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Design for manufacturability and our unique approach
Design for manufacturability, also known as design for manufacturing (or DFM in short), is the engineering practice of designing products in a way that they are easy to manufacture. This general engineering practice exists in most engineering disciplines, of course...
Customized optics for your project
Manufacturing custom optics for a particular project can be a hassle. Part production can be costly and high upfront investments might be required. Custom optics production with conventional manufacturing methods also takes a lot of time. Even modifying stock optics...
Best technologies to manufacture custom aspheric lenses
In many optical systems the aberration correction of aspheric lenses makes them crucial components. Aspheric lenses can reduce the number of required optical components, while maintaining or even improving performance. Why create custom aspheric lenses? An aspheric...
Is rapid prototyping of industrial optics possible?
The pressure to bring new products to market faster has fueled the development of rapid prototyping techniques. In this way cost-effective prototypes can be produced in the early stages of development, where it is still inexpensive to make adjustments. You no longer...
Cost-effective optics design: software, validation & prototyping
Optics design means designing a lens in order to meet a specific set of requirements, where both cost and fabrication limits are taken into account. Optics design is also known as optical design. What is optical engineering? Optical engineering is the field of study...
Advantages of optical polymers
Highly transparent organic polymer materials can be used as optical polymers for a range of applications, including illumination. These optics are known as polymer optics, or plastic optics. Polymer materials Polymers are one of the most used material types in the...
Manufacturing of freeform optics
Freeform optics give designers more design freedom when it comes to designing optics for all kinds of applications. However, these same freeform elements also add a layer of complexity to the design and testing process due to lack of symmetry. Freeform optics are used...
Rapid prototyping services for optics?
Product designers and engineers are looking for rapid prototyping services in order to speed up product development cycles. Addoptics offers smart manufacturing of optics as a service, so rapid prototyping for optics becomes a possibility. With our service you can...
The benefits and applications of microlens arrays
Addoptics manufactures high quality custom microlens arrays. We can manufacture a large variety of arrays, from prototypes to end products, from basic spherical designs to more complex arrays such as aspherical and freeform lens designs, in a cost effective and...