Optics for military applications from PG&O

Aug. 19, 2010
Advanced thin-film coatings, commercial optics, and precision optics are offered for military and defense applications.

Advanced thin-film coatings, commercial optics, and precision optics are offered for military and defense
applications. The in-house facility specializes in plano-optical components such as prisms, windows, beamsplitters, and light pipes. Fabrication services include abrasive waterjet technology, laser engraving,
annealing, and CNC machining, among others. Polishing capabilities (up to Ø36 in.) typically achieve flatness
to /20, parallelism to 1 arc-sec, and tolerances to ±.0005 in.
Precision Glass & Optics (PG &O)
Santa Ana, CA

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Precision Glass & Optics Offers Precision Optics for Military Applications

March 4, 2010 – Santa Ana, CA – Precision Glass & Optics (PG&O), an expert in optical manufacturing for 25 years, offers advanced thin film coatings, commercial optics, and precision optics (standard and customized) for military and defense applications. The in-house facility specializes in plano optical components, from prisms to windows, beamsplitters, light pipes, optical mirrors, and retro-reflectors.

PG&O can quickly provide a large variety of glass and thin film coated optical materials, from square, rectangular and/or circular parts. Optics can be customized to exact specifications or shipped from in-stock items, within a 48-hour turn around, for time-critical projects.

Fabrication services include the new abrasive waterjet technology, laser engraving, annealing, CNC machining, drilling, double-sided grinding and polishing, diamond bandsawing, slicing, scribing, and more. PG&O’s polishing capabilities (up to 36”Ø) typically achieves flatnesses to /20, parallelism to 1 arc second, and tolerances to ±.0005”. Thermal and chemical tempering is also available to meet the most demanding part-strengthening requirements. Optical thin film coating capabilities include a chamber that enables coatings up to four, 24”Ø substrates.

Implementing the fundamentals of MIL-I-45208A as well as the optical manufacturing disciplines of MIL-PRF-13830B, the company’s glass, optics, and thin film coating services are ideal for a wide variety of military and defense tasks. Other precision optical areas of application include biomedical, solar, imaging, scanning, digital cinema, and laser manufacturing. For more information, please visit: www.pgo.com.

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