Manufacturing Equipment

Lapping and polishing consumables and machinery for glass, plastic, crystals, IR, semiconductor, electro, laser, and fiber optics. Microcellular foam elastomer pads, compounds, ultrapure alumina, colloidal silica, diamond powder/slurries; water-based, nanosize, alpha-alumina; optical blocking, synthetic pitch, double-sided polishers, and centrifuges.

Develops, manufactures, and markets advanced fiber optic preparation and glass processing solutions. Innovation and technologies meet the demanding requirements of many specialized markets including medical, high power fiber laser, aerospace and defense, telecom, and oil and gas.

Supplier of precision photomasks, microlithography, photomask tooling, contact printing, emulsion, chrome and see-through masks, laser written optical components, encoders, optical parts, mask design, precision cutting of glass or silicon, and CAD services. Fast turn services.

Manufacturer of UV curing optical adhesives that meet Telcordia (Bellcore) specification of 85 degrees Celsius/85% relative humidity for 2000 hours, UV light sources, and fiber optic splicing systems.

Fizeau and LUPI interferometers. Making optics is a daily challenge. Less time, more challenging specifications, and demands to lower cost. Apre interferometers give you the performance edge and architecture to grow with you, at minimal cost. APRE upgrades most brands and models of interferometers to keep your present systems working. Call today.

PM fiber components; patch cords, splitters/combiners, polarizers, isolators, fused/PLCS couplers, test equipment; PER meter, polarized sources, PDL emulators, polarization controllers/analyzers, digital/motor driven/manual variable attenuators, laser/laser diode to fiber delivery systems; collimators/focusers, polarization entangled photon sources.

Manufactures precision devices for scientific research and industrial OEM. Products include optical beam combiners, high-power LED, xenon light sources, high-speed wavelength switchers and shutters, multi-photon microscopes, translation systems, motorized stages, manipulators, electrophysiology amplifier systems, and micropipette pullers.