Glass ball lenses are spherical optical components made from high-quality glass materials, known for their exceptional clarity and precision. These lenses are integral to various optical applications, offering unmatched performance in focusing and collimating light.
High Optical Clarity: Made from materials such as fused quartz and engineered optical glass, our glass ball lenses provide excellent transparency and minimal light distortion.
Precision Manufacturing: Each lens is meticulously crafted and polished to achieve a perfect spherical shape, ensuring consistent performance across applications.
Durability: With high resistance to thermal and chemical influences, these lenses maintain their integrity under extreme conditions.
Versatile Applications: Suitable for a wide range of uses, from fiber optic communications to medical instruments and laser systems.
The production of glass ball lenses involves several critical steps to ensure the highest quality:
Material Preparation: Using premium optical glass with a refractive index between 1.5 and 1.7, ensuring high clarity and performance.
Shaping and Rough Grinding: Initial shaping with mechanical tools followed by rough grinding to form an approximate sphere.
Precision Grinding: Fine grinding with advanced machinery to achieve the desired spherical precision.
Polishing: Enhancing surface quality and reducing optical roughness through meticulous polishing techniques.
Coating: Applying optical coatings, such as anti-reflective films, to improve performance by enhancing light transmission and reducing reflections.
Inspection and Testing: Rigorous testing for diameter accuracy, refractive index, transmittance, and overall quality to ensure each lens meets stringent standards.
Cleaning and Packaging: Final cleaning and packaging in a controlled environment to prevent contamination and damage.
Fiber Optic Communications: Enhancing signal coupling efficiency between fibers, emitters, and detectors.
Medical Instruments: Used in endoscopes and ophthalmic surgery for precise light control and imaging.
Laser Systems: Optimizing laser beam transmission and focusing in industrial and scientific applications.
Imaging Devices: Integral components in cameras, microscopes, and telescopes, improving image clarity and reducing distortion.
Barcode Scanning: Essential in laser scanning systems for accurate and efficient barcode reading.
Optical Sensors: Adjusting incident light to enhance sensor sensitivity and accuracy.
Diameter: Accurate measurement ensures optimal fit and performance.
Refractive Index: Determines light propagation speed and image quality.
Transmittance: High transmittance rates for better light passage and system efficiency.
Effective and Back Focal Length: Critical for precise light focusing and collimation.
Numerical Aperture: Higher values indicate superior light collection and imaging capabilities.
Unmatched Quality: Produced from top-grade materials and subjected to rigorous quality control
Versatility: Suitable for diverse applications across various industries.
Expert Craftsmanship: Leveraging advanced manufacturing techniques and expertise to deliver superior optical components.
We Manufacture Glass ball lenses range in diameter from 0.40mm to 8.0mm.
Half ball lenses are made from a wide variety of optical glasses with refractive index ranging from 1.50 to 2.10.
Industrial Technologies manufactures Low Tg ball lenses range in diameter from 0.40mm to 8.0mm.
With higher coupling efficiency required for Transmitters and Receivers, it is becoming more and more popular.
Sapphire is one of hardest known material with consistent quality available on a commercially economical scale.
Spinel is also a well known single crystal being used in the optical industry. The main advantage being that spinel is a cubic single crystal.
Alumina oxide balls resist corrosion and abrasion extremely well and maintain dimensional stability at temperatures up to 1734ºC (3180 ºF).
The high refractive index of Cubic Zirconia material makes it very interesting to be used as a Ball lens for optical telecom products.
We manufacture glass rods from diameter ranging from 0.60mm to 8.00mm in length ranging from 5.00mm to 100.00mm.
Glass rods can be used as preforms for glass molding application as well.
Rod Preforms are manufacture from renowned optical glass material makers like OHARA, HIKARI, SUMITA, SCHOTT, etc.
Quartz ball lens with good UV and IR transmission is widely used for focusing and coupling light into and out of the fibre.
Our AR coated ball lenses are precisely & uniformly coated all over the surface.
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