40-20 Scratch / Dig Cylindrical Lenses

Precision cylindrical lenses are optical components used in many industrial and scientific fields. They are used to focus and shape the beams of light in one direction while leaving the other axis unaffected. Cylindrical lenses have a curved surface that is cylindrical in shape, and they can be... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig

• Materials: CDGM / SCHOTT

Note: Other sizes and focal length are available upon request. Also the lens ring mounts are available upon request. [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Length: 25.4

• Lens Form: Plano-Concave
• Width: 6.35

CeNing Optics specializes in manufacturing high precision optical components, including optical lenses, prisms, beam splitters, waveplates, polarizers, interference filters, laser mirrors, BBO crystals, achromatic lenses, cylindrical lenses, and CaF2 windows. CeNing Optics produces optical... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig; 60-40 Scratch / Dig
• Lens Application: Visible

• Lens Form: Plano-Concave
• Focal Length: -500 to -8

N-SF11 is a high refractive index, high dispersion optical glass material commonly used in optical designs requiring high refractive index and special dispersion characteristics. High refractive index (nd ≈1.7847@587.6nm). Low abbe number (Vd ≈25.76), high dispersion materials. [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Surface Flatness: λ/4

• Materials: SF11 Glass

The CSV150AR.10 Plano-Concave Cylindrical Lens is a 245 to 440 nm anti-reflection coated, fused silica plano-concave cylindrical lens with a 2 inch (50.8 mm) length and a 2 inch (50.8 mm) width and an effective focal length of -150 mm. It is designed to meet the demanding requirements of laser... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Focal Length: -152

• Lens Form: Plano-Concave; Plano-Concave
• Center Thickness: 2.5

Laser-grade plano-convex lenses are among the most commonly used optical components in a wide range of applications requiring control of laser beams. These lenses are commonly used in laser systems for beam shaping, collimation, and focusing to achieve specific results, such as cutting or welding... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Lens Application: Ultraviolet

• Lens Form: Plano-Convex
• Materials: Ultra-violet grade Fused Silica

Note: Other sizes and focal are available upon request. Also the lens ring mounts are available upon request. [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Length: 25.4

• Lens Form: Plano-Convex
• Width: 12.7

CeNing Optics specializes in manufacturing high precision optical components, including optical lenses, prisms, beam splitters, waveplates, polarizers, interference filters, laser mirrors, BBO crystals, achromatic lenses, cylindrical lenses, and CaF2 windows. CeNing Optics produces optical... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig; 60-40 Scratch / Dig
• Lens Application: Visible

• Lens Form: Plano-Convex
• Focal Length: 8 to 500

K9 cylindrical lenses are optical components that are commonly used in lasers, imaging and optical systems. What are the applications of K9 cylindrical lenses?. Laser systems: for beam shaping, beam expansion or focusing. Imaging systems: to correct dispersion or to realize specific optical effects. [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Materials: BK7 Glass

• Lens Application: Infrared; Visible; Ultraviolet
• Surface Flatness: λ/4

The CKV025AR.33 Plano-Concave Cylindrical Lens is a 1064 nm anti-reflection coated, 1 inch (25.4 mm) length by 1/2 inch (12.7 mm) width, N-BK7 plano-concave cylindrical lens with an effective focal length of -25 mm. It is designed to meet the demanding requirements of laser electro-optic... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Focal Length: -28.96

• Lens Form: Plano-Concave; Plano-Concave
• Center Thickness: 6

A plano-concave lens has one flat surface and one inward curved surface, which causes light rays to diverge. These lenses are often used to correct the vision of people who are nearsighted (myopic), as they cause the light entering the eye to diverge before it reaches the lens, thus allowing it to... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Materials: CDGM / SCHOTT

• Lens Form: Plano-Concave; Concave-Concave

Yutai's cylindrical lenses are great optical components for requiring one-dimensional shaping of a light source.They are manufactured from fine annealed glass and offered in either rectangular or Circular,plano-concave or plano-convex configurations, which are meant to expand or focus light, and... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig

• Surface Flatness: λ/4

The CKV006AR.33 Plano-Concave Cylindrical Lens is a 1064 nm anti-reflection coated, 1 inch (25.4 mm) length by 1/4 inch (6.35 mm) width, N-BK7 plano-concave cylindrical lens with an effective focal length of -6.4 mm. It is designed to meet the demanding requirements of laser electro-optic... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Focal Length: -10.96

