custom applications. Based on customer’s expectation for the system of existing products and/or under development...
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Consulting

Optical Design

Are you looking for a reliable partner in optical lens designs? Do you need custom optics designed for manufacturability? Shanghai Optics has a strong engineering team with deep...
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Consulting

Custom Optical Solutions

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...
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Mirrors

Broadband Dielectric Mirrors

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...
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Lenses

Germanium Lens

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...
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Lenses

Learning Optics with Austin: Lesson 7 – The Eyepiece and Lens Requirements

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Lens arrays

Microlens Array

OverviewMicrolens arrays are rigid arrangements of very tiny lenses, each with a diameter of less than 10 millimeters. These arrays may be one or two dimensional, and are mounted...
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Prisms

Dove Prism

A Dove Prism is an optical prism that can be used to rotate, retroflect, or invert an image. It is shaped like a triangular right-angle prism with the top cut off, or truncated...
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Optical coating & fabrication capabilities

Optical Coating

An optical coating is a thin-film deposit used to enhance transmission, change reflective properties, or change the polarization of light transmitted through an optical component...
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Instrumentation, metrology

Optical Metrology

Optical Metrology OverviewOptical metrology involves using light to set the standards of measurement. More generally, it can be defined as the science of measuring with light....
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Lenses

Bk7 Spherical Lens

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...
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Lenses

Cylindrical Lenses

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...
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Prisms

Precision Penta Prism

Penta Prism is often used in Plumb Level, Surveying, Alignment, Range finding and Optical Tooling. Factory StandardMaterial: BK7 Grade A optical glass, Corning Fused Silica 7980...
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Consulting

Reverse Optical Engineering

Many engineers use standard or off-the-shelf lenses for building new-product prototypes. Relying on a unique lens component from a specific supplier for a new product, the cost...
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Optics

Advantages Of Using LED Lighting

LED is a new generation of light source that converts electric energy directly into light energy through semiconductor. LED lighting lamps are widely used in indoor and outdoor...
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Lenses

Learning Optics with Austin: Lesson 6 – Focal Length and Applications of Lenses

Focal length is important not just in terms of positive and negative. For convex lenses, different focal lengths can have drastically different images. If an object (u) is at ...
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Lens & window material (for finished components only)

How does Peak to Valley (PV) and Root Mean Square (RMS) affects the quality of your optic?

Peak-to-Valley (PV) and Root-Mean-Square (RMS) are two common parameters used to measure the difference between an ideal optic surface to the actual optic surface. Historically...
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Beam expanders, delivery systems and splitters

Beam Expanders

Beam Expanders are optical devices which increases the diameter of the input beam to produce a larger output. Used with collimated light, they have important applications in remote...
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Beamsplitters

Laser Polarizing Beamsplitters Cube

These are thin film Polarizers constructed as a cube. Thin film polarizers utilize the polarization which occurs on reflection from a plane surface. By combining a large number...
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Optical filters

Raman Filter

A Raman Filter is a precise optical filter used in Raman spectroscopy. When placed in the beam path, these filters transmit Raman scattered light to the spectrometer while selectively...
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Laser crystals/rods

Light Pipe Homogenizing Rods

Light Pipe Homogenizing Rods are tubes which transits natural light collected by light collection. Light pipe Homogenizing Rods could be distinguished into straight light pipe...
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Windows

ZnSe Window

A ZnSe window is an optical window formed of Zinc Selenide, a transparent, highly stable material. These windows feature extremely low IR absorption, and have a high resistance...
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Windows

BK7 Windows

Optical windows are used to allow optical radiation to pass from one environment to another without allowing other elements of these environments to mix. And it does not change...
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Optical filters

Laser Line Filter

A laser line filter is a precision optical filter with an extremely narrow passband centered on a standard laser wavelength. These optical filters are used to prevent the distortion...
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Apertures

Learning Optics with Austin: Lesson 1 – What is Light?

