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What's the Downside to LED Lighting？

LED lighting is being adopted in lighting systems across various industries. However, like any technology, it's not without flaws. Understanding the potential drawbacks of LED lighting is crucial for manufacturers, designers, and consumers alike, helping them make more informed choices and develop better solutions. Many common drawbacks, such as glare, blue light hazard, and uneven light quality, can be mitigated through LED optics design.

Posted on 2025-09-12

What Are LED Lenses Made Of?

In LED lighting design, optical lenses are core components for shaping light. Their performance determines the efficiency, light distribution, and ultimate luminous efficacy of the lamp. Different lens materials have varying impacts on the performance. We all know that different applications have distinct requirements for heat resistance, light transmittance, weather resistance, and cost. As a professional optical lens manufacturer, Asahi Optical will objectively analyze common LED lens materials to help you select the most appropriate one based on your project needs.

Posted on 2025-09-11

Can LED Lighting Be Used Without Optical Lenses？

LED technology has revolutionized the lighting industry, but a common question is: Can LED lamps operate without optical lenses? The answer is yes, but not in all scenarios. The presence or absence of a lens directly determines a lamp's luminous efficacy, light distribution quality, and application areas.

Posted on 2025-09-10

LED street light lens optical mold manufacturer

Asahi Optics is recognized as a well-known manufacturer of precision plastic and optical molds in China, with its advanced optical design expertise and large-scale manufacturing capabilities, it has a good reputation and is expanding its global lighting manufacturer and engineering companies as partners.

Posted on 2025-09-09

The Importance of Uniform Illumination in Street Lighting

As an expert in optical design, Asahi Optics understands the importance of uniform lighting to public safety. Drawing on a decade of expertise in optical technology and sophisticated optical simulation in street lighting, Asahi Optics provides streetlight manufacturers with high-performance secondary optical lenses that ensure precise light distribution, providing key technical support for urban road lighting upgrades.

Posted on 2025-09-05

The Three Major Advantages of LED Office Lighting Solutions

Modern offices have evolved into "second living spaces," where employees spend the most time. The quality of their lighting directly impacts work efficiency, physical and mental health, and corporate energy costs. Therefore, office lighting must be both bright and comfortable, and energy-efficient. A truly excellent LED office lighting solution, through appropriate LED lenses and sophisticated optical design, delivers three core advantages: visual clarity, visual comfort, and economic and environmental benefits.

Posted on 2025-09-04

Application strategy of LED lenses in different areas of supermarket lighting

Modern supermarkets are far more than simple merchandise displays; they are complex retail environments whose lighting design directly impacts customer experience and operating costs. Different areas have distinct optical lighting requirements. Achieving optimal supermarket lighting isn't simply about selecting the brightest LED; it's about strategically applying precise optical design to specific areas. Proper light distribution enhances product appeal, ensures color fidelity, and guides customer flow, ultimately delivering significant results.

Posted on 2025-09-03

How LED Lenses Master Optical Distribution for Every Sport

A fantastic sporting event requires perfect lighting. Whether it's an amateur community stadium or a professional Olympic venue, lighting must meet two core requirements: a glare-free, shadow-free playing environment for athletes, and a clear, immersive visual experience for spectators and broadcasters. The key to achieving this goal lies in matching the optimal optical light distribution for specific sports. Different field sizes, viewing angles, and speeds of movement require distinct beam patterns.

Posted on 2025-09-02

Optical Design and Standard Analysis of Modern Sports Stadium Lighting

Achieving world-class stadium lighting requires more than raw brightness. It demands a sophisticated balance of precision optical design, customized LED lenses, and strict compliance with international standards. Optical components, the "brain" of LED light sources, shape raw light into an accurate, efficient, and comfortable visual environment.

Posted on 2025-09-01

How Optical Lenses Ensure the Warning Effect of Automotive Turn Signals

Turn signals are the universal language between vehicles and their surroundings. They communicate a driver’s intentions clearly and quickly, reducing the risk of misunderstanding and preventing accidents. For a warning signal to be truly effective, it must meet three critical requirements: high recognizability, fast response, and reliability under all weather conditions.

