Ealing 550mm Optical Rail Breadboard 5x 3in Carriers Optical Bench Lab System

Ealing 550mm Optical Rail Breadboard 5x 3in Carriers Optical Bench Lab System

This is an Ealing 550mm optical rail breadboard with five 3-inch carriers, forming a complete optical bench rail system for positioning and securing optical components. The aluminum rail serves as a precision linear track, and the five black-anodized 3-inch carriers slide along it and lock in place via thumbscrew knobs. Each carrier features red and green position indicator dots on top and a millimeter-graduated scale is engraved along the rail for repeatable component placement.

Specifications & What's Included

• Brand: Ealing
• Rail length: 550mm
• Carrier size: 3 inch (3")
• Number of carriers: 5
• Rail material: aluminum with engraved millimeter scale
• Carrier color: black anodized
• Locking mechanism: thumbscrew knob (Ealing logo cap) on each carrier
• Position indicators: red and green dots on carrier top surfaces
• Includes: one 550mm optical rail breadboard and five 3-inch carriers assembled on rail

Applications

Ealing optical rail systems are standard benchtop tools in photonics, laser optics, and general optics labs. The rail-and-carrier format allows researchers to quickly position lenses, beam splitters, filters, light sources, detectors, and other optical components along a common optical axis, then lock each carrier in place for stable, repeatable measurements. Ealing Electro-Optics, a UK-based optical instruments manufacturer, produced rail and carrier systems like this for academic, industrial, and government research facilities — they remain widely used in university physics and optics labs, and in any setting where a flexible, modular optical bench is needed. The 550mm rail length is well suited to mid-scale optical setups where a full-length optical breadboard table isn't required. The 3-inch carrier size accommodates standard optical component mounts and posts.