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Cylindrical Lenses

A lens having at least one surface that is a portion of a cylinder. Cylindrial lenses focus light along one axis only, thus forming a line image from a parallel incident beam. Typically used in the slit illumination of apertures, or converging the light for a line scan detector as well as stretching a point of light into a line as in a laser level. Ross Optical Industries M... Read more...

IRD Glass manufactures custom cylindrical lenses to match your specifications. Read more...