Posted on 2025-08-29

Unveiling the Optical System Design of Automotive Ambient Lights

In recent years, automotive interiors have undergone a remarkable transformation. A vehicle is no longer just a means of transportation — it has evolved into a “third living space”, where comfort, personalization, and technology converge. Among the many design elements shaping this immersive environment, ambient lighting has emerged as a powerful tool to evoke emotions, highlight materials, and enhance the overall driving experience.

Posted on 2025-08-28

The Key Role of Surgical Light Optical Design in Minimally Invasive Surgery

Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has transformed the landscape of modern healthcare, offering patients faster recovery, smaller incisions, and reduced trauma. Surgeons now require deeper illumination, perfect light uniformity, and accurate color rendering to navigate complex anatomy through limited access points. In this context, advanced optical design—not just the light source itself—has become a key enabling technology to ensure surgical precision and patient safety.

Posted on 2025-08-27

How to Achieve Shadowless Effect of Surgical Lights Through Lenses and Reflectors

In modern operating rooms, achieving a shadowless effect in surgical lighting is critical to ensure precision, safety, and visual comfort for surgeons. The integration of optical lenses and reflectors plays a key role in eliminating shadows, enhancing light uniformity, and providing accurate color rendering during surgical procedures.

Posted on 2025-08-25

Customize UFO Lenses for Your Warehouse and Factory

In modern industrial lighting, choosing the right optical solution is critical for achieving uniform illumination, improving energy efficiency, and creating a safer working environment. For warehouses, factories, and other large spaces, UFO high bay lenses play a decisive role in delivering precise light distribution and high performance. At Asahi Optics, our UFO lens series offers 13 different types, ranging from 110mm to 344mm in diameter, with multiple beam angles to accommodate diverse installation environments. Whether you are upgrading your warehouse lighting or designing a new factory setup, selecting the right lens involves considering several key factors.

Posted on 2025-08-21

In-depth Analysis of UFO High Bay Lens Design

In the evolving landscape of industrial lighting, the demand for highly efficient and precise optical solutions has led to continuous innovation in UFO high bay lens design. These lenses are not just protective covers for LEDs; they play a critical role in shaping light output, improving energy efficiency, and meeting diverse application requirements in industrial environments.

Posted on 2025-08-20

The selection of linear lenses for office lighting varies between South America and Europe.

In the evolving world of office lighting, architects and designers are increasingly adopting linear optical lens systems to achieve a balance between efficiency, aesthetics, and visual comfort. This article will explore which type of lens lighting designers in South America and Europe would choose

Posted on 2025-08-19

How LED Lenses Enhance Modern Office & Store Lighting

In modern office lighting and store lighting, the demand is no longer limited to brightness. Today, designers, facility managers, and retailers are looking for solutions that enhance visual comfort, improve energy efficiency, and highlight architectural aesthetics. To achieve these goals, optical components such as LED lenses play a critical role in shaping the light output and creating the right atmosphere for each space.

Posted on 2025-08-18

Football Stadium Lighting: Height, Brightness, and Cost Explained

From pole height to lumen output and operating costs, every aspect of football stadium lighting is shaped by both engineering standards and audience expectations. So this article will talk about the lighting project of a standard football field from three aspects: height, brightness and cost.

Posted on 2025-08-15

Lighting Criteria for Street and Sport Stadium Lighting

Understanding basic lighting standards is crucial both when designing a lighting system and when developing optical lenses. Choosing the right fixtures, beam angle, and protection level directly influences visibility, safety, and long-term durability. Let's talk about "Lighting Standards" in detail.

Posted on 2025-08-14

TIR Optics lens Explained

While a wide variety of optical lenses are available on the market, the most typical are conical lenses. These lenses are often referred to as TIR lenses, and a significant portion of their design relies on total internal reflection. This article will explore the application of TIR optical lenses in LED lighting！

Posted on 2025-08-13

How Optical Engineers Leverage Professional Software for Custom LED Optical Design？

In the field of LED optical design, choosing the right design and simulation tools is crucial to project success. As a company specializing in custom LED lens design, Asahi's optical engineers flexibly utilize software such as TracePro, LightTools, DiaLux, and SolidWorks, we ensure precision, efficiency, and performance in every project.Based on customer needs, we not only optimize optical performance but also ensure product reliability and consistency in real-world applications.

