Custom Lenses, Precision Manufacturing

JENOPTIK Optical Systems, Inc. delivers tested precision optics on aggressive schedules for customers in the Lifescience Research, Inspection & Metrology, Defense, Entertainment, Astronomical Research and Space markets.

With 125 employees across three facilities, we are positioned to support your project from hardware development through volume manufacturing.

Optical Components

Serial production of coated precision optical glass and crystal elements in sizes ranging from 0.5mm to 100mm in diameter is the focus in our Easthampton facility.

30 years  experience allows us to efficiently deliver difficult, demanding optics efficiently in lot sizes of 100 pieces.

Some of our specialties include low absorption, high damage threshold AR coatings for VIS and Near IR (1064 nm & 1550 nm), low scatter (low micro-roughness), tight tolerance (low scratch dig) work provided with complete and accurate inspection reports to ISO and MIL standards along with reliable deliveries. Customers are from commercial and ITAR related markets.

Optical Assemblies

Delivery of precision optical assemblies and large optics is the focus in the Jupiter facility where OEM serial production of assemblies account for greater than 75% of sales.

Integrated optical and mechanical design, fabrication, assembly and optical test in Jupiter to assure the fewest delays in development and successful delivery of your hardware.   Manufacturing volumes range from 1000 units/year for precision machine vision lenses to one-of-a-kind optics used for space flight instrumentation and theme park attractions.

Our engineers work closely with optical designers to assist in balancing trade-offs between manufacturability, cost and performance during material selection and tolerancing phases of the design. The same engineering goes into design of meaningful acceptance test criteria for your project.

As part of JENOPTIK, we leverage the worldwide technical and manufacturing capabilities of a global optics and lasers company.

Precision Asphere experience coupled with capabilities

Precision aspheres have been a distinguishing product  in the Jupiter facility since the founding of Coastal Optical in 1991.  In 2002, the company transitioned from conventional polishing by master opticians to deterministic CNC polishing using QED’s MRF® technology.
In 2002 JENOPTIK successfully delivered the first MRF® polished aspheric flight hardware to Ball Aerospace for the Calipso program.  Since then, we have regularly delivered precision aspheres in fused silica, calcium fluoride, zerodur, ULE, silicon and optical glasses in sizes from 15 mm to 240 mm in diameter.  Applications include optics for space, military, scientific and entertainment.

JENOPTIK Optical Systems, Inc. provides unique and custom precision engineered solutions on a case-by-case basis. For many projects, we provide optical and mechanical design. We also provide mechanical design based on a customer supplied optical design.

For optical design and analysis JENOPTIK's engineering staff primarily uses ZEMAX- EE.

Fully integrated and networked production systems are used to create plans and take a product from idea, to drawings, through prototyping and ultimately production.

With polished optics, JENOPTIK Optical Systems, Inc. manufactures to the tolerances listed in the chart below.   In systems manufacture, component tolerances are held to the tightest degree necessary to ensure optical performance without adding unnecessary cost.   For components, the cost implications of moving to a tighter tolerance category can mean multiples of the cost of the next lower grade.

JENOPTIK Optical Systems, Inc. polishes optics in both Jupiter, Florida and Easthampton, MA.

Easthampton specializes in

• spherical optics 0.5 mm to 100 mm diameter
• low scatter, tight tolerance optics

Jupiter polishes larger optics

• spheres to 500 mm
• flats to 300 mm
• aspheres to 240 mm in diameter.

JENPOPTIK Optical Systems, Inc. has 5 coating chambers between the Easthampton and Jupiter facilities for coating of optics produced in these facilities.

Jupiter

In March 2006, an ion-assist chamber was installed in the Florida location configured for larger optics and in March 2009,  a second chamber was added.

The Jupiter chambers are ion-assist chambers and run primarily AR coatings for 50 mm to 150 mm diameter elements.  This configuration covers much of our serial production and complements coating capabilities in Easthampton.

Coatings are designed and analyzed using Filmstar Optical Thin Film software. 

JENOPTIK Optical Systems, Inc. has a 1600 sq. ft optical assembly department.

• Three assembly stations
• Three vertical alignment stations with air- bearing rotary table (Opto-Alignment) and centration monitor
• Class 200 Clean Room with Laminar Flow Table and optical isolation table

Delivery of 100% optically tested and qualified assemblies and components is the core business of JENOPTIK Optical Systems, Inc. in Jupiter, FL and Easthampton, MA.

Optical test capabilities are fundamental to our success as custom hardware manufacturers and include resources for production floor and final acceptance testing. For our OEM customers,  testing often involves custom metrology configurations that combine a mixture of interferometry,  MTF, transmission or "as used" imaging tests.

Available capabilities for optical test include :