17, Jul 2025 | Social Media
In a recent exclusive interview with IEN Europe – Rob Watkinson discusses the advantages of optimised bespoke lenses for scientific applications. In addition to describing some ‘cool’ custom optics for space research he details how our experience and expertise has...
10, Jul 2025 | Social Media
Vision and imaging systems typically require a camera, imaging sensor and lens operating together to provide a working solution. For them to work optimally, all the components must be matched properly. Our new tech note discusses the trade-offs you should consider...
3, Jul 2025 | Social Media
Traditionally wide-angle lenses suffer from image distortion. Depending on how you calculate the distortion you will typically be looking at between 5 to 15%. The lens will also require a very large front clear aperture. Both the distortion and the large diameter...
26, Jun 2025 | Social Media
Optics play a crucial role in a wide variety of defence applications. To deliver a robust and reliable optical system for such an application it is critical that a detailed specification is provided which include sections for optical, mechanical and environmental...
19, Jun 2025 | Social Media
Designing and producing optics for use in space is a highly specialised area where expertise and experience are critical. Over the last 15+ years we have created a wide variety of application-optimized lens designs for commercial satellite developers and international...
12, Jun 2025 | Social Media
A military contractor required eight mounted high-performance lenses to provide a 360° view enabling their smart ballistics detection system to detect the UV from gun muzzle flashes, identify its location and return fire to that location automatically. For this...
