Products
Cones & truncаted cones
ARD-Optics manufactures cones and truncated cones from sapphire, quartz glass, Fused silica, BK-7 glass and other optical materials to the customer's specifications, with precision plane-parallel ends.
Sapphire cones and truncated cones are widely used in medical devices as lightguides.
We produce cones with a sharp tip down to 0.1 mm in diameter, and angle accuracy up to 0.1 degree.
Cones & Truncated Cones — Specifications
| Sapphire | Quartz glass & other optical materials | |
|---|---|---|
| Flatness | Up to λ/10 | Up to λ/10 |
| Diameter | 5-100 mm | 5-100 mm |
| Diameter tolerance | +/− 0.02 mm | +/− 0.02 mm |
| Thickness tolerance | +/− 0.01 mm | +/− 0.01 mm |
| Ends parallelism | Up to 5 arc min. | Up to 5 arc min. |
| Angle | 0-100° +/− 0.1° | 0-100° +/− 0.1° |
| Surface quality S/D MIL-13830 | 40/20 | 20/10 |
| Ends perpendicularity to axis | 90° +/− 30 min | 90° +/− 30 min |
| Chamfer | 0.1 mm | 0.1 mm |