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Precision Optics.

Custom by Specification. Delivered with Confidence.

Global providers of custom optical components, coatings and sub-assemblies supplied to OEMs, engineers, buyers and more.

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Custom Optical Solutions

Your Specification. Our Optics.

Over 95% of the optics delivered are custom-engineered to meet precise application requirements, with a documented reject rate of 0.015%.

Capabilities include:

  • Fully custom optical components
  • Modifiable stock optics
  • Optical coatings
  • Optical sub-assemblies
  • Resizing & reworking
  • UV, VIS & IR options
  • Optical finishing & precision processing

Whether adapting an existing design or developing a completely new optical solution, every specification is aligned to performance, environment and integration requirements.

Seamless Value Chain

Specification & Prototype

From concept to proven solution.

  • Technical experts ready to support manufacturing feasibility queries
  • Large portfolio of optical components, lenses, filters, transmission spheres, multispectral cameras
  • Small value evaluation builds
  • Rapid turnaround on stock and custom requests

Manufacture & Integrate

 Built to scale. Built to perform. 

  • Machine shop & optical fabrication
  • Coating & lithography
  • Assembly & quality control
  • Volume production for programme ramp-up
  • Custom imaging and sensing solutions

Assured Quality & Partnership

Precision & support you can rely on. 

  • 95%+ custom spec components
  • 0.015% reject rate
  • ITAR registered technologies
  • Dedicated Account Managers & R&D experts
  • Call-off orders for production planning
  • Global support & long-term partnerships
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Product Solutions

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Coatings

Achieve precise spectral control with advanced optical coatings engineered for performance.

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Assemblies

Integrate optics seamlessly with precision assemblies built for alignment stability.

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Multispectral

Capture accurate spectral data with integrated imaging and spectroscopy solutions. 

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Testing & Certification

Knight Optical (UK) Accreditation and Capabilities

Torrent Photonics (US) Accreditation and Capabilities

  • UKAS ISO 9001:2015 Certified
  • UKAS ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Assurance
  • ISO10110 Optical Drawing Standards
  • BS4301 - 1991 Preparation of drawings for optical elements and systems
  • MIL - C - 14806A Coating, reflection reducing for instrument cover glasses and lighting wedges
  • MIL - G - 174B Optical glass
  • MIL - PRF - 13830B
  • ISO Certified Class 100, 1000 & 10,000 Clean Rooms for Coating, Assembly and Testing
  • Top Level Strategy through SDP X-matrix
  • Flow through actions to SQDC
  • SQDC flows to GEMBA Walks (Value Creation)
  • ITAR Registered

Advanced Manufacturing & Metrology

Production & Machinery
  • 25 Vertical Machining Centres
    • 3 with 5-axis capability
    • 20 with 4-axis capability
  • 11 Lathes
    • 6 with live tooling & sub-spindles
    • 1 × 7-axis mill-turn
    • 1 × 30mm Swiss lathe
  • 3 Wire EDM machines

Supporting precision opto-mechanical integration and complex geometry fabrication.

Optical Fabrication Equipment
  • CNC grinding & polishing
  • High-accuracy pitch polishing spindles
  • Double-sided polishing
  • Continuous polishing
  • Laser centring CNC
  • Magnetorheological Finishing (MRF)

This infrastructure enables tight surface control, centration accuracy and consistent repeatability across volumes.

Optical Processing Equipment
  • CNC grinding & polishing
  • Satisloh optical platforms
  • High-accuracy pitch polishing spindles
  • Double-sided polishing
  • Continuous polishing
  • Laser centring CNC
  • Magnetorheological Finishing (MRF)
  • Asphere, spherical & prism production capability

Surface accuracy, centration control and repeatability are engineered into the process — not inspected in afterwards.

ISO Certified Cleanrooms

Manufacturing, coating, assembly and testing operate within controlled environments.

  • Class 100
  • Class 1,000
  • Class 10,000

Certified work areas across multiple levels and locations.

Cleanroom integration ensures:

  • Contamination control
  • Coating integrity
  • Assembly stability
  • Reliable optical performance
Materials & Spectral Capability

From UV to IR

Optical materials produced include:

  • UV: Fused Silica, CaF₂
  • Visible: N-BK7, F2
  • IR: Germanium, Silicon
  • Specialty Crystals: YAG, YLF, Vanadate
  • Reticles & patterned coating substrates

Supporting applications across UV, VIS and IR wavelength ranges.

Surface Form & Wavefront

  •  Zygo Verifre XPZ Interferometer

  • Measurement accuracy to λ/20

  • Interferometric Radius Slide (IRS) for high-precision RoC

  • Zygo VFA stitching interferometer

  • NexView white light interferometer 

Spectral Metrology Testing

  • Varian CARY 5000 Spectrophotometer

  • 175–3200nm scan range

  • OD up to 8 Abs

  • S & P polarisation measurement

  • UMA multi-angle capability

  • Agilent 660 FTIR

  • 1.67μm – 66μm IR measurement

Dimensional & Surface Metrology

  • Starrett AV300

  • Resolution to 0.1μm

  • 25–500x motorised zoom

  • 300mm measurement capacity

  • Luphos non-contact profilometer

Lens & Optical Performance Testing

Trioptics Optispheric with Wavesensor Reflex

Testing:

  • EFL
  • BFL
  • RoC
  • MTF
  • FFL
  • Centration < 1μm
Prism & Angular Measurement

Trioptics PrismMaster

  • Automatic angular measurement
  • Wedge testing
  • Accuracy ±3 arc seconds
  • Custom measurement procedures

From Subsea to Space

More About Us

Together With Torrent
The vision is to be the partner of choice for market leaders working to create a competitive advantage through imaging and sensing solutions.
  • Headquarters located in Largo, Florida, 150 employees
  • 125,000 square feet of US manufacturing capability
  • Class 100 and class 1000 cleanroom assembly
  • 18-year track record of delivery
  • Doubled annual revenue four years in a row
  • Reinvesting into the organisation key strategy to growth
    • New HQ
    • Three Thin Film Coater, DLC Coater, 4 new LOH
      Machines, 12 CNC’s
Our Values

  • PERSEVERANCE - Relentlessly pursuing innovation and opportunities

  • TRANSPARENCY - Communcating accurate information with an open-door policy

  • RELATIONSHIPS - Developing collabrative and mutually beneficial partnerships

  • RESPONSIVENESS - Flexible and quick to adapt to change

  • SYSTEMS THINKING - Empowered to make practical and continuous improvements to improve performance and manufacturability at every stage

Our Brand Promise

Bringing quality into focus

Our Vision

 To be the premier provider for quality precision optical components, sub-assemblies and mechanics.