Meller Optics' Overrun Precision Optics Can Eliminate Need for Custom Ordering

PROVIDENCE, RI--(Marketwired - Sep 16, 2014) - Meller Optics, Inc. is introducing a wide range of hard to find precision optics that are production overruns and in-stock for immediate shipment to give product designers an opportunity to purchase them at a discount and eliminate the need for custom ordering.

Meller Optics' Overrun Parts include first-quality optics fabricated from BaF2, CaF2, germanium, laser glasses, quartz, ruby, sapphire, silicon, strontium titanate, and ZnSe. Providing off-the-shelf design solutions, they are offered in a wide range of configurations at a typical 20% cost savings relative to custom ordering and they are shipped immediately.

Featuring sapphire windows, waveplates, lenses and other hard-to-find precision optics in round, square, rectangular, flat, and wedge shapes, Meller Optics' Overrun Parts exhibit dimensional tolerances ranging from ±0.001" to ±0.0005", flatness from 10 waves to 1/10^th wave, and 10-5 to 80-50 scratch-dig typical finishes.

Meller Optics' Overrun Parts include over 75 categories of optics and are listed on their website and updated weekly for online ordering.

Founded in 1921, Meller Optics has been providing high quality optics to defense, medical, laser, and industrial markets for 90 years now. Specializing in the grinding and polishing of hard, durable materials such as sapphire and ruby, the company has also developed high-speed, low-cost finishing processes for a variety of optical materials such as laser glasses, fused silica, zinc selenide, germanium, silicon, fluorides, and ceramic materials. Configurations include windows, substrates, lenses, domes, and prisms. Meller Optics is ISO 9001:2008 certified and in addition to providing standard, off-the-shelf products, they custom fabricate components that meet exacting specifications from delicate, difficult to work with optical materials. They also supply quality Microlux Alumina polishing abrasives and Gugolz optical polishing pitch.