Posted on 2025-08-12

2x2 Narrow Beam High Mast Sport Lighting Lens

High mast sports lighting requires precision, uniformity, and superior beam control to meet professional standards. The 2x2 Narrow Beam High Mast Sport Lighting Lens is engineered to deliver powerful, focused illumination with minimal light spill, making it ideal for stadiums, arenas, and large outdoor sports facilities. In this article, we explore how the 2x2 narrow beam lens transforms high mast sports lighting into a precise and efficient system.

Posted on 2025-08-11

How does modern architectural lighting affect human judgment and efficiency?

In modern architectural lighting design, we focus not only on lighting standards but also on how people perform in a space—whether they work efficiently, read easily, and feel comfortable. Therefore, human perception of modern architectural lighting is fundamental to human activity.

Posted on 2025-08-08

Provide better optical design for LED office lighting

Office lighting is an important part of work environment design, directly affecting employees' work efficiency, visual comfort, mental health and even the overall office atmosphere.It is particularly important to use optical design to improve office lighting and make its overall efficiency more prominent

Posted on 2025-08-07

Australian Tennis Court Lighting Optical Design

As one of the four Grand Slam tournaments, the Australian Open boasts a rich history and has elevated Australian tennis internationally. Australia's reputation stems from its rich history, high-level competitions, and ongoing investment in the sport. Australia's efforts to cultivate tennis talent and promote the sport are inseparable from tennis court design. Optical design and lighting are also crucial steps in tennis court design. Let's take an example to illustrate Asahi's optical design for tennis court lighting.

Posted on 2025-08-05

Injection Molds in LED Lens Production- 4 Common Problems and Solutions

Asahi is one of the well-known precision plastic and optical mold manufacturers in China.Our mechanical engineers have 8-15 years of mechanical tooling design experience. They are skilled in simple and complex tooling designs. Let's talk about what factors will affect the injection mold in the production of optical lenses.

Posted on 2025-08-04

How to Avoid 3 Common Tunnel Lighting Mistakes

Travelers inevitably encounter tunnels, and tunnel lighting is one of the most important factors in ensuring driver safety. Poor design can lead to accidents, energy waste, and high maintenance costs. This article discusses three common tunnel lighting mistakes and how they can be avoided through lens optical design.

Posted on 2025-07-31

Why might lighting fixtures with UGR<19 still produce a glaring effect

In lighting design, UGR < 19 has been widely used as the upper limit of glare control. However, the UGR value output by most current design software is not the "applied UGR" (UGRAppl) recognized by the CIE standard.

Posted on 2025-07-30

How to Choose the Best LED Streetlight Lens for Urban Lighting

Over 30% of LED streetlights in past urban lighting projects underperformed due to poorly matched optical components. This resulted in dark spots, excessive glare, and wasted energy, costing cities tens of thousands of dollars in unnecessary replacement costs. Therefore, choosing the right LED streetlight lens is crucial. This article will explain how to select high-performance LED lenses for your urban lighting needs by focusing on two key technical factors: beam angle and material.

Posted on 2025-07-29

Choosing the Right Narrow Beam Lens for Your LED Lighting Project

In many lighting fields, the use of narrow-angle lenses is always an indispensable optical element. This article will talk about narrow-angle lenses and how to choose the narrow-angle lenses that are suitable for you.

Posted on 2025-07-25

Single lens for architectural and landscape lighting

With the rise of the tourism industry and technological advances in the outdoor lighting industry, the lighting of buildings and landscapes has become more than just "illumination", and has gradually pursued a sense of experience and art. This is mainly due to several key factors, so this article will talk about one of the core of this evolution - lens optical solutions!

Posted on 2025-07-23

Optical Lenses for Jewelry Store and Museum Lighting

The most important thing is the angle of the lens. At Asahi Optics, you can find the most important thing for jewelry lamps and museum lamps. The angle of the lens is the most important.

Posted on 2025-07-22

What is the Meaning of Optical Design?

