Product Portfolio
Our suppliers design and produce customized spherical lenses exactly tailored to the customer’s requirements. Available in plano-concave, plano-convex, bi-convex or bi-concave shapes, spherical lenses with dimensions ranging from 2.0 mm to 250.0 mm and beyond are manufactured from a broad range of materials from optical, quartz or borosilicate glass to crystal materials like Si, Ge, MgF2, CaF2, Sapphire, and others.
Also, these custom spherical lenses can be coated with a broad selection of coating materials for the NIR, VIS and UV range for single wavelength or spectral area. Please contact the AMS Technologies optical lens experts to discuss your customized spherical lens solution that exactly matches your application’s requirements.
Related Products
Our portfolio comprises a variety of lenses for different needs and applications that can be manufactured in diverse materials and customized based on specific requirements: molded glass aspheric lenses, cylindrical lenses, achromatic lenses.
Additionally, we carry a broad range of complementary products such as fiber collimators and focusers, lens holders and lens positioniers as well as MWIR or LWIR thermal imaging assemblies.
Definition
Spherical lenses are the most common optical lens type. The two surfaces of a spherical lens feature a spherical shape – both surfaces are defined by sections of a geometrical sphere. The surface can be either convex (bending outwards from the lens, focusing the light beam) or concave (bending inwards, spreading the light beam).
Plano-convex lenses have one convex (positive) surface and one plane surface. They are often used for focusing collimated or near collimated light in applications where focus spot size is not critical.
Plano-concave lenses have one concave (negative) surface and one plane surface. Main applications are diverging collimated or near collimated light.
A lens with two convex or two concave surfaces is called bi-convex or bi-concave – and if the radii of the two surfaces are identical, the lens is called equi-convex or equi-concave.
The combination of a convex and a concave surface in the same lens is called a meniscus lens.
