Spherical Lenses

From highly customized lenses designed for specialized applications to catalog biconvex lenses, Esco Optics offers a wide variety of spherical lenses. Often used as individual components in a larger system, spherical lenses can be applied to a vast range of unique implementations.  In many instances, spherical lenses are used to shape or direct, magnify or de-magnify, or even out a light source.

Materials  for Spherical Lenses

While users may choose from a variety of materials, customers often find that fused silica is an ideal glass type for spherical lenses.  Esco stocks a wide variety of raw fused silica to meet the needs of ultraviolet, visible, and infrared applications.  In addition to fused silica, Esco commonly manufactures lenses from N-BK7, as well as other optical glasses.  Optical glass is often the go-to material for applications that do not require any specific type of material.  Like fused silica, optical glass also works with visible light.  Esco proudly offers all optical glasses supplied by Schott, Ohara, Hoya, and CDGM, and in most cases, we have the raw material on hand. 

Manufacturing Spherical Lenses

Esco Optics has specialized capabilities when it comes to manufacturing spherical lenses.   Through high-speed CNC generators and polishers, we can create custom pieces by first generating a rough figure and then using a polisher to achieve the lens’s precise shape.  Our computer-controlled OptoTechs allow for utmost repeatability, so that we can create hundreds or even thousands of identical spherical lenses.  That way, our customers know that our lenses will work for their application, without the inconvenience of having to test individual pieces over and over again.