Thursday, November 20, 2025

Achromatic Doublet Lenses



 At Hyperion Optics, with decades fabrication experiences, we have been providing our customer a vast number of achromatic lenses for their applications in different precision grades, please check our test plate radius available online for download to save your cost on custom achromatic doublet design. Particularly for cost-sensitive design, our series production capability always ensures a satisfying pricing solution.

 

As optical designers widely use doublets which contribute latitude to eliminate chromatic and spherical aberrations more thoroughly. We also provide excellent suggestions for glass material selection in individual design as we distinguish the importance of refractive index precision in material selection stage despite the design data in software.

 

Universally, with particular flint glass designers might choose, certain glass’ deliquescence attribute lead to cosmetic failure after polishing, or even affect the transmission after coating. Let us help to avoid such problem in your design to live process.

 

As a reliable optical assembly manufacturing company, we are also able to provide custom design in large diameter up to 8 inches achromatic lenses, including cylindrical and achromatic triplet lenses.

 

For extremely precision sensitive system requirement, please contact us for further information, our engineers are more than happy to evaluate your design and have our experiences of manufacturing input help to define the most appropriate tolerances.

 

If you want to know more kinds of optical materials, please visit our website.

 

 

 

 

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Achromatic Cylindrical Lenses

 Achromatic cylindrical lenses are ideal for eliminating spherical and chromatic aberration at the image plane, for example using monochromatic light source, achromatic cylindrical lenses can form a 50-90% smaller spot comparing to a singlet lens.

 

Achromatic cylindrical lenses are typically introduced into system designs for the highest-power laser or imaging applications, such as anamorphic projection and anamorphic photography, Hyperion Optics can manufacture such lenses based on the custom design doublet or triplet achromatic cylindrical cemented lenses by using centering alignment device with UV curing unit, which allows us to process precision bonding and testing simultaneously. Every singlet is fully inspected before bonding.

 

We are capable of producing achromatic objective lens up to 150mm in diameter with reliable anti-reflective coatings, centering precisely controlled on the optical edging device, and surface accuracy strictly defined on Zygo. Further, we also help our clients with adopting Chinese CDGM or NHG equivalents in achromatic cylindrical design, offering a flexible and quick-turnaround solution in LRIP cases.

 

Please check out our anamorphic lenses for more information. If you are in the stage of developing your own anamorphic lenses, don’t hesitate to contact one of our optical engineers for a free consultation to receive design input/ suggestions from the manufacturing perspective.

 

In addition to the achromatic cylindrical lens, we also provide achromatic triplet lenses and achromatic doublet lenses for your needs.

 

Hyp design is a leading optics supplier of photonics products including optical components, lens systems and opto-mechanical assemblies in UV, Visible,NIR, SWIR applications. Our clients spanning across defense, security, bioengineering, pharmaceutical, institutional, industrial and research industries worldwide. We specialize in DFM (Design for Manufacturing) input from rapid prototyping to volume production. Our comprehensive metrology coupled with our cost-effective philosophy help Hyperion customers obtain a competitive edge in the global market.

 

 

 



Achromatic Lenses

 Achromatic Lens Design 


Achromatic Spherical Lenses, Cemented Lenses, Bonded Lenses, Doublet, Triplet

 

With over a decade of production experience, we have significantly improved our achromatic spherical and cylindrical lenses manufacturing. From the beginning stage during evaluation, we help customers with material selection for cemented elements, thoroughly analyze potential production risks, and assess the cementing precision definition of the prints.

 

As an optical design manufacturing company, we are able to provide flint and crown glasses bonding solution with meniscus elements edged on optical edging device with precision wedge control. Our super achromatic lens include achromatic triplet lenses, achromatic doublet lenses and achromatic cylindrical lens. Our production team is also specialized in doublet and triplet fabrication with calcium fluoride (CaF2) lenses, which require special adhesive treatment for extended durability.

 

Our bonding operators carefully pair the individual lenses regarding radius (power), center thickness (CT) to ensure adhesive thickness and accurate CT control for high-precision requirement. We utilize UV curing / cold bonding techniques on different glass materials in order to enable operators eliminating center deviation on upgraded centering station. For doublet and triplet diameters exceed one inch, 0.6 arc min to 0.8 arc min is our standard wedge control precision.

 

We can precisely control the center thickness of doublets to within +/-0.04mm, triplet within +/-0.05mm for airspace sensitive design. A design that includes OHARA and SCHOTT glasses typically take longer due to material supplier’s lead time (>6 weeks); our engineering team can speed up the procurement process by helping you select compatible materials from our glass inventory database and dramatically reduce lead time to within one week to have the substrates ready.

 

Achromatic Cylindrical Lenses


Achromatic Doublet Lenses


Achromatic Triplet Lenses


 


Achromatic Lens Definition


Types of Achromatic Lens


Application of Achromatic Lens


 


If you want to know more about achromatic combination of lenses, please visit our website.



 

Optical Components

 Hyperion Optics is a premium supplier of photonics products including high-precision optical components, lens systems, and optomechanical assemblies across UV-VIS-IR applications.

 

Hyperion is equipped with a comprehensive metrology lab that includes Zygo® interferometer, profiler, spectrometer, and MTF testing station. Our capability to accurately & scientifically quantify optical specifications such as surface flatness and Transmission in our products offers our partners confidence and a peace of mind.

