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Thin-Film Coatings

www.alluxa.com

Alluxa - Santa Rosa, CA
Provides cutting-edge optical thin-film coatings for the most challenging optical filter scenarios. Produces custom filters with a combination of automation, algorithms, and a plasma thin-film deposition process. ISO 9001:2008 certified and ITAR registered.

• Established in 2007
• 85 employees
• Privately Owned

• Stock Manufacturer
• Custom Manufacturer

www.reynardcorp.com

Reynard Corporation - San Clemente, CA
Reynard Corporation manufactures custom optical components and thin-film coatings from 0.2 to 50 microns (UV to far-IR), in-house single-point diamond turning, optical fabrication, photolithography pattern optics, environmental testing, and design services. Prototype to production, ISO 9001:2015 certified, ITAR registered, and cybersecurity compliant.

• Established in 1984
• 45 employees
• 28,000-sq ft facility
• Privately Owned

• Custom Manufacturer

Thin-Film Coatings: Custom AR Coatings

Infrared Coatings: Far-IR AR

www.pgo.com

Precision Glass & Optics (PG&O) - Santa Ana, CA
Complete in-house turnkey optics solutions include precision and commercial components, thin-film coatings and fabrication for biomedical, military/defense, avionics, solar, digital cinema, and imaging. Quick turnaround on windows, mirrors, prisms, and assembled optics from square, rectangular, circular parts to complex shapes and precision optical prisms.

• Established in 1985
• 50 employees
• 25,000-sq ft facility
• Privately Owned

• Stock Manufacturer
• Custom Manufacturer

www.optexsys.com/optex-aoc-homepage

Applied Optics Center (AOC), Div. of Optex Systems Inc. - Dallas, TX
Designs and manufactures thin-film optical coatings for both visible and IR applications. AOC specializes in high-layer-count coatings associated with laser protection optics. Proficient at high-volume optical assembly, subassemblies and optomechanical bonding. Large capacity coating, and in-house metrology.

• Established in 1962
• 37 employees
• 45,000-sq ft facility
• Publicly Traded Stock

• Custom Manufacturer

www.c-optical.com

Cascade Optical Corporation - Santa Ana, CA
Manufacturer of custom vacuum-deposited thin-film coatings. Offers ion-assisted deposition, low-temperature, low-stress coatings for laser crystals and fiber optics. Prototype to production quantities. ISO and MIL SPEC compliant.

• Established in 1975
• 20 employees
• 21,000-sq ft facility
• Privately Owned

• Custom Manufacturer

www.depsci.com

Deposition Sciences Inc. (DSI), Sub. of Lockheed Martin - Santa Rosa, CA
Produces a wide variety of high performance optical, magnetic, and solderable thin-film coatings. Our technologies and custom deposition chambers offer coatings for the UV through LWIR. Known for our strong engineering services, we seek to understand your needs and to provide creative solutions for real-world applications. ISO 9001:2015 certified.

• Established in 1985
• 60 employees
• 145,000-sq ft facility
• Publicly Traded Stock

• Custom Manufacturer

AR Conformal Coatings

Dark Mirror Coatings

Infrared Narrow Bandpass Filters

www.nacl.com

North American Coating Laboratories - Mentor, OH
Manufactures custom vacuum-deposited thin-film coatings for glass and plastic optics, specializing in AR, reflective, ITO, conductive, metallic, filter, and scratch-resistant films. Diamond-like and protective coatings for all substrates, including hydrophobic overcoatings for easy cleaning; and scratch-resistant dip coatings for plastics.

• Established in 1974
• 50 employees
• 50,000-sq ft facility
• Privately Owned

• Custom Manufacturer

www.optiforms.com

Optiforms Inc. - Temecula, CA
A leading manufacturer of precision metal components and reflective surface finishes, including parabolic and elliptical reflectors, CPCs, and OAPs, as well as cold shields and waveguides for optics and photonics, defense, medical, and commercial markets. In-house capabilities: electroforming, thin-film coatings, electro-deposited platings, and 5-axis machining.

