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Qioptiq's expert craftsmen use diamond turning and diamond milling to produce ultra high precision surfaces in a wide variety of materials for industrial, medical, and defense applications.


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Diamond turning and diamond milling expertise
for medical, industrial, and defense applications

Qioptiq has over 30 years of experience in high precision diamond turning of optical surfaces. Our expert craftsmen use diamond turning and milling to produce ultra high precision surfaces in a wide variety of materials for industrial, medical and defense applications.

Qioptiq diamond turned components meet the most demanding applications of your optical system. We design and manufacture according to your specifications.

Qioptiq diamond turning facilities are located in our plants in the USA, Europe and Asia. This means you have local experts available to you during development and production phases. In addition, we’re here for your build-to-print jobs as well. Distributed over the Qioptiq network are 22 diamond turning and milling machines of 7 different types and sizes.

Our highly skilled technicians have many years of experience within this exacting technology.

Diamond turning: Any kind of optical surface structure
  • Flats
  • Spherical
  • Aspherical
  • Freeform
  • Hybrid and diffractive
  • Toric
  • Cylindrical

Diamond turning of infrared, metals, plastics and ceramics

Qioptiq can diamond turn a wide variety of different optical materials to very high specifications and diameters up to 600 mm (depending on material). We process the following materials:

Diamond turning of Infrared materials
  • Silicon                                
  • Germanium                         
  • Zinc Selenide
  • Zinc Sulfide                        
  • Cleartran [TM]
  • Gallium Arsenide
  • GASIR 1 ®
  • AMTIR
  • IG 4, 5 and 6
  • KRS 5
  • Arsenic Trisulfide
  
Diamond turning of Metals
  • Electroless Nickel                
  • Aluminum                   
  • Copper                      
  • Brass                                  
  • Steel                                
Diamond turning of Plastics
  • Acrylic
  • COP
  • COC                          
  • CR 39
  • PMMA                                
Diamond turning of Ceramics
  • Miscellaneous ceramics on request
We also diamond mill miscellaneous materials with dimensions of approx. 100mm in all 3 axes:
  • Aluminum                      
  • Non-ferrous metals          
  • Crystals material (KDP,KDDP, ADP etc.)
  • Other ceramics on request

Metrology
Qioptiq has an extensive base of metrology tools available to characterize diamond turned surfaces:

Tactile
  • Taylor Hobson Talysurf

Non-tactile
  • Interferometers including stitching and CGH
  • White light Interferometers
  • Automated Measuring Microscopes      
 
We would be happy to quote to your specific needs.

Interested in learning more about our expertise in
diamond turning and diamond milling?

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