LIGHTWAVE ENTERPRISES INC.

Lightwave Enterprises Inc. provides customers with extensive optical design and manufacturing expertise and capability, all under one roof.Utilizing the latest technologies in lens design, precision molding of plastic optics, thin film coating, single point diamond turning, and metrology, LEI can support all stages of product development. Whether the need is for engineering design, prototypes, or high volume production of optical components, Lightwave can truly provide high value, full service solutions - cost effectively and on-time.

Precision Plastic Optics

Lightwave has blended advanced molding techniques with leading edge, optical technology to produce superior precision plastic optics with turnaround times well ahead of industry standards. LEI regularly manufactures plano, cylindrical, toroidal, spheric, aspheric, and prismatic shapes. Their facility contains a modern white room environment, state of the art molding equipment, and all the metrology expertise necessary to produce highly sophisticated optics and optical systems.

Single Point Diamond Turning

Lightwave uses Single Point Diamond Turning to rapidly prototype extremely precise spheres, aspheres, toroids, cylinders, conic and plano optics for new programs. LEI's clients can assess plastic optical designs without having to bear the large tooling expense of making an injection mold first. SPDT also enables LEI to deliver production tooling with much shorter lead times than usually experienced in the marketplace.

Thin Film Coating

Lightwave technicians have more than 25 years of experience in coating design. While experts in coating glass surfaces, they also helped pioneer and perfect processes for increasing the durability of coatings on complex, molded polymer optics.