An achromatic lens, often called an achromat, is a type of optical lens capable of correcting chromatic aberration, a distortion that occurs when glass splits white light into multiple color wavelengths in the spectrum. (read more)

Check out our latest Deep Dive into Optics blog post about objective lenses! (read more)

Take a Deep Dive into Optics with us by visiting our new blog. Our first post focuses on optical filters. (read more)

Shanghai Optics is proud to announce that we are ISO 13485:2016 certified, an internationally recognized Quality Management System for medical devices manufacturing, that ensures our products and services meet the needs of our customers' standards and regulations. (read more)

Shanghai Optics relies on over 60 years of design and manufacturing experience and advanced metrology to provide our customer with world class lens design and manufacturing services. (read more)

To start, light travels as a transverse wave, meaning that its direction of vibration is perpendicular to the direction of propagation. While we indicate the direction of propagation with an arrow, light is in fact oscillating perpendicular to the direction of propagation. (read more)

Now that we have explored light waves, we can dive more in depth into polarization. In how to describe light, we mentioned that sunlight is a form of unpolarized light or natural light. (read more)

Custom Germanium Lenses from Shanghai Optics Inc. (read more)