Introducing East Coast Optical Technologies

I’m Rich Migliaccio, president of  East Coast Optical Technologies.  We’re an engineering firm specializing in the design, development and prototyping of advanced electro-optical systems. Expertise include optoelectronic and optomechanical design with knowledge that goes beyond the visible spectrum.

​We provide cost effective design solutions for light management and light based sensor platforms using state of the art design tools and decades of experience.  We’ve been providing these services since 2002.

see https://www.ecotechnologies.biz/ for more information.

In the multidisciplinary field of optics, Helbling offers you unique technical solutions for challenging problems. Embedded in Helbling’s entire service portfolio, we combine specialist knowledge and extensive experience in the field of optic development.

See our website for more information: Optical systems | Helbling

Optical engineering services

• Ideation /concept phase
• Specifications /user requirements
• Optical design and in-depth optical analysis
• Proof-of-concept / Lab testing
• Tolerancing and drawings according to ISO 10110
• Prototyping with off-the-shelf and custom components
• Selection of fabrication methods (injection molding, machining, 3D printing, etc.)
• Coordination with OEM / suppliers

In addition, we also offer services in the fields related to optics, i.e., mechanical & opto-mechanical design, opto-electronics, analog & digital electronics, data processing, embedded software and quality management.
Helbling is compliant with ISO 13485, ISO 9001 & ISO 14001.

Lab equipment (optical engineering)

Our high-quality laboratory infrastructure enables us to implement and comprehensively characterize and test the performance attributes of demonstrators, functional models, and prototypes in experiments.
Equipment available at Helbing include among others:

• Trioptics Optispheric for lens characterization (ROC, EFL, MTF on-axis…)
• Radiometric and Photometric Power-meter to measure fluence, irradiance and illuminance
• Spectrometer
• Refractometer
• OCT optical profilers
• Infrared camera
• Polarimeter
• Digital microscopes for 3D acquisition
• Interferometer optical profile
• Various microscopes

Applications

• Optical systems for medical devices
• Endoscope
• Ophthalmic design (progressive, single lens, bifocal lens, IOL…)
• Application-specific camera lenses
• Projectors
• Illumination devices (lightguide, TIR collimator, uniform irradiance..)
• AR/VR display optics (HUD, HMD)
• Spectrometer
• Hyperspectral imaging
• Micro-optics (DOE, micro-lenses, molded optics…)
• Machine vision system
• Gas, liquid container and rain sensors
• Barcode reader
• Beam shaping and laser optics
• Freeform and non-rotational symmetric optics

See our website for more information: Optical systems | Helbling

For more information please contact Helen Wächter: helen.waechterfischer@helbling.ch