 

Hyperion is committed to serving the photonics community with high-quality optics and customer service. Every optic is backed by Hyperion's experienced production staff, QA engineering team, and ISO:9001:2015 compliant manufacturing process. As one of optical component manufacturers and optical lens suppliers, we are proud to offer our customers a worry-free procurement experience.


 


Optical Components Category


 


Spherical Lenses


Hyperion offers a variety of spherical/ singlet lenses across the spectrum, including Plano-Convex/Concave, Bi-Concave/Convex, Positive and Negative Meniscus in a wide range of materials.


 


Achromatic Lenses


Hyperion has significantly improved the achromatic spherical and cylindrical lenses manufacturing precision. As a lens supplier, we offer custom achromatic cylindrical, achromatic doublet, and triplet lenses.


 

Aspherical Lenses

Hyperion's aspherics capabilities can deliver high-precision aspherical surfaces from VIS imaging system to athermal lenses for LWIR applications. Material options include ZnS, ZnSe, Ge, CaF2, Chalcogenide, and more.

 

Cylindrical Lenses

Cylindrical components are widely used for laser applications. Hyperion offers comprehensive Zygo reports on all cylindrical surfaces. Custom measurements such as optical axis deviation are available upon request.

 

Infrared Lenses

Hyperion regularly work with IR materials that spans across almost the entire IR spectrum. We use laser-based edging device to control MWIR and LWIR lenses' decenter deviation, and test on reflective centering station to fulfill extremely precise tasks.

 

Mirrors

Hyperion offers a variety of laser, flat, metal substrate, focusing, or specialty Optical Mirrors in a multitude of reflective coating options, including Protected Aluminum, Enhanced Aluminum, Protected Silver, Protected Gold, or Dielectric.

 

Filters

Hyperion is equipped with 4 coating chambers to provide various filters to our customers. Please contact us about your custom coating specifications, we are more than happy to simulate the coating results for you.

 

Prisms

Hyperion supplies a wide range of prisms to meet UV-Visible-NIR applications. Our capabilities can fulfill high-precision surface quality and tight angle tolerance. Materials selection ranges from flint/crown glasses, fused silica, ZnSe, CaF2.

 

Windows

Our precision optical windows range from UV to VIS, NIR, SWIR further MWIR and LWIR applications. We offer a variety of substrates, such as Germanium (Ge), Silicon (Si), N-BK7, UV Fused Silica, Zinc Selenide (ZnSe), or Multiple anti-reflection coating options are available for the Ultraviolet (UV), Visible, or Infrared (IR). Please also refer to our IR optics category for more information.

 

Dome

Glass domes are widely used for commercial applications which require protective boundary between different environments; domes perform as windows, providing protection to electronic sensors or detectors without sacrificing field of view.

 

Crystals

Our crystals solution includes BBO, BIBO, KTP, anti gray tracking KTP, LiNbO3, Nd YAG crystal and wafer and much more. With 1/10 lambda precision, coated/un-coated options, competitive pricing.

 

Laser Optics

Protect scan lenses from backsplatter and other workplace hazards, Hyperion Optics offers protective windows -- also known as debris windows -- that are either included as the overall scan lens assembly part, or sold separately. These plano-plano windows are available in both ZnSe and Ge materials and also supplied mounted or unmounted.

 

Custom Optical Components

We at Hyperion Optics offer a wide range of components manufacturing service, custom made to your specifications. Our manufacturing capability enables us to fulfill your product material mix per your application, from UV band to IR wavelength.

 

If your design incorporates a complex combination of components, such as aspherical surfaces, doublet, and triplet in optical glass or IR materials for high-end application, Hyperion Optics would be your optimal choice. Our years of manufacturing and assembly experiences can help ensure you reach your project goals within your budget.

 

Our lens/ windows manufacturing capabilities also include high-speed polishing technique and traditional polishing process for the purpose of prototyping with relatively low volume (2-5 pcs), for customer’s optical performance approval. Aspherical shaping and polishing are also available for a low-volume production plan.

Hyperion's Custom Components Fabrication

 

DFM/ DFA Expertise

A wide range of elements manufacturing capability spanning across UV, VIS, NIR, SWIR, MWIR, LWIR applications. With our expert design team’s support, we can work with customers from both design and manufacturing perspectives, thereby achieving the optimal cost-benefit ratio in a given project.

 

In-House Metrology

Our extensive inspection capability offers our customer full quality support to meet excellent products delivery. Your parts distributed under strict internal quality control. Further, Hyperion Optics will stand behind your part's quality in its life cycle.

 

Effective Prototyping

With the decades of experience in components manufacturing, we are comfortable with low-volume prototyping before going into mass production. Our in-house coating chamber can help you save cost by slotting your custom components into our regular coating routine.

 

What Our Clients Say

 

Dr. Aritoki Suzuki, Staff Scientist at LBNL

Dr. Aritoki Suzuki, Staff Scientist at LBNL Hyperion team goes above and beyond to meet our scientific need. I approached Hyperion with wild new idea, but Hyperion team was patient to listen to my need, think through with engineering team and came up with a solution. We found a solution to make astrophysics detectors that was not possible if it was not for Hyperion's technology.

 

As an optical assembly manufacturing company, we will do our best to meet all the needs of customers.