Cylinderical Lenses

CeNing Optics produces a range of cylinderical lenses for beam shape appllication.

Material: UV fused silica, N-BK7, Schott, CDGM Glass.
Size: Rectangular 3x3mm—100x100mm, Round:
Focal length: 4mm---10000mm
Centration: up to 1 arcmin
Surface quality: uncoated surface, 10-5S/D, Coated surface: 20-10 S/D
Flatness: commercial grade: L/4 @633nm
Protective chamfer.

Cylinder lenses focuses light in only one dimension, similar to a Plano-convex lens in profile, but is a portion of a cylinder instead of a sphere. Cylinder lenses can transform a point of light into a line image. A sheet of light can be created by using two PCX lenses oriented orthogonally to each other and separated by the sum of their focal lengths.