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Shanghai Optics

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Shanghai Optics Inc.
425 Main St Suite 2E
Metuchen, NJ 08840
United States
Tel.:+1 732 692 8175
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Website:web link www.shanghai-optics.com
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Quality certificate:ISO 9001:2015, ISO 13485:2016

Company Description

Shanghai Optics is an unparalleled custom system solution provider offering advance precision custom optical design, engineering, prototyping and manufacturing services. With over 20+ years of experience in North America, we're one of the top custom lens manufacturers that specializes in lens assembly and delivers the most cost-effective custom optical solutions in the biomedical, medical device and instruments, life science and photonics industries. By combining high-quality custom engineering with the latest state of the art advanced metrology, we work with our customers to deliver breakthrough custom optical design solutions and engineering consulting for the most challenging applications.

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achromatic opticsS Eachromatic optics from Shanghai Optics

Shanghai Optics offers a large variety of custom achromatic lenses for our customers including achromatic spherical and aspherical lenses, achromatic singlets, doublets and triplets. Combined with one of our advanced AR coatings (covering 400–700 nm, 650–1050 nm, 1050–2500 nm), these optimized lenses are ideal for ensuring high resolution image quality and durability. With our in-house state-of the-art metrology and professional testing personnel, Shanghai Optics is able to provide a full range of inspection reports and CoC (Certificate of Conformance) for full optical characterization such as surface quality, dimensions, centricity, coating transmittance/reflectance (with SHIMADU UV3600 spectrophotometer), and overall/partial surface accuracy (with 6-inch ZYGO interferometer). FAI inspection reports are available upon request.

anti-reflection coatingsS E

Shanghai Optics provides custom anti-reflection coatings with appropriate materials and optimized configuration on a substrate material specified by the customer, with specified transmittance and a specified wavelength region.

aspheric opticsS Easpheric optics from Shanghai Optics

Precision aspheric lenses reduce visual defects and produce clearer images, making them ideal for many applications. In addition, because the surface of an aspheric lens is designed and formed to effectively reduce aberration in specific applications, custom aspheric lenses make flexible solutions to complex problems. At Shanghai Optics, we use two main methods to produce custom aspheric lenses: molding and traditional polishing with the state-of-the-art manufacturing and metrology equipment.

axiconsS Eaxicons from Shanghai Optics

Shanghai Optics offers high-precision axicon lenses for medical, scientific and industrial applications. From eye surgery to optical tweezers to laser drilling, from optical coherence tomography to particle physics, these prisms play a very important role in a wide range of optical systems. We produce a variety of axicon lenses from optical materials such as fused silica, sapphire, ZnSe, and plastics. Our lenses can be made with almost any ring diameter, and both refractive and diffractive axicon lenses are available. We can also design optical assemblies such as a combination of axicons with beam expanders, lenses, or additional axicons to produce your desired beam profile.

ball lensesS Eball lenses from Shanghai Optics

Shanghai Optics offers custom-made ball lenses. Please contact us for manufacturing limit or custom specifications. We can offer balls lenses e.g. with a diameter tolerance of ±50 μm, scratch & dig 20/10, surface quality 40-20, and with <50 μm deviation from a sphere.

beam collimatorsS Ebeam collimators from Shanghai Optics

Shanghai Optics provide many different types of standard collimating lenses, including aspheric and achromatic lenses for many different light sources such as highly divergent laser diodes. Our standard collimating lenses can convert divergent laser beams to well-collimated laser beams that enter beam expanders for interferometry, laser material processing and laser scanning applications.

We also provide custom collimating lenses for projecting a source at infinity for infinite conjugate testing of optical systems. The collimating lenses can consist of several optical elements. The selection of optical materials and optical configuration depends on the entrance pupil diameter, wavelength, focal length, and field of view of the optical system under test.

beam expandersS Ebeam expanders from Shanghai Optics

Shanghai Optics Inc's custom beam expanders are used in many applications such as laser ranging, laser illumination, interferometry, etc. In high-power laser systems, beam expanders are used increase the beam area without significantly affecting the total laser energy. This results in a reduction of the laser power density which reduce the risk of damaging the coatings and optical materials of optical components. In a laser ranging system, a beam expander is used to minimize the laser divergence, resulting in a smaller collimated beam at a long distance.

beam homogenizersS Ebeam homogenizers from Shanghai Optics

Shanghai Optics offers light pipes which can be used as beam homogenizers. They can be straight or bent pipes with a bending angle up to 90°. A five-layer coating ensures light transmission with low losses.

