Custom Optics Manufacturer — Prototype to Production
Kingsview Optical is a custom optics manufacturer in Rye, East Sussex, making optical components to your drawing when catalogue parts won't meet the specification. Lenses, prisms, mirrors, windows and filters are polished, edged, coated, cemented and tested on one site — from a single prototype through to production batches.
- Manufacturing in the UK since 1996
- ISO 9001:2015
- Design, polish, coat & test in-house
- One-offs to production volume
Custom Optical Components We Manufacture
Every component is made to your specification. Follow any of these through for detailed tolerances, materials and standard geometries.
Custom Optical Lenses
Spherical optics from 1–80mm on Optotech CNC, or 0.5–200mm conventionally polished. Achromats, plano-convex, meniscus and cemented doublets or triplets.
Lens manufacturing
Custom Optical Prisms
From 0.5mm endoscopic micro prisms to large periscope prisms. Right angle, dove, roof, penta, Risley and polarising geometries.
Prism manufacturing
Custom Optical Mirrors
Aluminium, silver, gold, chrome and dielectric mirror coatings, applied to lenses, prisms and windows as well as flat substrates.
Mirror manufacturing
Custom Optical Windows
Twin-lap polished for parallelism better than 10 arc seconds, in Schott, Ohara, CDGM or fused silica.
Window manufacturing
Custom Optical Filters
Schott, Hoya and Isuzu filter glass, CNC edged to complex shapes and coated to your transmission requirement.
Filter manufacturing
Custom Graticules & Reticles
Photolithographic patterns on flat glass — or applied directly onto prisms and windows, which most suppliers can't do.
Graticule manufacturing
Manufacturing Capability
One set of processes applied across every component family, rather than outsourcing steps to third parties and adding weeks to your lead time.
Metrology & Inspection
Test data is the difference between a part that looks right and a part you can sign off. Surface, centration, angle and coating reports can be supplied with your components on request.
Materials & Sectors
Glass is sourced from the major optical manufacturers, with substrate selection guided by your wavelength, environment and budget.
Materials We Work In
Substrate selection guided by your wavelength, environment and budget.
- Schott
- Ohara
- Hoya
- CDGM
- Isuzu
- Fused silica
Industries We Serve
Regulated and high-reliability sectors, supplied with full traceability.
- Medical & ophthalmic
- Defence & security
- Aerospace
- Industrial & machine vision
- AR / display
- Scientific instruments
Getting a Quote from a Custom Optics Manufacturer
The more of this you can send, the faster and firmer the quote. If you only have some of it, send what you have — we'll tell you what else we need.
What to send
- A drawing or sketch — PDF, STEP or DXF
- Diameter, thickness and focal length or radii
- Surface quality and form tolerance, if critical
- Substrate material, or the wavelength range you're working in
- Coating requirement, or the transmission you need
- Quantity — including whether this is a one-off or a repeat batch
- Any test data or certification you need supplied
What happens next
- We review manufacturabilityWithin one working day, flagging anything in the spec that will drive cost or lead time before you commit to it.
- You get a firm quotePriced against the actual processes and metrology your part needs, not a generic rate card.
- We manufacture and testPolished, edged, coated and inspected in-house, with test reports supplied if you've asked for them.
Not Sure If It Can Be Made?
That's usually the most useful conversation to have first. Send the drawing, or just describe what the component has to do, and we'll tell you honestly whether it's manufacturable and what it will take.
We reply to RFQs within one working day. Defence and security work handled under NDA.