Spectrograph optics for astronomical telescopes
Optical Surfaces Ltd is a leading producer of ultra-high precision optical components and systems for telescope spectrographs. The main function of a telescope spectrograph is to...
Fast Focusing Mirrors extend capabilities of Laser-driven Proton Beams
Optical Surfaces Ltd. has received a follow-on order from the Scottish Centre for the Application of Plasma-based Accelerators (SCAPA) at the University of Strathclyde (UK), for...
Proprietary technique produces ultra smooth laser mirrors
Optical Surfaces Ltd. has pioneered a pitch-polishing technique, that produces consistently low surface microroughness on off-axis parabolic mirrors used as key focusing elements...
High precision dichroic beamsplitters for astronomical research
Dichroic beamsplitters from Optical Surfaces Ltd are commonly used as light guiding optics in telescope spectrographs and to enable multichannel CCD cameras to simultaneously...
Improving telescope vision with artificial guide stars
Optical Surfaces Ltd report supply of fourteen 100mm diameter field selector mirrors and a 400mm diameter reference flat to TNO (Delft, Netherlands) for a Laser Launch System...
Aspheric lenses for high power laser research
Optical Surfaces Ltd is a leading producer of large diameter aspheric lenses used as critical focusing optics in high-power laser research. Aspheric lenses provide a...