APD Capabilities

The APD lab has made a focused effort to develop unique CNC machines for fabricating aspheric and freeform optics. In addition to developing these unique manufacturing platforms, the APD lab has performed a great deal of research in refining grinding, polishing, and metrology solutions for developmental ceramics and crystals as well as industry standard optical glasses and I.R. materials. These challenges have driven OptiPro to add many resources to their department. The lab now has 9 CNC machine platforms for precision grinding, high speed polishing, and deterministic sub-aperture polishing. There is also a dedicated metrology lab that includes two Zygo interferometers, a profilometer, a Zygo New View, a CMM, and OptiPro's non-contact 5-axis scanning system the UltraSurf. These resources are allocated for our team of engineers and technicians to tackle these difficult tasks. This team comprises personnel from the optics industry and academia, including mechanical engineers, process engineers, scientists, and mathematicians with over 50 years of combined experience.   Contact APD if you would like to learn more about how our team can turn your concepts into optimized production solutions.