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Coating Guide extended
The menu section Coating guide on top
became an extension. Our Coating specials
give you a brief overview of the specialities
LASEROPTIK is able to serve:
optimized coating designs and techniques,
substrate handling and coating fixtures.

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Optimized thin film coatings
with IBS
This article (in german) by Dr. Wolfgang Ebert and Tobias Groß (published in "Laser+Photonik", Iss. 1, March 2010, p. 30-34) discusses and compares the different coating methods found at LASEROPTIK with focus on IBS process and its special possibilities.
       

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Photonics West 2010 booth  4601-24 January 26.-28. San Francisco, USA

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LASEROPTIK started an "open door" day on September 3.,2009. A lot of visitors came in to congratulate, celebrate and inform themselves about the capabilities of our production. A photo gallery of LO OPEN can be seen here or at menu item "About us > 25th anniversary".
A short article (in german) describes the day and the celebrations at the "Laserhof" in Garbsen.
download PDF file

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1984 - 2009 LASEROPTIK GmbH celebrates the 25 anniversary!

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AOI	angle of incident beam to normal of surface
AR	anti reflection coating
BB..	broadband..
BK7	borosilicate crown glass
BS	beamsplitter
BW	bandwidth for R > 99%
cc	concave
cx	convex
CW	continuous wave
CWL	center wavelength
DAR	double AR
DR	double reflector
FS	fused silica
HBW	half bandwidth
HR	high reflector
IR-FS	fused silica with low OH-content
LDT	laser damage threshold
LP	long (wave) pass
NP..	nonpolarizing ..
OC	output coupler
Ř	diameter
p-pol	p-polarized light
pl	plano
PR	partial reflector
QWS	quarter wave stack
R	reflectance
rand.	random (average) polarized light
ROC	radius of curvature
SP	short (wave) pass
s-pol	s-polarized light
t	thickness
tc	center thickness
T	transmittance
Tp	p-polarisation transmittance
Ts	s-polarisation transmittance
TFP	thin film polarizer
uc	uncoated
UV-FS	synthetic fused silica with high UV-transmittance
λ	Wavelength