Parabolic Mirrors

 Parabolic reflectors for sale are used to collect energy from a distant source (for example sound waves or incoming star light). Since the principles of reflection are reversible, parabolic reflectors can also be used to focus radiation from an isotropic source into a narrow beam. In optics, parabolic mirrors are used to gather light in reflecting telescopes and solar furnaces, and project a beam of light in flashlights, searchlights, stage spotlights, and car headlights. In radio, parabolic antennas are used to radiate a narrow beam of radio waves for point-to-point communications in satellite dishes and microwave relay stations, and to locate aircraft, ships, and vehicles in radar sets. In acoustics, parabolic microphones are used to record faraway sounds such as bird calls, in sports reporting, and to eavesdrop on private conversations in espionage and law enforcement.

 

Parabolic mirror for sale are typically designed as a segment of a larger parabola, manufactured from a metal substrate such as aluminum and coated in enhanced aluminum, silver or gold as standard. These mirrors focus light similar to a concave mirror with the significant exception being that the off-axis parabolic mirror design redirects the incident light through 90%.

 

Custom mirrors may be manufactured in a range of substrates and alternative coatings as required by our customer's specifications including UV and IR coatings and materials and alternative reflection angles.

 

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IR Asphere Lenses

 Hyperion Optics works with various infrared materials. In recent years, we have seen a growing demand of IR aspheric components due to their ability to reduce the number of elements within the system while maintaining reliable performance; this makes aspherical parts an excellent choice in Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) projects. Our aspheric manufacturing capability covers from 0.8 micron upwards to 12 micron for IR application, from a combination of materials needed in order to reach the required application needs. 

 

 

Equipped with Ametek Single-Point Diamond Turning machine, Hyperion Optics is capable of processing the following infrared and UV materials for aspheric components:

 

Zinc Sulfide (CVD CLEARTRAN available), Zinc Selenide, Germanium, Chalcogenide glasses (available in both Schott and NHG IRG materials), Calcium fluoride, and Silicon.  

Please contact our experienced engineers for performance consultation and print assessment.

MOQ starts at two pieces to ensure optical performance approval. Our fast asphere prototyping has become one of our most popular services for Low Ratio Initial Production (LRIP) projects. We can process both spherical and aspherical parts simultaneously for custom objective and/or eyepiece designs, thereby securing reliable timeline management to meet the tight timing requirement. In addition, we offer competitive pricing for aspheric coating within our prototyping packages. 

 

 

Our rapid aspheric prototyping / LRIP service in SWIR MWIR and LWIR include:

1.   Built to print, Hyperion Optics infrared camera lens and provides inspection report by your print.

2.   There is a lack of Chalcogenide materials integration in optical designs for IR applications, which is a big missed opportunity. At Hyperion Optics, the combination of Chalcogenide glasses and regular IR materials can provide a cost-effective solution with superior optical performance.

3.   Hyperion Optics runs in-depth mapping and optical performance tests on component-level and/or lens system level products; and provides redesign, optimization, manufacturing, and assembly services.

4.   For SWIR prototyping projects, we adopt injection molding processing for Schott and Ohara glasses at prototyping quantities, which can avoid purchasing high-cost raw materials from overseas, and hence dramatically reduces material investment at the prototyping phase. 

 

 

Manufacturing Limits for Aspheric Surfaces For IR Materials Based on Form Error Tolerance
Form Error 0.5 – 2μm Higher Resolution Profilometry (2-D)1
Attribute	Minimum	Maximum
Diameter (mm)3	3	80
Local Radius (mm)	-12 (Concave)	∞
Sag (mm)	0	252
Departure (mm)	0.01	20
Included Angle (°)	0	150
Form Error < 0.5μm Interferometry with Stitching (3-D)
Attribute	Minimum	Maximum
Diameter (mm)3	3	80
Local Radius (mm)	-13 (Concave)	∞
Sag (mm)	0	252,4
Departure (mm)	0.002	1
Included Angle (°)	0	120+5

 

 

Talk to one of our optical engineers to understand how Hyperion Optics can work with you for your developing IR application today. 

 

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Rapid Prototyping

 LRIP optics prototyping

 

 

Hyperion Optics has leading advantages in rapid prototyping services for LRIP (Low-Rate Initial Production) and Proof-of-Concept projects.

 

 

Various fast material accesses, such as Schott, Ohara and CDGM. We also offer mold pressed substrates for prototyping at competitive pricing

More than 6,000+ test plate, which can dramatically shorten the overall lead time to delivery

Specialized prototyping production team to oversee project from procurement to delivery

Excellent internal resources aiming at 4-week delivery from grinding, polishing, to coating

Free initial prototype design consultation

 

We encourage you to communicate with us before finalizing your optical design. Our dedicated prototyping team will verify the material availability, material lead time, optimal solution of substrates selection and fabrication tolerance definition prior to production. We always strive to provide the most pragmatic suggestions to avoid unnecessary extended delivery.