• Lens Form: Plano-Concave; Plano-Concave
• Center Thickness: 6

Fused silica has good transmission in the ultraviolet (UV), visible (VIS), and near-infrared (NIR) wavelengths, and especially excels in the deep ultraviolet (DUV) wavelengths. Fused silica has an extremely low coefficient of thermal expansion, making it suitable for high temperatures or... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Materials: Ultra-violet grade Fused Silica

• Lens Application: Ultraviolet
• Surface Flatness: λ/4

The CKV075 Plano-Concave Cylindrical Lens is an uncoated, 2 inch (50.8 mm) length by 1 inch (25.4 mm) width, N-BK7 plano-concave cylindrical lens with an effective focal length of -75 mm. It is designed to meet the demanding requirements of laser electro-optic applications. Newport's N-BK7 precision... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Focal Length: -78.96

• Lens Form: Plano-Concave; Plano-Concave
• Center Thickness: 6

The CSX025AR.33 Plano-Convex Cylindrical Lens is a 1064 nm anti-reflection coated, fused silica, plano-convex cylindrical lens with a 2 inch (50.8 mm) length, a 19.0 mm width and an effective focal length of 25.4 mm. It is designed to meet the demanding requirements of laser electro-optic... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Focal Length: 20.2

• Lens Form: Plano-Convex; Plano-Convex
• Center Thickness: 7.88

The CSX100AR.33 Plano-Convex Cylindrical Lens is a 1064 nm anti-reflection coated, fused silica, plano-convex cylindrical lens with a 2 inch (50.8 mm) length, a 1 inch (25.4 mm) width and an effective focal length of 100 mm. It is designed to meet the demanding requirements of laser electro-optic... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Focal Length: 92.98

• Lens Form: Plano-Convex; Plano-Convex
• Center Thickness: 4.79

The CSX150AR.33 Plano-Convex Cylindrical Lens is a 1064 nm anti-reflection coated, fused silica, plano-convex cylindrical lens with a 2 inch (50.8 mm) length, a 2 inch (50.8 mm) width and an effective focal length of 150 mm. It is designed to meet the demanding requirements of laser electro-optic... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Focal Length: 145

• Lens Form: Plano-Convex; Plano-Convex
• Center Thickness: 7.85

The CKX012AR.33 Plano-Convex Cylindrical Lens is a 1064 nm anti-reflection coated, 1 inch (25.4 mm) length by 1/2 inch (12.7 mm) width, N-BK7 plano-convex cylindrical lens with an effective focal length of 12.7 mm. It is designed to meet the demanding requirements of laser electro-optic... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Focal Length: 7.49

• Lens Form: Plano-Convex; Plano-Convex
• Center Thickness: 7.9

The CKX150AR.14 Plano-Convex Cylindrical Lens is a 430 to 700 nm anti-reflection coated, 2 inch (50.8 mm) length by 2 inch (50.8 mm) width, N-BK7 plano-convex cylindrical lens with an effective focal length of 150 mm. It is designed to meet the demanding requirements of laser electro-optic... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Focal Length: 145

• Lens Form: Plano-Convex; Plano-Convex
• Center Thickness: 7.28

The CKX025AR.14 Plano-Convex Cylindrical Lens is a 430 to 700 nm anti-reflection coated, 2 inch (50.8 mm) length by 1 inch (25.4 mm) width, N-BK7 plano-convex cylindrical lens with an effective focal length of 25.4 mm. It is designed to meet the demanding requirements of laser electro-optic... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Focal Length: 16.98

• Lens Form: Plano-Convex; Plano-Convex
• Center Thickness: 12.79

The CSX12 Plano-Convex Cylindrical Lens is an uncoated, 12.50 mm diameter, UV Fused Silica plano-convex cylindrical lens with an effective focal length of 50.00 mm. It is designed to meet the demanding requirements of laser electro-optic applications. [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Focal Length: 48.63

• Lens Form: Plano-Convex; Plano-Convex
• Center Thickness: 2

These lenses are symmetrical with equal radii on both sides. The biconcave lenses are often used to expand light beams or to increase focal lengths in optical systems, and are normally used in combination with other lenses. Among the many devices utilising biconcave lenses are laser beam expanders,... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Focal Length: 12.5 to 500

• Lens Form: Concave-Concave
• Center Thickness: 1.7 to 4.8

Focus Light in Only One Dimension. Design Minimizes Spherical and Chromatic Aberration. Ideal for Creating Line Profiles of Broadband Light Sources. Our TECHSPEC ® Achromatic Cylinder Lenses are similar in design and function to a standard cylinder lens, but have the added benefit of reducing... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Center Thickness: 3