• Established in 1984
• 60 employees
• 62,000-sq ft facility
• Privately Owned

• Stock Manufacturer
• Custom Manufacturer

www.perkinsprecision.com

Perkins Precision Developments LLC - Longmont, CO
PPD provides custom laser optics, assemblies, and coatings for prototype, research, and OEM applications. PPD's precision fabrication, IBS thin-film coatings, and epoxy-free assembly processes enable total optics solutions. Products include beamsplitter cubes, laser mirrors, superpolished lenses and substrates, prisms, polarizers, and Brewster windows.

• Established in 2009
• 13 employees
• 7,000-sq ft facility
• Privately Owned

• Custom Manufacturer

www.hardinoptical.com

Hardin Optical Co. - Bandon, OR
We are a supplier of high quality precision custom optical components. We provide up-front technical support for optimizing manufacturability, cost, and quality. Capabilities include manufacturing and coating of optical components including lenses, aspheres, mirrors, windows, and prisms using a variety of visible and IR materials.

• Established in 1976
• 90 employees
• 65,000-sq ft facility
• Privately Owned

• Custom Manufacturer

www.lambda.cc

Lambda Research Optics Inc. (USA) - Costa Mesa, CA
Lambda Research Optics manufactures catalog and custom lenses, mirrors, beamsplitters, windows, prisms, filters, polarizers for defense, commercial, and medical laser applications. Lambda specializes in high-power coatings for excimer, YAG, fiber, CO2 lasers, and FLIR coatings. Precision polishing of CaF2, MgF2, BK7, fused silica, ZnSe, Ge, and Si.

• Established in 1991
• 60 employees
• 36,000-sq ft facility
• Privately Owned

• Custom Manufacturer

www.omegafilters.com

Omega Optical Inc. - Brattleboro, VT
Producing precision optical filters since 1969, from the UV to NIR. We specialize in custom filters from prototype to OEM quantities. Fluorescence, astronomy, and overrun filters in stock. Prototyping, engineering, and high-volume production utilizing plasma-assisted reactive magnetron sputtering, e-beam, thermal evaporation, and ion assist.

• Established in 1969
• 100 employees
• 30,000-sq ft facility
• Privately Owned

• Custom Manufacturer

www.unitedlens.com

United Lens Company Inc. - Southbridge, MA
A vertically integrated manufacturer of custom optical components specializing in thin-film coatings, precision machined and polished optical elements. ISO 9001:2015 certified and ITAR registered and features state-of-the-art metrology.

• Established in 1916
• Privately Owned

• Custom Manufacturer

www.viavisolutions.com

VIAVI Solutions Inc. - San Jose, CA
Specializes in network and service enablement and optical security and performance products and solutions. Provides optical thin-film filters, thin-film coatings, and components. Diverse portfolio including visual, near-IR and IR filters, AR coatings, custom wave plates, and more.

• Custom Manufacturer

www.andovercorp.com

Andover Corporation - Salem, NH
Manufacturer of precision optical filters and coatings for the aerospace, astronomy, research, environmental, military, machine vision, and medical markets. Extensive line of standard products; specializes in custom designs. US owned, ITAR registered and AS 9100 and ISO 9001 certified.

• Established in 1976
• 53 employees
• 44,000-sq ft facility
• Privately Owned

• Stock Manufacturer
• Custom Manufacturer

www.brdoptical.com

BRD Optical Co. Ltd. - Changchun, China
Custom optics, such as spherical lenses, dome lenses, prisms, windows, filters, cylindrical lenses, aspherical lenses, mirrors, beamsplitters, optical assemblies. Also custom lens design and optical systems design.

• Established in 2004
• 42 employees
• 4,500-sq ft facility
• Privately Owned

• Custom Manufacturer

www.castech.com

CASTECH INC. - Fuzhou, China
CASTECH manufactures NLO crystals, laser crystals, and precision optics. We have capabilities for both rapid reaction prototype and volume orders. ISO:9001 system and advanced metrology instruments for stringent quality control on each part. We steadily focus on the best solution for every demand.

