Inprentus

Inprentus is a manufacturer of custom blaze (ruled) diffracting grating masters and replicas.

Advanced manufacturing of precision optics using proprietary nano-scale contact-mode lithography techniques

Inprentus designs, manufactures, and sells custom designed blaze diffraction gratings masters for use in synchrotron radiation facilities, spectrometer, laser and optical applications. Inprentus has developed and commercialized an innovative, dual-atomic microscope scribing technology, which is a technique for carrying out nano-scale lithography via mechanical deformation of metallic surfaces.This technology is a general purpose approach to high-precision patterning of surfaces, and is particularly suited to x-ray and EUV diffractive optics in which features must be shaped with 0.1 degree angular precision and positioned with nanometer precision over distances of tens of centimeters.