Knight Optical can offer custom Rod Lenses for use within Optical Systems.
We supply a range of custom & stock Rod lenses for a range of applications. All individually QA checked and metrology tested for quality to ensure parts meet customer specification. Supplied in a range of sizes and shapes with custom coatings tailored to meet your individual applications.
Knight Optical supply precision optical components to customers with Optical systems. Rod Lenses are a special variant of cylindrical lenses so they focus light to a line. Rod lenses have an outside face that is polished and the ends are ground. Typical uses for rod lenses would be to generate a line image from a circular laser beam.
Rod lenses can be cut at 45 degrees for use in beam steering and other similar applications.
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Material::N-BK7 or equivalent, Borosilicate, UV Fused Silica
Shapes::Plane, 45°
Dimensional Tolerances::+/- 0.1mm
Centering::< 3 arcminutes
Surface quality::< 40-20 Scratch/Dig
Surface Figure: :< 5(1) @ 633nm
Coating::Antireflective coatings for application bandwidth (if required)
Mounting::Available on request