Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, Sherlan Optics can customize ball lenses and hemisphere lenses according to your design.

Ball lenses are used for improving the coupling between optical fibers and the emitters or detectors. They are also used in endoscopy, bar code scanning, ball pre-forms for Aspheric lenses and sensor applications.

Sherlan Optics has a capacity of 2-3 million pieces per month for manufacturing ball lenses.

In terms of visual appearance, our half ball lens can have a surface finish of 20-10 scratch dig.

Ball lenses are always manufactured from a single substrate of glass. They can be made from a range of substrates for performance from the Ultraviolet to the NIR, including Optical Glass, BK7, B270, FS, Sapphire, Znse, Ge, and Ruby.

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