Custom Optical Design & Lens Manufacturing

When off-the-shelf lenses can’t meet your performance requirements, and specifying exactly what you need is difficult, custom development becomes the best option.

We design and manufacture custom camera lenses for industrial applications, guiding engineering teams from specification through production. Connect with an optical engineer to discuss your application.

Proven Capabilities

We know mistakes can be costly in the optics industry. Fifty years of combined optical design and manufacturing experience yields versatile design abilities, strong industry networks, and better lenses.

Service

Each project has its own unique requirements. We partner with you to navigate the often complex world of precision optics starting with a solid foundation, continuously learning and educating.

Fast Optics

Manufacturing is in our DNA. By the end of 2026, we plan to dramatically decrease the amount of time it takes to build a custom lens by speeding up optical design and moving more production in-house.

Engineered solutions for today's growing industries.

From the benefits of using conoscopes to measure display performance to the advantages of athermalization in remote sensing, learn more about our applications.

AR/VR Testing

The augmentation and virtual reality industry demand lenses and systems capable of mimicking the human eye. Our conoscopes can reach various fields of view, high resolution, and address the variable traits of the human eye.

Remote Sensing

Size, weight, and environmental conditions are just some of the challenges that come with remote sensing at any distance. Learning how to balance performance requirements, within a variety of applications, is one of our specialties.

Research and Development

We create optical instruments for optical property testing, such as scattering, retroreflectence, and polarization. Scatterometry, microscope objectives, and light source measurement are just some of the areas we can provide solutions.

A group of engineers passionate about optics.

Our expertise stems from years of optical design projects and applications. Our knowledge base, combined with a robust industry network, make us who we are today. Learn more about us.

From Our Customers

"This lens allows us to provide the widest observed field of view image in comparison to any of our competition.

The final product from Eckhardt Optics is a high-quality lens including identifying graphics and technical information."

Kevin BoulayVice President
Leeds Forensic Systems

"The Eckhardt Optics lens delivers consistent, high resolution across the entire image and does so within a smaller and lighter package than any comparable lens on the market."

Ryan NelsonGM- Remote Sensing
Sentera

"Despite major challenges like very cold temperatures and near-space vacuum, Eckhardt [Optics] delivered a working system that has been successfully demonstrated several times in the stratosphere producing critical Earth Observation data."

Jared LeidichChief Technical Officer
Urban Sky

"Their ability to develop high-quality, innovative solutions with precision has been invaluable to our work. They consistently meet our exacting standards, demonstrating a deep understanding of our needs."

Konstantinos StergiouHead of Engineering & Manufacturing
Lightnovo

Frame and Focus

Manufacturing and designing optical components often requires balancing performance, time and cost. Let us learn about what you’re working on and we will help consult, engineer and deliver a great lens.