Optics is the study of light. The root of the word “opt” relates to the eye and vision, while the suffix “ics” refers to a science or discipline. [1] With that enLIGHTenment, ...
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Apertures

Learning Optics with Austin: Lesson 2 – How to Describe Light

Light that the human eye can see is just a small sliver of the electromagnetic spectrum. We use wavelength (λ), measured in nanometers (nm) or micrometers (1 μm = 1000 nm), to...
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Beamsplitters

Learning Optics with Austin: Lesson 3 – How Does Light Travel? Part I: Diffraction and Reflection

A total solar eclipse is perhaps one of the most dramatic examples of a shadow. When the moon is positioned between the earth and the sun, the moon’s shadow is cast onto the earth...
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Optical components

Learning Optics with Austin: Lesson 4 – How Does Light Travel? Part II: Refraction

Why does a pencil look like it is snapped in half when partially placed in a container of water? The short answer is refraction.A more detailed explanation is that the rays of...
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Apertures

Learning Optics with Austin: Lesson 5 – Intro to Optical Components

The properties of light evident in nature are utilized by humans through instruments such as lenses and mirrors. While one might think that glass is the main material used to ...
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Microscopes

How to Choose a Microscope Objective or Objective Lens

How to Choose the Right Microscope ObjectiveObjective lenses are used in microscopy systems for a range of scientific research, industrial, and general lab applications. A microscope...
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Mirrors

Freeform Optics

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...
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Micro-optics

Microspheres

Microspheres are convenient for coupling light into or out of fibers as well as for relaying images in compact areas. The focal point of a sphere is very close to its surface ...
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Lenses

Achromatic Lenses

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...
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Windows

Fused Quartz Windows

Fused quartz windows have excellent optical quality, low coefficient of thermal expansion, and transmission over 80% at a wavelength range of 260nm to 2500nm. Fused quartz is ...
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Lenses

Collimating Lenses

Collimating lenses are used to convert divergent light beams into parallel beams. Collimating lenses are designed for various applications covering from the UV to visible to long...
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Beamsplitters

Beamsplitters

We also offer both plate and cube design options. Our options include polarizing beamsplitters, non-polarizing beamsplitters and dichroic beamsplitters.
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Lenses

Telecentric Lenses

Shanghai Optics manufactures both object-space and image-space telecentric lenses, and we are able to provide stock parts, pre-engineered specifications, and fully custom lenses...
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Lenses

F-Theta Lenses

These lens systems are carefully designed to provide a precisely engineered barrel distortion that gives a displacement which is linear on angle of incidence of the input beam...
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Microscope objectives

Microscope Objectives

Objective lens is the most important part of a microscope and plays a central role in imaging an object onto the human eye or an image sensor for discerning the object’s detail...
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Domes

Optical Domes

Shanghai Optics manufactures optical domes in a wide variety of substrates, suitable for visible, IR, or UV light. Our domes are available in sizes from 5 mm to over 200 mm diameter...
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Laser crystals/rods

Light Pipe Homogenizing Rods

Light Pipe Homogenizing Rods are tubes which transits natural light collected by light collection. Light pipe Homogenizing Rods could be distinguished into straight light pipe...
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Windows

Metalized Sapphire Windows

Metallized sapphire windows feature metallized edge surfaces which allow the windows to be soldered or bonded directly into an opto-electronic assembly, creating a hermetic seal...
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Mirrors

Off-Axis Parabolic Mirror

An off axis parabolic mirror is an optical device which transforms plane waves into spherical waves and spherical waves into plane waves. This makes it useful for collimating ...
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Lenses

IR Lenses

Shanghai Optics offers a large variety of custom Infrared IR Lenses and components for focusing, collimating and collecting light in near-infrared (NIR), short wave infrared (...
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Lenses

Germanium Lens

A state-of-the-art production involving CNC and SPDT(Single Point Diamond Turning) is developed in Hangzhou Shalom EO to manufacture Germanium Lenses for IR applications. The ...
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Lenses

Aspheric Lenses

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 variety of shapes, are used to correct...
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Lenses

Cylindrical Lenses

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 side. Unlike a spherical...
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Lenses

Optical Metrology Case Study

At Shanghai Optics, we use Zygo interferometers to accurately measure and quantify the surface figures of lenses.
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Microscope objectives

Case Studies of Optical Reverse Engineering

Three cases that Shanghai Optics provided turn-key solutions for scientific labs in Universities and commercial R&D departments, and overcame challenges using optical reverse ...