29 Nov 2010 Production Facility Expanded – New Coater with Advanced Technology
LASER COMPONENTS now offers an additional coating technology: IBS coatings.
HIGH-QUALITY COATINGS
Ion beam sputtering (IBS) is used for particularly difficult coatings where extremely accurate layer thicknesses are required with high reproducibility. The technology produces very durable and high damage threshold coatings due to the high density of the coating materials sputtered directly onto the substrate, making them particularly impervious to water vapour.
Another advantage of this process is that it produces very smooth and thus optically homogeneous layers as a result of the high kinetic energy obtained during layer deposition. The deposition rate, which is significantly lower than the rate of other methods, produces drift-free layers.
NEW PRODUCTS
Our customers will benefit from the expansion of our optics production facility in many respects. In future, not only will it be possible to be able to choose “the perfect coating” from all common coating technologies, but new products will find their way into our portfolio as well. This will include very steep filter coatings for high-power applications and low-dispersion coatings with reflection coefficients of R > 99.99% – but more on this in the coming issues.
For more information visit our website at
http://www.lasercomponents.com/uk/product/coating-process/
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