beam splittersS Ebeam splitters from Shanghai Optics

Shanghai Optics manufactures custom cubic beamsplitters, plate beamsplitters, and lateral displacement beamsplitters. All our beamsplitters are made of high quality glass, with high surface quality to allow tight tolerance on all parameters.

cold mirrorsS Ecold mirrors from Shanghai Optics

Shanghai Optics is a custom optics manufacturer with over 55 years of optics manufacturing experience. Our cold mirrors are perfect for applications that require high reflectance in the visible spectrum and excellent transmission in the infrared. These cold mirrors are manufactured using a special proprietary all dielectric coating technique that yields the most durable commercially available product. Our cold mirrors will pass Mil. C-675, snap tape tests and are capable of operation at temperatures as high as 600 °C. They will also operate and survive in extreme humidity environments. Cold mirrors are available from stock in one inch and two inch diameter round or one inch, two inch and four inch square configurations. Larger sheets are also available and may be cut into custom sizes.

corner cube prismsS Ecorner cube prisms from Shanghai Optics

Shanghai Optics Inc. custom corner cube prisms are used for applications in spectroscopy, satellites, or battlefield technology, also in land surveying, laser resonator cavities, electronic distance measurement, and space vessel docking.

custom opticsS Ecustom optics from Shanghai Optics

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. Our engineering team can provide various types of lens design and assembly, covering all aspects of imaging and illumination design, from LED to gas discharge lamp illumination system design, as well as the design of the overall opto-instrument components and customized optical modules.

cylindrical lensesS Ecylindrical lenses from Shanghai Optics

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.

dichroic mirrorsS E

Shanghai Optics manufactures a wide range of optical filters or mirrors for engineering, scientific, and photographic applications. Our hard coated optical filters are dichroic filters/mirrors. They are composed of a single substrate with a dense hard coating. These hard sputtered filters are expensive to produce, but they have excellent performance and are ideal for applications where precision is of paramount importance. We use cutting-edge IBS technology to give our dichroic filters uniform dielectric coatings, and no adhesives whatever are involved in manufacture. This ensures a quality product with a very long filter life. Since they have only one substrate covered with a thin film, Shanghai Optics customized dichroic filters are much thinner than traditional coated filters and offer much higher transmission.

dielectric coatingsS E

Shanghai Optics can provide all types of anti-reflective, high reflective, and partial reflective coatings. We produce a wide variety of coatings from a single layer of anti-reflective coating to complex multi-layer dielectric stacks. Types of dielectric coatings are BBAR, V-coatings, dual wavelength coatings, and sharp cut-on and cut-off filters.

dielectric mirrorsS Edielectric mirrors from Shanghai Optics

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’s specifications. These mirrors have the same exceptional specifications as our laser mirrors except that they use special multi layer coatings to achieve a very high degree of reflectance for both s- and p-polarizations over a broad wavelength range. For white light or tunable laser use these mirrors provide the ultimate in high reflectance and insignificant polarization effect. The reflectance of these coatings is consistently greater than 99.5% average. However, this figure includes very small dips in the p-reflectance which can never be completely eliminated. The s-polarization component has a reflectance greater than 99.9% over the entire range.

Fresnel lensesS EFresnel lenses from Shanghai Optics

Shanghai Optics offers Fresnel lenses Fresnel lenses made of plastics for various applications – including custom versions tailored to your needs.

hot mirrorsS E

Hot and cold mirrors are both specialized dielectric mirrors which are used for heat control; to filter unwanted energy from a light source. A cold mirror will reflect 90% of the visible light spectrum while efficiently transmitting (and thus removing from the site of interest) infrared wavelengths. A hot mirror will reflect 90% of infrared and near infrared light, and transmit a large portion of visible light (up to 80%). Shanghai Optics can manufacture custom hot and cold mirrors for any angle of incidence desired, from 0 to 45°.

infrared opticsS Einfrared optics from Shanghai Optics

At Shanghai Optics we design and manufacture a wide variety of custom optical IR components. Our state of the art equipment allows us to achieve unparalleled precision and surface quality, and every piece we manufacture is subject to stringent quality controls.

We offer a wide range of IR substrates, including Ge, Si, ZnSe, ZnS, ZnS , CaF2, BaF2 and GaAs. Our lenses and windows are available with multiple anti-reflection coating options that can increase durability and improve performance.

laser diode collimatorsS Elaser diode collimators from Shanghai Optics

Shanghai Optics provide many different types of standard collimating lenses, including aspheric and achromatic lenses for many different light sources such as highly divergent laser diodes. Our standard collimating lenses can convert divergent laser beams to well-collimated laser beams that enter beam expanders for interferometry, laser material processing and laser scanning applications.

