Precision Optics & Optical Assemblies from

The Asphere Company

Since our founding in 1926, Tinsley Laboratories has been known as the established leader in the design and manufacture on not only precision optical components (mirrors, lenses, windows, gratings, etc.) and also assemblies and sub-assemblies. We are a customer-focused team that relies on process-focused and highly engineered solutions to meet your most challenging needs and environments. When others say “it cannot be done”, we likely already have a solution, or if not, we can create a solution for you.

We offer customer the full range of solutions: one-of-a-kind and path-finding prototypes, to full rate production for high volume manufacturing, for individual optics and assemblies.

As one of three facilities of L-3 Communications’ Integrated Optical Systems or IOS, beyond our own organic engineering and design expertise, we have ready access to many of the best and brightest minds in the business at our sister facilities of SSG and Brashear. Tinsley seeks to “meet our customers at your point of need: component optics through EO/IR subsystems, from Build-to-Print to Design-for-Specification” or anywhere in between.

Affordable, On-Time Precision for our Markets

Semiconductor – providing design-to-specification inspection and metrology sub-systems as well as component optics for more than 16 years, we cover optics for defect inspection and metrology for EUV, DUV, UV and visible applications, as well as free space and laser communications. Our customers have come to understand our Computer Controlled Optical Surfacing (CCOS) allows them to achieve optical performance that is truly world class. Read more here.

Commercial & Industrial – ranging from non-imaging solutions for display technologies such as laser annealing to precision imaging for machine vision, we offer a wide range of electro-optical and opto-mechanical solutions in a concurrent engineering (CE) and integrated product development team (IPT) approach. Additionally, we are skilled at Design-to-Cost, and help our Customers leverage financial resources to have the optimal impact. Read more here.

Defense & Security -“… Offering Visible Quality Mirrors at IR Prices…” Providing design-to-specification and build-to-print sub-systems since our founding, we has extensive experience in all manner of spherical, aspherical, on-axis, off-axis lens, objective and mirror-based systems for Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, as well as targeting applications from UV-VIS-IR as well as multispectral and hyperspectral imaging and non-imaging systems. We offer single point diamond turned (SPDT) and post-polished mirrors and lenses, as well as at-wavelength, under vacuum transmission testing, plus complex assembly using our snap together technologies and engineering expertise. Read more here.

Space - providing design-to-specification and build-to-print component optics and sub-assemblies to Commercial and Civil space for decades, we have demonstrated our expertise on such important science missions as the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope, where on both of these missions we have provided most of the flight science instrument optics. Our expertise has been demonstrated in metal optics (Beryllium, Aluminum, Silicon), Silicon Carbide, as well as ultra-lightweighted space and airborne flight optics designed and fabricated from ultra-low expansion glass and glass ceramics. We offer focusable, narrow-beam, ion beam figuring (IBF) and MRF. Read more here.

Ground Astronomy – providing high precision field correctors for survey telescopes, to component optics for instruments, to optical fabrication specialized for ground astronomy applications including our unique Stress Mirror Polishing (SMP) which allows the fastest possible realization of large glass performs ready for final optical figuring using traditional tools such as IBF. Read more here.

Laser Fusion & Directed Energy – providing our US and International laser fusion customers with thousands of component optics for inertial confinement fusion and fundamental science research, Tinsley has delivered refractive elements that have seen the highest transmissive fluence of any optic. Additionally, we provide optical fabrication of Directed Energy optics that are integrated into Brashear’s Directed Energy systems. Read more here.

R&D and Specialty Optics – providing optics and subassemblies for laboratory test equipment and special science projects, we provide expert engineering and manufacturing excellence to our customers.

“Meeting Customers at Your Point of Need”.