Roof Prism, Amici Roof Prism, Schmidt Prism, Roof Pentaprism

Overview:

A roof prism, also called a Dachkanten prism or Dach prism is a reflective prism containing a section where two faces meet at a 90° angle, resembling the roof of a building and thus the name. Reflection from the two 90° faces returns an image that is flipped laterally across the axis where the faces meet.

Characteristic for a roof prism is that the beam is split in half, with one half of the beam hitting first one face then the other face, while it is invert for the other half of the beam. Therefore, a roof prism can be used only with some distance to focal planes, or the "edge" of the roof would introduce slight distortions. Furthermore, the angle between the two faces has to be very close to 90°, or image quality would be degraded.

The simplest roof prism is the Amici roof prism(Roof Right Angle Prism), with other common roof prism designs being the Schmidt prism and probably the best known being the roof pentaprism.

Manufacturing Capacity of Roof Prism:

An Amici roof prism, sometimes called an Amici prism or right angle roof prism, is a type of reflecting prism used to deviate a beam of light by 90° while simultaneously inverting the image. It is commonly used in the eyepieces of telescopes as an image erecting system and any optical instrument where it is desirable to take an inverted image from an objective, turn it right side up, and bend it through a 90° angle in order to maintain the correct visual orientation.

The Schmidt prism, is a prism that reverts an image while deviating the line of sight by 45° makes Schmidt prisms especially useful in eyepiece assemblies and imaging systems requiring a path bend.

Roof pentaprism is a variant of Penta Prism which is commonly used in the viewfinder of single-lens reflex cameras.

Who We Are?

Wuhan Star Optic Technology Co., Ltd as a registered Hi-Tech company has been focusing on manufacturing high precision of optical components ever since its foundation in 2017. It is located in Wuhan Optics Valley of China and was founded as a masterwork of our founders with more than 20 years background in production, R&D and supply chain of optical components. The company holds 30+ patents for design, production and inspection allows us to manufacturing professionally and technologically. With high quality standard, meticulous workmanship, strict quality control, professional service, Star Optics aims to provide our customers and partners with win-win cooperation.

What We Do?

1, Products and Applications:

Products: our products mainly fall into the following five categories.

• Optical Elements: Optical Materials, Lenses, Windows, Mirrosr, Beamsplitters, Prisms, Filters
• Polarizing Optics: Waveplates, Polarizers, Polarizing Beamsplitters, Depolarizers, Brewster Windows, Quartz Polarization Rotatosr, Optical Isolators, Lateral Displacement Polarization Beamsplitters
• Crystals: Laser Crystals, Nonlinear Crystals, Passive Q-Switch Crystals, E-O Crystals, Birefringent Crystals
• Coatings: Anti-Reflective Coatings, Partial Reflective Coatings, High Reflective Coatings, Polarization Beamsplitter Coatings, Non-Polarizing Beamsplitter Coatings, Dichroic Coatings, Interference Filter Coatings
• Optomechanics: Optical Mounts

Applications: our products are widely used in Lasers, Laser Processing Machines, Precision Measuring Instrument, Automation Equipment, Micro Measurement Systems, Surveying Equipment, Non-Destructive Testing, Medical and Biological Imaging, Fiber Communication, and etc. With the company concept of Result-driven, Detail-oriented, Client-focused, our products are well acknowledged and widely used in industry and science by North America, Europe and Southeast Asia. 

2, Design:

You have full design freedom, and we are able to work with complex designs to get you exactly what you need including optical design, mechanical design and optical coating design.

3, Production:

Have the ability to transfer designs into production from prototyping to serial production. Production process like grinding, polishing, centering, coating and measuring process are carried out by both manual and CNC machines.

4, Inspection:

The measurement process during and after production are carried out with precision metrology equipment, high sensitive interferometers and spectrometers. Measurement reports either e-version or paper-version will be provided upon shipment.

5, Packing:

Safe and dust-free packing are chosen to ensure you receive your products safe and sound and can use directly in your production lines.

6, Measuring Service:

You might have had experiences that you are using a product, but not clear about the exact specifications making you hesitate to source better options. Sending us a sample will allow us to help you figure out the details and transfer it to production.

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