01Engineering support · OEaaS
Optical Engineering as a Service
Ongoing optical engineering capacity for your team, with a tier matched to the work.
Basic Expert Advance
Optical design & engineering
We engineer
light.
Custom optical design, lens design and optical engineering services for imaging, illumination and photonics. From an optical question to a practical next step.
Explore the two ways to work together
Selected customers
Space & Earth ObservationDrones & Airborne ImagingSurveillanceMedical DevicesMachine VisionSilicon PhotonicsDefence Electro-OpticsMetrologyAR / VRSpectral Sensing
How we work
Two ways to work together.
02Product partnership
Long-term product development
A continuing collaboration around your product, from requirements through design and prototype reviews.
Co-development IP creation Design licensing
Selected work
A closer look at the engineering.
Space & Earth observation
Stray light & baffle design for a telescope
Optical simulation · four configurations compared
Medical & life sciences
Dual-band ocular design for fluorescence imaging
Optical design study · visible & near-infrared
Space & Earth observation
Compact RC telescope design and tolerancing
Design and tolerance analysis
Medical & life sciences
Illumination for a portable fundus camera
Optical development · prototype observations
Metrology & instrumentation
An imaging adaptor built around catalog optics
Catalog-optics design analysis
Metrology & instrumentation
Autocollimator and alignment-telescope optics
Optical simulation · ghost analysis
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The engineering
A practical place to start.
Begin with the optical question. Agree the work, the assumptions and what you need to take away.
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Design a lens or optical system
Catalog and custom options around your wavelength, field and packaging.
Understand an imaging problem
Image quality, unwanted light or an existing prescription.
Plan tolerances and a prototype
Alignment sensitivity, drawings and the checks a build will need.
Explore illumination or photonics
Beam, coupling and waveguide studies, scoped around the question.
Applications
Where the optics matter.
Different systems. Different constraints.
Explore the engineering behind your application.
Seeing from above
Drones, surveillance & airborne imaging
Lens and imaging studies for aerial payloads, day/night cameras and surveillance systems.
Field of view · Image quality · Stray light
Explore applicationResolving the fine detail
Medical & life sciences
Imaging and illumination for fluorescence, ophthalmic and instrument concepts.
Fluorescence · Retinal imaging · Illumination
Explore application
Making the image useful
Machine vision & robotics
Optics, sensors and protective windows around the detail a camera needs to capture.
Lens selection · Sensor matching · Protective windows
Explore applicationImaging at a distance
Space & Earth observation
Telescope layouts, image quality, stray light and tolerances for optical payload studies.
Reflective optics · Baffles · Alignment sensitivity
Explore application
Optical paths and interfaces
Defence & electro-optics
Imaging, projection and combiner studies, with scope and data requirements agreed before work begins.
Imaging optics · Projection · Optical interfaces
Explore applicationMeasuring with light
Metrology & instrumentation
Reticle imaging, relay optics and unwanted-light analysis for measurement instruments.
Autocollimators · Relay optics · Ghost analysis
Explore application
Light on a smaller scale
Silicon photonics
Waveguide and passive-component studies with defined geometry and process assumptions.
Waveguides · Optical modes · Coupling
Explore application
From an image source to the eye
Displays & near-eye optics
Eyepiece, relay and combiner concepts around field of view, eye relief, eyebox and packaging.
Projection optics · Eyepieces · Combiner concepts
Explore a display studyFree engineering tools
Explore the optics.
Check your assumptions.
Calculators for learning, early checks and design discussions. Read the assumptions and example first, then sign up to use a tool.
Imaging, lens design, beams, photonics and optical links. Each calculator explains its model and limits.
OPTICAL WORKBENCHExample calculation
Machine vision imaging
From a lens choice to a useful field of view.
Sensor 8.8 × 6.6 mmObject distance 300 mm
Field of view96.8 × 72.6 mm
Magnification0.0909×
Before we start.
What can a project include?
A requirements review, optical design or simulation study, tolerance analysis, drawings or prototype support. We agree the scope and handover before starting. See our services.
Which tools do you use?
We use several commercial and open-source optical engineering tools, and build our own tools for analysis and automation. Methods, model formats and handover are agreed for each project.
How do we start?
Share a non-confidential overview of the application and the question you need to resolve. We can arrange an NDA before sensitive details and discuss an OEaaS engagement or a product-development partnership.
Have optics on your critical path?
Tell us what you are building and which optical question you need to resolve.