Custom/OEM Optics

Overview of Capabilities

Custom optics from Laser Optics are widely used in laser systems, semiconductor inspection tools, and fiber optic telecommunication components. In addition, numerous defense systems and scientific instruments used at leading university, corporate, and national laboratories, rely on Laser Optics optical components. Noteworthy characteristics that set Laser Optics apart from other optics companies are the wide range of expertise and capabilities in optical fabrication and thin-film coating, all housed under one roof, and the extensive emphasis on in-process metrology. In addition, we have unique capabilities for manufacturing x-ray monochromators and toroids that are unsurpassed in performance.

Optical Fabrication and Polishing

Optical Coatings

Laser Optics has broad experience in the production of custom coatings, with special expertise in the design of multi-wavelength, wide angle and polarization specific coatings.

We have an extensive repertoire of sophisticated, time-proven optical coatings. These coatings include anti-reflective, reflective, polarizing and beamsplitter coatings for the ultraviolet, visible and near infrared. State-of-the-art modeling programs facilitate the optical thin-film design process.

The same careful procedures used for coating in-house manufactured components are available for customer furnished materials (CFM)

With coating chambers equipped for thermal evaporation, electron beam evaporation and ion-assisted deposition, we can choose the optimum process to meet application requirements at wavelengths that range from 0.20 microns to 16 microns.

• Optical Coatings

• High Power Laser Coatings

• AR Coatings

• Partial Reflectors

• High Reflection Dielectric Mirrors

• Dichroic Filters

• Beam Folding Mirrors

• Lower Power Laser Coatings

• High Reflection Enhanced Metallic Mirrors

• Polarizing Beamsplitter Coatings

• Filter Coatings (Short, Long, and Band Pass)

• Neutral Density Filters

Crystalline Optics

We fabricate optical components from crystalline materials for specific applications that are enabled by the properties of the crystal. These properties can include optical transmission, power handling, lattice spacing, and polarization effects.

Polarization effects play a large role in optics, and Laser Optics has a proud heritage of providing high quality waveplates and polarization-altering components. Examples of our capabilities are covered under the headings below.

We encourage customers to contact us with their prints for optics specific to their
application.

• Birefringent Optics

• Birefringent Beam Displacers

• Birefringent Wedges

• Quartz Rotators

• Quartz Waveplates

• Crystal Polarizers

• Crystal Depolarizers

• Birefringent Filters

Facility Overview
In order to provide you with a better sense of the capabilities of Laser Optics, we have compiled a brief listing of features relating to the Laser Optics facility below.

· High Volume Fabrication Facility
  · LAPMASTER LSP-6 Dual Sided Grinding and Polishing

  · OPTOTECH SMP-500 Rough and Fine Grinding
      High Speed Removal Rate
      Dual Diamond Tool ­ Rough and Fine Grinding in One Step

  · OPTIPRO SX-100 CNC Generator
      Rapid Prototyping of Complex Geometries

  · OPTOTECH SMC100 CNC Grinding Center
      Automated CNC Surface Grinding
      High Speed Spherical Surface Generation

  · OPTOTECH SPK 100 CNC Polishing Center
      Automated CNC Surface Polishing
      High Speed Precision Polishing of Spherical Surfaces

  · HAAS Mini Mill Core Drill
      CNC Core Drilling of Blanks for Increased Thoughput

  · CREST Ultrasonic Automated Cleaning Line

  · Four STRASSBAUGH Cylindrical and Ellipsoidal Polishing Machines

  · 72", 60", and 48" Continuous Polishing Machines (STRASSBAUGH and  
    LAPMASTER) with Big Flats Capability

· Professional Manufacturing Staff

· Robust Coating Facility
  · Three Large Box Coaters
  · Eight Bell Jar Coaters
  · Ion Assist Capability
  · UV, Visible, Near-IR, and IR out to 10.6 microns

· Strong Thin Film Design Capability

· Extensive Metrology
 
  · Mechanical Verification
      Calipers, Micrometers, Gauge Blocks and Gauge Pins
      HEIDENHAIN Drop-Dial Indicator
      MITUTOYA MU Checkers
      NIKON Autocollimators
      TRIOPTICS Computerized Autocollimator
      Radius Scale
 
  · Surface Inspection
      18" ZYGO GPI-XP/D Interferometer
      12" ZYGO Mark-II Interferometers
      6" ZYGO Mark IV-XP Interferometer
      4" ZYGO GPI-XP/D Interferometer
      High Intensity Lights and Scrtach/Dig Standards
 
  · Environmental Durability
      Salt / Fog Chamber
      Temperature / Humidity Chamber
      Calibrated Eraser Test
      Certified Adhesion Tape

  · Spectral Characterization
      HITACHI U-4001 VIS-NIR Spectrophotometer
      PERKIN ELMER 1600 FTIR
      PERKIN ELMER Lambda 19
      Perkin Elmer 983 IR
      Various Laser Sources / Laser Detectors

  · Crystal Certification
      Double Crystal X-Ray Spectrometer
      Back Reflection Laue
      Powder Diffraction
      Four Crystal BLAKE Monochromator
      X-ray Topography Capability
      Soliel-Babinet Compensators

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