Company Overview

Special Optics, a Navitar company, designs, develops and manufactures precision optical components from one facility located in Wharton, New Jersey. Since our beginning in 1965 we have developed and refined a wide range of optical fabrication and opto-mechanical assembly capabilities. As a result, we have evolved into a unique company, offering standard catalog optics along with custom designs, while continuing to focus on responding to customer needs quickly. In this light, our policy is to provide 24-hour turnaround on all quotations.

Our Products and Services for UV, VIS, IR and CO₂ Applications

• Best form Lenses -- Fused Silica and CaF₂
• Beam Expanders -- Motorized, Variable and Fixed for low and high power applications
• Scan Lenses -- F-Theta and Telecentric
• Confocal Microscopy Lenses -- Apochromatic
• Multi-Element Objectives -- Single line, Achromatic and Apochromatic, UV High NA
• Laser Diode Collimators
• Polarization Optics -- Zero, Multiple Order, Achromatic
• Soleil Babinet Compensators
• Risley Prisms
• In-Line Beam Steerer
• AR Coatings
• Optical Designs
• Mechanicals for your specific OEM or optical bench requirements

"Special"

At Special Optics we emphasize "Special". By this, we mean that our products are high-quality, diffraction-limited optical systems. Since we design, manufacture and assemble the optical systems ourselves, we provide tight coordination between design and manufacturing tolerances and requirements, thereby assuring that the final system performance matches the initial design goals. In addition to our extensive catalog product lines, we work with customers to develop new systems to meet their specific needs. If you have a challenging design and want to see it quickly turned into a successful prototype or product, contact Special Optics.

About Navitar, Inc.

For over 45 years, Navitar has been a leading producer of standard and custom engineered optics, opto-mechanical sub-assemblies and opto-electronic technologies and systems. Supporting the Biotechnology & Medical, Defense & Security, Industrial Imaging, and Projection markets worldwide, Navitar products are used in a variety of applications ranging from live cell imaging and flat panel inspection to flight simulation and digital signage. 

Navitar’s experienced design and engineering team truly understands all phases of optical design and manufacturing – from early stage prototypes to production and higher volume manufacturing. We excel in optical and mechanical design, optical fabrication, electronic design, rapid prototyping, and precision assembly.

Our goal is to help our customers improve their efficiencies and processes. We create long-standing relationships with our customers and work together to bring their optical concepts to reality. The quality and performance of our products are second to none and our customer support and service are unrivaled in the industry.

Navitar produces high magnification imaging optics, precision laser optical assemblies, and custom microscopy systems for a variety of automated medical and biotech processes including Flow Cytometry, Live Cell Analysis, Fluorescence Imaging, DNA Sequencing, In-vitro Fertilization, Stem Cell Imaging, and Two-Photon Microscopy. Navitar's micro-imaging optics provide the same high quality and high magnification images of traditional microscopes while enabling leading equipment manufacturers the ability to develop lower cost, more compact and higher performing medical instruments.

For more information, visit Navitar’s website at www.navitar.com or call 800-828-6778/585-359-4000.