Optical Tables & Breadboards
Base Lab Tools offers a full range of optical tables and optical breadboards. We offer honeycomb breadboards, solid aluminum breadboards, optical tables, and enclosures to suit every application and every budget.
- Same day shipping on extensive stock of breadboards and enclosures
- Fast turn-around on custom breadboards, tables, and enclosures
- Vibration-damping support systems
- All of our optical tables and optical breadboards are proudly manufactured in the USA
Sub-Categories
Solid Aluminum Breadboards • Honeycomb Optical Breadboards • Enclosures • Optical Tables • Optical Table & Breadboard Supports
Base Lab Tools offers unique abilities for manufacturing optical breadboards and tables that cannot be found anywhere else.
Our honeycomb optical tables and optical breadboards are designed using an aluminum honeycomb core with a smaller cell size to maximize contact between the skins and core, eliminating the delamination 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 tables and breadboards, our optical tables and optical breadboards are extremely rigid, light, and rust free. Honeycombs, solid breadboards, and optical tables are available black anodized, clear anodized, unanodized, laser-safe coated, uncoated, or white clean-room coated.
We have provided optical tables and breadboards with thru-ports of all sizes, custom shapes, counterbore mounting holes, alpha numeric engraving, special coatings, and custom core thicknesses, just to name a few of the customization possibilities.
For our solid aluminum breadboards, we offer thicknesses up to 2 in. (50 mm) and plates as large as 60 in. x 96 in. (1.5 m x 2.4 m), making Base Lab Tools the only manufacturer of solid aluminum breadboards in the world offering such large solid aluminum breadboards from stock as well as custom. Beyond this, Base Lab Tools has the ability to manufacture almost any custom solid aluminum optical breadboard within 2 weeks. In fact, more than 98% of our custom solid aluminum breadboard orders go out in less than 2 weeks, made in our US manufacturing facility, and at a lower cost than other custom breadboard manufacturers.
Unlike so many large photonics catalog companies, we've maintained our business focus on producing durable, reliable optical breadboards and optical tables for fast and affordable turn-around.
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 rigid (less deflection for a given weight). As an example, here is a side by side test of a 1/2 in. (13mm) solid aluminum breadboard (SAB2424) compared to a 3/4 in. (19mm) solid aluminum breadboard (SAB2424-T) compared to a 2 in. (50mm) aluminum honeycomb core breadboard with aluminum skins (BB2424-A-2).
