Fused Silica Optical Convex Concave Lens For UV And IR Applications
Material:
Fused silica is a synthetic material known for its exceptional optical performance and durability. It is produced through a process called fusion, where high-purity silicon dioxide is melted and then solidified into a transparent, amorphous material. This material offers several key advantages:
- High Transparency: Fused silica is highly transparent to a wide range of wavelengths, including UV and IR, making it ideal for applications that require transmission of these light spectrums.
- Excellent Thermal Stability: It can withstand high temperatures without significant changes in its optical properties, making it suitable for use in environments with extreme temperature variations.
- Low Thermal Expansion: Fused silica has a low coefficient of thermal expansion, ensuring minimal distortion and stable performance over a wide temperature range.
Properties
- Optical Clarity: The lens exhibits exceptional clarity, allowing for clear and sharp images in both UV and IR applications.
- Precision Crafting: The convex-concave design is precisely crafted to achieve the desired optical effects, such as focusing, collimating, or expanding light beams.
- Durability: The fused silica material ensures the lens is highly resistant to scratches, impacts, and other forms of damage, ensuring long-term reliability.
Functions
- Light Focusing and Collimation: The convex-concave design allows the lens to focus or collimate light beams, making it suitable for applications such as lasers, projectors, and imaging systems.
- Wavelength Selection: The lens can be designed to transmit specific wavelengths of light, making it useful for applications that require precise control over the light spectrum, such as spectroscopy and optical filtering.
- Aberration Correction: The precise shaping of the lens can help correct aberrations, such as chromatic and spherical aberrations, leading to improved image quality.
Applications
- UV Applications: The lens is widely used in UV imaging systems, UV curing systems, and UV lithography, where its high transparency to UV light is crucial.
- IR Applications: In IR applications, such as thermal imaging, night vision, and IR spectroscopy, the lens's transparency to IR light allows for clear and accurate imaging.
- Laser Systems: The precision crafting and durability of the lens make it suitable for use in laser systems, where it can be used to focus, collimate, or expand laser beams.
- Optical Instruments: The lens is also used in various optical instruments, such as telescopes, microscopes, and cameras, where its optical clarity and aberration correction capabilities are highly valued.
In summary, the Fused Silica Optical Convex-Concave Lens is a versatile and high-performance optical component that excels in UV and IR applications. Its fused silica material offers exceptional optical performance and durability, while its precision-crafted convex-concave design provides a range of functions, such as light focusing, collimation, and aberration correction. Whether used in UV imaging, IR spectroscopy, laser systems, or optical instruments, this lens is sure to meet the demands of even the most challenging applications
| Material | Optical Glass, Fused Silica, quartz |
| Diameter Tolerance | +0/-0.15 mm |
| Thickness Tolerance | +/-0.15 mm |
| Cler Aperture | over 90% |
| Surface Quality | 80/50~10/5 scratch and dig |
| Transmission | above 92% |
| Chamfer | 0.1-0.5 mm x 45 degree |
| Focal Length Tolerance | +/-1.5% |
| Back Focal Length Tolerance | +/-1.5% |
| Coating | available |
| Usage | optical system, photographic sysem, Lighting system, Electronics e.g. laser, camera, monitor, projector, magnifier etc. |
