Our Precision Optics Capabilities
Notch Optics specializes in providing a wide range of customized precision optical components, including prisms, arrowheads, unique shapes, and complex optical assemblies, all designed to meet specific customer requirements. Our optics are suitable for applications across a broad spectral range from 300nm to 3000nm, ensuring versatility for a wide variety of industries and uses.
Comprehensive One-Stop Service We offer a full-service solution for your precision optics needs, covering every step from optical processing to coating applications and final assembly. Our one-stop service ensures a streamlined and efficient process, providing our clients with high-quality optics that are ready for immediate integration into their systems.
Key Capabilities:
- Customized Precision Optics: We specialize in manufacturing custom optics with a wide variety of shapes and geometries, including prisms and arrowheads, to suit unique project specifications.
- Optical Coating: Our precision coatings enhance the performance of your optics, tailored to your specific spectral and environmental requirements.
- Optical Assembly: We handle complex optical assemblies and can integrate mechanical parts based on customer specifications, ensuring seamless integration of all components.
Quality Assurance Our commitment to quality is at the core of everything we do. We implement strict quality control measures at every stage of production to ensure the highest standards of precision and performance are met.
Advanced Testing and Equipment Equipped with comprehensive testing tools, we meticulously inspect and verify the performance of our optical components. Our advanced testing ensures that every optic meets your performance criteria, including:
- Surface flatness
- Transmission and reflection measurements
- Laser damage threshold testing
From the initial design phase through to the final product, Notch Optics delivers high-quality, customized precision optics with the precision and care required to meet the most demanding specifications.
One Stop Opto-Mechanical Assembly House
Product Design
At Notch Optics, we design, develop, and fabricate a wide variety of products for industries including aerospace, medical, and scientific fields. Our team utilizes SolidWorks CAD software for mechanical design and ANSYS FEA for structural analysis, ensuring precision and reliability in our designs.
Opto-mechanical Engineering Expertise
Opto-mechanical engineering is a specialized field that focuses on the design of mechanical components, structures, and mechanisms for optical systems. These components are specifically crafted to support and secure optical elements while maintaining their performance integrity.
Optomechanical systems typically involve mounting refractive or reflective optics onto an "optical bench" that ensures precise alignment of the optical elements. Some systems feature fixed optics, while others require precision movement, such as focusing mechanisms or multi-axis gimbaled mirrors.
The key to high-performance optomechanical systems is a stable, athermal metering structure that maintains optical alignment despite environmental factors like temperature and vibration. Designing to micron and microradian tolerances is essential for precision, and at Notch Optics, we are passionate about achieving this level of accuracy.
Optomechanical Capabilities
Our expertise in optomechanical design and analysis includes:
- Kinematic mounts
- Bonded and athermalized optic mounts
- Mechanical "zero distortion" mounts
- Precision guided optics
- Single and multi-element lens barrels and mounts
- Multi-axis adjustable mounts (tip/tilt, roll/yaw, etc.)
- Athermalized optical benches and metering structures
- Optical alignment and assembly tooling
- Optical surface stress and distortion analysis
- Zernike polynomial surface fits for residual RMS and P-V of stressed optics
Precision Motion Systems
For applications requiring precision movement, we prefer flexure-based systems over bearing-guided ones, as flexures offer frictionless, stictionless motion with an infinite lifespan. Examples of motion systems we’ve designed include:
- 3-axis gimbals
- Linear focus mechanisms
- Scan mirrors
Optical Engineering
Notch Optics also provides optical engineering design and analysis or collaborates with existing optical designs. Our optical engineering capabilities include:
- Design of reflective and refractive optical systems
- Athermalized optical system design
- Importing existing optical design files into SolidWorks for seamless integration