• Focal Length: 100
• Length: 12.5

Rod Lenses are used for fiber coupling and laser diode beam shaping, lenses with a 0mm working distance are ideal for collimation of single and multi-mode optical fibers and laser diodes because the lens can be positioned and glued directly to the emission source. For focusing applications, or in... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Materials: Ultra-violet grade Fused Silica; Schott, Ohara, CDGM, Corning Fused Silica and JGS1

• Length: 1 to 15
• Surface Flatness: λ/4

Cylindrical Lenses focus incoming light in one dimension only, such as in transforming a point image into a line image or changing the height of an image without changing its width or vice versa. RMI Cylindrical Lenses are designed per customer wavelength. Both sides can be coated with an RMI high... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 10-5 Scratch / Dig; 20-10 Scratch / Dig; 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Materials: BK7 Glass; Calcium Fluoride; Germanium; Sapphire; Zinc Selenide; Ultra-violet grade Fused Silica; Fused Silica, Cleartran, Barium fluoride, Magnesium Flouride, Silicon

• Lens Form: Plano-Convex; Plano-Concave; Convex-Convex; Concave-Concave
• Surface Flatness: λ/4

At Thorlabs, we constantly reinforce our desire to serve at the pleasure of our customers. From this comes our desire to be connected to our industry in a way that far exceeds what would typically be expected of a vendor. Thorlabs lives this core principle by seeking to enhance, at every turn, the... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig; 60-40 Scratch / Dig
• Lens Application: Infrared; Visible; Ultraviolet

• Lens Form: Plano-Convex; Plano-Concave
• Focal Length: -1000 to 1000

OPTICAL COMPONENT MANUFACTURING. Fairfield Crystal provides component manufacturing for your most challenging designs and applications. Combined with our expertise in crystal growth our component fabrication team is able to manufacture highly polished single crystal lenses, prisms, wedges,... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 10-5 Scratch / Dig; 20-10 Scratch / Dig; 40-20 Scratch / Dig; 60-40 Scratch / Dig; 80-50 Scratch / Dig
• Materials: Calcium Fluoride; Zinc Selenide

• Lens Application: Infrared; Visible; Ultraviolet
• Surface Flatness: λ/2; λ/4; λ/5; λ/8; λ/10; λ/20

Rod lenses are polished on the circumference and ground on both ends. Optical performance is similar to a cylinder lens. Collimated light passing through the diameter of the rod will be focused into a line. These components are used in a variety of laser and imaging applications. [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Lens Application: Infrared (optional feature); Visible (optional feature); Ultraviolet (optional feature)

• Lens Form: Rod
• Length: 2

A cylindrical lens is typically used to focus, condense or expand incoming light. A cylindrical lens has one cylindrical surface, causing light to be focused in a single dimension or axis. It can also be used to expand the output of a laser diode into a symmetrical beam. Cylindrical lenses are... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig; 60-40 Scratch / Dig
• Length: 2 to 200

• Lens Application: Visible
• Materials: Sapphire; Optical Glass, Fused Silica

These simplest form lenses have flat surface on one side and spherical surface on the other. They are widely used in telescopes, microscopes, collimators, optical transceivers, magnifiers, condenser systems and eyepieces. Plano convex lens made of BK7, UV FS (UV grade Fused Silica), CaF2 (Calcium... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Focal Length: 20 to 10000

• Lens Form: Plano-Convex
• Center Thickness: 2.1 to 12.3

Plano-convex circular cylindrical lenses are useful for line imaging or uni-axial magnification in a wide range of applications. These lenses may be combined with other lenses to form complex imaging systems. 3.1 、How to control the radius correctly?. HG OPTRONICS use the precision templet... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Materials: Schott, CDGM, Ohya, Ohara, Corning, etc.

