The Ball lenses always are manufactured from a single substrate of glass. It is able to focus or collimate light, depending upon the geometry of the input source. The Ball lenses are used for improving the coupling between optical fibers and the emitters or detectors. They are also used in endoscopy, bar code scanning, ball pre-forms for Aspheric lenses and sensor applications.
Half ball lenses are used to improve signal coupling between Emitters, Fibers, Transmitters, Receivers and Detectors depending on the application.
In terms of visual appearance, our half ball lens can have a surface finish of 20/40 scratch dig.
Sherlan Optics is able to manufacture this lenses in a range of substrates for performance from the Ultraviolet to the NIR. We can customize the ball lensed and hemisphere lenses as your design.