Light Mechanics LLC

Opto-Mechanical Design and Engineering

Tucson Arizona USA

ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS FOR YOUR OPTICAL HARDWARE DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING REQUIREMENTS

Product Design and Engineering from Concept to Prototype

Light Mechanics provides combined expertise in mechanical engineering and optical engineering for the conceptualization, design, development and testing of optical systems and hardware.

Lens and mirror mounting design

Kinematic mounting techniques

Structural modeling

Mechanical flexure support design

Metrology

Casting design

Mechanism design

Tolerancing for production

Materials selection

Optical system alignment tools and techniques

Motion systems design

Some Design Examples:

Integrated Scanner Detector Telescope

Scanning Schmidt System: 9 inch entrance aperture,14 inch lightweighted spherical primary

Coaxial 80mm aperture catadioptric rangefinder optical system

Prototype assembly and testing

Lightweighted 14 inch primary mirror

Compound flexure mirror mounts