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→Custom Laser Optics
Cavity reflectors, steering mirrors, splatter shields, spacers, beamsplitters, filters, corner cubes, light pipes, homogenizers, and specialty laser components.
Precision glass, optics, ceramic, sapphire, and IR components built to OEM prints. ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 13485:2016 certified, ITAR registered, and 98%+ on-time for the past decade.
Custom optical manufacturing
Complex components built to exact specifications.
Since 1982, IRD has supported your parts from prototype through repeat, high-volume production with fabrication, machining, polishing, coating, assembly, and inspection coordinated across two Minnesota facilities.
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→Medical Components
Custom precision glass and ceramic components for medical equipment, implantable devices, and high-specification healthcare applications.
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→Technical Glass
Ultra-precise non-optical components made with CNC mills, Swiss turning, saws, dicing machines, waterjets, and finishing processes.
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→Sapphire & Technical Ceramics
Machined sapphire, spinel, quartz, ceramic, zirconia, silicon carbide, and other hard materials built to demanding prints.
The IRD advantage
Custom
components.
Controlled quality.
IRD Glass is built for OEM teams that need more than a commodity glass supplier.
IRD does not design your component. It reviews your design for manufacturability, tells you what the print will really cost to hold, and then builds it the same way every run.
Hold the tolerances that decide the system
Polishing to 30 arc sec parallelism typical and better than 2 arc sec at best, flatness to better than 1/20 wave, and roughness to Ra < 1 µin typical and < 2 Å at best. Machining to ±.0001″.
One accountable cell that owns the part
Machining, polishing, coating, assembly, and inspection are coordinated in-house, and a dedicated cell of people and equipment carries your component from raw-material order through final inspection.
Prove it across a production run
98%+ on-time delivery for the past decade, across long-running OEM programs.
Built for precision-driven markets
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LASER OEM
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MEDICAL EQUIPMENT
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AEROSPACE AND DEFENSE
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SENSORS AND PROCESS CONTROL
Glass ComponentsLaser optics, medical glass, flat optics, cylindrical optics, prisms, coatings, and float glassExplore glass →Ceramic & SapphireCustom sapphire optics, ceramic components, super hard materials, and stock sapphire windowsExplore ceramics →IR ComponentsPrecision infrared mirrors, lenses, windows, and components for demanding sensor systemsExplore IR →
IR Components
Precision infrared mirrors, lenses, windows, and components for demanding sensor systems. Partner with a team that understands precision materials, demanding tolerances, and production-ready quality.
Tell me more→A better way to source precision components
How IRD supports technical OEM programs
Custom fabrication
Cut, shape, grind, drill, polish, machine, coat, and assemble glass and ceramic components to project specifications.
In-house machining
CNC processing and specialized fabrication equipment help IRD customize precision materials with control and speed.
Optical coatings
Basic coatings are applied in-house for quick turnaround. Advanced coatings, including AR, high-reflection, and HLDT, are handled through IRD's network of qualified coating partners.
Program continuity
The same cell carries the approved process into repeat production. Any transfer follows documented change control and the program's qualification requirements.
Inspection discipline
Every part is verified on precision equipment from Zygo, Zeiss, Nikon, Micro-Vu, TriOptics, Starrett, and Tagarno, including Fizeau interferometry for surface and wavefront accuracy.
PRECISION TEAMS
CUSTOM COMPONENTS
Millions of precision components across a long-running Honeywell sensor program.
See industries served →Precision programs
have no margin
for error.
Proof in the process ↓
ISO 9001:2015, ISO 13485:2016, and ITAR registered
IRD's quality systems are certified to ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 13485:2016. An individual part is not certified, so every print gets its own inspection plan. ITAR-controlled work is manufactured and stored domestically.
QUALITY SYSTEM
IRD-reported 98%+ on-time, past decade
IRD's reported delivery performance across long-running programs. On one high-power laser mirror, process development and a dedicated production cell cut cycle time from over eight hours per piece to under one in volume.
DELIVERY RECORD
Arc-second precision
Polishing to better than 2 arc sec parallelism, better than 1/20 wave flatness, and Ra < 2 Å at best. Machining to ±.0001″ and up to 30″ × 16″ × 16″. Every surface is quoted to what the system needs, not to a blanket grade.
PRECISION OPTICS
Honeywell, Collins Aerospace, TRUMPF, 3M, Alcon, TDK
IRD serves laser, medical, aerospace, defense, sensor, and industrial OEMs, including customers with long-running IRD programs.
CUSTOMERS SERVED
In-house customization
Six HAAS CNC mills, OMAX waterjet, dicing and slicing saws, polishing for finished optics within a qualified 36″ envelope, supported by equipment with platens up to 48″, two e-beam coating chambers, and DC magnetron sputtering, plus proprietary fixturing and tooling built when an application needs a new approach.
CAPABILITIES
Built to print, reviewed for free
IRD does not design optical components. It works with your designers on manufacturability, provides a no-cost DFM review on a new design, and then quotes prototype and production volumes separately.
CUSTOM MANUFACTURING
How we manufacture.
We start with the print, performance requirements, material, tolerance stack, and production goals. Then IRD aligns the right fabrication route, validates the process, inspects the work, and supports the program from first article through repeat production.
A clearer product
starts with better components.
IRD turns difficult component requirements into parts that can be manufactured, repeatably, at volume, on a schedule a program can plan around.
It is built for OEMs that need tolerances a catalog cannot hold, materials most shops will not quote seriously, and a supplier who says what a print will really cost before the first article rather than after the third production run.
Across laser, medical, aerospace, defense, sensor, and industrial programs, IRD pairs manufacturing experience dating to 1982 with the inspection discipline high-consequence components require.
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