Metrology Concepts

Triptar Lens Company specializes as a designer, manufacturer and distributor of electro-optical systems and optical components. The company integrates optics, mechanics, electronics and software for unique instruments or production-volume products. The company s microsurface profiling and rendering product, SurfaceScope, panoramically profiles the microtopography of any surface that can be examined in a reflected-light microscope. It also has the capabilities to render and measure lenslets, ink on paper, painted substrates, integrated circuits, MEMs, plastic, metal, ceramic roughness, microscopic channels, particles, insects and plants in 3D. SurfaceScope can also sense buried-surface topology that is visible through transparent layers. Triptar Lens Company, a private company, is based in Rochester, N.Y.

Founded in 1974, Glass Fab is a world leader in fabricating optical blanks. The company provides fabricated parts made of optical glass, filter glass, fused silica quartz, optical crystals, ultra low expansion materials and various other optical materials. Its services include rough shaping; surface and edge grinding; CNC slicing and machining; and testing services. The company also features annealing and furnace capabilities through its eight annealing ovens that are computer controlled by Honeywell equipment. Glass Fab is located in Rochester, N.Y.