Telescope optics for military and aerospace surveillance
Optical Surfaces Ltd is an established supplier of Ritchey-Chrétien (RC) telescope optics for high precision surveillance applications. Typically incorporating primary and secondary hyperbolic mirrors – RC designs offer compactness, a good field of view and are free...
Ultra smooth hyperbolic mirrors
Drawing upon its uniquely stable production facility – Optical Surfaces Ltd. has established itself as a leading supplier of larger diameter hyperbolic mirrors and the extremely tight tolerances and accuracy that these optics demand. Hyperbolic mirrors are used...
High specification optical flats for custom interferometer
Optical Surfaces Ltd has received an order from Armstrong Optical, a leading UK supplier of optical metrology instruments, to supply high specification transmission and reference flats for a custom interferometer. Being built for a leading defence contractor the...
Simplifying beam diagnostics with a laser beam reducer
Optical Surfaces Ltd is a leading supplier of modular and standalone reflective beam reducers to laser facilities looking to perform accurate diagnostics and precise measurements on their beamlines. A reflective beam reducer is a device that uses mirrors to reduce the...
Improving the lifetime and performance of high-power laser mirrors
Optical Surfaces Ltd reports how its proprietary smoothing techniques largely eliminate surface microcrack damage from the off-axis parabolic mirrors it produces for high-power laser applications. As a result, the achievable performance and operational lifetime of...
Beam collimators and expanders for large diameter optical systems
Optical Surfaces Ltd has developed a novel kinematic mounting arrangement for its pre-aligned beam collimator and beam expander sub-assemblies. Traditionally large diameter or longer focal length optical systems require an extremely large, heavy and expensive...
Precision UV Lenses Enable Pioneering X-Ray Research
Optical Surfaces Ltd has supplied several sets of ultra-high quality plano-convex lenses to the MAX IV Laboratory to function as key focusing elements in diagnosing the beam in their state-of-the-art 3 GeV synchrotron storage ring. Based at Lund University (Sweden),...