Beamsplitters: Cube or plate?
Friday, 23 December, 2016Meet Marty Jennings, Director of Strategic Alliances
Thursday, 1 March, 2018
Meet Donald Avritt, Director of Manufacturing for Tower Optical Operations.
Don’s 40 year career in optics has taken him to many different parts of the United States; including his beloved Texas.
Don is a real cowboy with an extraordinary knowledge about optical component manufacturing, process engineering, and metrology.
Don has developed great expertise in optical production areas such as:
Beveling
Lapping
Pitch polishing
Pad polishing
Spherical lapping and polishing
Flat lapping and polishing
Planetary polishing
Ring lapping
Double Sided lapping and polishing
Blanchard grinding
CNC curve generating
Conventional curve generating
OD Grinding
Centerless grinding
Cylindrical lapping, and polishing ( rotary and X-Y motion)
Laser cutting
Water jet cutting
Air jet machining
Single point diamond turning
Interferometers
Surface roughness profilometry
Autocollimators
Laser testing
CMM machines
Optical CMM machines
Slice/dice machines
Wire saws
Bore grinding and polishing
Metal lathes
Bridgeport machining ( CNC and manual)
Surface grinders
Air bearings
Hydrostatic bearings
Wedge testing
Flatness testing
Surface quality testing
Precision thickness measurements (sub-micron)
RMS roughness testing
Sine bars
Electronic gages
Capacitor gages
LVDT gages
Don also has experience with the following materials: most common glass types such as crowns and flints, ZnSe, Germanium, CaF2, MgF2, BaF2, ZnS, Si, SiC, Sapphire, Crystal Quartz, Moly, Stainless, and Ceramics.
This cowboy knows how to do his job, so you better get ready to use our wide variety of optical components! Our optics are cooked in Florida with some Texan hot sauce so you better not mess with Texas!
Want a quote, drop us a note at sales@toweroptical.com!
