Supporting your Optical Test Equipment
Optical calibration is the rigorous process of verifying and adjusting instruments that measure light properties or utilize light for physical measurement. In the world of optical metrology, even microscopic deviations can lead to significant errors. Our accredited calibration capabilities cover the full spectrum of optical measurement systems, offering expert calibration for optical sensors, laser power meters, interferometry-based tools, and complex vision systems.
We support a global client base with both laboratory-based solutions and onsite calibration, ensuring your equipment operates within strict manufacturer specifications. Whether you require fiber optic calibration services for telecommunications or precision optics verification for aerospace, our team ensures your equipment performs at its peak.
What is Optical Calibration?
Optical calibration is the intersection of physics and quality assurance, rigorously comparing instrument performance against a traceable standard. Unlike mechanical tools, optical devices measure light properties—such as intensity, frequency, or geometry—which are highly susceptible to environmental drift.
This process involves more than a simple check. We perform precise adjustments to correct optical alignment, fine-tune wavelength calibration, and linearize sensor responses. Whether certifying fiber networks or conducting dimensional inspection, calibration quantifies the measurement error and brings your equipment back within strict manufacturer specifications, restoring true optical accuracy you can rely on.
What is its Importance?
In industries driven by data and precision, accuracy and quality is non-negotiable. Optical testing ensures that your instruments see the truth, preventing costly manufacturing defects and network failures.
- Quality Control: Ensures parts measured on optical comparators fit perfectly, maintaining high measurement accuracy.
- Network Integrity: In telecommunications, accurate wavelength calibration prevents signal loss and data corruption.
- Safety: Correct laser calibration ensures safe operating environments for medical and industrial personnel.
Fiber Optic
Micro Precision’s ISO/IEC 17025:2017 scope of accreditation provides accredited fiber optic calibration services for virtually all types fiber optic test and measurement equipment. This includes laser sources, LED sources, Optical Power Sensors, Optical Attenuators, and Optical Spectrum Analyzers.
Optical equipment manufacturers calibrated:
Acterna, Agilent, Ando, Anritsu, Exfo, Fluke, Keysight, JDSU, Rohde & Schwarz, Thorlabs, Viavi, and more…
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Light
At Micro Precision, our ISO/IEC 17025 scope of accreditation covers photometric light meters measuring illuminance. Light meters measure the amount of visible light in a defined area and provide output readings in LUX (lux meter) or lumens per square foot.
Equipment manufactures calibrated:
Amprobe, Cooke, Extech, AW Sperry SLM Series, Lutron LX Series, Greenlee, Lutron Light Meters, Minolta Light Meters, Reed/ITM Instruments Light Meters, Sylvania Light Meters, VWR Light Meters, Yokogawa Light Meters, and more…
Applications
Accurate light measurement is vital to the film, video and photography industries, but is also a major issue for OSHA compliance, security, clean room standards, industrial processes and environments that contain photosensitive materials.
At Micro Precision, we understand that light is a physical quantity that must be measured with the same rigor as mass or temperature. Our optical calibration services break down these complex physical interactions into traceable, quantifiable metrics. By isolating and verifying variables such as wave properties, geometric propagation, and photonic energy, we ensure that your precision optics deliver strict measurement accuracy in every application.
In order to ensure optical accuracy, we verify specific physical variables based on fundamental optical principles. Our process covers photometric calibration, radiometric calibration, and dimensional verification.
- Optical Power (Intensity): We perform radiometric calibration to measure how strong or bright the light signal is. This ensures your laser or optical sensor calibration yields the exact energy level required (measured in dBm or Watts).
- Wavelength (Color/Frequency): We conduct wavelength calibration to verify that the light is the exact frequency it claims to be. This is critical for fiber optics, where specific colors of light carry distinct data streams.
- Magnification Accuracy: For precision optics like microscopes, we verify magnification accuracy using calibrated optical standards to ensure microscopes and vision systems measure dimensions correctly at any zoom level, maintaining strict optical accuracy.
- Attenuation (Signal Loss): We measure how much light is lost as it travels through a cable, a key parameter in fiber optic calibration for testing network efficiency.
- Linearity: We verify that your optical test equipment is accurate across its entire range, ensuring it reads just as accurately when measuring a weak signal as it does a strong one.
- Geometric Alignment (X-Y): For optical measurement systems like comparators, we verify optical system geometry, ensuring comparators, vision systems, and profile projectors maintain precise straightness, perpendicularity, and scaling, correcting any optical system alignment errors.
- Return Loss (Reflection): We measure how much light bounces back towards the source, often using interferometry techniques to detect defects that could disrupt data transmission.
- Illuminance (Brightness): For safety meters, photometric calibration ensures the instrument correctly reads the amount of visible light hitting a surface (measured in Lux).
Request Your Optical Calibration Service
Ready to secure the highest level of light-based measurement accuracy? Request your ISO/IEC 17025 accredited optical calibration service today to guarantee traceable, precise results for all your critical instruments.
Brands & Type of Equipment Calibrated
Micro Precision provides accredited optical calibration services for equipment from a wide range of manufacturers across industries, ensuring both modern and legacy instruments meet strict accuracy and performance standards.
Dimensional Inspection (Measuring Size)
Equipment used to measure physical dimensions using light and magnification.
