Custom Optics Manufacturer UK — From Prototype to Production

Kingsview Optical is a custom optics manufacturer UK companies choose when off-the-shelf components won’t meet their application requirements. We design, manufacture, coat and assemble bespoke optical components and systems for some of the most demanding applications in medical imaging, aerospace instrumentation, defence systems, scientific research and industrial machine vision  all from our integrated facility in Rye, East Sussex.

Custom optics is not a niche service at Kingsview  it is the core of what we do. Every component we produce is manufactured to a customer’s specification, whether that is a simple lens to a defined focal length and diameter, or a complete multi-element optical assembly requiring Zemax design, CNC polishing, vacuum coating, precision cementing and cleanroom assembly. Our capability to handle the full production chain in-house is what makes us effective at custom optics work.

Custom LensesCustom PrismsCustom MirrorsCustom Filters
Custom WindowsCustom Optical CoatingCustom Lens DesignCustom Graticules

Custom Optical Lenses Capability

  • Optotech CNC Optical Polishing – Spherical Optics 1-80mm

  • Conventional Polishing – 0.5mm -200mm diameter lenses

  • CNC edging – Complex shapes can be edged with features like steps and bevels

  • Optical Coating – Multilayer A/R to metal mirror coats

  • Optical Cementing – Precision bonding and alignment of doublets and triplets

  • Zygo with MX software – Surface Reports can be requested with your lenses

  • Trioptic Opticentric – The industry standard lens centration measurement option

  • Trioptic Opticentric LTM– The non-contact lens thickness measurement achieving sub micron accuracy

  • Perkin Elmer Spectrophotometer – To measure AR coating performance of reflection to transmission 300-3000nm

CNC Lens pin polishing
Custom micro prism

Custom Optical Prism Capability

  • Sizes – 0.5mm endoscopic micro prisms to large periscope prisms

  • CNC edging – Complex shapes can be edged with features like steps and bevels

  • Optical Coating – Multilayer A/R to metal mirror coats

  • Precision Angle – Using Taylor Hobson autocollimators we can achieve better than 10 arc seconds

  • Zygo with MX software – To measure flatness surface reports can be provided

  • Perkin Elmer Spectrophotometer – To measure optical coating reflection and transmission

  • Examples – Right angle, dove, roof, polarizing etc

Custom Optical Filters

  • Twin Lap polishing – When parallelism is important can achieve better than 10 arc seconds

  • CNC edging – Complex shapes can be edged with features like steps and bevels

  • Optical Coating – Multilayer A/R to metal mirror coats

  • Perkin Elmer Spectrophotometer – To measure optical coating reflection and transmission

  • Materials – Schott, Hoya or Isuzu

Custom Schott KG5 with gold mirror reflector
Custom protected gold mirrors

Custom Optical Mirrors

  • CNC edging – Complex shapes can be edged with features like steps and bevels

  • Optical Mirror Coating – Wide range of mirror materials available including aluminium, silver, gold and dielectric

  • Perkin Elmer Spectrophotometer – To measure optical coating reflection and transmission

  • Components mirror coated – Lenses, prisms and windows available

Custom Windows

  • Twin Lap polishing – When parallelism is important can achieve better than 10 arc seconds

  • CNC edging – Complex shapes can be edged with features like steps and bevels

  • Optical Coating – Multilayer A/R to metal mirror coats

  • Perkin Elmer Spectrophotometer – To measure optical coating reflection and transmission

  • Materials – Schott, Ohara, CDGM or Fused Silica

Custom Sandwiched polariser sheet window with AR coat

Custom Optical Coating services

Kingsview Optical can offer a range of standard or custom optical coating options dependent on your application. Our coating service is all done at our site meaning we can reduce costs and improve delivery rather than sending it externally.

Optical Coating Options

  • Broadband Antireflective (BBAR) – Multilayer coating typical range of 425-650nm. Can be made wider and optimised to suit.

  • Single layer Magnesium Fluoride (MgF2) – Standard coating works over a large range of angles of incidence

  • Optimised V coat – When you are only interested in a small wavelength range

  • Polarising beamsplitting – Custom Dielectric coating

  • Mirror Coating – Range of metals including aluminium, silver, gold, chrome, dielectric

Custom lens design

  • Optical design capability – Tailor made solutions using Zemax optical design software

  • Mechanical design – Full metalwork design using solidworks

  • Deliverables – Can provide Zemax optical design files and 2d lens drawings with optical tolerances

  • Full prototype manufacture – Can manufacture optics and metalwork fully assembled

  • Advice – Can offer advice on lens tolerances and potential solutions to customers projects

Custom Optical Design
Custom Graticules

Custom graticules

  • Customer Supplied patterns – With the customer supplying the pattern they need we can manufacture custom graticules quickly through photolithography.

  • Graticule materials – Wide range of materials from chrome, aluminium, gold or our own high contrast black

  • Different optical components – Can produce graticules on a range of components including windows, prisms and lenses.

  • Different applications – Graticules used in a range of applications such as sighting devices, resolution charts and counting chambers.

Why choose us for custom optics?

At Kingsview Optical, we pride ourselves on being a comprehensive solution for custom optics manufacturing in the UK. With our extensive range of optical components, we cater to various industries such as industrial, defence, and augmented reality. Our commitment to quality is evident through our fully audited ISO 9001 quality management system.

Our expertise lies in delivering custom optics with the quickest turnarounds. We understand that understanding lens manufacturing tolerances for custom optics can be challenging, and we are here to provide guidance and insights on the matter.

Feel free to reach out to us with any questions or inquiries, and we will gladly provide you with quotations. If you would like to witness our capabilities firsthand, we encourage you to visit our site. This will give you a better understanding of the solutions we can offer you.

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