Optical Coating for Fiber Optic Devices

fiber optic devices

Notch Optics offers an extensive range of advanced thin film designs tailored for direct deposition onto temperature-sensitive fiber optic devices, utilizing processes below 50 degrees C to minimize out-gassing from epoxies and cladding materials.

Our high-energy deposition techniques ensure the production of dense, environmentally stable films suitable for devices undergoing rigorous humidity and temperature cycling tests.

Our expertise includes fixture, cleaning, coating, and inspection of various fiber optic components such as bare fibers, jacketed fibers, ball lenses, laser bars, and window caps, all conducted within a clean room environment. In-house tooling supports the coating of many standard fiber assemblies, with custom designs available upon request.

Explore our standard optical coatings for Fiber Optic Devices:

  • AR Coatings: Low-temperature designs encompass super low, narrow band laser wavelengths, C-Band, L-Band, and dual wavelength coatings.
  • Metal Mirror Coatings (Near Infrared to far Infrared): Enhanced Gold Metal Mirrors deposited for laser diode applications including biomedical devices, scanning, sensing, military, and fiberoptic assemblies, compliant with MIL-M-13508C.
  • Dielectric Mirror Coatings: Low-temperature all-dielectric mirror coatings for direct deposition onto fiberoptic devices like fiber ends, GRIN rod lenses, laser diodes, laser bars, and other temperature-sensitive components, meeting MIL-C-48497 standards.
  • Beamsplitter Coatings (240nm – 2000nm): Dielectric and Metal Beamsplitters designed to split incoming light into reflected and transmitted components, optimized for specific requirements including ratio of reflected versus transmitted light, angle of incidence, wavelength region, polarization, and incident medium.
  • Custom Optical Filters: Includes Bandpass, Broadband Pass, Long Wave & Short Wave Pass, Dichroic, Rejection, Edge Pass, and Neutral Density Filters deposited using Ion Beam Sputtering Leybold APS and IAD Deposition.
  • Attenuation Coatings: Thin film coatings to reduce or eliminate excess energy in optical systems.
  • Metal and Dielectric Depositions: Deposition of coating materials to specified target thicknesses.
  • Solderable: Chrome, Nickel, Titanium, Platinum, and Gold depositions suitable for low-temperature soldering processes on fibers and other substrates.

For specific inquiries about Optical Coatings for Fiber Optic Devices, please contact our design team today!