Avantier Inc.
Product Highlights: A microscope magnifies objects, revealing details not visible to the naked eye. It can project the image to the eye or a camera for observation or recording. Avantier’s diverse lineup, featuring achromatic, semi-apochromatic, and apochromatic options, ensures superior imaging quality. With magnifications ranging from 1X to 100X and numerical apertures up to 1.45, […]
Key Takeaways: Avantier specializes in micro prisms, invisible to the naked eye yet vital for society’s development. These prisms, made from precision-cut prism glass, enable light bending for optical equipment, aiding in miniaturization and lightweighting. Avantier’s technology creates (ultra-small) micro prisms (<3 mm) customized for diverse environments. The production process involves cutting, grinding, polishing, and […]
Key Takeaways: Avantier specializes in manufacturing high-performance C-lenses and D-lenses for fiber optics applications, offering advantages like: cost-effectiveness, minimal insertion loss, and a wide operational distance range. Their expertise ensures consistent, high-quality products which are tailored for diverse environments. Avantier successfully navigated challenges in microscale manufacturing, material selection, surface quality control, and cost-effective mass production. […]
Micro-Optics Can a lens be mounted on a surface smaller than the head of a pin, or the full power of complex optical devices be condensed into a package smaller than a fingernail? That’s what micro-optics are about. Microlens Arrays A micro-optic is an optical component or array between a few micrometers and a millimeter […]
Key Takeaways: Optical domes with flanges offer near-zero wavefront error, ensuring exceptional optical clarity in camera systems. Common issues such as distortion, speckle, haziness, and reduced transmission can be addressed with high-quality flanged domes. Selecting the ideal glass dome involves considering application requirements, system performance limitations, manufacturing methods, and material durability. Ground and polished domes […]
Key Takeaways: The optical dome, a critical component in optical systems, features two dome-shaped surfaces that preserve optical performance while shielding cameras and sensors. Material choice, curvature, coatings, and environmental resilience are key considerations in its design. Avantier’s project involved optimizing and manufacturing three domes for high-pressure and temperature-differential environments. This project employed precise materials […]
Laser Metrology Laser metrology involves the use of lasers to take measurements and test equipment. A versatile set of techniques that enables quick, highly precise, contact-free measurements, laser metrology has an important place in process oversight and quality control. Fields that rely on laser metrology include: Medical device manufacturing Aerospace quality control Automotive engineering Semiconductor […]
SWIR Imaging Short wave infrared light is radiation with wavelengths in the range of 0.9 – 1.7μm. This light can penetrate materials that are impenetrable to visible light, making it ideal for industrial processing and quality check applications as well as for machine vision applications, surveillance, security, and natural resource management. Water vapor, fog, and […]
Key takeaways: Aspherical lenses improve optical systems by reducing aberrations and enhancing quality, especially in infrared lens design using materials like chalcogenide glass and germanium. This case study for a wide field of view and long wavelength infrared lens that initially used spherical lenses found significant benefits by switching to aspherical design, expanding the field […]
Key Takeaways: Avantier designed a custom objective lens for a university department, meeting strict criteria for trapping and imaging single atoms. The lens features a large numerical aperture (NA) of 0.5, optimal for high-resolution imaging at 780 nm-1064 nm wavelengths. Its 15mm working distance accommodates two lasers without interference, which is crucial for achieving accurate […]