Optical design is the science and engineering of controlling light to achieve the desired performance in various applications. Its use in lenses began with the Fresnel lens invented by Augustin Fresnel in the 18th century. The invention of the Fresnel lens has promoted the innovation of lens design. After continuous updates, optical design has realized the functional diversification of lenses.

Posted on 2025-07-17

How to Choose the Perfect UFO Lens for High Bay Lighting?

UFO industrial lights are a popular choice for industrial and commercial lighting due to their efficiency, durability and high performance. Choosing the right lens for your industrial UFO lamp ensures optimal light distribution, energy efficiency and workspace safety.

Posted on 2025-07-08

Custom Optical Lens Injection Mold

Asahi Optics is a leading Chinese manufacturer specializing in the design and production of high-quality optical lens molds. The molds we produce can be used in the production of optical lenses in areas such as street lighting, indoor lighting and automotive lighting.

Posted on 2025-07-08

What Are the Key Differences Between 3030, 3535, and 5050 LED?

While there are many LED chip dimensions available, this article focuses on comparing 3030, 3535, and 5050 LEDs and how to pair them with optimal optical lenses.

Posted on 2025-07-04

What is the Process for Custom LED Lens Manufacturing?

This article will explain in detail "What is the process for custom LED lens manufacturing?", including the information we need from you and the timeline for design and production.

Posted on 2025-07-02

Application of lens reflectors in LED lighting

As we all know, in LED lighting, controlling and optimizing light output is particularly important for efficiency and performance. We all know that optical lenses play an important role in LED lighting, but the role played by lens reflectors cannot be ignored, especially in COB LED applications.

Posted on 2025-06-18

How to choose the right custom LED lens manufacturer

we can see that choosing the right custom LED lens manufacturer, we believe that it includes these three points (optical design capabilities, production quality control, communication and price transparency).

Posted on 2025-06-06

Are LED lights safe for human eyes

Normal use of LED lights that meet international standards (with qualified LED lenses), blue light and flicker are within safe limits and will not directly damage vision!

Posted on 2025-05-30

The Future is LED

From the invention of the first LED in 1962, from the initial luxury goods, to the widespread use of ordinary lighting products in various fields today. Compared to halogen lamps, incandescent lamps, fluorescent lamps and other lighting fixtures, LED lamps have various advantages such as higher energy efficiency, longer lifespan, mercury free and more environmentally friendly.

Posted on 2023-05-30

What's the luminous flux? What are the factors affecting luminous flux？

Asahi will use various software and other optical tools in the design of LED lenses to analyse and adjust different factors in order to get the most suitable lens design.

Posted on 2023-05-30

What are the functions of using street lighting lenses

According to the optical design, the street lighting lens can change the beam angle of the street light, so that the lighting area and the beam angle of the street lighting can be controlled.

Posted on 2023-04-17

What's the UGR? How to control the UGR?

Asahi Optics developed various type of High Bay Lighting optical solution that can meet the DLC V5.1 requirement,UGR＜28.

Posted on 2023-02-21

Outdoor sport lighting lens

Selection of the outdoor sport lighting lens

Posted on 2022-10-18

Interlight-2022 In Russia

19-22 Sep, Interlight in Russia,Booth 22A45.

Posted on 2022-09-21

EXPO I Colombia Smartlighting

7-9 Sep, EXPO I Colombia lighting fair. Booth A26

Posted on 2022-09-14

Flicker-free LED Floodlights Improve Video Recordings at Skate Park in Germany

Posted on 2016-10-05

Winter is coming? World’s Top Lighting Manufacturer Philips Closes Shenzhen Factory

Posted on 2016-06-24

LEDforum 2016: Micro-LEDs Potential and Barriers Before Commercialization

Size matters in the world of micro-LEDs, in fact it will be difficult to use conventional LED designs to achieve super small sizes, while keeping the manufacturing process economic.

Posted on 2016-04-01

U.S. Town Answers Frequently Asked Questions Upon LED Lights Conversion

Posted on 2015-07-03

Top European Manufacturers Form Pilot Line Pi-Scale to Accelerate Commercialization of OLED

Europe’s technology leaders in the development of flexible OLEDs for lighting and signage applications have joined together in a consortium to develop an open access pilot line that will accelerate the commercial adoption of this promising new technology.

Posted on 2015-06-30

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