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Diffraction-Limited Lenses
Diffraction-limited lenses are lenses with aberrations corrected to the point that residual wavefront errors are substantially less than one-quarter the wavelength of the energy being acted upon.
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Canyon Materials, Inc. - San Diego, CA
HEBS-glass and LDW-glass photomasks are true gray scale masks with 1 to 1000 gray levels. The all-glass masks enable mass production of micro-optical elements with any predesigned surface profile, of arrays with 100-percent fill factor, of single-frequency sinusoidal gratings having zero harmonic...
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Esco Optics - Oak Ridge, NJ
US manufacturer of custom and standard optics for the UV, visible and IR wavelengths. In house production of lenses, windows, mirrors, blanks, prisms, filters and optical coatings. For over 50 years, we have proudly offered exceptional customer service, low prices and short lead times. ITAR...
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LightWorks Optics, Inc. - Tustin, CA
Since 1997, LightWorks Optics has served the specialized optical needs of customers in the medical device, biomedical, aerospace, defense and commercial industries providing responsive solutions for precision assemblies, systems and components. Precision design and production capabilities offer...
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Optikos Corporation - Wakefield, MA
Optikos Corporation is the world’s largest manufacturer of equipment for the measurement of optical image quality and a leading provider of optical product development services. As the world leader in the field of MTF testing, Optikos offers complete solutions for both component and system level...
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Rocky Mountain Instrument Co. (RMI) - Lafayette, CO
Rocky Mountain Instrument Co. is a fully integrated manufacturer of high quality photonics products. Capabilities include: custom optical fabrication, UV/visible/IR coatings, optical assemblies, DPSS laser systems (1064/532/355 nm) and ultracompact laser marking engines. RMI can handle OEM...
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Schneider Optics Inc., Sub. of Jos. Schneider Optische Werke GmbH - Hauppauge, NY
Designs and manufactures high-performance OEM video/CCTV lenses (VIS-NIR corrected) in manual and motorized irises. Products include ultrahigh-performance video lenses for machine/robotics vision, documentation scanning, parcel scanning, industrial inspection, gauging, surveillance and macro...
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ADDITIONAL COMPANIES
BAE Systems Australia Ltd., Sub. of BAE SYSTEMS - Holden Hill, Australia
Corning Tropel Corp., Sub. of Corning Inc. - Fairport, NY
Cylinder Optics, Inc. - Garden City, MO
Diffraction Optics - Palo Alto, CA
Dyna Technologies, Inc. - Sanford, FL
JML Optical Industries LLC - Rochester, NY
Navitar, Inc. - Rochester, NY
Optical Design Service - Tucson, AZ
Optics Technology, Inc. - Pittsford, NY
Opto-Alignment Technology, Inc. - Indian Trail, NC
Photon Gear, Inc. - Ontario, NY
Special Optics, Inc., A Navitar, Inc. Co. - Wharton, NJ
VERNONscope & Co. - Candor, NY
TERMS
diffraction-limited lens
A lens with aberrations corrected to the point that residual wavefront errors are substantially less than one-quarter the wavelength of the energy being acted upon.
diffraction limited (DL)
The property of an optical system whereby only the effects of diffraction determine the quality of the image it produces.
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