Cylindrical Lenses

Cylindrical Lens from Changchun RZ Optical Co.,Ltd. is a lens that focuses light in a line rather than a point, like a spherical lens. Cylindrical lenses are optical lenses that bend in only one direction. As a result, they focus or scatter light in only one direction, such as horizontally rather than vertically.
Cylindrical lenses cause image dispersion of the laser beam: the focal positions in both directions do not match. In turn, they can be used to compensate for the image dispersion of a beam or optical system. For example, they may be needed to collimate the output of a laser diode in order to obtain a circular, non-scattered beam. For example, through the entrance slit of a monochromator or into an acousto-optical deflector, or to adjust the pump light of a slat laser.Cylindrical lenses are used for laser line generation, deformation beam shaping and one-dimensional compression of images in laser scanners, spectroscopy, dye lasers, acousto-optics, optical processors and other similar applications.