Asphere Lenses

 The complex surface profile of an asphere can significantly reduce or even eliminate spherical aberrations comparing to spherical lenses. Hence, asphericals have been increasingly more widely explored and adopted during the optical design stage.

 

Aspheres can replace a complex multi-element spherical system to achieve a lighter and more compact optical system. The resulting design has higher transmittance and in most cases, costs less than the multi-lens spherical design, especially at production volumes.

 

Hyperion Optics is equipped with the Optotech aspheric CNC machine that offers Contour Deterministic Micro Grinding (CDMG) service – the machine grinds the optical material to achieve ultra-high precision shape by leveraging the accuracy and repeatability of a computerized, numerically-controlled machine mechanism. Our process begins by grinding the bulk raw material into the closest fitting sphere, and then contouring the aspheric shape from edge to center. Typical available materials within our fabrication capabilities are optical glass, ZnSe, ZnS, BaF2, GaAs, and chalcogenide glass types. We also accept materials supplied by our clients

 

Optical Machining Centers capability:

 

Capacities from 5mm to 400mm

1,000 to 24,000 rpm tool spindle

Automatic curve correction

Tool & Workpiece probing system

Dual tool spindles option

 

Hyperion’s manufacturing procedure eliminates the need for additional investment on tooling and processing fixtures for spherical substrates and preparation, thereby giving customers a quick start to the production schedule. While the aspheric part is being grounded, the profilometer will conduct and transfer measured data to the polisher. In our polishing process, our experienced operators can control the aspheric form error within 1 micron (depending on the diameter of the parts).

 

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 a 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 package is ideal for you if:

 

1.   Off-the-shelf aspheric parts do not fit perfectly in your system, Hyperion Optics can design and manufacture the custom aspheric lenses based on your system-level optical requirements.

 

2.   You need custom, built-to-print aspheric lenses. Hyperion Optics fabricates custom aspheric lens and provides complete inspection reports per your print requirements.

 

3.   Reverse engineering is required on an existing lens where you need to replace. Hyperion Optics runs in-depth mapping and optical performance testing on all lens products prior to reverse engineering; then, we proceed to redesign and system optimization and finally, manufacturing and assembly.

 

Please contact one of our asphere experts today and find out how a custom aspheric lens can help enhance and optimize your current lens system.

 

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Aspherical Lenses

 Glass Precision Aspherical Lenses, IR Aspherical Lenses, Off-Axis Parabolic Mirrors

 

Hyperion Optics’ manufacturing equipment expand our aspherical products’ capabilities to LWIR applications, from high precision VIS imaging systems to infrared athermal lenses. Our process enables precise fabrication on optical glasses and infrared materials including Germanium, Zinc Sulfide, Zinc Selenide, Calcium Fluoride, Chacolgenide glasses, and more.

 

 

We simulate every aspherical equation and all specs we received from our client to make sure that we are capable of delivering products that meet the requirements and provide suggestions based on our study and understandings. We would run a trial test on H-K9 glass to verify the design feasibility for complicated designs and provide the profiler map for your reference.

 

Hyperion’s competitive pricing on high-quality aspherical parts manufacturing helps clients to leverage aspherical surfaces in their design to achieve better system performance and/or compactable goal, meanwhile leading with pricing advantages in the market.

 

Work with Hyperion on LRIP (Low Ratio Initial Production) projects, such as 5-10 pieces for an optical feasibility study, to 200-piece to 500-piece volume production. Optional blanket order with a multiple delivery schedule is available to fit your production planning. Contact Hyperion today to chat about your specific needs.

 

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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 lens 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 achromatic doublet 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.

 

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.

 

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Elliptical Window

Elliptical window is a plane-parallel plate, it is always used for protecting electronic sensor or detector outside, elliptical window will not change system’s amplification factor. Its basic material includes various optical glass, K9, Uv-fused quartz, infrared fused quartz and crystal material like CaF2, MgF2, ZnSe, Ge and Si, it also provides various optical coating film like antireflection film, high-reflective film, beam splitting film and metal film. Wide antireflection film can be used in ultraviolet band, visible light band, near infrared band and intermediate infrared band.

 

Elliptical window is parallel optical glass with two surface by grinding and polishing. It is protection between two environment without any influence on visible light. The common coating film has AR and AS. It is mainly applied in digital camera, digital video tape recorder, industrial optical window, product with touch screen, GPS product, window of digital product, car rear view mirror, computer screen, laptop screen and surface of watches.

 

As a professional optical design manufacturing company, we will do our best to meet all the needs of clients.