 

Raw Material Preparation Pressing vs. Slicing (Prototyping Qty)

 

Occasionally, optical designers may encounter prototyping challenges where there are multiple spherical elements from over 5 different glass suppliers in a 5-10 lens set design. In most cases, the project faces budget challenges with the spread across various materials due to limited material availability in the right blank sizes.

 

Unlike most Chinese vendors, Hyperion Optics has full access to Schott and Ohara glasses. Please see our glass inventory for your reference. Furthermore, all glasses listed are in pre-annealed sheet form. The pressed substrates solution has a +/-0.00002 precision refractive index tolerance after fine-annealing; typical lead time is 2 weeks from the receipt of the order.

 

Our engineers conduct cost-analysis for any project scale, and advise whether manufacturing from a glass strip or molded substrates would be the most cost-effective approach. We have the direct support from domestic glass molding vendors who strategically offer low MOQ molding services with the most reliable annealing technology. Our prototyping approach can ensure that your precious project budget is money well-spent.

 

Flexible Manufacturing Planning

 

Hyperion is equipped with advanced manufacturing devices and technologies, which offers unique advantages for LRIP projects by leveraging our internal resources.

 

1. Exhaustive Test Plates Inventory. Hyperion stores over 6,000+ test plates. Our vast inventory means that if our test plate stock radius data matches your design, there would be no added cost to the test plate, and the relative lead time can be shortened.

 

2. High Surface Accuracy by Conventional Processing. Our polishing operators have nearly 20 years of optics fabrication experience; we regularly deliver high-precision elements with 1/8-1/10 lambda surface flatness.

 

3. SPDT Aspherical Capability. Our aspherical machining and polishing techniques ensure that you don’t need to procure aspherical parts elsewhere.

 

4. Quick and Convenient Coating Bundle. For common coating specs in the Visible wavelength range, LRIP projects can be arranged along with our regular daily coating operation and reduces the overall coating cost.

 

Discuss with our sales engineers to explore how Hyperion can make your procurement easier and faster. Read more on our production capabilities next: Optical Components + Lens Assembly.

 

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Opto-Mechanical Design

 In precision optical systems, the slightest deficiency in opto-mechanical design will impair the performance of the most sophisticated optical components. When customizing optics, many clients neglect the impact of opto-mechanical design shortcomings to the overall system. Hyperion’s design and optimization services can help prevent prototyping/ design pitfalls.

 

 

First and foremost, our engineering team seeks to fully understand your optical goals and the system performance requirements. Before proposing a mechanical structural design, our team will gain in-depth insights about your application needs through a series of technical communication. This investment in the preliminary design phase is critical for the efforts in setting the appropriate opto mechanical systems design constraints based on the system function. These constraints enable us to convert the precision optical components into a high-performance and reliable optical system.

 

 

Hyperion's vigorous work process is designed to result in an optimal solution:

 

 

1. Our mechanical team works with you to understand the requirements of the optical parameters in respect to the mechanical system

 

2.Our optical team works with you to understand the impact of mechanical design on the overall optical system performance

 

3.Our mechanical and optical engineering teams work collaboratively to:

 

a.Formulate spacing and centration requirements of complete optical components

 

b.Determine material specifications

 

c.Determine packaging requirements (e.g. minimum and maximum size and weight restrictions, environmental  standards such as shock, vibration, operating temperature)

 

d.Perform cost and production yield analysis

 

e.Finalize production schedule and requirements

 

4.Verify the design by using SolidWorks to create 3D models and structures

 

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Optical Design & Assembly

 Hyperion Optics works on over 40+ custom precision assembly projects annually, from prototyping to mass production. Our lens assemblies range from microscope objective lenses, expanders, to SWIR/ MWIR/ LWIR lenses and more. With our reliable optical & mechanical design capabilities, we are confident to achieve challenging assembly jobs.

 

Our custom optical design services cover feasibility research, design specifications verification, preliminary design analysis, and prototyping to volume production.

 

We are comfortable with LRIP (Low-Ratio Initial Production) and Proof-of-Concept projects, which can be challenging for most optical companies given a low starting quantity. Our typical LRIP projects take about 1-2 weeks for preliminary design development and review, another 4-6 weeks for prototyping and assembly, and finally 1 week for final testing and inspection. Thus, we can help jump start your project and bring your design to life within a short prototyping cycle of 7-8 weeks. Given our experience and expertise in optical design and manufacturing, our design solution is highly DFM (Design for Manufacturability) -driven, thereby guaranteeing to meet actual production yield & feasibility in your go-to-market strategies.

 

Standard custom lens design Flow Chart

 

Complementing our design services, Hyperion is a one-stop-shop optics provider with full capabilities of various custom optical components, from singlet lenses to complicated aspherical surfaces across the spectrum. This feature significantly increases the ease for your procurement process. Our own QA standards (ISO:9001 compliant) offers peace of mind to our customers who can count on us for dependable, high-quality delivery.

