Honeycomb Breadboards
Base Lab Tools offers a variety of honeycomb breadboards. Our breadboards are designed by optical researchers with experience in both academic and industrial laboratories. The key to the design comes from starting with a composite core that absorbs vibration rather than transmits it like most metal core optical breadboards. We like to think of the core as "pre-dampened" from which we can then build out one of the lightest, vibration isolation platforms available anywhere in the world All of our breadboards and tables are proudly made in the USA.
Sub-Categories
Honeycomb Optical Breadboards • Breadboard Stands • Optical Breadboard Work Stations
Using
our extensive expertise in the manufacturing of optical breadboards and
optical tables, Base Lab Tools offers a unique abilities that cannot be
found anywhere else.
Our honeycomb optical breadboards are designed using a composite core that
eliminates the need compensate for a bad core design with messy oil
bladders or extra weights needed in all metal core optical breadboards. Starting with the key component of the honeycomb
breadboard design optimized, we are then able to offer our standard
3/16" (5mm) feromagnetic steel skins or our ultra lightweight 3/16"
(5mm) aluminum skins. Likewise we can coat the breadboards with either a black laser safe coating or a white clean-room
coating.
Base Lab Tools
has the ability to manufacture almost any custom honeycomb
breadboard within 2-4 weeks. We can make this happen because optical breadboards and
optical tables are our main business, not a side business as with so
many large photonics catalog companies.
How
do I choose whether I need a solid aluminum or honeycomb core optical
breadboard? It all has to do with rigidity. The rule of thumb is that
the thicker the breadboard, the more ridged (less deflection for a given
weight). As an example, here is a sided by side test of a 1/2" (13mm)
aluminum breadboard compared to a 2" (50mm) core steel skins breadboard.