Services

"Our engineers had a very successful collaboration with the Optics for Hire team...We would certainly work with Optics for Hire again in the future."

Gary Hayes, CEO, Laser Components Instrument Group

Design and Engineering

Optics for Hire specializes in optical system design and prototyping. We provide services including custom lens design, opto-mechanical, and electronics design. We work on projects ranging from design of a single lens to delivery of a complete product incorporating optical, mechanical, and electronic subsystems.

Drawing from many years of optical design experience and the know-how of our team of 20 engineers — including 4 PhD's in optics, mechanical, and electrical engineers, and CAD designers-we are able to deliver world class system designs to our customers.

Our experience is transferable over a wide variety of commercial applications, a SHORT list of past projects include:

Illumination Design, Reflectors, and Collimators including LED
Microscope Objectives
Analog and Digital Signal Processing systems
Zoom Lenses
Metrology Systems
Laser marking systems
Ophthalmoscopes
Endoscopes
Optical Disc Drives
Servo Systems
Confocal Imaging
Image Processing
Video Games
Night Vision
IR systems
Robotics
Motion Capture
Distance Measurement
Bar Code Readers
3D displays
Custom Zemax development

Deliverables

We deliver complete optical design, electronics design, turnkey optical system, opto-electrical, and mechanical laser system prototypes, lens design, and micro processor control systems.

Resources

Our research laboratories in Lviv, Ukraine and Minsk, Belarus maintain up to date equipment. We deliver designs in ZEMAX, FRED, AutoCad, SolidWorks, MATLAB, and other software programs. For fast custom parts, prototype, fixtures, tools, and metal applications we use and internal machine shop.

Billing

Contracts are billable on project or low per 'man hour' basis.