Our Approach and Expertise
IMAGING SOLUTIONS AS UNIQUE AS YOUR REQUIREMENTS
Standard, Custom and Semi-Custom Designs for Industrial Inspection, Semiconductor, Life Sciences, Biomedical, R&D and Defense
Design and Engineering
Our engineering team consists of optical, mechanical, quality, electrical, process and application engineers with expertise in a wide range of imaging applications and technologies. They are skilled in the design of complex, high resolution, diffraction limited, innovative optical assemblies. Additionally, they have years of experience with illumination optics design, optical alignment methodologies and equipment, opto-mechanical tolerance analysis, performance modeling, and stray light analysis.
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Our mechanical design team works closely with our optical and electronic designers to produce fully integrated opto-mechanical systems and sub-systems.
Using state-of-the-art mechanical design software, we ensure that your lens systems are both technically feasible and mechanically manufacturable. By integrating both optical and mechanical designs we ensure the solution built meets all your mechanical and performance specifications. We also ensure lens performance through extensive testing both during manufacturing and after assembly.
Optics Manufacturing
Navitar manufactures superior quality lenses and components including high magnification imaging lenses, ultra-precision microscope objectives, 4K projection lenses, and infrared (IR) solutions. We utilize conventional optics, precision mechanics and world class assembly to deliver full OEM lens modules that meet demanding image quality requirements.
We produce large volume commercial orders and complex, custom-built prototypes - to exact customer specifications.
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Materials
- Optical glass - OHARA, HOYA, SCHOTT, CDGM, Pyrex, Zerodur
- Crystal - calcium & barium fluoride, fused silica, quartz, calcite
- IR Materials - Germanium, Silicon, ZnSe, Zns, AMTIR, Schott IG
- Filter Glass
- Witness samples from BK7 and other glass, Germanium and Silicon
- Measuring instruments: Zygo™ GPI interferometers with 1 meter rail
Services
Navitar offers a broad range of design and engineering services to cover all aspects of developing custom optical solutions for your application.
- Optical, Mechanical, Electro-Optical and Illumination Design
- Feasibility Study and Basic Initial Optical Design
- Optical Fabrication
- Rapid Prototyping
- Precision Assembly
- High Volume Production
- Unbeatable Customer Service and Support
- Intellectual Property Consulting
Assembly
- Air-space tolerances held to 1 um
- Continuous lens design reoptimization during assembly
- Air-bearing spindles to minimize decentration during assembly
- Laser precision to minimize decentration in large systems
- Centration, edge and tilt tolerances held to better than 1 um
- Assembly stations: Taylor Hobson Talyrond 250, Custom Built Laser Assembly Alignment Station
Testing
- Lasers for performance testing (spot size, transmittance)
- Resolution testing using imaged resolution targets
- Interferometry (red, green, blue, IR)
Interferometers: Zygo VeriFire GPI (632.8nm), Zygo Mark II w/Diffraction LTD Phase Shifter (1064nm)
Other: Opti-Pro UltraCurve Sherometer, Wells Research OS400-10 MTF Bench, two Gaertner Optical Benches
Automated Lens-Sensor Alignment
Maximum performance is obtained by automated lens-sensor alignment, creating robust camera modules that can survive hostile environments and deliver superior image quality.
Navitar is equipped to offer actively-aligned lens/sensor modules to our customers in both short run and high volume production volumes at their ISO 9001:2008 and ISO/TS 16949:2009 certified facility.
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