Tower Optical Microprisms (by Yoany Rodriguez PhD)

Tower Optical Microprisms

Author (Yoany Rodriguez PhD, Vice president Eng. and Sales Tower Optical Corporation)

Tower Optical’s build-to-print and fully customized design processes ensure you receive optical solutions geared to your needs. Ranging from sizes 0.5 to 80 mm, you can take advantage of our extensive portfolio of standard, micro, and large prisms to customize one that seamlessly integrates into your application.

Micro world

At Tower Optical we stock microprism from 0.5 mm to 3.0 mm sides length ( see table 1 below) .

Table 1. Microprisms Tower code and dimensions.

Tower Optical Corp. has expanded its line of precision optics to include standard micro prisms, coated and uncoated, for use with laser sources and imaging applications. The micro prisms are right angle, 45°-90°-45° prisms, whose sizes range from 0.5 mm to 5.0 mm with a format of A=B=C.

These Right Angle Prisms are used to deflect a light beam 90° or 180° as shown above. Depending on prism orientation, images will be inverted, but correct left to right. If the prism is rotated 90°, images viewed through it will be erect, but reversed left to right.

 Coat or not Coat?  That is the question.

Tower Optical offered coated and uncoated prisms. Even when our stock prisms are coated on the Hypotenuse, Tower can offer customer coating on the sides as well.

For the coated prism Tower offer different type of coating, metal coating, anti-reflective coating or custom coating per customer request.

Because the good quality of the Enhance aluminum coating in terms of durability and good reflectivity (see table 2), at Tower we stock prism coated using this metal coating.

Table 2. Coating Graph transmission curves.

 Why us? (Tower Optical)

Optical microprisms are becoming very popular due the high surface quality and the accuracy in the prism dimension. One of the most important spec on this small prims are the tolerance in dimension, +/- 0.01 mm and angles tolerance +/- 1 arcminute.

The other good reason to contact us is our large number of prism in stock. We usually offered a lead time between 2 to 4 days after receipt of your order.

Microprisms Applications?

Most of these Microprisms are used with  biomedical applications. We have been receiving notification from many research groups that our microprisms have been used in brain disease investigations, such as Alzheimer, Degenerative Nerve Diseases and Dementia.

New technologies of communication companies also reported the uses of our microprism. These companies are taking advantage of the prism small dimension and good reflectivity. We received reports that our microprism has been integrated into new communication and virtual reality devices.

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Please do not hesitate to contact us for more information about our microprism.

If you’re looking for a highly-experienced team, premium quality, and an unwavering commitment to excellence, contract Tower Optical with even the most demanding specifications. From concept to the final product, this leading precision optics manufacturer ensures quality and precision throughout.