Contrast Optical Design & Engineering, Inc. is a small, woman-owned company based in New Mexico. The company was founded in early 2005, by three people on a mission to provide cutting edge optical solutions. We are dedicated to the art of optical design and analysis along with clever opto-mechanical engineering and electrical/control systems integration.

Our background covers a broad range from military to medical imaging and illumination systems, always with an eye toward manufacturability. Additionally, we take all the systems that interact with our designs into consideration. Our optical designs must be easily manufacturable and mesh with mechanical, electrical and various control systems in order to provide a total solution.

Our clients think of us as their very own in-house optical, mechanical, and systems engineering experts. 

Some of our clients have very specific design or analysis projects, with well-defined starting and stopping points. Some of our clients keep us on retainer, calling us only when immediate needs come up. Some of our clients have a continuous, but only part-time, need for expert opinions and advice.

If you have a short-term or part-time need for an optics expert or an opto-mechanical engineer or an electronics expert, why hire a new employee when we can fill that need for you?

Give us a call or drop us a line and let’s discuss how we can help you. We can work with you to define a plan of action, and then we can put together an estimate or a quote for the work you need done.

We accept all major credit cards, and we also accept Purchase Orders from qualified organizations. We can start working for you today!

Do you think your application is too strange? Do you think your field of work has no need for optics experts? Do you think it would be inconvenient to work with someone so far away?

Think again! Our clients are located all around the globe.

Our clients come to us from a wide variety of fields:

• environmental monitoring
• ophthamology
• agriculture
• machine vision
• photography/cinematography
• military/aerospace
• steering mirrors
• medical diagnostics
• solar energy
• laboratory equipment
• micro-displays
• novelty products
• stage/theater lighting
• THz Imaging 

We solve problems that most people consider impossible:

• 5-mirror off-axis aspheric telescope
• panoramic imagers
• ultra-compact camera lens
• frustrated total internal reflection (FTIR) modeling
• light-particle scattering
• solid-state laser resonator