Optical Design Services
A Global Optical Design Consulting Company You can Trust
The optical design process involves crafting a custom design for a specific lens that focuses on meeting your specific needs. At Shanghai Optics, we hold ourselves to the highest possible lens design standards. When it comes to delivering premium custom products to our clients, we understand the optical performance and physical/environmental elements necessary for producing custom optical components/optical lenses.
We combine competitive manufacturing costs, a streamlined design process and fast delivery services to bring you feasible and affordable lens designs faster than you can say “global optical design consulting company.” We have more than 60 years of experience in optical system, lens design, assembly, manufacturing and optical design consulting. Our capabilities include supplying complete optical design solutions from UV to IR wavelength lenses. The engineers and optical design consultants at Shanghai Optics are here to help bring your vision to life, from prototyping to volume production.
Overall Design Capabilities
As a leading global optical design consulting company, we go above and beyond to walk you through every step of our manufacturing process. Designing the perfect lens takes time, attention and expertise.
At Shanghai Optics, we offer integrated mechanical and optical design, fabrication, assembly and in-house testing to avoid delays in development and ensure the successful delivery of all products. Our engineers work with optical designers to balance trade-offs between cost, manufacturability and performance during the selection of materials, design optimization through virtual simulation and tolerance analysis.
[Optical Lens Coating Machinery and Process]
A inside look at how Shanghai Optics process their in-house optical lens coating. Shanghai Optics can provide all types of anti-reflective, high reflective, and partial reflective coatings. We produce a wide variety of coatings from a single layer of anti-reflective coating to complex multi-layer dielectric stacks.
Pushing past lens design, we offer system integration, reverse engineering services, volume production, rapid optical prototypes and more. With Shanghai Optics, the lens design, research and production possibilities are endless. When you choose us as your optical design company, you’ll also unlock the following benefits:
- Free quotes
- Design consultations
- Worry-free returns
- Unprecedented customer service
- Numerous high-precision state of the art metrology instruments that are world-class
- Sales offices in North America(U.S.A. and Canada) that are strategically placed to support clients worldwide
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Unparalleled Lens Design Testing
We conduct routine check-ups on all lens components throughout every phase of the design. Then, that same technical love and care goes into designing our lens design test criteria for your project.
Whether you’re looking to craft a fisheye or projection lens, we provide unique, precisely engineered solutions on a case-by-case basis to all of our customers. For many projects, we carry out the full optical and mechanical design, however, we can also use customer-supplied optical designs. No matter what your request entails, we’ll design it carefully, make it precisely, assemble it perfectly, test it thoroughly and deliver it quickly.
The Industries We Serve as a Leading Optical Design Company
We’re proud to have partners across a wide range of industries and sectors. Our team of six top research designers, 12 optical engineers and a multitude of optical design consultants positions us to best assist you.
From consumer products and military to medical and aerospace, our clients come are from a variety of different industries. Our custom lens design process and capabilities render us the ideal optical design company to help you fulfill your optical design needs.
Optical Design Consulting Overview
Our team includes highly experienced design engineers and manufacturing engineers and QA engineers. We have advanced in-house manufacturing and testing equipment. Whether customers look to have a high performance UV objective or IR imaging lens, we provide the unique and most suitable solution on a case-by-case basis to all of our customers. For many projects, we carry out the full optical and mechanical design. We also support customer-provided optical designs by re-optimizing the design for manufacturability or re-creating the lens with better performance and low cost for volume production.
If you have specific needs or you want to know the feasibility of your design, let’s chat. We will provide the most cost-effective solution that meets your needs. As an optical design company with more than 55 years of lens design experience, we will guide you in the right direction.
If you have any questions, contact us today.
Need help?
We offer consultations and initial feasibility studies. If you have questions about limitations or lens capabilities we’re more than happy to work through your proposed custom components. As an unmatched custom optical provider, we’ll do everything that we can bring your vision to life.
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