Spherical or Ball Preforms

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Spherical or Ball Preforms

Book: Field Guide to Molded Optics

Author(s): Michael Schaub, Alan Symmons

Published: 2016

https://doi.org/10.1117/3.2230581.ch39

Abstract

Ball preforms (or spherical preforms) are the most prevalent preforms used in PGM. They are essentially ball lenses and are made using the same manufacturing equipment as used in ball lens manufacturing.
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