Optical Surfaces opens mirror-coating facility

Optical Surfaces has invested in a coating facility that will allow it to provide all standard metal coatings (aluminium, silver and gold) on mirror substrates up to 355mm (14in) in diameter.

News from Laboratorytalk, 19 February 2010

Ultra-smooth optics enhance space observation

Optical Surfaces can design, manufacture and supply high-precision optics for ground telescope and satellite-based space observation systems.

News from Laboratorytalk, 3 November 2009

Optical Surfaces builds clean-room facility

Optical Surfaces has invested in a class-10,000 clean-room, reflecting the rise in demand for specialist cleaning requirements for high-precision optical applications.

News from Laboratorytalk, 22 July 2009

Microchannel plate banks used in space research

Optical Surfaces has announced that it has received a repeat order from Photonis SAS for production of high-precision microchannel plate banks to be used in a series of space research projects.

News from Laboratorytalk, 2 June 2009

Camera enables high-res satellite mapping

Optical Surfaces has supplied a Cassegrain camera to Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) that will be a key component of the satellite platform being prepared for the Nigeriasat-2 programme.

News from Laboratorytalk, 6 April 2009

Precision mirror mounts offer stable platform

The OS series of mirror mounts from Optical Surfaces are designed to provide a secure platform for high-precision flat, spherical and off-axis mirrors in applications where stability is important.

News from Laboratorytalk, 30 January 2009

Spectrograph optics enhance telescope performance

Optical Surfaces's record in manufacturing, mounting and testing demanding precision spectrograph optics is best seen by the prestigious telescope groups that have selected it as a key supplier

News from Laboratorytalk, 16 July 2008

Fabry Perot Etalons to suit almost any application

Optical Surfaces is a supplier of Fabry-Perot etalons in a range of shapes and sizes up to 150mm in diameter with matching accuracies to lambda/300

News from Laboratorytalk, 19 March 2008

Optical reference flats are high precision

Optics up to 450mm diameter are provided with a Fizeau interferometric test report, while larger flats are quality assured using the Ritchey-Common test procedure

News from Laboratorytalk, 23 January 2008

Achromatic expansion of any collimated input

Manufactured to better than lambda/10 surface accuracy, the off-axis design of OSL beam expanders produces no central obscuration and efficient transmission unspoilt by spider diffraction patterns

News from Laboratorytalk, 8 June 2007

• Specialist in telescope spectrograph optics

• Off axis parabolae with high precision

• Beam expanders enhance Lidar measurements

• On-axis mirrors for fast focus and high energy

• Minimal alignment reflecting collimators

• Schlieren optics record inhomogeneities

• On-line precision optics applications bibliography

• Fast focus on-axis parabolic mirrors

• Off-axis mirrors provide minimum pulse distortion

• French observatory buys UK optics

• Optics help reveal secrets of distant galaxy

• Precision optics expands telescope capabilities

• New optics to upgrade terrawatt laser

• High precision reference flats

• Optics enhance wind sensing by lidar

• High performance beam collimators

• Peak performance off-axis paraboloids

• Spectropolarimeter helps unlock stellar secrets

• Optometrist to the stars

• Optimised near-IR tunable optical filter

• High performance tube collimators

• Development of efficient compact x-ray laser

• Identical mirrors chosen for Gemini telescopes

• Salt of the Earth