Meller Optics (also know as the Adolf Meller Company) works on fabrication of precision lenses, windows, domes and substrates for the optics and electronic industries, specializingin hard, brittle materials as well as traditional glasses. The firm manufactures coated and uncoated lenses, optical windows, prisms, mirrors and electronic substrates for lasers and analytical instruments. Materials include sapphire, quartz, BK7 and other common laser glasses, germanium, silicon, zinc selenide, zinc sulfide, fluorides and ruby. Supplier of alumina powder and pitch. Major Contracts have included Periscope Domes for NavSea, Periscope Domes for Battelle, Excimer Laser Lenses for Coherent and Optics for Opal System for Neptec- L. Meller delivered the first ever sapphire 360 degree window of its size to NWUC for use on the new photonics mast - December 2014. The firm was also responsible for the lens used on a MIT developed instrument which measured the distance from the earthÂ’s surface to the moon for the Apollo Missions. Meller also fabricated optics on the Keplar Telescope which has recently located over 2500 planets positioned where they have the potential of habitation
