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Berliner Glas KGaA Herbert Kubatz GmbH & Co.
Company Description
Berliner Glas Group supplies OEM optical solutions from design through serial production. Lenses, prisms, complex lens assemblies, Opto-Mechanical assemblies from simple to highly complex. Ultra high precision optical assemblies, large high precision cylinder lenses, design for manufacturing with high reliability and quality. We serve the optical, medical, analytical, defense, industrial, industrial laser, semiconductor, space, metrology, and geosystems markets, we are a customer focused OEM.
Contact Information
Waldkraiburgerstr 5
Photonics Systems Division
Berlin
Germany
Press Releases
| Berliner Glas Medical Technology now DIN EN ISO 13485 certified
Berlin, Germany. The Medical Applications Business Unit of the Berliner Glas Group has been certified in accordance with the European standard DIN EN ISO 13485 since October 2011.
For the supplier of optical components and systems, this is confirmation of the successful implementation of the quality management system for medical device manufacturers. The Swiss Association for Quality and Management Systems (SQS) audited, amongst other things, strategic processes, core development and production processes as well as supporting processes. This also comprised SAP validation, as it is here that quality data is stored, production processes are controlled and traceability ensured within the Business Unit. Production processes such as adhesion processes were also validated, whereby the family company from Berlin obtained new know-how in quality assurance. As of now, Berliner Glas will undergo an annual verification of the certification guidelines as well as compliance with the provisions of the Medical Devices Act and EC Directive 93/42/EEC (European Directive about Medical Devices).
The successful certification once again shows that Berliner Glas sees a strong future in the growing market of medical technology and life sciences. Sven Knuth, Head of the Medical Applications Business Unit, had the following to say about this: "For us the certification is a clear commitment to the medical technology market and underlines our strategic orientation to further expand our range of optical systems for OEM manufacturers in medical technology. In addition we offer our customers even more safety when it comes to our quality standards. The ISO 13485 certification is essential for us and we are delighted with it.“
About Berliner Glas:
The Berliner Glas Group is with approximately 1000 employees one of the leading European providers of optical key components, assemblies and systems as well as high-quality refined technical glass. With an understanding of optical systems and optical production technology, Berliner Glas develops, produces and integrates optics, mechanics and electronics into innovative system solutions for its customers. These solutions are used worldwide in the semiconductor industry, medical technology, metrology, laser and space technology, analytics, defense and the display industry.
Press Contact:
Berliner Glas KGaA
Herbert Kubatz GmbH & Co.
Waldkraiburger Str. 5
D-12347 Berlin
www.berlinerglas.de
Astrid Freiding
Marketing/Communications
Phone: +49 30 6090 5-368
Fax: +49 30 60 90 5-100
freiding@berlinerglas.de |
| Berliner Glas offers OEM electronics design development and manufacturing for medical applications
The Medical Applications Business Unit of the Berliner Glas Group now offers custom OEM development of electronics. This broadens its expertise as a supplier of optical components, opto-mechanics, and optical system solutions to serve the market with customized opto-electronic systems.
“With the addition of OEM electronics development and manufacturing we are able to provide complete OEM system designs for our customers and to produce them in volume," says Sven Knuth, Head of the Medical Applications Business Unit at Berliner Glas.
Design capabilities include OEM electro-optic systems that can be autoclaved while maintaining precision alignment. Also available are OEM 3D imaging and measurement systems for 3D imaging of teeth, minimally invasive surgery and ophthalmology applications.
This technological advance enables the development, regulation and control of LED light sources, drive and cooling elements with the associated sensors, as well as camera systems with their own electronics. Applications such as communication via USB, displays or membrane keyboards can also be produced. The range of applications in medical technology for these competencies is enormous. Electronics features can be used to control LED fluorescent light sources, producing non-fluctuating, regulated light. The color temperature of the LEDs and the quality of the light can be controlled. Customized OEM LED lighting systems are now in the process of being released to production.
