Boost Your Capabilities With Custom Optical Prisms

Optical prisms are transparent elements that steer light in various directions. Among the many functions of a prism, redirecting, dispersing, rerouting a light beam, as well as altering images, are the primary uses of optical prisms.

The polished flat surfaces of these transparent optical blocks can be altered to change the angles. Varying shapes can impact the refraction of light. Thus, it’s important to select the right type of optical prism for your needs.

Types of optical prisms

Beam deviation and reflection are heavily reliant on the specific prism you select. Each application has specific requirements and demanding applications require greater precision and accuracy. Choosing the wrong prism for your industry applications can result in higher costs and inaccurate results.

Some of the common types of optical prisms are:

• Right AnglePrism
• Penta Prism
• Rhomboid Prisms
• Image Rotation Prisms
• Dispersing Prisms

The applications of prisms

Optical prisms can boost your industrial application’s capabilities considerably. By utilizing this customizable tool for your unique needs, you can ensure precise, accurate results each time.

The wide variety of prisms guarantees that there’s one for even the most demanding applications. Optical prisms are used by professionals in optical instruments such as laser diodes, telescopes, submarine periscopes, optics imaging, fabrication processes, and the photonics industries. Optical prisms are also a viable instrument in neuroscience and biotechnology research, lending to the accuracy of results. Tower Optical’s 1.5 mm microprisms, for example, were recently used in a study of physiological mechanisms associated with feeding habits in mice.

By redirecting and reflecting light, prisms play a vital role in improving the precision and accuracy of optical applications and yielding favorable results.

Custom optical prisms

Standard prisms are viable for various industries and business owners, offering the necessary reflections for every optical task required. However, unique situations require prisms that are tailored to your specific application’s needs. In such situations, you can’t receive the desired resultsby selecting from even the most extensive catalog of prisms.

Custom prisms open up options that can improve your capabilities considerably. Depending on your application’s needs, you can customize the material, size, coatings, dimensions, wavelength, and angles.

The flexibility afforded by custom optical prism solutions is unparalleled. You can leverage favorable features to achieve the flatness, dimension tolerance, clear aperture, and surface quality you need for your application.

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, mirco, and large prisms to customize one that seamlessly integrates into your application.

Our wide range of quality materials and sizes can be manufactured to suit your specifications. We can make a variety of custom optical products including optical mirrors, beam expanders, laser mirrors, beamsplitters, and zero order waveplates.

Send in your drawings to our experts and we’ll customize a cost-effective solution just for you. Contact us for more information.