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Achromatic Singlet Lenses

Diamond Turned Single Element Achromatic Lenses
Outperform PCX Lenses and Traditional Achromatic Lenses
Ideal for Broadband Focusing Applications

TECHSPEC® Achromatic Singlet Lenses are diamond turned aspheric achromatic lenses made of a single optical material, Zeonex E48R, that do not require optical cements or secondary materials to enhance color correction. The novel design has been shown to outperform traditional achromatic doublets by a factor of 3 and plano-convex (PCX) singlets by a factor of nearly 40 in terms of chromatic focal shift. TECHSPEC Achromatic Singlet Lenses are ideal for broadband focusing applications as well as ultraviolet applications where optical cement is not desired.

For more information on Achromatic Singlet Lenses, see our Trending in Optics article.

Layout of a single-material aspheric achromat from MATLAB. Only half of the lens aperture is illustrated.

The 10 µm nominal chromatic focal shift of a 100mm focal length, 0.097 NA single material achromat is a 20X improvement over the 200µm nominal chromatic focal shift of #32-327, a 100mm focal length, 0.013 NA achromatic doublet.