About Berliner Glas:
The Berliner Glas Group (www.berlinerglas.com) is one of the leading European providers of optical key components, assemblies and systems as well as high-quality refined technical glass. With more than 1,000 employees, Berliner Glas develops, produces and integrates optics, mechanics and electronics into innovative system solutions for its customers. Its products are used worldwide in the semiconductor industry, medical technology, metrology, laser and space technology, analytics, defense and the display industry.
Press contact: Astrid Freiding, +49 30 60905-368, freiding@berlinerglas.de
Technical contact: Sven Knuth, +49 30 60905-108, knuth@berlinerglas.de
U.S. contact: Kevin Liddane, +01 (714)389-1756, kliddane@berlinerglasus.com |
| Berliner Glas expands its coating competencies
Broadband monitoring allows the production of highly sophisticated optical layers for fluorescence applications.
Optical broadband monitoring, a new technology to monitor the production process of optical layers, allows very complex layers for reflection, transmission and absorption on optical components to be produced with very high precision and accuracy.
Examples of their application in medical technology include filters with very steep angles for fluorescence applications, interference filters for the separation of colors on high-quality 3-chip cameras in endoscopy or holographic gratings for laboratory analysis and diagnostics. In the field of microscopy, complex and simple layers can also be used in beam splitters to separate illuminating and fluorescent channels which are close together.
“These type of channels which are close together have to be viewed separately for example when using the dye indocyanine green (ICG)“, explains Sven Knuth, Head of the Medical Applications Business Unit, at the commissioning of the equipment in Berlin.
Although there are usually up five layers, and in extreme cases up to and above 80, positioned on top of each other, the individual layers often have a height of just a few nanometers. Broadband monitoring makes it possible to precisely control the coating process, which in turn allows the coating quality and yield to be improved. Supported by in-house process development, custom coatings are available to cover from 130 nm to 6000 nm and be applied to customer-specific components including spherical lenses, aspherical components, plane optics and cylindrical lenses produced by the Berliner Glas Group.
Thanks to the inter-disciplinary development teams at the Berlin and Heerbrugg sites which consist of optical designers, physicists, design engineers, system and electrical engineers, the Medical Applications Business Unit also offers the integration of optical, mechanical and electronic components into complete assemblies or devices.
The assemblies include high quality beam guidance and beam shaping objectives for short-pulsed lasers, customer-specific zoom objectives and camera assemblies for endoscopy. The Berliner Glas Group supplies high-quality structured light 3D scanning systems, LED cold light sources and other OEM system solutions to the medical and life science industries.
About Berliner Glas:
The Berliner Glas Group, with around 1000 employees, is one of the leading European providers of optical key components, assemblies and systems as well as high-quality refined technical glass. With an understanding of optical systems and optical production technology, Berliner Glas develops, produces and integrates optics, mechanics and electronics into innovative system solutions for its customers. These solutions are used worldwide in the semiconductor industry, medical technology, metrology, laser and space technology, analytics, defense and the display industry.
Contact:
Berliner Glas KGaA
Herbert Kubatz GmbH & Co.
Waldkraiburger Str. 5
D-12347 Berlin
www.berlinerglas.de
Astrid Freiding
Marketing/Communications
Phone: +49 30 6090 5-368
Fax: +49 30 60 90 5-100
freiding@berlinerglas.de |
| Large-scale cylinder lenses and mirrors for high-tech laser
New at Berliner Glas is the production of large-scale cylinder lenses and mirrors for laser material processing applications. The components are produced in all standard shapes with a length of up to 1,000 mm. These dimensions open up new perspectives in the cost-efficient application of cylindrical optics.
Consequently Berliner Glas has recently expanded its entire optical production chain. Diverse innovative grinding and polishing processes have been added to the shaping CNC processing of large-scale optics. The whole production process is competed with the greatest care and in consideration of the highest requirements on cleanliness.
Berliner Glas is able to offer both plano and cylinder surfaces of the highest quality. In doing so an in-house developed computer-controlled corrective procedure is also used, alongside the renowned MRF process. The high-precision metrological capturing of the surface is always a condition for the success of the correction.
