Image Quality Optimization

Drone applications like surveillance, entertainment, and environmental monitoring demand drone-mounted optics delivering exceptional image quality within tight size and weight constraints. Optimizing for modern, compact sensors (1/3”, 1/4”), Optopax provides design and manufacturing expertise to achieve superior clarity, detail, and resolution without compromising UAV performance, payload efficiency, or flight endurance.

Custom Camera System Design

Matching effective lens design with the appropriate application driven CMOS sensor is crucial for system level camera optimization. The emergence of novel sensor technologies from multiple sensor vendors are opening new opportunities for improved low light performance, higher dynamic range, reduced camera size and cost, lower power budgets, faster frame rates and reduced image noise.

Multimodal Camera Assemblies

Drone sensing payloads are growing increasingly complex, integrating diverse modalities—including multiple field-of-view cameras, LWIR imaging, spotlights, and advanced multispectral or hyperspectral sensors. Optopax provides integration of these multi-modal sensor combinations into compact, reliable, and high-performance assemblies optimized for challenging UAV environments.

Zoom

High-performance zoom is crucial for modern aerial drones as it allows for safer working distances or identifying even finer details within a scene. Multiple zoom architectures are currently being utilized, and Optopax has experience combining optical, digital zooms and multi-camera hardware solutions to enable seamless zoom range coverage up to 70X.

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Environments

Weather, dust, vibrations, extreme temperatures, moisture, and impacts all pose challenges to camera reliability in flight settings, reducing both performance and image quality.  Optopax designs robust camera modules with spherical and aspherical glass and plastic lenses.

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Manufacturing

Optopax offers integrated manufacturing services for custom optics and camera modules providing seamless transition between design and production. Offshore manufacturing lowers costs, while in-region Optopax quality control ensures product excellence. Flexible small-batch production allows customers to cost-effectively validate and scale specialized designs tailored precisely to their needs. Both PRC and non-PRC factory options available.