 

We are comfortable to fabricate systems involving DOE, aspherical surface with optical glasses such as Schott/ Ohara/ CDGM/ NHG to IR material such as Chalcogenide and ZnS. Please refer to our IR and high precision components manufacturing capability for more details.

 

In our design process, our common practice includes sharing the most up-to-date glass catalog and refractive index data from  CDGM and NHG with our customers. In some cases, we offer actual tested R index through VIS up to 2500 nm per different materials upon request. Our engineers are happy to research on the material feasibility and availability from our resources and databanks.

 

 

One unique advantage we offer in optical design is that you get to enjoy the full support from the Hyperion production team as we collaborate on a design project. By combining our optical design expertise with our manufacturing experience, we can perform manufacturing tolerance & cost analyses, feasibility testing, and specification definition with a much greater degree of accuracy. To-date, we have accumulated a portfolio of design cases whereby Hyperion helped create cost effective systems with optimal performance (without over-spec on the components), while securing a successful prototype in the first run.

 

Hyperion Optics manufactures and assembles the components required in your optical system, enabling you to achieve your goals in fewer and more efficient steps. Our optical design and manufacturing teams constantly evaluate to arrive at the most cost-effective solution via creative thinking and optimization. With our comprehensive metrology in-house, Hyperion’s one-stop-shop process can help guarantee precision outcomes & application performance. We are dedicated to offering you top-quality lens assembly at an optimal budget.

 

We serve clients who need a comprehensive service from design, optical engineering, to manufacturing & assembly. Our team of 15 optical and mechanical engineers conducts diligent research and study of the end application to insure that our final solution will work seamlessly in your system. Further design adjustment and optimization is also applicable based on actual usage and testing.

 

Hyperion's Premium Optical Design Package Offers:

 

Free Design Consultation: We offer free preliminary design and design review for your concept feasibility study, including MTF simulation and pragmatic suggestions.

Material Recommendation: With over one decade of working experience with major glass vendors, we always come up with the most cost-effective and reliable material mix for your lens assembly solution.

Parameters Analyses (upon special request):You have the best understanding of your system and application requirements. We happily provide additional simulations and analyses based on our customers’ interests during the design stage.

Strict Quality Control: Hyperion assigns a special project-based QA team exclusively for lens design projects, which consists of the top inspectors and qualified engineers to oversee prototyping, assembly, all the way up till final inspection. This team is co-led directly by the Head of Engineering and the Head of QA.

Custom Inspection Requirement:We understand that each lens assembly has its own unique acceptance criteria. Hyperion Optics actively works with the customer to develop the most suitable inspection methods and invest in necessary procedures based on our current metrology setup.

Please browse our featured lens assemblies category to learn about what projects we can help you with. If you require a custom design, contact our technical sales team to start “Build Your Own Lens” process.

 

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Advanced Fabrication Technology

 Advanced Fabrication Technology

 

Hyperion Optics has over a decade of experience in optical and mechanical design, manufacturing, and optical assembly. With the rapid growth in the photonics market and an increasing demand for precision and accuracy, we have continued to upgrade our fabrication technology in order to better serve the optics community.

 

We have expanded our advanced fabrication capabilities through employing skilled optics technicians and investing in advanced devices and equipment. A few examples include the Optotech® machining and polishing station and the Ametek® aspherical machining device. On the metrology side, we are equipped with the latest Zygo Verifire™ interferometer and MTF testing station. From manufacturing to inspection, we believe that our value lies in the reliability of our technology and the talents of our people.

 

Hyperion Optics has decades of optical design

 

Our optical and engineering team consists of 15 optical experts who have expertise and familiarity with high-end applications. Our engineers’ specialty and understanding of the optical system can ensure that your needs would be fully understood and met. We are proud of our professional customer service that offers full support throughout the products’ life cycle.

 

Our production team has been serving our loyal customers from R&D to production projects by consistently delivering excellent quality parts. Through projects large and small, our team has grown mature and vigilant in averting potential production risks, which resulted in significant cost-savings for our customers. Our engineers invest a considerable amount of time in initial consultation to go over every optical specification. This process helps ensure that the tolerance distribution is appropriate for the given application, and can avoid unnecessary yield loss and overly-tight specification that drives up the production cost.

 

Over the past 12 years, Hyperion has built a rich portfolio of successful client stories. In this growing process, we have developed a bullet-proof process that guarantees our clients in reaching their optical goals. During quotation and prior to production, our team conducts careful review and specs examination to avoid production pitfalls. In many cases, our suggestions have successfully optimized the optical design for manufacturability and cost-savings.

 

For instance, it is our standard procedure to simulate the aspherical equation during the RFQ process to ensure that there are the design is manufacturable. This step also helps prevent potential failure prior to actual production. For aspherical designs that we are not confident about, we offer free trial on low-cost material for feasibility testing to understand and study the production challenge.

 

Besides improving our fabrication technologies, we continue to uphold and take pride in our conventional methodology that involves high-speed polishers and machinery. With our outstanding production staff and metrology procedure, we are confident to deliver high-quality precision optics for you and your institutions.

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