Optical Instrument Laboratory Inc
Optical Instrument Lab, Inc. is a Houston-based glass company with over 50 years of experience in manufacturing high-quality fabricated glass parts. Since 1961, we have been dedicated to providing innovative solutions for our customers' manufacturing challenges by combining our expertise and cutting-edge technologies.
We cater to a wide range of industries including Biomedical, Chemical Engineering, Oil & Gas, Optical, Industrial and Commercial, Architecture, Agriculture, Computing, Robotics, Military, and Aerospace. Our comprehensive engineering capabilities cover various types of industrial glass fabrication, such as drilling, grinding, and polishing. We work with a diverse range of materials including PYREX®, BOROFLOAT®, Kopp, Schott, Hoya Filters, Fused Silica, Soda Lime Float, polished plate, quartz, sapphire, window glass, and more. With our extensive material stock, we ensure quick responsiveness to your needs.
At Optical Instrument Lab, Inc., we pride ourselves on our commitment to quality. Our company philosophy revolves around delivering high-quality products at reasonable prices and with minimal lead times. We work with an array of optical glasses and materials, including quartz, fused silica, B270, BK-7, borosilicate, sapphire, and ceramics.
As a distributor for Kopp filter glasses, we maintain a large inventory of Schott and Hoya filters. Whether you require filters according to catalog specifications or specific transmission requirements, we have the expertise to meet your needs. Our advanced Varian/Cary spectrophotometer ensures precise measurement of transmission, meeting the tolerances you require.
With modern optical manufacturing equipment and a complete in-house machine shop, we offer production capabilities such as single and double side lapping and polishing, I.D. and O.D. cylindrical grinding, Blanchard grinding, beveling, sawing, and optical assembly and cementing. While we do not provide coating services in-house, we have established partnerships with various optical coating facilities, enabling us to offer all types of single and multi-layer coatings