IR Lenses

IR Lens from Shanghai Optics

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IR Lenses Overview

Shanghai Optics offers a large variety of custom IR Lenses and components for focusing, collimating, and collecting light in near-infrared (NIR), short-wave infrared (SWIR), mid-wave infrared (MWIR), and long-wave infrared (LWIR) spectra. By upholding the highest manufacturing and ISO standards, we produce high-performance IR lenses that meet customers’ needs for industrial, medical, life science, and defense applications.

Shanghai Optics has more than 55 years of experience in designing and manufacturing high-quality IR lenses, including IR imaging lenses, fixed focal length lenses, zoom lenses, beam expanders, spherical lenses, aspheric lenses, and objective lenses. We provide customers with the most valued solutions in high-performance IR lenses across a large portion of the infrared spectrum. Our IR lenses have been widely used in surveillance cameras, IR magnification systems, IR zoom systems, IR thermal displays, thermal imaging systems, temperature detectors, and more.

We design high-performance IR lenses for high manufacturing yield. With advanced in-house manufacturing and testing equipment, we produce IR lenses in an economical and highly efficient manner. We strictly control the quality of each optical component in production to ensure system-level success. To achieve and maintain our high-quality standards, we use the ISO 9001 certified process and highly reliable measurement systems for component quality inspection at every manufacturing process step.

We perform a full inspection in-house on component and assembly characteristics according to customers’ specifications including MTF, field of view, transmission, reflectivity, effective focal length (EFL), distortion, field curvature, astigmatism, etc.  We ensure the performance of each IR lens meets customers’ needs. Our in-house ImageMaster® Universal – MTF Testing in the Spectral Range UV-VIS-NIR-SWIR-MWIR-LWIR are used to measure the Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) and optical parameters over a wide spectral range including UV, Visible, NIR, SWIR, MWIR, and LWIR spectra.

We utilize our expertise to serve our customers in designing and manufacturing high-performance IR lenses and components, from simple fixed-focus objective lenses to complex opto-electro-mechanical modules. We offer custom IR lens solutions to meet customers’ specific needs, such as custom dual-band lenses for Visible and SWIR spectra. Our engineers are experts in material selection for color correction in two spectral bands simultaneously and Design for Manufacturing. We produce custom dual-band lenses with transmission above 80% and high image quality in both the visible range and the SWIR range (700 – 1900 nm).

With our IR expertise and flexibility, customers with IR lens application needs can achieve their innovative concepts and special requirements through Shanghai Optics’ IR design service, from simple fixed-focus objective lenses to complex opto-electro-mechanical modules.

Benefits of Shanghai Optics and Features of Our Lenses

• Custom lenses: IR aspherical lenses, spherical lenses, cylindrical lenses, custom shape, etc.
• Substrates: IR Grade Fused Silica, Chalcogenide, Sapphire, Calcium Fluoride CaF2, Chemical Vapor Deposition Zinc Sulfide CVD ZnS, Multispectral Zinc Sulfide M-ZnS, Germanium Ge, Silicon Si, Barium fluoride BaF2, Magnesium Fluoride MgF2
• Custom coating: coatings ( AR coatings ) in visible, near-infrared, short-wave infrared, mid-wave infrared, long-wave infrared spectral ranges
• Cost-effective manufacturing
• Reliable: good performance in rugged environment with remarkable temperature change
• Sturdy: resistant to mechanical and thermal shocks
• All products are compliant with ISO and MIL standards
• IR materials: Zinc Selenide, Germanium, Sapphire, Silicon, Zinc Sulfide, Chalcogenide, etc.
• Support and service: our experienced engineering-support team provides free consulting, proof of concept, optical design, mechanical design and all round technical services for customers

Fields of Applications

• Medical instrumentation
• Life sciences
• Surveillance
• Security and defense

Request a free quote from S.O. online, or contact a representative to learn more about our capabilities.