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Custom cylindrical concave mirrors for reflective line focusing and one-axis collimation.
Product Overview
A cylindrical concave mirror has an inward-curved reflective surface with curvature in one direction and no curvature along the cylinder axis.
It focuses collimated light into a line or collimates a diverging beam in the curved direction while adding no focusing power along the cylinder axis.
Substrate material, length, width, thickness, cylinder-axis orientation, radius of curvature, focal length, surface figure, and reflective coating can be specified from drawings.
Applications
- Laser Line Illumination: Focuses a collimated beam in one direction to create a line for scanning or inspection.
- Spectroscopic Instruments: Concentrates light in one dimension to couple it into an entrance slit.
- Laser Diode Systems: Collimates one axis of a diverging diode beam as part of a reflective beam-conditioning assembly.
- Astigmatism-Correction Modules: Adds converging power in one direction to bring the beam axes toward a common focus.