Optical Surfaces Ltd. is a UK-based manufacturer specializing in high-precision optical components and systems. They produce items like mirrors, lenses, collimators, and beam expanders, catering to the demanding needs of space, astronomy, defense, and high-energy physics applications. Optical Surfaces Ltd. serves leading scientific, astronomical, and defense establishments, including NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). Associated keywords include: precision optics, mirrors, lenses, space applications, astronomy, high-precision components.
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Optical Surfaces Ltd. developed the artifact suppression method in conjunction with a customer.
Optical Surfaces Ltd.'s manufacturing workshops and test facilities are ISO 9001-2015 approved.
The underground tunnel environment at Optical Surfaces Ltd. provides naturally thermally stable temperatures and extremely low vibration.
Optical Surfaces Ltd. has been producing demanding optical components, optical systems, and mounts for more than 60 years.
Optical Surfaces Ltd.'s high-magnification reflective beam expander provides highly efficient transmission unspoiled by diffraction patterns.
Optical Surfaces Ltd. received a follow-up order from Magdalena Ridge Observatory to produce three second-generation off-axis beam compressors.
Optical Surfaces Ltd. previously supplied a 7.5x off-axis beam compressor that was designed to allow a 95-mm beam of starlight to be reduced in size for final division among instruments on the telescope.
Optical Surfaces Ltd. incorporates invar element tie bars in the beam compressor design to provide thermal stabilization.
The reflective design of Optical Surfaces Ltd.’s beam reducers is achromatic and, with protected silver coatings, can operate from the visible spectrum to the far infrared without adjustment.
Optical Surfaces Ltd. can routinely achieve smoothness of 10/5 scratch/dig on large diameter lenses.
Optical Surfaces Ltd. works in a thermally stable manufacturing environment and uses high-stability materials such as Zerodur and Fused Silica.
Optical Surfaces Ltd. has produced large diameter custom lenses for leading research establishments, government institutions, and industrial organizations worldwide for decades.
Optical Surfaces Ltd. can routinely achieve a surface accuracy better than lambda/20 p.v.
Optical Surfaces Ltd.'s manufacturing facility is ISO 9001-2015 approved.
Optical Surfaces Ltd. produces high precision singlets, doublets, meniscus, cylindrical, and aspheric lenses up to 0.6 m (0.61 m) in diameter.
Optical Surfaces Ltd. can routinely achieve surface roughness of less than 1 nm rms.
Optical Surfaces Ltd. has produced high precision optics and optical systems from its ISO 9001-2015 approved manufacturing facility for more than 50 years.
Optical Surfaces Ltd. supplies modular beam expander assembly components that include mounted primary and secondary mirrors pre-set to the correct positions for experiments relative to a 25×0.025 m M6 standard optical table hole pattern.
Optical Surfaces Ltd. supplies three reference stops with each mounted pair of pre-aligned mirrors.
Optical Surfaces Ltd.'s reference stops reduce the required installation and alignment time to an absolute minimum.