PROVIDENCE, RI — (Marketwired) — 11/12/13 — is now offering in virtually any configuration and grade ranging from raw material to finished optics. The firm has been manufacturing finished sapphire products since 1921.
is available in all material grades ranging from mechanical non-optical to defect-free optical and wavelength transmission products in all orientations with no lattice distortion (confirmed by X-ray). It can be supplied as blocks and as lenses, carriers, wafers, windows, and domes in a variety of configurations and sizes from 0.5″ to 5″ O.D. +/-0.00025″.
Featuring Moh 9 hardness, second only to diamond, Meller Sapphire can be finished to 1/10th per wave flatness per inch, parallelism to 2 arc-sec, and surface finishes to 10-5 scratch-dig per MIL-PRF-13830, depending upon the material and configuration. can be supplied plano-convex and concave, biconvex and concave, and meniscus; and substrates can be plane, wedged, and tapered.
Meller Sapphire is priced according to grade, configuration, and quantity. Raw material delivery is 2-6 weeks typical and custom optics are typically delivered within 8 weeks.
About Meller Optics, Inc.
Founded in 1921, has been providing high quality optics to defense, medical, laser, and industrial markets for 90 years now. Specializing in the grinding and polishing of hard, durable materials such as sapphire and ruby, the company has also developed high-speed, low-cost finishing processes for a variety of such as laser glasses, fused silica, zinc selenide, germanium, silicon, fluorides, and ceramic materials. Configurations include windows, substrates, lenses, domes, and prisms.
Meller Optics is ISO 9001:2008 certified and in addition to providing standard, off-the-shelf products, they custom fabricate components that meet exacting specifications from delicate, difficult to work with optical materials. They also supply quality and Gugolz optical polishing pitch.
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For more information contact:
Meller Optics, Inc. Steve Lydon Marketing 120 Corliss St./ P.O. Box 6001 Providence, RI 02940 (800) 821-0180 FAX (401) 331-0519 e-mail:
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