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Honeycomb Optical 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. All of our breadboards and tables are proudly made in the USA.

Honeycomb optical breadboards are designed using an aluminum honeycomb core with a smaller cell size to maximize contact between the skins and core, eliminating the de-lamination problems often found in other designs. Starting with the all aluminum light weight honeycomb core, 3/16 in. (5mm) thick skins are added with the desired hole pattern, producing an incredibly rigid and light structure. Unlike heavy steel honeycomb breadboards, our optical tables and optical breadboards are extremely rigid, light, and rust free. 

All Base Lab Tools honeycomb, solid breadboards, and optical tables are available black anodized, clear anodized, unanodized, laser-safe coated, uncoated, or white clean-room coated. Custom color coats are available too through our Custom Quote form.
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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 constructs unique products that cannot be found anywhere else.

Our honeycomb optical breadboards are designed to eliminate messy and unreliable cores like oil bladders and added weights. Our honeycombs are encased with an ultra lightweight 3/16 in. (5mm) aluminum skins and are available with a black, laser-safe coating. 

Unlike so many large photonics catalog companies, Base Lab Tools' primary focus is on providing optical breadboards and optical tables, giving us the ability to manufacture almost any custom honeycomb breadboard within 2-4 weeks. 

How do I decide 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 greater the rigidity (less deflection for a given weight). As an example, here is a side by side test of a 1/2 in. (13mm) aluminum breadboard, and a 3/4 in. (19mm) aluminum breadboard, compared to a 2 in. (50mm) honeycomb core aluminum breadboard.

The trend that is important to note is that the honeycomb deflects a considerable amount less than the same sized solid aluminum breadboard.  The trend only improves when the thickness is increased to 4 inches, 8 inches, or more.
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