Flat Optics
Valley Design provides lapping, polishing, dicing, edge polishing services of
a wide variety of optical materials for flat optics applications. Valley also
manufactures stock and custom substrates, windows, wafers, beamsplitters, polarizers,
lenses, DWDM substrates, glass spacers, hot and cold mirrors, glass components
and subassemblies, prisms, wedges, and filters. Valley also stocks
many of the materials used to fabricate these components. For a complete summary
of Valley Design's capabilities, please visit www.valleydesign.com
About Us
Valley Design has been a leader in materials processing for nearly 30 years.
We offer precision lapping, polishing, dicing, optical edge/angle polishing,
thinning, grinding, shaping and wafering services. Valley specializes
in ultra-thin (as thin as 12.5 microns), ultra-flat
(1/20 Wave) super-polishing (< 10/5 scratch/dig or 5-10 Angstroms)
and tight tolerances (+/- 1 micron).
Applications and products include beamsplitters, DWDM filter substrates, glass blocks/rods/spacers, lenses, mirrors, prisms, SEMI standard dummy wafers, solar cells, waveguides, wedges, polarizers, bandpass filters, laser diodes. Valley Design's products are used in fiber optics/photonics, telecommunications, aerospace, medical, semiconductor and research industries.
Valley enjoys extensive experience with a wide variety of materials, and is
also willing to work with proprietary materials. Valley routinely processes
Fused Silica, Glass, Quartz, AlN, Pyrex, 99.6% and 96% Alumina, Sapphire,
AF45, BK7, B270, D263, LASFN9, 1737, 7070, Ceramics, Lithium Niobate, Borosilicates,
Soda Lime, Crystals, Silicon and Metals. In
stock materials include Fused Silica, 99.6% Alumina, R-plane Sapphire,
Aluminum Nitride and Float Zone Silicon.
Valley Design provides custom parts, as well as in-stock items. We process prototype orders, as well as full production runs, and currently process over 1,000 parts daily for our customers worldwide. With facilities on both East and West Coasts, we operate three shifts, and are ready to serve our customers from 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. PST.
| Sales and Customer Service | Corporate Headquarters | |
| Valley Design West | Valley Design East | |
| 151-D Harvey West Blvd. |
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Two Shaker Road, Bldg. E-001 |
| Santa Cruz, CA 95060 | Shirley, MA 01464 | |
| West E-mail: west@valleydesign.com | East E-mail: east@valleydesign.com | |
| Phone: 831-420-0595 | Phone: 978-425-3030 | |
| Fax: 831-420-0592 | Fax: 978-425-3031 | |
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Last updated: 11 January 2006 |