• Established in 1988
• 900 employees
• 450,000-sq ft facility
• Publicly Traded Stock

• Custom Manufacturer

www.chroma.com

Chroma Technology Corp. - Bellows Falls, VT
Manufacturer of optical filters and coatings for many demanding applications such as: biomedical instruments and imaging systems, fluorescence microscopy, aerospace, surveillance, machine vision, industrial inspection such as semiconductors, food and lumber, multispectral imaging, and chemical analysis.

• Established in 1991
• 125 employees
• 41,000-sq ft facility
• Employee Owned

• Stock Manufacturer
• Custom Manufacturer

www.evaporatedcoatings.com

Evaporated Coatings Inc. - Willow Grove, PA
Optical coatings for precision glass and polymer optics, fiber optic devices, crystals, and semiconductors. Designs include optical filters, high power AR and HR laser mirrors, ultralow antireflection, enhanced mirrors, beamsplitters, transparent conductive coatings, LWP/SWP filters, antistatic, attenuation and custom designs. ISO 2001:9015 certified.

• Established in 1960
• 48 employees
• 16,000-sq ft facility
• Privately Owned

• Custom Manufacturer

Bandpass Filters

www.fisba.com

FISBA AG - St. Gallen, Switzerland
Specializes in precision optical systems and components. Creates solutions tailored to specific requirements. Develops and manufactures lenses, laser modules, micro-optics, and advanced optical components for medical, laser, industrial, military, and space applications.

• Established in 1957
• 350 employees
• 55,000-sq ft facility
• Privately Owned

• Custom Manufacturer

www.fisba.us

FISBA LLC, Sub. of FISBA AG - Tucson, AZ
Designer and manufacturer of customized precision optical components, assemblies, subsystems and instruments for medical, laser, industrial, military and space applications.

• Established in 1957
• 350 employees
• Privately Owned

• Custom Manufacturer

www.gurley.com

Gurley Precision Instruments Inc. - Troy, NY
Manufactures reticles, lenses, prisms, mirrors, resolution targets, step wedges, absolute and incremental discs/scales, patterns and replications, encoders, engineering and surveying instruments and digital readout systems for machine tools. UV to NIR optical coating capabilities include AR coatings, hot/cold mirrors, dielectric films.

• Established in 1845
• 100 employees
• Privately Owned

• Custom Manufacturer

NarrowBand AR Coating - V-Coat

www.iivi-os.com

II-VI Optical Systems, Sub. of II-VI Inc. - Murrieta, CA
II-VI Optical Systems brings together several leading brands under II-VI Inc. Our expanding and extensive capabilities cover a wide range of products and applications, including high precision imaging optical assemblies, high energy laser assemblies, hypersonic assemblies, semiconductor and compound photonic components and advanced materials.

• Established in 1961
• 400 employees
• Publicly Traded Stock

• Custom Manufacturer

www.inradoptics.com

Inrad Optics Inc. - Northvale, NJ
Specializes in crystalline materials, glass and metal optical components and electro-optical devices. Vertically integrated, products include BBO, KDP, LiNbO3 Pockels cells and Q-switch elements, beamsplitters, ZGP and UV crystals, large transmission flats and mirrors, assemblies, x-ray monochromators, diamond-turned aspheres, and nickel-plated beryllium mirrors.

• Established in 1973
• 70 employees
• 42,000-sq ft facility
• Publicly Traded Stock

• Custom Manufacturer

www.iridian.ca

Iridian Spectral Technologies - Ottawa, Canada
Iridian Spectral Technologies provides optical filter solutions to a wide variety of applications in telecommunications, spectroscopy, lasers, biomedical, endoscopy, sensing, display, and entertainment. Our optical filters cover the spectral range from UV 300 nm to LWIR 10 microns including bandpass, edge pass, dichroic, notch, and multizone filters.

