Positive cylindrical lenses are ideal for applications requiring magnification in one dimension. A typical application is to use a pair of cylindrical lenses to provide anamorphic shaping of a beam. A pair of positive cylindrical lenses can be used to collimate and circularize the output of a laser diode. Another application possibility would be to use a single lens to focus a diverging beam onto a detector array.

| Material | Optical glasses, Fused Silica, Corning 7980, CaF2 |
| Dimension Range | 5 ~ 300mm |
| Dimension tolerance | +/-0.01 ~ +/-0.2mm |
| Thickness tolerance | +/-0.01 ~ +/-0.2mm |
| Focal Length tolerance | +/-1% |
| Surface quality | 10-5 ~ 80-50 |
| Surface Figure | λ/20 ~ λ |
| Clear Aperture | >90% |
| Centration | 10”~ 5’ |
| Chamfer | C 0.3mm@45 degree |
| Coating | AR coating, Reflection coating, Splitter coating etc. |
| * Remark:Customized is available | |