Custom Optical Coatings for OEM

Precision Optics Manufacturing: Optical Coatings

Optical Coatings

Internal Volume Coating Capabilities from 248nm to >40µm

Well-Established Partners Covering Selective UV Ranges From 13.5nm to 4.1nm

Anti-Reflective, Highly-Reflective, Filter, Polarizing, Beamsplitter, and Metallic Designs

High Laser Damage Threshold (LDT) and Ultrafast Laser Coatings

Diamond-Like Carbon Coatings with High Hardness and Resistance to Scratches and Corrosion

Capabilities

Edmund Optics^® produces dozens of stock anti-reflection (AR) and metallic mirror coatings and an even wider range of custom optical coatings in our internal coating facilities. If our standard coating options will not work for your application, we will work with you to design a custom coating.

Filters – Fluorescence, Dichroic, Narrow Bandpass, Multi-Bandpass, Notch, Edge (SWP and LWP)
Anti-Reflection – Single Layer, High Efficiency Multi-Layer (Broadband), Laser V, Double Laser V
Beamsplitters – Polarizing, Non-Polarizing
High Laser Damage Threshold – Anti-Reflection, High Reflection
Ultrafast coatings with controlled group delay dispersion (GDD) for laser pulse compression
ITO Conductive
Mirrors – Protected and Enhanced Aluminum, Silver, and Gold, "Hot" and "Cold" Dielectric, Multi-Layer Dielectrics
Specialized Designs – Build to Print, Custom Design and Development for UV, Visible, Infrared (NIR, MWIR, SWIR, LWIR)

General Coating Capabilities

Dimensions (Diameter or Square)

2 – 1000mm

Reflectivity

0.1 – 99.98%

Anti-Reflective Wavelength Range

248 – 12,000nm

Highly-Reflective Wavelength Range

13.5 – >40,000nm

Group Delay Dispersion (GDD) Range

-4000 - 5000 fs²

Shortpass Filter Cut-Off Wavelength

400 – 1600nm

Longpass Filter Cut-On Wavelength

240 – 7300nm

Bandpass Filter CWL, OD, and Bandwidth

193 – 10,600nm, >OD 7, 1nm - Broadband

Notch Filter CWL

355 – 1064nm

Reflective ND Filter OD

OD 0.1 – OD 3

Filter Center Wavelength (CWL) Tolerance

±1nm

Filter Edge Tolerance

<1% Deviation, <0.2% Special Cases

Beamsplitter (BS) Wavelength Range

240 – 20,000nm

BS Polarization Extinction Ratio (S:P)

10,000:1

Laser-Induced Damage Threshold (LIDT)

>40 J/cm² @ 1064nm @ 20ns @ 20Hz Pulses, Measured

Durability

MIL-PRF-13830B APP C, PARA C.3.8.4, PARA C.3.8.5, MIL-C-48497A

*Measured in the UV-visible range

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Equipment

Edmund Optics^® has state-of-the-art optical coating facilities in the US, Japan, and Singapore with capabilities including:

E-Beam Deposition
Ion-Assisted Deposition
Advanced Plasma Source (APS)
Ion Beam Sputtering
Magnetron Sputtering
Thermal Evaporation
High-Precision Optical Monitoring
Hard Coatings for Stringent Environments and Durability
Automated Ultrasonic Cleaning

Metrology

Edmund Optics^® performs a range of testing to ensure the highest performance from our stock and custom optical coatings. Coating metrology equipment:

Spectrophotometers Spectrophotometers are a type of spectrometer that measure the transmission spectrum of optics as a function of wavelength. They are often used to characterize optical coatings. - Agilent Cary, Hitachi, PerkinElmer LAMBDA, PerkinElmer FTIR, Varian, Essent Optics, and Photo RT
Olympus MX51 DIC Microscopes Microscopes are used to determine the surface quality of optics.
Filmetrics F20 Thin Film Analyzer
ZYGO NewView 9000 for Surface Roughness Metrology
Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy for High Reflectivities
Environmental Test Chambers: Temperature, Humidity, Salt Spray
UltraFast Innovations White Light InterferometerInterferometers are instruments used to measure small displacements, refractive index changes, and surface irregularities. They split light from a single source into two separate beams that travel different optical paths before recombining. Interference fringes are then formed, which provides information on the difference in optical path length between the two paths. Interferometers are often used to measure the surface accuracy of optics. for GDD measurements
Automated Abrasion Tester for Durability
Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
Photothermal Common-Path Interferometry

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