Cylindrical Lens

Cylindrical Lens


Cylindrical Lens is used to provide focusing power in one section only. For illumination or detection of light from line sources. Also used for anamorphic compression of beams and images.

Capability

Attribute  Commercial Quality  Precision Quality  Manufacturing Limit 
Material Optical Glass/Fused Silica
CaF2/MgF2/Silicon/Germanium/ZnSe/ZnS, etc.
Dimension [Round] Dia.1.5mm – Dia.300mm
[Rectangle] 1×1mm – 350×350mm
Diameter (mm)  ±0.20mm  ±0.05 mm  ±0.01 mm 
Center Thickness (mm)  ±0.20mm  ±0.05 mm  ±0.01 mm 
Radius (larger of two)  ±1%  ±0.5%  ±0.1% 
Surface Quality S/D 60-40  S/D 40-20  S/D 10-5
Irregularity
(Plano Surface) 
lambda/4 or 0.5FR lambda/8 or 0.25FR <lambda/15 0.15FR
Irregularity
(Cylindrical Surface) 
lambda/2 or 1FR lambda/4 or 0.5FR lambda/8 0.25FR
Centration  ±8 arc minutes ±3 arc minutes ±0.5 arc minutes
Roughness 2nm 1nm 0.5-0.6nm
Coating According to the requirement

 

LaserStates' Quality Control Laboratory is equipped with a range of high-precision measurement equipments to perform a wide variety of tests of cylindrical lenses, include optical and geometrical parameters such as focal length, radius of curvature, centering error and so on.
 

Equipment  Precision  Set 
Cylindrical Radius Measure Equipment-PC  0.01-0.3%  1 set 
Cylindrical Centration Measure Equipment-PC
Based, square cylinder 
0.1 min  1 set 
Cylindrical Centration Measure Equipment-PC
Based, round cylinder 
0.1 min  1 set 
Goniometer  15 sec  2 sets 
Goniometer  60 sec  1 set 
5 second Parallelism and Perpendicularity Measure Equipment   <5 sec  1 set 
Olympus 200X  200X  1 set 
Olympus KIF-202L Laser Interferometer  R2~R300
Dimension 60
△N≤0.1 
1 set 
Spherometer  0.01-0.3%  1 set 
Digital Measure Projector  0.001mm  1 set 
4” ZYGO GPI XP/D  4” Flat  Transmission
1/20 WAVE
4”Sphere Transmission F/3.3,F/1.5, F/0.75 1/20 WAVE
4” CGH F/3, F/1.5, 1/20 WAVE   
1 set