Balls & Hemispheres
Sapphire, Ruby, Glass, Ceramic, AR Coated and Fused Silica Balls can be supplied with drilled holes, ground into hemispheres, drum lenses and AR coated to minimize reflection for optical applications.
Tolerances: Ball Grades Chart
Applications: fiber optics, flow meters,rotameters, metrology, bar code readers, check valves (ball and seat), wear surfaces.
- Sapphire & Ruby Balls
Sapphire & Ruby are popular choices of material for mechanical & optical applications.
- Glass Balls
We offer a range of optical and technical glass balls made mostly from Schott and Ohara materials.
- Ceramic Balls
Swiss Jewel supplies ceramic balls typically used in electric insulation, spaces and wear surfaces.
- Hemispheres
Swiss Jewel supplies hemispheres which are ideal as Hemispherical Lenses and Spacers.
- Drilled Balls
We can supply any of our precision balls with drilled holes, which provides an excellent way to mount the ball in an instrument.
- AR Coated Balls
To minimize the loss of the light’s performance, ball lenses will be AR coated.
- Black Glass Balls
Black Glass Balls are typically used in gauges, flowmeters, and rotameters for medical and industrial instrumentation.
- Fused Silica Balls
Swiss Jewel supplies Fused Silica (Quartz) Balls from 0.30 mm to 10.00 mm.