Diamond turning facility can routinely produce complex non-spherical surfaces on a comprehensive range of optical materials and metal alloys
Precision-Optical Engineering (P-OE), which designs, develops, produces and tests optical components for use in the visible, infra-red and microwave regions of the spectrum, has announced the purchase of a new CNC single point diamond turning lathe. This new tool brings the total number of diamond turning lathes at P-OE's specialist optical production unit to five, maintaining its position as one of the leading European facilities of its type.
Sales and marketing manager Robin Addison commented: "This is an exciting development for P-OE and the significant financial investment in the new tool reflects the steady growth in our business both in the military and commercial sectors.
Not only will the new lathe increase our capacity, but will also allow us greater flexibility in assigning different workloads to different tools, which will in turn improve delivery timescales to our customers." P-OE's diamond turning facility can routinely produce complex non-spherical surfaces on a comprehensive range of optical materials and metal alloys. Transmissive optics can be machined as aspheric, diffractive, hybrid and Fresnel lenses in germanium, zinc sulphide and selenide, silicon and acrylic (PMMA) and other plastics. Reflective optics and mould tools can be machined in aluminium alloys, OFHC copper and copper alloys, brass and bronze and electroless nickel.