• Established in 1998
• 140 employees
• 40,000-sq ft facility
• Privately Owned

• Stock Manufacturer
• Custom Manufacturer
• Supplier/Distributor

www.materion.com

Materion Precision Coatings, Bus. Unit of Materion Corporation - Westford, MA
As one of the most diverse and technologically advanced thin film companies in the world we design and manufactures optical coatings and filters over the 300-nm to 40-micron spectral range. Applications: instrumentation, spectroscopy, thermal and flame/gas detection, optics, night vision, gesture control, surveillance, displays, space/aerospace, astronomy.

• Established in 1971
• 250 employees
• 129,000-sq ft facility
• Publicly Traded Stock

• Custom Manufacturer

NanoGetters Technology

www.mldtech.com

MLD Technologies LLC - Mountain View, CA
Produces high-performance optical coatings and components specializing in the design, development, and manufacture of ion-beam sputtered, low optical loss, laser-damage resistant thin films for the UV-VIS-IR spectral region. Applications include lasers, laser devices, nonlinear crystals, medical instruments, and other photonic devices.

• Established in 1997
• Privately Owned

• Custom Manufacturer

Polarizer

newportlab.com

Newport Thin Film Laboratory Inc. - Chino, CA
Newport Thin Film Laboratory (NTFL) is a leading manufacturer of custom thin film coatings. For more than four decades, coatings produced by NTFL have contributed to engineering progress worldwide. NTFL is a fully equipped cleanroom facility specializing in the design and manufacture of thin films in the UV, VIS, and IR spectrum.

• Established in 1975
• 20 employees
• 18,000-sq ft facility
• Privately Owned

• Stock Manufacturer
• Custom Manufacturer

Optical Beamsplitter Coatings

Mirror Coatings

Antireflection Coatings

www.rr-optics.com

Rainbow Research Optics Inc. - Centennial, CO
Manufacturer of precision optical components and high-power laser coatings from UV to IR. Stock and custom optics: lenses, beamsplitters, filters, windows, mirrors, wave plates, large wedges, prisms, and many more. In-house custom coatings: AR, high reflection, dichroic, and polarizing. Optics from 4 mm to 16 inches.

• Established in 1995
• 75 employees
• 29,234-sq ft facility
• Privately Owned

• Stock Manufacturer
• Custom Manufacturer
• Supplier/Distributor

Thin Film Coatings

www.rmico.com

Rocky Mountain Instrument Co. (RMI) - Lafayette, CO
A fully integrated manufacturer of high quality photonics products. Capabilities include custom optical fabrication, UV/VIS/IR coatings, optical assemblies, full spectrum design and testing, CVD ZnSe crystal growth, DPSS laser marking systems. Fulfills OEM requirements for virtually any prototype specification and quantity.

• Established in 1957
• 150 employees
• 90,000-sq ft facility
• Privately Owned

• Custom Manufacturer

www.visimaxtechnologies.com

VisiMax Technologies Inc. - Twinsburg, OH
Provides precision optical coatings for glass and polymer optics. Offers an extensive range of coating types including AR, beamsplitters, hot and cold mirrors, protective hard coatings, ND and bandpass filters, metal and dielectric reflectors. Custom coating. Cleanroom coating facility with state-of-the-art coating systems and automation.

• Established in 2000
• 20 employees
• 20,000-sq ft facility
• Privately Owned

• Custom Manufacturer

VisiClear BBAR

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Glossary

antireflection coating A thin layer of material applied to a lens surface to reduce the amount of reflected energy. Ideally the index of refraction of that material should be equal to the square root of the product of the indices of the material on either side of the...
dielectric coating A high-reflectance coating consisting of alternating layers of quarter-wave film of a higher refractive index and lower refractive index than the substrate. Such coatings can be made very specific to a reflected wavelength or, by varying the layers'...
metallic coating A thin layer of metal deposited on the surface of a substrate. The film may serve as a reflector, beamsplitter, neutral density filter or electromagnetic interference filter.
dichroic filter A filter used to selectively transmit light according to its wavelength and not its plane of vibration.

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