Market
Industrial
Client Type
Market-leading manufacturer of non-destructive video inspection systems (GE Inspection Technologies)
Unmet Need
A family of objective lenses for a new 6.2mm flexible video probe for the inspection of jet engine turbines
Approach
- Develop 4 lens types simultaneously to maximize intercompatibility and part commonality
- Develop custom assembly fixtures and test equipment
- Qualify prototypes to MIL standards
- Produce quantities of product
Product Features
Using components from top global suppliers of micro-lenses, micro-prisms, fiberoptic tapers, laser-cut and micro-machined metal parts, these forward- and side-viewing objectives provide intense white illumination and diffraction-limited imaging performance.
Products were produced under our ISO-9001 compliant process. 39 separate in-process and final inspections ensured that the devices met requisite MIL standards.
Services Provided by OTI
- Optical design, engineering, and sourcing of micro-optical components, including the world’s smallest fiberoptic tapers
- Mechanical engineering, including micro-machined parts toleranced in the 10’s of microns
- Development of assembly & test methods
- Design & fabrication of assembly & test fixtures
- Complete ISO-compliant documentation set, including all drawings & procedures
- Prototyping
- Verification & validation testing
- Manufacturing