Overview:

Plano Concave Cylindrical lens is also called negative cylindrical lens act as plano-concave spherical lenses, except on only one axis. These lenses are used in applications that require one dimensional shaping of a light source. A typical application is to use a single cylindrical lens to turn a collimated laser into a line generator. Pairs of cylindrical lenses may be used to anamorphically shape images. To minimize the introduction of aberration, the curved surface of the lens should face the source when used to diverge a beam.

General Specifications Of Plano Concave Cylindrical Lens: 

Material	N-BK7, UV FS, N-SF11, CaF2, Si, Ge, ZnSe, Sapphire
Design Wavelength	632.8nm
Surface Flatness	N<3(0.5)@632.8nm
Surface Quality	60/40 scratch-Dig
Diameter Tolerance	+0/-0.2mm
Thickness Tolerance	±0.2mm
Centration	<3 arc minutes
Focal Length Tolerance	±2%
Clear Aperture	>90%
Chamfer	Protective<0.5mmx45°

Standard Products of Plano Concave Cylindrical Lens:

Coating Options of Plano Concave Cylindrical Lens:

These standard UVFS plano concave cylinder lenses are available uncoated or with one of our four typical antirefection coatings below, which can reduce the amount of beam relfected from each face of the lens.

Single Layer MgF2 Coating	Multi-layer Anti-Reflective Coating
Boradband Anti-Reflective Coating	Dual Wavelength Anti-Reflective Coating

Custom Your Own Lens:

You have your full design freedom, and we are able to work with complex designs to get you exactly what you need including optical design, mechanical design and optical coating design.