 

Composition of Different Achromatic Doublet Lenses

1. Achromatic doublet lens is a kind of common lens. It consists of several groups of positive and negative cemented lenses with different radius of curved surface. It can only correct the axial chromatic aberration of red and blue light in spectral line. At the same time, the spherical aberration on the axis and the coma aberration on the paraxial point are corrected. This kind of lens can not eliminate the second-order spectrum, only the spherical aberration and chromatic aberration in the yellow and green wave regions are corrected. The spherical aberration and chromatic aberration of the remaining chromatic aberration and other wave areas can not be eliminated, and the image field bending is still very large, that is to say, only the clear image in the middle of the field of view can be obtained. It is advisable to use yellow-green light as illumination source or insert yellow-green filter in the optical path. This kind of lens is simple, economical and practical. It is often used in conjunction with correction eyepiece and is widely used in medium and low power microscopes. In black-and-white photography, green filters can be used to reduce the residual axial chromatic aberration and obtain good contrast photographs.

 

2. Complex achromatic doublet lens is composed of several groups of advanced lenses made of special optical glass and fluorite. The axial chromatic aberration is corrected by red, blue and yellow light, and the secondary spectrum is eliminated. Therefore, the image quality is good, but it is difficult to process and calibrate many lenses. The correction of chromatic aberration is in all wavebands of visible light. If blue or yellow filters are added, the effect will be better. It is the best objective in the microscope. It has good correction for spherical aberration and chromatic aberration. It is suitable for high magnification. However, it still needs to be used with compensating eyepiece to eliminate residual chromatic aberration.

 

3. Planar achromatic doublet lens is a complex optical structure composed of multiple lenses, which can correcting astigmatism and image field bending well, and make the whole field of view clear. It is suitable for microphotography. The correction of spherical aberration and chromatic aberration of the objective is still limited to the yellow-green wave region, and there is still residual chromatic aberration.

 

4. Planar achromatic doublet lens has the same degree of aberration correction as complex achromatic objective lens except for further image field bending correction, which makes the image clear and flat. But the structure is complex and difficult to manufacture.

 

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Lens Assembly

 Hyperion Optics has more than 40+ custom precision assembly projects ongoing 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 capability, we are confident to achieve challenging assembly jobs.

 

Throughout the years, we have off-the-shelf and pre-engineered lens products, please refer to our lens assembly category for detailed information, or send your inquiry to our technical sales team.

 

Anamorphic Lenses

Hyperion Optics specialized in custom anamorphic lens optical design and production. We have been customizing unique applications such as projection and anamorphic photography. Generally speaking, these len...

 

Collimating Lenses

Hyperion Optics offers the most affordable custom design collimating lenses, including singlet or chromatic lenses. Customers might find the collimators they purchase for their system do not perfectly...

 

Fisheye Lenses

Typically fisheye lens has a front lens group of a greater negative refractive power than an ordinary inverted telephoto wide angle lens, with a large back focal distance. Its extreme power distributi...

 

Beam Expander

Beam expansion or reduction is a common application requirement in most labs using lasers or light sources and optics. Users always find there are so many off-the-shelf beam expanders, however, hardly...

 

SWIR Lenses

Shortwave Infrared wavelength band offers a unique imaging advantages over visible and other thermal bands. So it is quietly earning a growing place in industrial machine vision for quality inspection...

 

MWIR Lenses

Hyperion Optics hold sophisticated algorithm for optics design optimization process back-up by powerful workstations. The unique optimization allows reduced complexity in the optical element/system sp...

 

LWIR Lenses

LWIR lens plays a critical role in thermal imaging surveillance applications, beyond night vision capabiliity, critical targets differentiation in poor vision conditions is considered the most practic...

 

Microscope Lenses

Hyperion Optics is expertized in challenging custom design and manufacturing microscope objective lenses range from UV to Infrared wavelength, for applications including quantum computing (Observation...

 

Projection Lenses

Projection lens and photographic lens is a pair of opposite lenses, the camera lens is used to image the outside world to the CCD or COMS in the digital format, on the other hand the projection lens t...

 

Surveillance Lenses

Our CCTV camera lenses come in many forms, including fixed focal-manual iris, fixed iris-manual focus, varifocal, motorized zoom lens options, and pinhole lenses. Each security camera lens we offer pr...

 

Telecentric Lenses

In many machine-vision systems, such as those used in semiconductor inspection, precise repeatable measurements must be made consistently. To ensure this occurs, system developers must turn to more ex...

 

Zoom Lenses

As opposed to a fixed focal length (FFL) lens, Zoom lens focal length can be varied, when maintains its focus. Changing the airspace between the lenses, the lens focal length will change; Such as CCTV...

