Lenses

Plano-Convex Lenses

Plano-convex lens is a lens with one flat surface and the other convex surface, suitable for applications that collect (converge) light.
It enables a design with a long focal length and reduced spherical aberration.

Applications
  • Medical Equipment
  • Semiconductors/LCD Lithography Equipment
  • Digital Cameras
  • Microscopes
  • Survey Instruments
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Projectors
  • Acoustooptic Devices
  • Optical Sensors

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Meniscus Lenses

Meniscus lens is a lens composed of two curved surfaces, with one side convex and the other side concave.
It controls the convergence or divergence of light while reducing spherical aberration, making it suitable for optical systems that require high-precision focusing or diffusion.
There are convex meniscus and concave meniscus types, and they are selected according to the application.

Applications
  • Medical Equipment
  • Semiconductors/LCD Lithography Equipment
  • Digital Cameras
  • Microscopes
  • Survey Instruments
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Projectors
  • Acoustooptic Devices
  • Optical Sensors

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CaF2 Lenses

CaF2 Lens is an optical lens made of calcium fluoride, with high transmittance over a wide wavelength range.
It shows excellent performance especially in the wavelength range from ultraviolet (UV) to infrared (IR).
With a low refractive index and excellent heat and chemical resistance, it is a high-performance lens that is even suitable for high-power lasers.

Applications
  • Semiconductors/LCD Lithography Equipment

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Cylindrical Lenses

Cylindrical means a lens which one of the surfaces is curved in one meridian and less curved in the opposite meridian.

Applications
  • Medical Equipment
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Laser Printers
  • Semiconductors/LCD Lithography Equipment

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Aspheric Lenses

Aspheric Lens is a lens with a curved surface that is not spherical, and it can effectively reduce spherical aberration.
This enables clearer and more precise images.
Compared with conventional spherical lenses, it has a higher degree of design freedom and is suitable for constructing highly efficient optical systems.

Applications
  • Medical Equipment
  • Semiconductors/LCD Lithography Equipment
  • Digital Cameras
  • Microscopes
  • Survey Instruments
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Projectors
  • Acoustooptic Devices
  • Optical Sensors

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Large Aperture Lenses

Large Aperture Lens is a lens with a large aperture diameter that can collect more light, suitable for photography in low-light conditions and for high-precision optical measurements.

Applications
  • Medical Equipment
  • Semiconductors/LCD Lithography Equipment
  • Survey Equipment
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Projectors

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Toroidal Lenses

Toroidal lens is a lens with a non-rotationally symmetric shape that has different radii of curvature in the vertical and horizontal directions, mainly used for correcting astigmatism.

Applications
  • Medical Equipment
  • Semiconductors/LCD Lithography Equipment
  • Survey Equipment
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Projectors

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Axicon Lenses

Axicon lens is a special lens with a conical surface, which has the function of converting incident parallel light into a ring-shaped beam or a Bessel beam.
Unlike ordinary lenses, it does not focus light to a single point but generates light with a long depth of focus.

Applications
  • Semiconductors/LCD Lithography Equipment

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Fly-Eye Lenses

Fly-eye lens is an optical element with many small lenses (lenslets) arranged in a grid, used for uniform distribution and shaping of light.
The name comes from its structure similar to the compound eye of a fly, and it plays an important role in high-precision optical design.

Applications
  • Semiconductors/LCD Lithography Equipment

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Micro Lens Array (MLA)

MLA is an optical element composed of many microlenses arranged in regular or irregular patterns, used for focusing, diffusing, and homogenizing light, and applied in a wide range of fields.
NITTO OPTICAL fabricates MLAs with fused silica or silicon substrates, material selected according to the application.
Fused silica has high heat resistance and is suitable for the ultraviolet range, while silicon has a high refractive index and is suitable for optical communication and infrared range.

Applications
  • Fiber Optics
  • Semiconductors/LCD Lithography Equipment

Example specification Spherical shape

Cylindrical MLA

Cylindrical MLA is an optical element with cylindrical microlenses arranged in a grid, mainly specialized for one-directional light control.
It is excellent in focusing, shaping, and homogenizing light, and can control the spread of light in a single axis direction, enabling highly efficient light distribution in a specific direction.

Applications
  • Fiber Optics
  • Semiconductors/LCD Lithography Equipment

Specification

Aspherical MLA

Aspherical MLA is a microlens array in which each lens element has an aspherical shape, enabling aberration correction and high-precision light control.
Compared with conventional spherical MLAs, it improves light focusing efficiency and uniformity, and is used in advanced optical systems.

Applications
  • Fiber Optics
  • Semiconductors/LCD Lithography Equipment

Specification

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