• Lens Form: Plano-Convex
• Lens Features: Antireflection Coating

Meniscus Cylindrical Lens can increase the NA of the system while only adding slightly to the total spherical aberrations. The Negative Meniscus Lens is used to increase the focal length of another lens while maintaining the angular resolution of the optical assembly. This lens shape is best used... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 20-10 Scratch / Dig; 40-20 Scratch / Dig; 60-40 Scratch / Dig
• Center Thickness: 2 to 20

• Lens Application: Visible
• Materials: Sapphire; Optical Glass, Fused Silica

Plano-convex axicons have one conical and one plano surface. Axicons can be defined by their apex angle. Conical lenses are used to transform the light into a ring or to create an approximation of non-diffractive Bessel beam from collimated Gaussian beam in the near field. A combination of axicons... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig; 60-40 Scratch / Dig
• Length: 25.4 to 30

• Lens Form: Plano-Convex
• Materials: BK7 Glass; Ultra-violet grade Fused Silica

A cylindrical lens is a lens that focuses light on a line instead of a point, like a spherical lens. The curved face or faces of a cylindrical lens are sections of a cylinder, and focus the image passing through it into a line parallel to the intersection of the surface of the lens and a plane... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Materials: Schott, CDGM, Ohya, Ohara, Corning, etc.

• Lens Form: Plano-Concave
• Lens Features: Antireflection Coating

A plano-concave cylindrical lens is used to expand light in on axis. A negative cylindrical lens is able to diverge collimated input light away from a line. Plano-concave cylindrical lenses are used for one-dimensional compression of images, anamorphic beam shaping, and laser line generation. The... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 20-10 Scratch / Dig; 40-20 Scratch / Dig; 60-40 Scratch / Dig
• Lens Application: Visible

• Lens Form: Plano-Concave
• Center Thickness: 2 to 20

These lenses are used in laser scanners, spectroscopy, dye lasers, acousto-optics, optical processors and other similar applications. They are the best for circularization of diode laser outputs. Earlier remarks made about plano-convex and plano-concave spherical lenses, with regard to aberrations... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Focal Length: 15 to 500

• Lens Form: Plano-Convex
• Center Thickness: 1.4 to 3.8

Plano-concave rectangular cylindrical lenses provide uni- axial negative imaging for anamorphic beam expansion and a wide range of applications.These lenses may also be used as mirror blanks if a concave cylindrical surface mirror is required. 2.1 、Why is cylindrical lens used?. A cylindrical... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Materials: Ultra-violet grade Fused Silica; Optical glass,Fused silica

• Lens Form: Plano-Concave

A plano-convex cylindrical lens is used to condense light in one axis. A positive cylindrical lens is able to create a line image from a point of light, to change the aspect ratio of an image or to focus collimated input light to a line. Plano- convex cylindrical lenses are typically used for... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 20-10 Scratch / Dig; 40-20 Scratch / Dig; 60-40 Scratch / Dig
• Lens Application: Visible

• Lens Form: Plano-Convex
• Center Thickness: 2 to 20

These lenses are thicker at the edge than in the centre and flat on one side. The plano-concave lenses are used to expand light beams or to increase focal lengths in optical systems. They are often employed for beam expansion of high peak power pulsed lasers. A beam incident on a concave surface... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Focal Length: 25 to 5000

• Lens Form: Plano-Concave
• Center Thickness: 1.3 to 4.7

Plano-convex rectangular cylindrical lenses are useful for line imaging or uni-axial magnification in a wide range of applications. These lenses may be combined with other lenses to form complex imaging systems. 4.1. Why are Plano-conves Retangular Cylindrical lenses used?. Plano-convex rectangular... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Materials: Ultra-violet grade Fused Silica; Optical glass, Fused silica

• Lens Form: Plano-Convex

These lenses are used to focus light to a thin line in laser scanners, spectroscopy, dye lasers, acousto-optics, optical processors and other similar applications. They are the best for circularization of diode laser outputs, energy collection for linear detectors or for coupling to a slit input. [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Focal Length: 15 to 1500

• Lens Form: Plano-Convex
• Center Thickness: 2.2 to 10

Biconvex lenses are all symmetrical, having equal radii on both sides. They are recommended for virtual imaging of real objects, and for positive conjugate ratios from 0.2 up to 5. Outside of this ratios range plano-convex lenses are usually more suitable. Biconvex lenses are used as magnifiers,... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Focal Length: 12.7 to 1000

• Lens Form: Convex-Convex
• Center Thickness: 2.2 to 16.2

Zinc selenide (ZnSe) is the most popular material for infrared applications. Due to a very wide transmission range covering 0.6-22 µm chemical vapor deposition grown ZnSe as a high optical quality material is used to manufacture optical components (windows, mirrors, lenses) for high power IR... [See More]

• Surface Quality: 40-20 Scratch / Dig
• Focal Length: 25.4 to 254

• Lens Form: Plano-Convex
• Length: 12.7 to 76.2