 

F-theta Lenses

Don’t have a complete design? No problem!F-Theta Scanning Lenses are commonly used in laser marking, engraving, and cutting systems. Used in conjunction with a galvanometer, beam expander, and Nd:YAG...

 

Miniature Lenses

With the rapid growing market of consumer electronics and mobile phones, miniature cameras performance is becoming more challenging compared to years ago. However, manufacturing cost, packaging, imagi...

 

OCT Lens

Optical Correlation Tomography (OCT) is an imaging technology that has rapidly evolved in the past decade. Leveraging low-coherent light interference, OCT detects the black reflection or several scatt...

 

Custom Lens Assembly

Hyperion Optics manufactures and assembles the components required in your optical system, enabling you to achieve your goals more efficiently. Our optical design and manufacturing teams constantly evaluate to offer the most cost-effective solution. With comprehensive metrology in-house, Hyperion’s one-stop-shop process guarantees precision outcomes & application performance of your custom assembly project.

 

We serve clients who need 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 lens assembly workflow begins by evaluating and optimizing (if applicable) the existing lens design layout, including but not limited to tolerance analysis and MTF simulation. Then, upon design finalization, the production team will start fabricating the optical components and mechanical housing. Finally, Hyperion’s assembly and QA teams are responsible for assembling and inspecting the lens according to its functionality and system performance expectations.

Hyperion's Premium Lens Optical Design Package

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Free Design Consultation

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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ISO:9001 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, up until final inspection. This team is co-led directly by the Head of Engineering and the Head of QA.

 

More details of optical design manufacturing processes, please visit our website.

 

 

Germanium Window

 Germanium Window

 

In the range of 2-12 μm, germanium is the most commonly used material for the production of spherical lenses and windows for high efficiency infrared in imaging system. Ge plano has a high refractive index (about 4.0 through 2-14μm band), usually do not need to be modified due to its low chromatic aberration in low power imaging systems.

 

Hyperion Optics utilizes precision double polishers to produce Germanium windows at competitive pricing. We strictly control every critical parameter at different processing stages, such as surface accuracy and every physical dimension to meet tolerance requirement. As a reliable optical design manufacturing company, we provide special power controlled windows i.e. one surface with low power, while polish the other side with high power ring. Please talk to one of our technicians for further information.

 

Germanium Windows	COMMERCIAL GRADE	FACTORY STANDARD	PRECISION GRADE
Diameter Tolerance(mm)	0	0	0
Center Thickness(mm)	±0.01	±0.03	±0.025
Parallelism (Arc min)	6	<3	<1
Cosmetic(MIL-C-13830A)	100-80	40-20	10/20
Figure Tolerance inλ(Pow/irreg)	5/2	2/1	2001/1/4
Coating (T% avg)	96% @ 3-5um/7-14um.    95% @ 4-12um
Materials	Optical Grade Germanium

 

Aside of conventional Germanium window products, Hyperion Optics provides Ultra-thin germanium uncoated substrates for coating application. Upon custom requirement, we are able to fulfill as thin as 0.20-0.31 mm in center thickness, diameter as small as 3-5mm. Outer diameter special treatment is also available upon request, with extreme precise control of beveling <0.1mm for each face. Our Ultra-thin products are measured 100% individually to secure quality. Check our Ultra-thin category inventory list to match your potential demand.

 

Ge Ultra-thin Windows	Diameter Tol (mm)	Center Thickness(mm)	Power (Lambda)	Cosmetic	Bevel(mm)	Chips(mm)
Dia 6 mm	0	0.31±0.02	<1 L	40/20	<0.15	<0.10
Dia 8 mm	0	0.49±0.02	<1 L	40/20	<0.10	<0.10
Dia 9.5 mm	0	0.49±0.02	<1 L	40/20	<0.15	<0.10
Dia 11 mm	0	1.00±0.02	<1 L	40/20	<0.10	<0.10
Dia 12 mm	0	0.31±0.02	<1 L	40/20	<0.15	<0.10
Dia 12 mm	0	0.20±0.02	<1 L	40/20	<0.10	<0.10
Dia 12 mm	0	0.29±0.02	<1 L	40/20	<0.20	<0.10
Dia 15 mm	0	1.00±0.02	<1 L	40/20	<0.20	<0.10
Dia 15 mm	0	0.49±0.02	<1 L	40/20	<0.20	<0.10
Dia 18 mm	0	0.31±0.02	<1 L	40/20	<0.15	<0.10
Dia 21 mm	0	1.00±0.03	<1 L	40/20	<0.20	<0.10