Optical Surfaces Limited

Optical Surfaces Ltd. has supplied a motorised 155mm aperture UV-VIS-NIR collimator system and interferometric alignment system to the Optical Information Systems Group at the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt in Berlin, Germany. DLR is Germany's national research centre for aeronautics and space. Its extensive research and development work in aeronautics, space, transportation and energy is integrated into national and international cooperative ventures.

Debris Shields from Optical Surfaces Ltd. are specifically designed to protect target-facing optics located in high-power laser facilities. The use of debris shields to protect typically expensive final reflective or refractive focusing high power optics is a well-established technique of extending their lifetime.

Working with high-stability materials such as glass, Zerodur and silica, Optical Surfaces Ltd. is today recognised as a premier supplier of high precision reference flats by many leading research establishments and national standards laboratories.

The first high resolution satellite imagery has been released from NigeriaSat-2 - a 300kg class earth observation satellite manufactured by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd for the Nigerian space agency. Benefiting from a high performance Camera with optical components manufactured by Optical Surfaces Ltd (Kenley, UK) - the satellite has been able to capture stunning 2.5m resolution images enabling detailed analysis of ground structures, aircraft and vehicles.

Operating in a uniquely stable manufacturing environment - Optical Surfaces Ltd has established itself as a leading international supplier of Fabry-Perot etalons in a range of shapes and sizes up to 150mm in diameter with matching accuracies to lambda /300.

Benefiting from considerable expertise in manufacturing high performance parabolic reflectors, Optical Surfaces Ltd. has established itself as a leading supplier of top quality plano-convex and plano-concave toroidal mirrors for spectroscopic and imaging applications.

Benefiting from considerable expertise in manufacturing high performance parabolic reflectors, Optical Surfaces Ltd. has established itself as a leading supplier of top quality plano-convex and plano-concave toroidal mirrors for spectroscopic and imaging applications.

For over 40 years Optical Surfaces Ltd. has supplied high precision spectrograph optics for land and space based astronomical telescopes.

For over 40 years Optical Surfaces Ltd. has supplied high precision spectrograph optics for land and space based astronomical telescopes.

Working with high-stability materials such as glass, Zerodur and silica - Optical Surfaces Ltd. has established itself as a premier supplier of high precision reference and transmission flats to many leading research organisations and national standards laboratories worldwide.

The Central Laser Facility (CLF) at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) is one of the world’s leading laser facilities providing scientists from the UK and Europe with an unparalleled range of state-of-the-art laser technology. The CLF’s wide ranging applications include experiments in physics, chemistry and biology, accelerating subatomic particles to high energies, probing chemical reactions on the shortest timescales and studying biochemical and biophysical process critical to life itself.

Benefiting from a uniquely stable manufacturing environment - Optical Surfaces Ltd. is able to produce diffraction-limited aspheric lenses up to 600mm in diameter for the most demanding applications