Balls & Hemispheres
Sapphire, Ruby, Glass, Ceramic 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 Ball Lenses
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.