FACILITIES
Optical
Subassemblies is located in a 3000
square foot
facility approximately 10 miles South of Portland, Oregon. The
facility includes
offices, a prototype machine shop, an optics lab and a manufacturing
area.
The office area accomodates administration and engineering functions which are networked together to a server that backs up critical files on a daily basis. Files are easily transferred to and from clients via a high speed DSL connection.
The optical lab has a four by four foot optics table with magnetic bases for quickly prototyping and testing optical systems. Conventional lens testing uses a 1.6 meter Gaertner lens bench with collimator, nodal point slide, microscope and numerous other attachments. A Zygo GPX series interferometer is used for interferometric testing flats and completed lens assemblies. Miscellaneous optical equipment includes a small spectrometer, and Abbe refractometer, CCD cameras and monitors, a frame grabber, an infrared viewer and a large assortment of lenses, mirrors, light sources and detectors. In addition to optical test equipment, there is a variety of oscilloscopes, power supplies, signal generators and a data acquisition system available.
The prototype machine
shop is equipped with a small milling
machine, lathe, drill press, sheet metal brake and shear and an
assortment of
test instruments such as granite block, gage pins and micrometers.
The manufacturing area
has several tech benches, two laminar
flow benches, inspection microscopes, UV epoxy curing system and a
vacuum pick
for handling small optics. Inventory control is an important part
of a
manufacturing activity and Optical Subassemblies uses Parts and VendorsTM for this function.