Benefits of Acylinder Lenses

An acylindrical lens is designed to be highly efficient and to deviate from a true cylinder in such a way as to minimize the optical aberrations in a given system.  Using acylinder lenses in a system often provides the opportunity to reduce the number of optical components, thus decreasing the size and weight of an optical system. Acylinder lenses also provide ideal collimation and the sharpest possible line focus in many circumstances.

Applications of Acylindrical Lenses

At Avantier, we produce custom acylindrical lenses for a wide variety of applications including those in industry, research, medicine and defense. 

These lenses are ideal for situations in which one needs to minimize aberrations and  precisely control the shape of laser beams. They are used in many situations when a diffraction limited line image or collimated beam is required. They can also be used when in situations where magnification in one dimension is required, or for infinite conjugate configurations. 

They can be used to create thin line profiles, or to reduce the spot size of a monochromatic light source and produce a sharp, thin line.  Acylindrical lenses are often a good choice for use with  lighting technology, laser scanners,  optical metrology and spectroscopy.  Two crossed acylinders can be used with the asymmetrical outputs of laser diodes to create a symmetrical circular beam. 

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