OPTICAL DESIGN CONSULTANCY
Kidger Optics offers a comprehensive service covering all aspects of Optical Design, from the generation of specifications, through to complete opto-mechanical designs with detailed manufacturing drawings.

Our wide experience covers many different applications:

• Deep ultra violet to far infra red
• Simple single element systems to complex zoom lenses
• Miniature endoscope designs to instrumentation for astronomical telescopes
• High resolution imaging to illumination/detection systems
• Scientific Instruments
• Radiation Hardened Optical Systems
• Anamorphic Systems
• "Off the Shelf" component systems

Kidger Optics designs take full account of manufacturing limitations, and if required include a thorough analysis of the effects of manufacturing errors.  Our comprehensive design suite includes both Optical Research Associates ' (ORA®'s)   CODE V® and LightTools® software programs for imaging optics, illumination/detection optics, stray light analysis, non-sequential ray-tracing applications and statistical tolerance analysis.

We can do any, or all, of the following tasks dependent on your needs:

• Assist in generating specifications to meet particular requirements
• Evaluate existing designs against a requirement
• Feasibility studies
• Detailed optical design studies
• Prepare designs for production (test-plating, statistical tolerancing, etc.)
• Opto-mechanical design
• Prepare detailed drawings to BS or ISO standards
• Assist with procurement of optical elements
• Advise and assist during assembly and test

Kidger Optics is pleased to provide quotations against any specifications that you mayhave.  In those cases where the difficulty of the job cannot be adequately assessed prior to a significant amount of analysis, we may quote a fixed price for a feasibility study and budgetary prices for the remainder.  The budgetary prices will likely be confirmed and/or revised to fixed prices at the end of the feasibility study.  Recently completed designs include:

• A 14:1 catadioptric zoom system for a weapon training simulator
• An athermalized apochromatic dual field-of-view system for night vision
• An optically athermalized catadioptric IR telescope
• An adaptive optics system for IR astronomy
• A simple mass-produced camera lens for the toy industry
• Inspection systems for the Food Processing Industry

Please contact  Kidger Optics  for all your optical design problems and consultancy needs.