29 May 2009 Optical Surfaces Ltd has received a sizeable repeat order from Photonis SAS(Brive, France) for production of high-precision microchannel plate blanks to be used in a series of space research projects. Optical Surfaces Ltd. (www.optisurf.com) has received a sizeable repeat order from Photonis SAS (Brive, France) for production of high-precision microchannel plate blanks to be used in a series of space research projects.
The combination of high efficiency of design, manufacture and precision polishing have made microchannel plates from Photonis SAS/Optical Surfaces Ltd. the preferred detector element in single-photon UV and X-ray space imaging projects.
Dr Aris Kouris - sales manager at Optical Surfaces Ltd commented 'The multichannel plates offer particular production challenges including maintaining tight control of the physical dimensions (thickness and parallelism) and also avoiding staining that is easily introduced during the polishing process'. | 
