Melles Griot Optical Systems designs, protoypes and volume-manufactures high quality, multi-element lenses, optical subsystems and innovative Integrated Vision Modules for:

• Semiconductor yield management and electronics processing

• Graphic arts prepress input and output

• Machine vision gaging, inspection, and machine guidance

• Medical and scientific instrumentation

Unlike independent designers and manufacturers, Melles Griot uses an integrated approach. Our Engineers – optical, mechanical, manufacturing, and quality – collaborate to ensure quality, performance and manufacturability. The results are lower costs, higher performance, and greater consistency.

Our designers work with you to determine your optical system requirements. We probe to get a complete picture of your application, because that information often allows us to develop a more advantageous design.

We strongly believe that direct communication is the most effective communication. Your engineers have direct access to our engineers to sort out all the technical details of optical design. In this sense, our “integrated
approach” includes working closely with our customers.

Precision manufacturing and assembly

Melles Griot offers:

• Fabrication of plane, cylindrical, and spherical elements to better than l/20
• Advanced CNC technology, as well as conventional grinding and polishing
• Thin-film coating including antireflective, reflective, polarizing, single, multilayer, and high-density ion-assisted coatings.
• Optical system assembly to submicron accuracy using laser alignment andair bearing technology

Dedicated customer service
We pride ourselves on being exceptionally responsive to our customers. To meet the demands of JIT manufac-turing, we have personnel dedicated exclusively to customer service. We make it our business to anticipate your needs and work proactively with you to meet them.

Although your optics challenge may be new to you, chances are we’ve solved a similar problem before. We have learned the “tricks of the trade”, and even invented a few ourselves. We also know the pitfalls and how to avoid them.

Armed with extensive experience
in a wide range of applications and optics technologies, our design team is well equipped to find the best solution for your specific needs.

Design for manufacturability
Optical designs from firms that do not manufacture are often “generic” to accommodate a wide range of optical manufacturing capabilities, sometimes sacrificing performance. Our designers don’t make any compromises; they work directly with our manufacturing personnel to achieve the highest performance possible.

Quality control and assurance

You need to have confidence in the optics you purchase before your final system integration. Let’s face it: the last thing you need are late shipments and unpleasant, last-minute "surprises." Our approach to quality virtually eliminates such risks.

When you receive an optical system from Melles Griot, you can be sure it will perform as specified because we test our product as closely as possible to the way you use it. As an example, for integrated scanning systems, we install the scan lens and cylinders in the customer’s casting and position our measurement instrumentation precisely where the film would be.

Our extensive quality assurance facilities, including custom visible and near-infrared phase-measuring interferometers, sophisticated MTF test equipment, and a large collection of other precision instruments, accommodate a wide range of requirements.