- Equipment: Optical Comparators/Profile Projectors, Video Measuring Systems (VMS), Microscopes (Toolmakers, Stereo), Laser Micrometers, Auto-Collimators, and more…
- Brands: Mitutoyo, Nikon Metrology, Starrett, Olympus (Evident), Keyence, Zeiss, Vision Engineering, and more…
Light & Color Analysis (Measuring Intensity)
Equipment used for sensor calibration and analyzing light properties.
- Equipment: Laser Power Meters, Lux Meters / Illuminance Meters, Spectrophotometers, Colorimeters, Gloss Meters, UV Radiometers, and more…
- Brands: Amprobe, Thorlabs, Newport (MKS), Coherent, Konica Minolta, X-Rite, and more…
Why Trust Micro Precision With Your Optical Calibration Needs?
Choosing Micro Precision Calibration means partnering with a global leader in optical calibration dedicated to minimizing your downtime and maximizing your efficiency. We understand that shipping delicate equipment can be risky and costly, which is why we offer extensive onsite accredited calibration services that bring our advanced capabilities directly to your facility.
Whether you manage a complex telecommunications network requiring fiber optic calibration services or a manufacturing floor reliant on heavy optical test equipment, our qualified expert technicians ensure consistent and reliable equipment accuracy without the logistical headache. Furthermore, our comprehensive scope allows us to calibrate your electrical, mechanical, and optical devices in a single scheduled visit, streamlining your operations and ensuring your entire inventory meets the highest standards of precision optics.
Accredited Calibration Lab
Our commitment to unwavering measurement accuracy is backed by the most rigorous quality standards in the industry. As a trusted provider of comprehensive calibration services, Micro Precision offers expert optical calibration alongside our full suite of calibration solutions. We operate under strictly maintained ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accreditation and full compliance with ANSI/NCSL Z540-1-1994 and ISO 9001:2015 standards. Every optical equipment calibration that we perform, from standard light meters to complex optical interferometry systems, is fully traceable to SI Units through the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This robust quality assurance framework guarantees that your optical testing results are audit-ready and globally recognized.
Industries Where Optical Calibration Matters
We provide critical fiber optic calibration services for network maintenance. By ensuring precise wavelength calibration for OTDRs and optical power meters, we help operators prevent signal and data loss and maintain optical accuracy across global infrastructure
We support QA/QC with precise optical measurement systems calibration. We verify optical comparators and video measuring machines to ensure optical accuracy in machined parts, guaranteeing strict tolerances and validating the measurement accuracy of inspection tools.
Medical Device & Healthcare
Ensure patient safety with rigorous laser calibration for surgical tools and radiometric calibration for diagnostic devices. Our lab ensures that optical sensors operate at exact power levels to meet strict industry regulations.
We offer specialized optical calibration services for mission-critical navigation and targeting systems. Our experts verify precision optics and optical system alignment in heads-up displays, ensuring reliable performance in demanding operational environments.
high-sensitivity sensor calibration, we provide the traceable optical test equipment verification needed to push the boundaries of photonics research with confidence.
Maximize yield with nanometer-scale optical metrology. We calibrate optical measurement systems for wafer inspection and radiometric calibration for lithography, ensuring critical dimension control and detecting defects before they impact production performance.
Other Capabilities
Micro Precision can perform instrument calibration services on equipment from variety of applications for specific industries and lines of business. If you have a calibration need that is not listed in this area, please contact us.
Laboratory Standards
Calibration laboratory standards are critical for your organization’s most accurate measurements.
Electrical
Micro Precision accredited electrical calibration lab services with multimeter, multifunction calibrator, oscilloscope, and power supply capabilities.
Chemical
Micro Precision accredited thermodynamic & chemical calibration lab services with temperature, humidity, life science, and pharma capabilities.
RF - Microwave
Micro Precision accredited RF & microwave calibration lab services.
Mechanical & Dimensional
Micro Precision accredited mechanical and dimensional calibration lab services with pressure, torque, force, flow, velocity, and aircraft jack load capabilities.
Semiconductor
ANAB Accredited to ISO/IEC 17025-2017 Accredited semiconductor wafer thickness and precision step hight calibration.
FAQs
We cover almost everything that uses light to measure. This includes fiber optic testers (like OTDRs and optical power meters) used in telecom, as well as dimensional inspection tools (like optical comparators and microscopes) used in manufacturing. If it measures light or uses light to measure a part, our optical calibration lab can handle it.
Not necessarily. We know that shipping sensitive optical devices can be risky and expensive. That is why we offer onsite calibration aside from our in-lab services. Our technicians can come to your facility to calibrate your optical measurement systems right where they sit. This is especially recommended for large items like Optical Comparators or delicate Video Measuring Machines.
Yes. Unlike manufacturers who might stop supporting older models to sell you new ones, we support legacy equipment. As long as the unit is functioning mechanically, we can use our optical metrology standards to verify its accuracy and keep it in service longer.
No. While we specialize in all forms of electrical equipment calibration services, our capabilities often extend to electrical mechanical calibration. This includes devices that measure electrical input but have a mechanical output, such as torque wrenches with electrical readouts, or specialized pressure sensors used in electrical environments.
The standard industry recommendation is once a year (every 12 months). However, if your test equipment is used very heavily or in a harsh environment (like a dusty factory floor), you might need it done every 6 months to ensure consistent and reliable accurate results.
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