Developments in production and metrology orientated to the customer’s product, close coordination with the customer and knowledge of its requirements lead to innovative cylindrical optics solutions. With these developments, Berliner Glas once again proves its competence in the development and production of cylindrical optics.
About Berliner Glas:
The Berliner Glas Group, with around 1000 employees, is one of the leading European providers of optical key components, assemblies and systems as well as high-quality refined technical glass. With an understanding of optical systems and optical production technology, Berliner Glas develops, produces and integrates optics, mechanics and electronics into innovative system solutions for its customers. These solutions are used worldwide in the semiconductor industry, medical technology, metrology, laser and space technology, analytics, defense and the display industry.
Contact:
Berliner Glas KGaA
Herbert Kubatz GmbH & Co.
Waldkraiburger Str. 5
D-12347 Berlin
www.berlinerglas.de
Astrid Freiding
Marketing/Communications
Phone: +49 30 6090 5-368
Fax: +49 30 60 90 5-100
freiding@berlinerglas.de |
| Anodic bonding of space mirrors
Berliner Glas joins glass and ceramics such as SiSiC permanently and in an extremely stable manner by using anodic bonding. Berliner Glas has the competence to anodically bond not just circular surfaces, but also elliptic or angular components. As opposed to thermal bonding, the long-term adhesion is based on the exchange of charge carriers between both materials. This technology is increasingly used for space products which have to cope with strong cosmic radiation, shock and vibration stresses and severe temperature fluctuations. Here conventional joining processes often fail: gluing has the disadvantage of gas emissions, radiation sensitivity or a low temperature application range. Screwed connections could loosen under mechanical stress, so have to be additionally secured by an adhesive for space applications.
Using the example of a space mirror, developed and produced by Berliner Glas, the advantages are clear. A glass substrate, equipped with a mirror layer and thinned to approx. 100 ěm, is anodically bonded to supporting material with high thermal conductivity and rigidity. As a result the advantages of a highly-stable support can be ideally combined with the benefits of the glass as a coating substrate. The result is a product which is stable over a wide temperature range. Here the support material can additionally be equipped with light-weight structures in order to achieve a mass reduction of up to 90 %. Using conventional methods a mirror with an extremely level surface can be created on the glass substrate. In addition the use of an electrically conductive support offers the advantage that the mirror itself can be equipped with ESD (electro-static discharge) protection. Berliner Glas has also optimized the symmetrical mirror construction technology so that even any thermal stresses which may occur do not cause any detectable deformations to the reflected wavefront. Extremely high optical quality is therefore ensured even under the most difficult conditions.
The anodic bonding for the space applications of Berliner Glas has been tested for durability (“space heritage“). It has also been exposed to high-energy radiation (Co-60) and an extensive life-span test. Due to the design between two solid bodies the join is also impervious to atomic oxygen and UV radiation. This means that a life-span of at least 15 years is possible even for geostationary operation. In addition this technology can of course also be used for LEO (low earth orbit) applications.
Anodic space bonding – an overview:
- Anodically bonded
- Adhesive-free
- At least 15 year life-span
- High rigidity
- Extremely stable
- Flatness: 15 nm rms
- Wavelength stability within 50° (layer design dependent on the
desired temperature range)
- UV stable
- ESD protection
- ATOX-resistant
- High imaging quality
- Geo and LEO compatible
About Berliner Glas:
The Berliner Glas Group, with around 1000 employees, is one of the leading European providers of optical key components, assemblies and systems as well as high-quality refined technical glass. With an understanding of optical systems and optical production technology, Berliner Glas develops, produces and integrates optics, mechanics and electronics into innovative system solutions for its customers. These solutions are used worldwide in the semiconductor industry, medical technology, metrology, laser and space technology, analytics, defense and the display industry.
Contact:
Berliner Glas KGaA
Herbert Kubatz GmbH & Co.
Waldkraiburger Str. 5
D-12347 Berlin
www.berlinerglas.de
Astrid Freiding
Marketing/Communications
Phone: +49 30 6090 5-368
Fax: +49 30 60 90 5-100
freiding@berlinerglas.de |
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