With 2026 upon us, Precision Optical embarks on it’s 67th year providing custom optical solutions to our customers around the world. Precision Optical had a great 2025 and 2026 is looking to be even better! While custom optical configurations, large optics and thin film coatings have continued to expand our business outlook, we produced more catalog optics in 2025 than ever in our history! We look forward to a prosperous year throughout our industry and are poised for growth in various sectors. Photonics West has been known to provide a reliable outlook for the upcoming calendar year. We look forward to meeting with industry colleagues and discussing mutually beneficial new and upcoming projects.
Our expertise has always been the custom prism. Throughout every year we receive RFQ’s for prismatic geometries and configurations we have never previously seen that continue to push the threshold of optical manufacturing. And we expect this year to be no different in that regard. When combined with custom thin film coatings and assembly integration, Precision Optical can provide full turn-key solutions for custom opto-mechanical assemblies. While we are known for being predominately a UV-NIR shop, we also entertain work with IR materials such CaF2, Si, ZnSe & Ge.
Within the past year we advanced our effort in becoming ISO 17025 certified for the calibration of flat surface forms (i.e. optical flats) and for small angles (i.e. angular standards). We anticipate being accredited within the next 12-14 months. This shall increase our metrology services business sector and provide a much needed service for the optics community; where calibration traceability is continually becoming more imperative. A critical aspect of our accreditation effort has been utilizing our dynamic 600mm aperture path-matching interferometry with 3-flat testing capability along with our host of other laser interferometers and our comprehensive angular inspection capabilities. These capabilities will continue to allow us to push the threshold of manufacturing capability via ultra-precision metrology.
Precision Optical is known for pushing the limits of optical manufacturing by satisfying ever-evolving customer demands and maintaining cutting edge metrological capabilities. Precision Optical provides the highest quality of precision optics available on the market and complements its products with dedicated and superior technical support for its customers across the globe.
Please contact us at sales@precisionoptical.com, stop by Booth # 531 at the Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, Photonics West 2026 or visit our website at www.precisionoptical.com. Meetings can be arranged throughout the week of Jan 19-22nd. Nicolaus Lambert (President & CTO), Jeremy Gordon (Vice President Sales & CRO) and James McClure (Sales Manager) will be available 19-22nd and Miguel Fajardo (Optical Engineer) will be available 21-22nd. We got a new booth this year please feel free to come check it out! We look forward to seeing you there!
