Optical Polishing

Our optical polishing department operates a range of polishing machines to accommodate many polishing requirements. We have the latest technology in double sided planetary polishing, using 3 ways drive machines producing high volume rates. When laser quality finish is required we use our single sided machines polishing up to lambda 10 flatness.

A large amount of contract polish work is under taken using customer supplied materials.

Typical work of component polishing include: Re polishing of damaged surfaces Polishing of edges round or square Flame polishing rods and tubes Optical polishing of light guides Glass to metal assembly’s

Optical Glass, Fused Quartz, Fused Silica, Borosilicate, Float Glass, Filter Glass, Silicon, Germanium and many more.

Specifications: Double Sided Planetary Polishing Dimensions: 3mm dia to 300mm dia Thickness: 0.50mm to 25mm thick (Tolerance to ± .01) Flatness: To 1 Lambda Parallelism: To < 10 arc seconds Surface Quality: 40/20, 60/40, 80/50

Sizes over 300mm dia we use our range of single sided machines, polishing up to 500mm dia.

For further information please contact us with your polishing requirements.