We are an industry leader in special processing for unique and difficult applications. We have an experienced team of engineers and technicians who specialize in designing and creating high-quality optical products that fit our customers’ high-precision metrology needs. Some of the most common custom applications include:
- Micro-rules
- Micro-scales
- High precision grid and dot arrays
- Reticles
- Gray scale targets
- Machine vision scales
- Clear optical path targets.
Our capabilities span the UV-VIS-IR and X-ray spectra. A wide variety of metals and dielectrics can be patterned on an assortment of substrates in which submicron features and alignments are typical. Substrate dimensions can range from 1 mm x 1 mm to 3000 mm x 2000 mm.
Substrates
- All Glasses
- Sapphire
- Zinc Sulfide, Zinc Selenide
- Multispectrals
- Silicon Wafers
- Barium Fluoride, Calcium Fluoride
- Ceramics
- Fluorescent Glass Filters
- Optical Grade Polymers
- Mylar, Melinex, Kapton, and other Films
Common Coatings
- Gold
- Aluminum
- Silver
- Chromium
- Copper
- Nickel
- Platinum
- Titanium
- Dielectrics
- Protected Aluminum
- AR Coatings
- Low Reflection or High Contrast
Example Products
- Distortion/Dot targets
- Resolution targets
- USAF, Ronchi, or custom
- Replication down to 600 line pairs per mm
- Finer resolution with direct write
- Optical gauges
- Reticles
- Chrome on glass for inspection
- Etch-and-fill for side illuminated applications
- High-end rifle scope reticles
- Spectrophotometer slits
- Visible and IR applications
- High OD opaque areas with sharp slit edges (edge acuity ≤ ½ µm)
- Medical test slides
- Lens obscuration masks
- Laser alignment fiducials
- Scene targets
- Half tone process
- ≥128 gray levels usually possible
- Dewar windows (patterned Cr/Ni/Au stack)
- Encoder disks
- EMI shielded windows
