BALL-LENS COHERENT | Alldatasheet

Document overview

  • Manufacturer or author: Provided By alldatasheet.com(free datasheet download site)
  • PDF pages: 2

Technical content

Ball lenses are highly polished spheres made of optically transparent homogeneous materials. A carefully controlled manufacturing process produces spheres with precise diameters and unsurpassed surface quality. Ball lenses are commonly used for laser collimating and focusing, laser-to-fiber coupling, fiber-to-fiber coupling, and fiber-to-detector coupling. Larger spheres are easier to handle and ease the sensitivity of translational alignment. Half-ball (hemispherical) lenses are ideal for applications such as fiber communications, endoscopy, microscopy, optical pickup devices, and laser measurement systems.

APPLICATIONS

  • Laser coupling components
  • G/E PON components
  • Fiber optical communications systems
  • Switches
  • Laser measurement systems

© 2022 Coherent Corp. Legal notices : coherent.com/legal photonics.sales@coherent.com www.coherent.com BALL AND HALF BALL LENS Dimensions Common specification Material N-Bk7 Typical Dimension 1, 2, 2.5, 3, 5mm Dimension Tolerance +/-0.002mm Surface Quality (scratch/dig) better than 60-40 Sphericity 0.6μm Other sizes, diameters, and coatings are also available upon request.