Laser Optics

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Manufacturing Laser Optics: Making optics with high laser damage threshold requires a comprehensive approach to process design and control. As metrology is integral to process design we’ve invested into both R&D and special equipment to provide our customers with unique capabilities. Some of our unique capabilities derive from a strategic relationship with Okamoto Optics Works of Yokohama Japan and Plymouth Grating Laboratory. Special resources available at Okamoto Optics include a 3.5m polishing machine and a 2-meter electron beam coating chamber with IAD. Special metrology tools include a 700-mm aperture phase measuring interferometer, Zygo NewView 6000 white light interferometric microscope. Through our partners at Plymouth Grating Laboratory we also have access to large aperture interferometry at 1053-nm, and SEM. We augment these special capabilities at AOS, with aspheric optics manufacturing and systems design and integration. Our experience along with our equipment have enabled us to develop processes which both optimize laser damage threshold while also controlling film stress and wavefront quality. This is critical to producing optics that maintain wavefront stability and film integrity in vacuum environments.

  • Size:                     10 mm - 1100 mm
  • Wavefront Quality:  up to 10 nm RMS
  • Surface Quality:     10-5 & better on many optics types
  • Coating:                 HR, AR, B/S for 351-1550 nm
  • Materials:               Glass and Glass Ceramics, Fused Silica, BK7, Nd Phosphate,
  • Crystals:                HAP, YCOB, BBO, LBO
  • Custom Designs:     Contact us with special requirements
  • Damage Threshold: Call for latest data
more info:  laser optics data sheet    technical publications    special technologies
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Kinematic Mounting Frames: All optics are available with kinematic mounting frames, to make installation of large optics modular. We design and manufacture according to your system requirements. We provide vacuum compatible and flexured designs to allow you to mount in any orientation while minimizing mount induced wavefront distortions.

more info: opto-mechanics and mounts

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Off Axis Parabolas: AOS custom manufactures off-axis parabolas up to 800mm in size. We use large format robotic grinding and polishing to achieve exceptionally precise surfaces with low mid-spatial errors. This is critical to achieving the highest energy densities with optimized wavefront. 

Key features in specifying an off-axis parabola include not just specifying the wavefront in terms of Peak to Valley or RMS errors, gradient tolerances in the mid-spatial frequency region can play a dominant role in ultimately determining image quality. This is why many off-axis parabolas underperform and why we have concentrated our expertise in optimizing this critical characteristic. 

All off-axis parabolas may be provided with the same high performance coatings developed by Plymouth Grating Laboratory and Okamoto Optics. OAPs may be purchased at the component level, or we can provide mounted with precise alignment actuators and mounts for direct insertion into your beamline. 

more info:  OAP data sheet     technical publications     robotic polishing

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Periscope Assemblies:  Custom periscopes can be provided in a variety of apertures, and orientations. Standard features to all periscopes are, kinematically mounted modular mirrors, high damage threshold coatings, and precision alignment adjustability. Options include special designs for vacuum compatible operation and automated remote control alignment controls.

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Beam Expanders:  Custom beam expanders can be provided in a variety of apertures and magnifications. Standard features to all beam expanders are a reflective layout with one or more aspheric mirrors, high damage threshold coatings, and mounts with precision alignment adjustability. Options include special designs for vacuum compatible operation and automated remote control alignment controls. 

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Mirror Mounts:

  • Apertures: 25-mm – 800-mm
  • In-house designed and manufactured
  • Manual & Automated Servo controlled
  • High Resolution Actuators
  • Integrated Optics Assembly
  • Vacuum Compatible Options
  • Finite Element Modeling
  • Gravity compensating actuator options
  • Clean room assembled and tested

 

more info:   mirror mount data sheet     opto-mechanics page

 

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