Case Study: Downhole Optical Fluid Discrimination Sensor: Optical Modeling for High Temperature High Pressure Oilfield Sensor
Downhole Optical Fluid Discrimination Sensor
Optics for Hire developed a ZEMAX optical model for a downhole fluid discrimination sensor operating at extreme temperatures and pressures in oilfield environments. The project involved non-sequential ray tracing to optimize LED illumination, fluorescence collection, and detector signal-to-noise across multiple optical channels for real-time wellbore fluid analysis.
Case Study: Uniform High-PPFD Grow-Light Optics for Indoor Vertical Farming
Uniform High-PPFD Grow Light Optics for Indoor Vertical Farming
Optics for Hire designed a custom asymmetric LED lens to deliver uniform photosynthetic light distribution across a vertical farming grow shelf. The project used ZEMAX non-sequential modeling to eliminate hotspots and edge falloff, achieving target PPFD uniformity across the full growing area.
Case Study: Custom High-NA Fluorescence Collection Lens for Flow Cytometry: Design, Prototyping, Validation & Production
Custom High-NA Fluorescence Collection Lens for Flow Cytometry
Optics for Hire designed, prototyped, and validated a custom high-numerical-aperture objective lens for fluorescence collection in a commercial flow cytometer. The 5-element lens achieved 0.5 NA with diffraction-limited performance, replacing a catalog optic that could not meet the system’s collection efficiency and working distance requirements.