Fiber Coupling Spheres Glass Ball Lens Uncoated Optical Collimating Lens

Overview:
A special form of a thick biconvex optical lens is a ball lens, usually having the geometrical form of a ball (sphere). They are manufactured from a single material, usually an optical glass with good transparency in the wavelength region of interest. A frequently used material is fused silica.

Ball lenses and can focus or collimate light, depending upon the geometry of the input source. They are great optical components for improving signal coupling between fibers, emitters, and detectors. They are also used in endoscopy, bar code scanning, ball pre-forms for aspheric lenses, and sensor applications.

Ball lenses are usually made with relatively small diameters of a few millimeters or sometimes even less than 1 mm (microlenses). Particularly for such small dimensions, they are easier to fabricate than lenses with traditional designs.

Another variant are half-ball lenses, which are obtained simply by cutting ball lenses in half.
Half-ball lenses are also common and can be interchanged with full ball lenses if the physical constraints of an application require a more compact design.

Star Optic provides ball lenses and half ball lenses made from various substrate materials including sapphire, ruby, BK7, UV fused silica, high index glass, and germanium, ZnSe, ZnS with AR coating.

Available diameters are between 0.3 mm to 100 mm, with diameter tolerance (sphericity) <0.3 µm and surface roughness (Ra) <0.007 µm. Custom ball and half ball module options are also available on request.

There are five key parameters needed to understand and use ball lenses: Diameter of Input Source (d)(d), Diameter of Ball Lens (D), Effective Focal Length of Ball Lens (EFL), Back Focal Length of Ball Lens (BFL)and Index of Refraction of Ball Lens (n).


General Specifications of BK7 Ball Lens:

Material	N-BK7
Diameter Tolerance	+0/-0.005mm
Surface Quality	60/40 scratch-Dig
Sphericity	<0.003mm
Clear Aperture	>90%
Coating	None, Available

Standard Products of BK7 Ball Lens:

Who We Are?

Wuhan Star Optic Technology Co., Ltd as a registered Hi-Tech company has been focusing on manufacturing high precision of optical components ever since its foundation in 2017. It is located in Wuhan Optics Valley of China and was founded as a masterwork of our founders with more than 20 years background in production, R&D and supply chain of optical components. The company holds 30+ patents for design, production and inspection allows us to manufacturing professionally and technologically. With high quality standard, meticulous workmanship, strict quality control, professional service, Star Optics aims to provide our customers and partners with win-win cooperation.

What We Do?

1, Products and Applications:

Products: our products mainly fall into the following five categories.

• Optical Elements: Optical Materials, Lenses, Windows, Mirrosr, Beamsplitters, Prisms, Filters
• Polarizing Optics: Waveplates, Polarizers, Polarizing Beamsplitters, Depolarizers, Brewster Windows, Quartz Polarization Rotatosr, Optical Isolators, Lateral Displacement Polarization Beamsplitters
• Crystals: Laser Crystals, Nonlinear Crystals, Passive Q-Switch Crystals, E-O Crystals, Birefringent Crystals
• Coatings: Anti-Reflective Coatings, Partial Reflective Coatings, High Reflective Coatings, Polarization Beamsplitter Coatings, Non-Polarizing Beamsplitter Coatings, Dichroic Coatings, Interference Filter Coatings
• Optomechanics: Optical Mounts

Applications: our products are widely used in Lasers, Laser Processing Machines, Precision Measuring Instrument, Automation Equipment, Micro Measurement Systems, Surveying Equipment, Non-Destructive Testing, Medical and Biological Imaging, Fiber Communication, and etc. With the company concept of Result-driven, Detail-oriented, Client-focused, our products are well acknowledged and widely used in industry and science by North America, Europe and Southeast Asia. 

2, Design:

You have full design freedom, and we are able to work with complex designs to get you exactly what you need including optical design, mechanical design and optical coating design.

3, Production:

Have the ability to transfer designs into production from prototyping to serial production. Production process like grinding, polishing, centering, coating and measuring process are carried out by both manual and CNC machines.

4, Inspection:

The measurement process during and after production are carried out with precision metrology equipment, high sensitive interferometers and spectrometers. Measurement reports either e-version or paper-version will be provided upon shipment.

5, Packing:

Safe and dust-free packing are chosen to ensure you receive your products safe and sound and can use directly in your production lines.

6, Measuring Service:

You might have had experiences that you are using a product, but not clear about the exact specifications making you hesitate to source better options. Sending us a sample will allow us to help you figure out the details and transfer it to production.

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