Belarusian Optical & Laser Industry Laser and Optical Industry of Belarus This part is easier for me to accomplish since I am myself a Ph.D. In Laser Physics, former Assoc. Of Applied Optics Department of and was relatively heavily involved in the education of optical engineers for optical industry of Belarus. Belarusian optical industry has a great tradition.
Belarusian optical industry has a great tradition. This was proved by the latest revolution in optical manufacturing brought from Belarus - MagnetoRheological Finishing (MRF). The technology was developed in the 1980-ies at BelAMA. Minsk Laser Plant (Not sure if it sounds exactly like this) Formerly known as OPP NTO AN SSSR. Ēsmu izmisumā - tiesības tikai 3 nedēlas, man nopirka vecu volvo v 40 2000 gada D 1,9, nobraucu nedaudz vairāk nekā nedēļu - sajutu k-kas na pirms 3 gadiem Ko nozīmē 1. Solis dzīvokļa izsolē?
This was proved by the latest revolution in optical manufacturing brought from Belarus -. The technology was developed in the 1980-ies at BelAMA. Only in US were they able to finally develop this idea in a tremendous MRF technology that is currently used for manufacturing all precision aspheric and other complex optical surfaces with outstanding accuracy. Programma chitayuschaya format zapisi vd en. The technology core at main MRF machines manufacture - - is still run by Belarusian engineers.
Lets just list below the major Belarusian optical enterprises with my less formal comments This plant is the second largest optical plant in Europe after Carl Zeiss. In the former Soviet Union it was specifically designed as a mass manufacturer of optical elements. Only optical elements are manufactured here - lenses, prisms, flats etc. The idea was that the plant would concentrate on optics while further opto-mechanical enterprises would use its product to assemble objectives and other opto-mechanical devices. The plant is capable of mass production of millions and millions of optical elements. Lately they also started to pool optical fiber, do optical coatings, including photochromic coats.
All major optical plants of former Soviet Union were the customers of this giant. Basically if you are looking for a cheap supplier of big quantities (millions) of high quality glass and quartz optical elements - Lida 'Optik' could be the way to go. Not sure, how it is doing now. 'Optik' doesn't seem to have a web page set up yet. But here are some contact phone #s that I have from 1992: R&D Division (from USA) 011-35-015-61- 256-04: Mr. Mastiugin; Mr. Education: 011-35-015-61- 282-27: Mrs.
/ (BelOMO in Russian) (Belarusian Optical-Mechanical Consortium) 23, Makayonok Minsk 220836 Belarus Phone: 375 17 263 8556 Fax: 375 17 263 7557 Established: 1957 BelOMO is a major opto-mechanical assembly plant of the former USSR and Belarus now. It is a designer and manufacturer of laser, optoelectronic and optomechanical instruments. Products include topographic and multispectral photographic equipment, photogrammetric devices, laser devices, optoelectronic sighting devices, and medical equipment based on laser systems. It was set up as a manufacturer of high resolution satellite cameras and is still listed in various space war lists.
So you can expect rather high standards of quality here. As far as peaceful applications it manufactures objectives, photo cameras etc. Some of the satellite photos of Russian are done on BelOMOs TK-350 satellite topographic camera with 10 meter ground resolution and reference cross marks for photogrammetric processing (size of frame 200 x 300 km^2, specific cost 0.07-0.08 $/km2). It looks like LEMT/BelOMO are cooperating with Swedish.