We also provide custom collimating lenses for projecting a source at infinity for infinite conjugate testing of optical systems. The collimating lenses can consist of several optical elements. The selection of optical materials and optical configuration depends on the entrance pupil diameter, wavelength, focal length, and field of view of the optical system under test.

laser opticsS Elaser optics from Shanghai Optics

Optical components are used in a wide range of applications, such as microscopy, imaging, life science, testing and measurement. Shanghai Optics custom made optical components are designed with specific substrates, custom coatings to optimize the performance in UV, visible, SWIR, MWIR, LWIR wavelength. With the help of state-of-the-art metrology, Shanghai Optics is committed to high quality and top performance optical components.

lensesS Elenses from Shanghai Optics

Shanghai Optics specializes in custom lenses for all applications, from prototype to volume production.

metal-coated mirrorsS Emetal-coated mirrors from Shanghai Optics

Shanghai Optics provides custom metallic coatings which provide high reflection in some wavelength range, and are widely used in laser system and other optical elements. Our metallic coatings provide more effective and efficient spectral performance due to the low absorption properties. These mirror coatings can also be further customized to provide additional high pass or low pass wavelength performance in addition to the specified reflection band.

microlens arraysS Emicrolens arrays from Shanghai Optics

Shanghai Optics Inc custom micro-lenses are made from high index optical glass. They are precision polished to very high tolerances, so that they can be mounted into complex imaging systems.

microlensesS Emicrolenses from Shanghai Optics

Shanghai Optics Inc custom micro-lenses are made from high index optical glass. They are precision polished to very high tolerances so that they can be mounted into complex imaging systems.

micro-opticsS Emicro-optics from Shanghai Optics

Shanghai Optics custom micro-optics are very small optical systems, typically between a few micrometers to a millimeter in size. They include optical fibers with a microscale core diameter, miniature diffractive optical elements, optical micro-mirrors, lens prisms and arrays of lenses. Shanghai Optics produces a wide range of custom micro optics, and we can work with you to design and develop micro-optic lens assemblies to meet your exact specifications.

microscope objectivesS Emicroscope objectives from Shanghai Optics

Shanghai Optics custom microscope objectives are designed with the assistance of CAD, Solidworks and Zemax software using top quality glass having highly specific refractive indices. This enables us to produce microscope objectives that are very low in dispersion and corrected for the most of the common optical artifacts such as coma, astigmatism, geometrical distortion, field curvature, spherical and chromatic aberration.

mirrorsS Emirrors from Shanghai Optics

At Shanghai Optics we manufacture custom optical precision mirrors for a wide range of applications. Life sciences, astronomy, metrology, and solar engineering are only a few of the industries which depend on our precision mirrors and other optical components.

optical design servicesSoptical design services from Shanghai Optics

Shanghai Optics is an unparalleled custom optical engineering solution provider offering custom optical manufacturing, design and engineering services. 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. By combining high-quality custom components with the latest state of the art advanced metrology, our experts deliver breakthrough custom optical design solutions and engineering consulting for the toughest optical problems.

optical domesS Eoptical domes from Shanghai Optics

Shanghai Optics manufactures optical domes in a wide variety of substrates, suitable for visible, IR or UV light. Our custom domes are available in sizes from 5 mm to over 200 mm diameter, with custom sizes on request.

optical filtersS Eoptical filters from Shanghai Optics

Shanghai Optics manufactures a wide range of custom optical filters for engineering, scientific, and photographic applications.

optical mountsS

Shanghai Optics offers a wide range of lens system assembly services covering visible to UV & IR wavelengths. We serve customers ranging from biomedical, imaging & illumination, to industrial and military applications. With extensive experience in manufacturing optical components, we have an excellent understanding between manufacturability and design expectations.

optical prototyping systemsS

Shanghai Optics Inc offers rapid optical prototype solutions. 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. With new technologies being introduced at such lightning speed, decreasing the time it takes to develop prototypes has become a necessity. The faster customers can prototype, the faster a product can get to market. Depending on the customer’s timeline and sourcing requirements, Shanghai Optics (S.O.) different solutions and resources to quickly create solutions and optimize the speed of prototyping for our customers.

optical windowsS Eoptical windows from Shanghai Optics

Shanghai Optics Inc state of the art factory is able to manufacture both large optical windows and micro windows for nano-sized optical assemblies. A wide variety of optical substrates are available to choose from, and since production is carried on in-house our design team, will be able to match your exact specifications when carrying out your order.

opto-mechanicsS Eopto-mechanics from Shanghai Optics

Shanghai Optics Inc has more than 55 years of experience in designing and manufacturing opto-mechanical products. We offer cost-effective solutions and fast delivery services for our customers. Our engineering design experience and streamlined production methods help us create optimum design and production processes. Comparing with other optical manufacturers, we provide:

