Buying Cylindrical Lenses

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Edmund Optics selection of cylinder lenses include achromatic, acylinder, plano-convex, or plano-concave. Achromatic cylinder lenses provide additional color correction by minimizing chromatic aberration. Hybrid acylinder lenses are ideal for color correction, in addition to minimizing spherical aberration. Edmund Optics offers cylinder lenses with glass or plastic substrates, or with circular, rectangular, or oblong dimensions. Multiple anti-reflection coating options are available from the ultraviolet to the infrared, including UV-AR, UV-VIS, MgF₂, VIS-NIR, VIS 0°, or NIR I. Edmund Optics offers full prescription data, in addition to 2D or 3D models.

Bringing quality into focus

Knight Optical‘s stock catalogue includes BK7 and UV fused silica cylindrical lenses designed to focus light across one plane rather than to a point. We currently offer 12.5mm to 150mm focal lengths, with AR-coated options available in the visible region. Custom cylindrical lenses can also be provided to meet bespoke requirements.

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As the name suggests, a cylindrical lens or cylinder 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 lens, however, cylindrical lenses aren’t fully symmetrical — the orientation of a cylindrical lens affects how it transmits light.

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Dayoptics' engineers have many years experience on fabrication on cylindrical lenses. We can produce the products with high precision and specification consistancy based on our advanced inspection instrument for the lenses. The material used from UV to IR are fused silica, BK7, CaF₂, S-TIH53 and others. The lens dimensions range from 1 mm × 1 mm to 100 mm × 100 mm.

Custom Precision optical components

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Ecoptik offers cylindrical lenses with different substrate shapes and high surface accuracy. As one of the best optical components manufacturers, we monitor the quality of each individual lens using Trioptics centration measurement and a Zygo GPI interferometer. All Ecoptik lenses are available both uncoated or coated with a broad range of high durability, low loss AR coatings, and can be manufactured to 20–10 surface roughness.

Optical components at better price

We offer cylindrical lenses up to 100 mm width, λ/4 surface quality with centering of 2 arcmin. Plano-convex cylindrical lens, plano-concave cylindrical lens, bi-concave & bi-convex cylindrical lens. Achromatic cylinder lenses are also available.

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EKSMA Optics offer a selection of uncoated plano-convex and plano-concave cylindrical lenses for quick delivery. Custom cutting, edging, coating or complete fabrication can be offered on request.

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Artifex Engineering offers custom plano-convex, plano-concave or achromatic cylindrical lenses. Achromatic cylindrical lenses significantly reduce chromatic, spherical and coma aberrations. Visit our product page for more information. We look forward to your inquiry.

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Shanghai Optics offers cylindrical lenses e.g. with a dimension tolerance of ±30 μm or even ±10 μm, λ/4 or λ/8 surface irregularity and a centration better than 3 arcmin or even 1 arcmin.

Expanding your spectro-vision

UM Optics offers both plano-convex and plano-concave cylindrical lenses based on a wide range of materials and coatings, such as CaF₂, K9, UVFS, Si, Ge and ZnSE.

Shalom EO is a specialized supplier of cylindrical lenses, we provide a full portfolio of cylindrical optical lenses including plano-convex cylindrical lenses plano-concave cylindrical lenses, fast axis collimators and slow axis collimators made of various materials such as fused silica, BK7, optical glass, BaF₂, CaF₂, MgF₂, and ZnSe, etc. Coating options include: uncoated, MgF₂ single layer, V-coating, and broadband AR coating.

With stringent inspection measures carried out using instruments like Zygo interferometer, Shalom EO’s cylindrical lenses are excellent for laser line generation, anamorphic beam shaping, and one-dimensional compression of images in laser scanners, spectroscopes, dye lasers, acousto-optics, optical processors and other similar applications.

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IRD Glass manufactures cylindrical optics, both convex and concave, from numerous substrate materials and with optical coatings like high laser damage threshold or anti-reflection coatings. Custom solutions are available in less time than from competitors, while still offering competitive pricing.

We use custom centering equipment to locate the center of curvature and custom ripple-checking equipment to ensure form and flatness of curves. Our machining, polishing, and grinding capabilities produce radii less than 2 mm or greater than 125 mm.