Opticco LLC · Optical engineering & instrumentation
Opticco LLC designs, prototypes, and manufactures optical instruments and custom optics assemblies. We bring together echelle spectroscopy, low-CTE optical structures, and precision optomechanics for research, industrial instrumentation, and aerospace development.
Spectroscopy instruments
Compact, cross-dispersed spectrographs designed to capture fine spectral detail across a broad wavelength range.
Our echelle spectrometer platform combines dispersive optics, a detector, and a lightweight optical structure. Development focuses on visible and near-infrared measurements for laboratory and industrial instruments.
Discuss optical layouts, slit and fiber interfaces, detector integration, calibration, and packaging for your measurement. Wavelength coverage, resolving power, and throughput are specified for each configuration.
Development applications include atomic emission studies, laser and light-source characterization, materials research, and optical diagnostics for manufacturing and process monitoring.
The echelle platform is at the prototype and development stage. Contact Opticco for current measured performance, configuration options, and availability.
Custom optical engineering
Custom optical arrangements and assemblies built around your beam path, mechanical envelope, and measurement requirements.
Optical system layout and optomechanical design for mirrors, lenses, gratings, prisms, detectors, and fiber interfaces. We develop arrangements for spectroscopy, beam delivery, and optical instrumentation.
CAD development, custom mounts, composite structural components, instrument housings, assembly, and alignment. Prototype iteration connects the optical design to hardware that can be characterized.
Custom fabrication and assembly of optical structures and instruments, with electronics and calibration integration where required. Project scope, quantities, acceptance tests, and lead times are agreed during the technical review.
From a custom optical subassembly to an integrated spectrometer, share your requirements to discuss a design, prototyping, or manufacturing project.
Lightweight precision structures
Low coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) structures help reduce changes in optical geometry as temperature varies. Opticco develops carbon-fiber optical frames using pultruded members and custom PPS-CF components for lightweight, thermally stable instrument designs.
Assembly stability depends on material orientation, joints, geometry, and temperature conditions. Thermal performance is evaluated for each design.
Aerospace development
Custom optical payload development for small satellites, space telescopes, and cameras that need added spectral measurement capability.
Compact spectrometer concepts for CubeSat and small-satellite payloads, with optical design and packaging tailored to the available volume, mass, power, and required spectral performance.
Design and prototyping toward space-ready optical assemblies, including lightweight low-CTE frames and payload mounts. Space readiness is a qualification goal defined by each mission's launch and operating environment.
Image-guided spectroscopy concepts let a user select a point in a camera view and acquire its spectrum. A scanning implementation could extend this approach to spatially resolved spectral mapping and hyperspectral imaging.
These aerospace concepts are in development; flight qualification has not been established. Discuss mission-specific requirements for vibration, thermal-vacuum operation, outgassing, and other environmental testing.
Technology in development
Variable-slit acquisition and synchronized exposures are being developed to combine complementary measurements of bright and weak spectral features.
Active aperture development
Investigating the tradeoff between light collection, resolving power, and detector saturation through coordinated optics, acquisition, and computation.
Controlled slit settings and exposure timing provide complementary spectral measurements.
Research into computational methods for combining measurements with different slit widths and exposure times.
Development includes testing dynamic range, spectral detail, calibration, and measurement repeatability.
Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) instrument development includes translating-mirror mechanisms, electromagnetic actuation, and levitated-stage research for interferometric scanning.
Custom PCB design, embedded control, actuator drivers, precision slit mechanisms, wavelength calibration, and spectral acquisition software support the optical instrument as an integrated system.
About Opticco
Opticco LLC is an Illinois-based optical instrumentation company founded by Aleksa Pjanic. We combine photonics, electrical engineering, and optomechanical design to develop spectrometers and custom optical assemblies.
Our work spans echelle spectrometer prototypes, lightweight low-CTE structures, active-slit computational spectroscopy, and precision translation technologies. We welcome inquiries from university laboratories, instrument developers, industrial research teams, and aerospace payload partners.
Opticco's project scope includes custom optical arrangements, optomechanical design, prototype fabrication, assembly, alignment, and custom manufacturing. Contact us with your optical layout or measurement goal to discuss the components, integration work, quantities, and testing your project needs.
Low-CTE assemblies are designed to reduce thermal expansion in structures that position optical components. They can support alignment stability in spectrometers, interferometers, and other precision instruments. The performance of the complete assembly depends on its materials, joints, orientation, and operating conditions.
Opticco welcomes custom development inquiries for CubeSat spectrometers and space optical assemblies. These are development capabilities, and flight qualification has not been established. Availability and the qualification plan depend on the proposed payload and mission requirements.
Describe the measurement, wavelength range, desired spectral resolution, light source or fiber interface, detector requirements, size and mass limits, operating environment, quantity, and schedule. Early concepts are welcome; we can discuss which requirements should guide the first prototype.
Work with Opticco
Contact Opticco for custom optics design, optical assembly prototyping and manufacturing, spectrometer development, technical collaborations, or investment inquiries.
aleksa.pjanic@opticco.techAleksa Pjanic · Founder & CEO
Opticco LLC · Illinois, United States