Optical Lenses
Achieve the optical control you need with Enplas lenses.
High-Performance Plastic Lenses to Optimize Optical Performance
Enplas designs and manufactures custom and standard plastic lenses that achieve the best performance for your optical application. We design solutions that achieve efficient, bright, high-contrast images on flatscreen LED and LCD TVs and enable high-speed data transmission in today’s most advanced data centers. Enplas is your total solutions provider for advanced lens applications: We offer lens design, problem solving, tooling, injection molding, and comprehensive engineering support.
Plastic Lens Units Engineering Solutions | Ultra-Precision Lens Injection Molding
Plastic Optical Lens Applications
Enplas supplies plastic lenses for aplications that demand the highest optical performance.
Datacom and Optical Communications
Critical lens arrays and lens ferrules that transmit data at the end of high-performance pluggable transceivers, onboard optics (OBO), active optical cables (AOC), and other optical communication devices.
Cloud Infrastructure | Enterprise Data Centers | High-Performance Computing (HPC) | High-Speed Data Transmission | Industrial Communications | and more
LED Display Backlight, Lighting, and Signage
LED lenses that maximize control of light emitted from LED light sources. Diffusion lenses achieve high-contrast imaging on thin premium TVs and monitors while reducing the number of required LEDs or mini-LEDs. Other LED lenses for condensing or irregular light distribution are used by customers to control luminance uniformity, energy efficiency, expanding lighted area, and more.
Premium LCD TVs | Monitors | Light Bulbs | Tube Lamps | Panel Lights | Down Lights | Agricultural Lighting | Commercial Illuminated Signs | Roadside Signs | Channel Letter Signs | And more
UV-C LED Sterilization
Our lenses optimize UV-C LED surface and water sterilization through enhanced optical control of LEDs. Enplas delivers complete water sterilization modules in various sizes, individual lenses for UV irradiation modules, and optical devices to regulate UV light. Our lenses can be used to enhance optical control, which leads to improved sterilization performance, fewer of LEDs, and better cost-efficiency. Enplas optics (for UV-C LED sterilization) include diffusion lenses, condenser lenses, and rectangular light distribution lenses.
- Irradiation Modules: UV-C sterilization in hospitals | UV-C sterilization for Airplanes | Consumer products sterilization such as smartphones, doorknobs, and toys | Supplementing air conditioning equipment | and more
- Water Sterilization Modules: Water Heaters | Aquariums | Humidifiers | Water Dispensers | And More
Advanced Optical Applications
Our complex lens modules include diffractive optical element (DOE) and freeform lenses. These are required in advanced applications such as augmented realty (AR), virtual reality (VR), and autonomous driving.
Types of Optical Lenses
Lenses available for design and injection molding include:
Optical Transmission Lenses | Micro Lens Arrays | Diffusion Lenses | Condenser Lenses | Rectangular Light Distribution Lenses | Irregular Light Distribution Lenses | Aspherical Lenses | Freeform Lenses | Diffractive Optics Elements (DOE) | Vortex Lenses | Freeform-Blaze DOE Array Lenses | And More
Optical Lens Design and Manufacturing Services
Full Lens Solutions
Enplas customers receive reliable, precision optical lenses designed and manufactured for exceptional optical performance. To achieve the optical results you need, we offer in-depth optical simulations and evaluations throughout all design, prototyping, and mass production phases. Enplas engineers are ready to support your cutting-edge optical applications with advanced engineering technology based on 35 years of industry experience, extensive R&D, and state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities.
Optical Lens Design and Engineering
Enplas optical lens designs realize the optical results you need, be it reliable light transmission, effective light diffusion, or complex refraction. Unsure if your lens array is misaligning or deformed, or uncertain how many light sources optimize brightness and cost? Enplas can analyze your assembled lens module and provide recommendations on the entire module, not just the lens. Speed up your optical lens development and improve your production yield with Enplas’s experience in designing high-performance and easy-to-assemble lenses.
Optical Performance Evaluation
Analyzing optical issues and ensuring repeated optical performance depends on accurate performance evaluations and metrology. Enplas invests in world-class equipment and software to measure, analyze, and provide solutions for a variety of optical performance evaluations. Our facility includes equipment for far field and near field measurements, original equipment for specific optical elements, interferometers, profilometers for accurate surface finishing, and 3-D measurement microscopes among others. Enplas analyzes and provide solutions for:
Coupling Efficiency | Alignment Window | Spot-light condition | Eye-Pattern | Back Reflection | FFP | NFP | Transmittance| Optical Index | Luminance uniformity | Luminosity | Local dimming | and more
Optical Lens Product Development
Enplas is your next-generation optical product development partner. Your engineers access the most advanced technology in optics and plastics, born from our passion for innovation and continuous R&D. As a total lens solution provider, Enplas offers the highest standard of engineering support throughout all design, prototyping, and ramp-up phases. Enplas can design and manufacture various lenses from conventional lens products to the following novel optical elements:
- Diffractive Optics Elements (DOE):
- Grating & holograms
- Vortex lens – both flat surface and aspheric surface
- DOE Blaze achieving rotation symmetry
- Dioptric System
- Aspheric lens and lens units
- Freeform lens with point cloud
- Freeform lens with rotation symmetry
- Sophisticated Lens Arrays
- Freeform-Blaze DOE Array lens
- Micro lens arrays with varying sag, shape, and pitch between lenses
Optical Lens Prototyping
Receive reliable prototype lenses to accurately evaluate your design and optical performance. Enplas offers full prototyping service from optical elements design support to low-to-mid-volume injection molded lens production. Mass production-grade prototype molds are available to evaluate your optical device as close as your final high-volume production. Minimize iteration with Enplas’s design and problem-solving capabilities to speed up product launch and save costs.
Plastic Lens Manufacturing Services
- Lens Tooling: To realize reliable precision lens production, at a sub-micron level for many of our lens products, Enplas designs and manufactures the finest tools. Ultra-precision dimensions and mirror surface finishing are achieved with our state-of-the art machining technology, including nano order cutting methods, multi-axis machines, customized cutters, and expertise in making final adjustments to meet optical requirements. Learn More
- Optical Lens Injection Molding: Our customers demand that the optical lens we supply always achieve the same optical performance, be it in millions of orders, with nano-level product intricacy, or when ramping up fast. Enplas meets this demand to deliver consistent product performance and quality, protected by our data-based design, thorough DFM, fine tools, scientific molding, and a robust QA system. Learn More
