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. provides each customer with mounted beam expander mirror modules with all freedoms of movement fixed to give an accurate starting point for alignment.
Optical Surfaces Ltd.'s pre-aligned modules provide a time-, space-, and cost-saving solution for beam expansion for optics up to 0.5 m in diameter.
Optical Surfaces Ltd. can achieve surface micro-roughness of less than 1 nm using its polishing techniques.
Optical Surfaces Ltd. launched a mounting system that provides a highly stable platform for wedged, back off-axis parabolic mirrors.
Optical Surfaces Ltd. proprietary polishing techniques can achieve off-axis angle limits around 25 to 30 degrees depending on required surface accuracy.
Optical Surfaces Ltd. manufacturing workshops and test facilities are ISO 9001-2015 approved and located deep underground in tunnels excavated in solid chalk.
Optical Surfaces Ltd. routinely produces off-axis parabolic mirrors with surface accuracy to lambda/20 peak-to-valley depending upon off-axis angles.
Optical Surfaces Ltd. underground facilities provide naturally thermally stable temperatures and extremely low vibration for quantifiable and reliable testing of high precision optical components and mounted mirrors.
Optical Surfaces Ltd. wedged back paraboloid mounts provide a secure and stable platform for mirror diameters from 0.05 m to 0.2 m.
Optical Surfaces Ltd. constructs its wedged back paraboloid mounts from black anodized aluminum.
Optical Surfaces Ltd. has produced large optical components and systems for more than 50 years.
Optical Surfaces Ltd. produces flat mirrors with surface accuracies of lambda/15 at 633 nm.
Optical Surfaces Ltd. manufactures large-diameter flat mirrors up to 0.6 m in diameter.
Optical Surfaces Ltd. supplied a reference flat as part of the package for SSTL’s Nigerian Sat-2 very high resolution satellite system.
Optical Surfaces Ltd. operates ISO 9001-2015 approved manufacturing workshops and test facilities located deep underground in tunnels excavated in solid chalk.
Optical Surfaces Ltd. operates ISO 9001-2015 approved manufacturing workshops and test facilities located deep underground in tunnels excavated in solid chalk where temperature remains constant and vibration is practically non-existent.
Optical Surfaces Ltd. supplied a mounted reference flat for SSTL’s Nigerian Sat-2 satellite payload integration verification.
Optical Surfaces Ltd. has produced large optical components and systems for more than 50 years and is widely accepted as one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of high-precision optics for satellite deployment and astronomical research.
Optical Surfaces Ltd. produces high-precision reference flat mirrors used for testing and precise alignment of Earth observation satellite telescopes.
Optical Surfaces Ltd. manufactures large-diameter flat mirrors up to 0.6 m with surface accuracies of λ/15 at 633 nm.