FOC focuses on several areas to ensure industry-leading solutions and best practices including:

• Polymer material selection: Choosing the right optical plastic will improve the flexibility of the product design. Each optical plastic has its own features and benefits to meet the unique demands of each optical application. If there is a need for a high refractive index of 1.6 or more, extremely low birefringence, high heat resistance, low abbe number, optical and thermal stability, high fluidity and more, FOC can assist you with product selection and support you though proof of concept.
• Refractive index selection: Higher refractive index material can bend the light more and allow the profile of the lens to be lower and get thinner. Decreasing lens thickness corresponds to decreased weight and continuation of the engineering goal that each generation of electronics be designed smaller than the one before.
• Moldability:Preparation of mold surfaces and purging previous resins is an important step of the process. Proper preparation and set up will improve the production cycle and reduce mold cooling time. We offer injection molding guidelines and technical support.
• Coating:FOC partners with coating companies who specialize in coating molded or diamond turned polymers. Various coatings have been tested on polymer plate samples of FOC materials. We rely on the engineering expertise of our partners to meet customer specifications.

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