Thanks to its extremely high refractive index, according to Schott, LASF35 glass offers excellent properties for sophisticated lens systems used in tight spaces. By relying on a continuous production technique, Schott has also optimised internal transmission. Particularly within the blue wavelength region, this glass offers substantially better properties than comparable optical materials. Schott Advanced Optics, unveiled an improved version of the new glass (nd=2.02204; vd=29.06) at the international trade fair in Frankfurt, Germany. In doing so, Schott has optimised its line of glasses that feature high refractive indexes in extreme regions of the Abbe diagram. LASF35 glass is particularly well-suited for miniaturized lens systems, such as those used as ball lenses or micro prisms in medical technology for endoscopes, microscopes and other micro lenses.
