Product Variants of Optical Components
Prisms
CHARACTERISTICS
Offering excellent thermal stability, prisms using total internal reflection avoid loss of light in the optical path. SCHOTT also manufactures prisms using non-standard glasses, which results in even higher standards of homogeneity (up to H4 level). Whether right-angle, rhomboid, roof or penta, SCHOTT prisms can stretch the boundaries of design for a vast range of applications.
YOUR ADVANTAGES
- SCHOTT offers prisms at various processing stages: milled, polished, coated, cemented or assembled.
- The most appropriate processing method (CNC or pressing) is selected depending on the quantity, size and type of glass.
- Extensive expertise in cementing.
- Flexible production process – from a single piece to serial production.
- All prisms can be coated to specific custom designs to serve your chosen application.
High precision aspheres
CHARACTERISTICS
Aspherical lenses are increasingly used to replace multi-spherical element assemblies, resulting in more lightweight and compact designs. Aspheres are found in a growing number of digital projection, camera and cine lens systems, as well as high power laser systems, medical apparatus and satellites. The ultra-smooth surfaces, combined with a range of different materials and advanced coatings, can open up new opportunities for many industries.
ADVANTAGES
- Suitable for demanding, high performance applications.
- Customized products.
- Single piece to serial production capability.
- SCHOTT masters the entire value chain, from raw glass to final product.
- All aspheres can be coated to specific designs to suit your chosen application.
Spherical lenses
CHARACTERISTICS
SCHOTT spherical lenses are available as singlets, doublets and triplets in a variety of shapes, and we are always happy to customize products for individual customer needs. We use all types of optical glass materials upon request, including fused silica, with SCHOTT’s expansive range of coatings widening the choice of options.
Spherical lenses also function as part of lens systems performing an achromatic function, with multiple elements working together to limit chromatic and spherical aberrations and bring separate wavelengths into focus on the same plane.
YOUR ADVANTAGES
- SCHOTT masters the entire value chain and can leverage its renowned product portfolio to produce customized spherical lenses.
- Singlet, doublet, and triplet spherical lenses available in different processing stages, including matt, polished, coated, and cemented.
- Customized coatings available to suit your application.
Plano optics
CHARACTERISTICS
Glass substrates are components manufactured from materials ranging from optical and technical glasses to fused silica, sapphire and other crystals. They are polished to a tight specification and serve as the base for coatings in optical systems such as beam splitters and interference filters, reflecting or transmitting light according to precise specifications.
Windows are transparent or coated components, mostly plano-plano parallel polished, which facilitate exceptional performance in optical and imaging systems. The tight tolerances and low CTE offered by SCHOTT components ensure optimum results regardless of application.
YOUR ADVANTAGES
- SCHOTT masters the entire value chain and can leverage its renowned product portfolio to produce windows and substrates closely tailored to your requirements.
- Flexible production process – from a single piece to serial production.
- Extensive expertise in gluing, cementing and sub-assembling to integrate substrates and windows into custom-designed hardware.
- Customized coatings available on request, along with double- or single-sided polishing.
Cylindrical Lenses
CHARACTERISTICS
The ability of cylindrical lenses to transform a point of light into a single line means they are widely used in a number of specialty applications, including barcode scanning and laser projection. The tight tolerances achieved by SCHOTT glasses result in straighter lines and higher quality images than standard cylindrical lenses, even at low thicknesses. Our expertise in all types of optical glass, including fused silica and ZERODUR® extremely low expansion glass-ceramic, means our customers also have a wide choice of customization and coating options to develop bespoke products tailored to their needs.
YOUR ADVANTAGES
- SCHOTT masters the entire value chain and can leverage its renowned product portfolio to produce customized cylindrical lenses.
- Customized coatings available on request.
- Expertise in machining difficult glass types and manufacturing lenses with different radii.
- Close curvature tolerances can be maintained despite low thicknesses.
- High precision radii can be achieved.
Optical glass wafers
CHARACTERISTICS
The technical specifications of SCHOTT optical glass wafers depend on your requirements as a customer, enabling you to find the right combination of characteristics that suits your application. We can achieve highly impressive specifications in terms of refractive index, Abbe number, transmittance and coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE), and we can work with you to develop the right combination of qualities. Typical applications for wafer-level optics include optical sensors, micro-optics and camera optics, nanoimprint lithography (NIL), and advanced metrology.
YOUR ADVANTAGES
- High volume production of wafers in diameters of 150-300 mm.
- Excellent surface roughness of <1 nm.
- Outstanding total thickness variation (TTV) of <1 µm.
- Wide range of material families available: optical glasses, technical glasses, fused silica, filter glasses, glass-ceramics and sapphire.
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A variety of melting and processing techniques enable us to supply large volumes of high precision wafers tailored to your needs.
