Micro-optics – Precise. Accurate. Perfect.
The GUTSCHE micro-optics team are your specialists for individual, bespoke micro-optical lenses and complex lens systems with diameters of 0.8 to 12 mm and centricity up to 5 µm. We offer small batch sizes for prototypes through to medium and large series. High quality expectations and numerous quality inspections are evident throughout every processing stage, enabling us to guarantee an absolutely flawless product – wholly in line with our motto: ‘Precise. Accurate. Perfect.’
Lens and lens systems
Your application determines the direction. Depending on requirements, various components are needed to collect, diffuse and collimate light or filter out the correct wavelengths. We precisely adapt the shape and properties of each lens to fit your application. Here are a few examples:
Achromats and apochromats
Achromats and apochromats minimise the variation of the cut width with the wavelength and thus avoid colour errors.
Negatives
Negatives widen the beam path. A black-chrome coating suppresses stray light.
Rod lenses
Spherical, convex and rod lenses bundle the incident light rays accurately and transport them over the distance specified in the application.
Customised lens systems
Customised lens systems combine the properties of different lenses and prisms to accurately meet the required specifications of your application.
Ideal coatings
In addition to the perfect lens shape and structure of the lens systems, we also offer the ideal coatings for your lenses. Let us advise you or simply select a suitable coating from our extensive portfolio:
Our promise
We guarantee trustful communication, supreme reliability and a consistently precise, dimensionally accurate and flawless product.
Our vertical range of manufacture
We are proud to bring together all the requisite operations to create your lens system under one roof. Our vertical integration encompasses:
- Grinding and polishingUsing the latest CNC machines and traditional craft work. Pass testing is subsequently carried out using an interferometer. Radial distortion is ascertained using computer-controlled autocollimators that enable us to ensure centricity up to 5 µm.
- CoatingsPrecision coating – extremely thin and resilient due to filtering and anti-reflection (AR) coatings, dielectric mirrors and other finishing processes.
- AssemblyAdhesion and assembly of the individual components of the lens system is carried out automatically or by hand with the highest precision at the level of a precision optician.
- CleaningWater-, air- and solution-based lens cleaning. Laminar flow boxes at the workstations provide clean-room conditions and premium quality.
- Quality controlQuality control inspections ensure the product is completely free of aberrations, allowing us to always deliver a flawless micro-optical product for your application.
- State-of-the-art metrologyIntegrating the latest metrological technologies into the CNC-guided manufacturing process has created a closed-loop system. This makes it possible to precisely assess all relevant technical parameters during production. As a consequence, pass testing of individual surfaces is carried out exclusively using an interferometer directly at the workstation and, in the case of optical cement, the radial distortion is ascertained with extreme precision using computer-controlled autocollimators.
Quality
We inspect the quality of our lenses at every stage of fabrication. Needless to say, as a supplier within the medical technology sector, our company is certified in accordance with DIN EN ISO 9001:2015.
The GUTSCHE 3-point plan
- 01 We work out individual customer requirements in a 1:1 technical discussion between you and our specialists. Our decades of experience help us, as does our willingness to acquire new production systems for new projects.
- 02 The precision micro-optical product for the customer application is crafted with precision optical care and a passion for detail by our skilled team.
- 03 Every single lens is subject to careful quality control to constantly ensure our customers receive an absolutely perfect product.
Be it individual lenses or complex lens systems, our customers can always rely on exceptional systems optimally tailored to meet their needs and superlative customer service, all delivered by our proficient micro-optics specialists.