Optical System Integration

Shanghai Optics offers a comprehensive range of optical system integration services tailored to your custom applications. We begin by understanding your expectations for existing or under-development products. Our experienced engineers then assess current elements and sub-assembly designs, carefully analyzing the feasibility of integration.

With decades of experience and expertise in system-level application designs and fabrication, Shanghai Optics delivers the most cost effective and production-friendly integration solutions without compromising imaging quality or system performance.

Upholding the system-level integration concept from the project’s inception is crucial. By considering the evaluation criteria for your imaging or non-imaging system’s performance, Shanghai Optics’ designers can identify suitable optical elements and propose the optimal combination. This is achieved through thorough performance simulation, tolerance analysis, and a manufacturing feasibility study. Monte Carlo analysis, a statistical method for assessing risk and uncertainty, can be conducted to further determine your system’s manufacturability. The final optical configuration is determined only after all specific system design criteria are met.

Mounting Method Selection

Mounting method selection is also important for your system to integrate optics. Once the optical layout is finalized, the optical elements must be securely mounted within a mechanical housing by using appropriate optical mounting tools and suitable components like retainer rings, spacers, or a combination of these. In systems where performance is highly sensitive to the precise tilt and centering of lens elements, specialized mounting/integration techniques, such as copper barrel precision mounting, will be employed to ensure optimal alignment and stability.

Shanghai Optics understands the key techniques that improve optical and imaging systems’ performances. Our know-how and advanced methodology can help you achieve the intended goals for your system integration project.

Integration testing and performance evaluation can be completed in-house. Shanghai Optics uses state-of-the-art metrology techniques to perform quantitative inspections on all the technique parameters of each part and the entire system, such as spatial resolution, MTF, distortion, etc.