Precision Glass & Optics Offers Precision Optics for Military Apps

(PG&O), an expert in optical manufacturing for 25 years, offers advanced thin film coatings, commercial optics, and precision optics (standard and customized) for military and defense applications.
By: Thad Sanchez, Director of Sales
 
April 11, 2011 - PRLog -- Precision Glass & Optics (PG&O), an expert in optical manufacturing for 25 years, offers advanced thin film coatings, commercial optics, and precision optics (standard and customized) for military and defense applications.  The in-house facility specializes in plano optical components, from prisms to windows, beamsplitters, light pipes, optical mirrors and retro-reflectors.

PG&O can quickly provide a large variety of glass and thin film coated optical materials, from square, rectangular and/or circular parts.  Optics can be customized to exact specifications or shipped from in-stock items, within a 48-hour turn around, for time-critical projects.

Fabrication services include the new abrasive waterjet technology, laser engraving, annealing, CNC machining, drilling, double-sided grinding and polishing, diamond bandsawing, slicing, scribing, and more.  PG&O’s polishing capabilities (up to 36”Ø) typically achieves flatnesses to λ/20, parallelism to 1 arc second, and tolerances to ±.0005”. Thermal and chemical tempering is also available to meet the most demanding part-strengthening requirements. Optical thin film coating capabilities include a chamber that enables coatings up to four, 24”Ø substrates.

Implementing the fundamentals of MIL-I-45208A as well as the optical manufacturing disciplines of MIL-PRF-13830B, the company’s glass, optics, and thin film coating services are ideal for a wide variety of military and defense tasks.  Other precision optical areas of application include biomedical, solar, imaging, scanning, digital cinema, and laser manufacturing.  For more information, please visit:  www.pgo.com.

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Precision Glass & Optics – www.pgo.com – PG&O has delivered excellent quality glass, optics, and optical coatings for a variety of applications for over 25 years. The company offers an extensive materials inventory plus a full optical fabrication shop, three large coating chambers, and an expert, in-house engineering staff, for your convenience. Our cost-effective and reliable optics and advanced thin film coatings are ideal for military, aerospace, biomedical, imaging, laser, digital cinema, solar markets, and more.
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Source:Thad Sanchez, Director of Sales
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Zip:92704
Tags:PG&O, Precision Glass & Optics, Thin Film Coatings, Commercial Optics, Beamsplitters, Light Pipes
Industry:Technology
Location:Santa Ana - California - United States
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