  • cost-effective solutions
  • 20% faster time to delivery for research and engineering projects
  • 20% to 30% faster time to market for manufactured products
parabolic mirrorsS Eparabolic mirrors from Shanghai Optics

At Shanghai Optics, we design and manufacture custom and standard off-axis parabolic mirrors for companies and institutions around the world. Please contact us for a free quote!

plastic opticsS Eplastic optics from Shanghai Optics

Shanghai Optics produces the highest quality plastic optics in a variety of shapes, including aspheric lenses, optical prisms, cylinder lenses, toroid lenses, and free form optics. Our state of the art in house equipment allows us to use the most efficient ways to produce polymer optical components, including single point diamond turning and machining, CNC machining, and injection molding.

Injection molding is the most common way to manufacture large quantities of polymer optics. During the molding process melted thermoplastics are injected into prepared optical forms. Shanghai Optics has extensive experience in optics molding and especially in developing high quality molds for both standard and custom optics. Our optical design team has experience preparing both single cavity and multi-cavity molds, and molding acrylic (PMMA) lenses, polycarbonate lenses, cyclic olefin polymer lenses, etc.

polarizersS Epolarizers from Shanghai Optics

At Shanghai Optics we produce some of the highest quality dichroic polarizers. Our dichroic plate beamsplitters are manufactured with a special design and proprietary manufacturing approach, allowing us to attain steep edges and flat, high reflection and transmission bands.

The almost complete transmission and reflection provided by our dichroic polarizers means that very little stray light gets through the imaging system. This results in high contrast image and a very good signal to noise ratio, as compared to other polarizers.

Our dichroic polarizers feature a UV grade fused silica, JGS1, or JGS2 substrate, coated with a hard dielectric coating. These glass polarizers have a much higher damage threshold than their plastic counterparts, and are suitable for precision applications. Our coatings fully meet MIL-STD-810F and MIL-C-484971 requirements, and we have a variety of different options available.

prismsS Eprisms from Shanghai Optics

Shanghai Optics can provide custom high-precision prisms with arbitrary angles, sizes below 300 mm and angular accuracy of 1 arcsec. Customized coatings are available for different UV, visible and infrared wavelengths according to customer requirements.

prototype building and testingS

Shanghai Optics offers rapid optical prototype solutions. 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. With new technologies being introduced at such lightning speed, decreasing the time it takes to develop prototypes has become a necessity. The faster customers can prototype, the faster a product can get to market. Depending on the customer’s timeline and sourcing requirements, Shanghai Optics (S.O.) different solutions and resources to quickly create solutions and optimize the speed of prototyping for our customers.

rod lensesS Erod lenses from Shanghai Optics

Shanghai Optics custom rod lenses are polished on the circumference and ground on both ends. They act as a cylinder lens, focusing collimated light into a line. Our fused silica rod lens offers high transmission in the UV and through the NIR as well as a low coefficient of thermal expansion, 0.55 × 10-6 /K.

scanning lensesS Escanning lenses from Shanghai Optics

Our pre-engineered lenses give our customers the option to choose from a variety of preliminary designs based on what suits their application best. Just tell us your application requirements (dimensions, wavelength range, field of view, etc.) and our team of expert engineers will optimize our preliminary designs to meet your exact needs. This will save you the hassle of fully designing a product from scratch and help reduce or eliminate design fees!

telecentric lensesS Etelecentric lenses from Shanghai Optics

Shanghai Optics can quickly and cost effectively provide customers custom high performance telecentric lenses for use in a variety of applications including machine vision, inspection, metrology, image sensor test, projection system, etc.

thin-film polarizersS Ethin-film polarizers from Shanghai Optics

Shanghai Optics can provide all types of anti-reflective, high reflective, and partial reflective coatings. We produce a wide variety of coatings from a single layer of anti-reflective coating to complex multilayer dielectric stacks. Types of dielectric coatings are BBAR, V-coatings, dual wavelength coatings, and sharp cut-on and cut-off filters.

ultraviolet opticsS E

Shanghai Optics custom-made optical components are designed with specific substrates, custom coatings to optimize the performance in UV, visible, SWIR, MWIR, LWIR wavelength. With the help of state-of-the-art metrology, Shanghai Optics is committed to high quality and top performance optical components.

waveplatesS E

Shanghai Optics manufacturers micro-waveplates as small as 0.35 mm × 0.35 mm with tolerance of ±0.05 mm and thickness about 0.19 mm. Please contact us for manufacturing limit or custom specifications.

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