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Custom Optical Design Services | Tailored Optical Solutions

Tailored Precision Optics for Your Most Demanding Applications

At Yighen Ultra Precision, we specialize in delivering custom optical solutions that align precisely with your system requirements. Whether you are developing an AR/VR headset, a medical diagnostic device, a LiDAR sensing module, or a specialized infrared system, our optical design team co-develops solutions that balance performance, manufacturability, and scalability.
All of our projects are grounded in our broader Optical System Design framework, ensuring coherence from concept to validation.

Why Choose Custom Optical Design?

Standard catalog optics can be fast and affordable, but they rarely meet demanding requirements for field of view, distortion, spectral range, or thermal robustness. Custom optical design ensures:

Performance Optimization – Tailored prescriptions for lenses, mirrors, prisms, or beam-shaping elements.
Compact System Integration – Designs that fit tight packaging, reduce weight, and improve functionality.
Scalability – From single prototype to high-volume manufacturing, with consistency built in.
Differentiation – Stand out in your market with optics engineered for your product, not adapted to it.

By combining custom optics with system-level analysis from our Optical System Design service, you gain both performance and manufacturability.

What We Offer

Our services cover the full spectrum of optical system design and engineering:

🔬 Custom Optical Design

From single lens elements to complex multi-element assemblies.
Expertise in aspheric lens design, freeform optics modeling, refractive & reflective architectures.
Deliverables include Zemax / CODE V files, MTF optimization, stray-light analysis, and tolerancing.
Direct integration into Optical System Design ensures design choices translate seamlessly into production.

🧩 Opto-Mechanical Integration

Precision housings, mounts, and alignments designed in parallel with the optics.
Strategies for environmental stability, vibration resistance, and durability.
Closely tied to Opto-Mechanical Design Services.

🧪 Prototyping & Testing

Rapid prototyping of optical components in glass, plastic, and infrared materials.
In-house Optical Metrology & Testing, stray-light validation, and thermal stability studies.
Linked directly to our Prototyping Optical Components service.

🏭 Scalable Manufacturing

Vertically integrated supply chain: diamond turning, grinding & polishing, molding, coating, and final assembly.
Ensures repeatable performance from prototype to mass production.
Supported by Optical Mass Production.

💡 Application-Specific Optimization

AR/VR & Wearables – compact relays, wide FoV freeform optics.
Medical Imaging & Life Sciences – distortion-controlled, color-accurate modules.
Automotive & LiDAR – ruggedized optics with custom illumination patterns.
Infrared & Defense – SWIR/MWIR designs with coatings and athermal strategies.
Machine Vision & Industrial Sensing – optimized for throughput and alignment.

Our Design Process: From Concept to Delivery

Every custom design project follows the methodology of our Optical System Design framework:

Requirement Analysis – Capturing wavelength, detector, environment, packaging constraints.
Conceptual Design – Feasibility studies, trade-offs (aspheric vs. freeform, refractive vs. reflective).
Detailed Simulation – Ray tracing, MTF optimization, Monte Carlo tolerance analysis, stray-light control.
Prototyping & Review – Build, test, iterate with client feedback.
Production Transfer – Scalable manufacturing plans with QA and Tolerance & Athermalization strategies.

Case Examples

Miniature AR Relay – delivered wide field of view in compact housing with freeform optics.
Medical Imaging Module – <1% distortion with >80% energy efficiency across spectrum.
Infrared Sensor Optics – customized SWIR solution with integrated filter stack and thermal stability.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What’s the difference between catalog optics and custom optical design?
A: Catalog optics are general-purpose; custom design tailors every parameter—FoV, spectral band, packaging—to your needs, while ensuring compatibility with Optical System Design.

Q: Can you support both imaging and illumination?
A: Yes, we design lenses, objectives, collimators as well as beam shapers, projectors, and structured-light optics.

Q: How long does a custom project take?
A: Typical projects reach validated prescriptions in 4–8 weeks.

Q: Do you provide native design files?
A: Yes, we deliver Zemax / CODE V source files with documentation and tolerancing data.