Pacific Coast Optics Lenses
Custom Lenses Produced Under One Roof
Pacific Coast Optics expertise is the ability to deliver the highest quality lenses, customize them with exacting specifications, all under one roof.
We deliver custom lenses (spherical and cylindrical) that satisfy the critical optical requirements of OEM system designers and engineers. Our substrate lens specialties include: fused silica, BK7, and high-index glasses. We’ve developed numerous high-speed processing techniques enabling the delivery of custom lenses with a radius curvature ranging from 1 mm to infinity and sizes ranging from.5 mm to 660 mm in diameter.
For immediate optics needs and budget-minded projects, we have an excellent ability to source pre-fabricated lenses, grind and polish them to meet your assembly needs.
Let our 40+ years of experience in delivering the highest quality custom lenses on time and on budget work for you.
About Pacific Coast Optics
Custom Optics
Pacific Coast Optics operation is our ability to provide custom solutions that satisfy the critical optical requirements of our customers. We can satisfy your need for custom shapes, sizes, and unique coating specifications over a wide range of substrate materials. With over 40 years of experience delivering the highest-quality custom optics solutions covering a wide range of applications, we are positive we will find the solution for you.
Micro-Optics
Perhaps the newest frontier of optical technology is that of micro-optics because of the development of laser diodes and other small-scale systems. Our special equipment is capable of producing components as small as one millimeter in size, with both spherical and cylindrical shapes, with uses as diverse as fiber optic couplers for communications.
We have produced laser diode objectives with numerical apertures of.60 with diffraction-limited performance from visible to near infrared wavelengths. Our microoptics are anti-reflection coated, assembled and tested to assure performance quality.
UV Optics
Low-scatter surface polishing and low-absorption coatings are critical to the performance and longevity of your UV applications. Our expertise includes numerous in-house processing techniques to achieve 10/5 surface quality on difficult materials. Pacific Coast Optics coating engineers will select a unique combination of coating materials to ensure optimum performance for either high damage threshold or low flounce/longevity situations.
Spherical Lenses
Spherical lenses are the most common lenses in optical system design. Pacific Coast Optics manufactures standard and custom spherical lenses from a wide range of materials with a wide range of size and shape specifications.
Plano/convex-spherical lenses have a positive focal length and converge the incident light. This type of lens forms both real and virtual images. Real image-focused, virtual image-magnified.
Plano/Concave: Spherical lenses have a negative focal length and diverge incident light, this forms a virtual image seen through the lens.
Lenses can be designed to meet the customer's requirements.
Both sides can be coated with a high-efficiency narrowband, an anti-reflective coating or any other coating required by the customer's design.
Cylindrical Lenses
Custom cylindrical lens substrate specialties include fused silica, BK7, and high index glass. Both sides can be coated with a high-efficiency narrowband, an anti-reflective coating or another coating required by the customer's design.
Square cylindrical lenses and double-sided aplanats are also available; call Pacific Coast Optics for a quote.
Mirrors
Mirrors are used in a wide range of beam steering, focusing and collimating applications. Rmax mirrors utilize multi-layer, dielectric thin films. Laser-Line Rmax mirrors are designed for high reflectance at a single laser wavelength. High-power coating designs are standard for select wavelengths. Broadband Rmax mirrors provide high reflectance over a broad spectral range.
They are also useful in narrowband applications in which it is necessary to vary the angle of incidence. Metal mirrors are intended for applications involving lower-power lasers or broadband sources.
They are less sensitive to wavelength, polarization and angle of incidence than dielectric mirrors. Solid metal mirrors are well suited for use in high-power infrared laser applications. Copper must be coated with protective gold or silver because it oxidizes very rapidly.
Molybdenum is generally used uncoated. It is a very hard material that does not oxidize and has a high reflectance above 3 µm. Substrates are available with plano/plano, plano/concave, and plano/convex surfaces.