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give you a brief overview of the specialities
LASEROPTIK is able to serve:
optimized coating designs and techniques,
substrate handling and coating fixtures.
Optimized thin film coatingswith 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.
| Photonics West 2010 booth 4601-24 January 26.-28. San Francisco, USA |  |
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.
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| 1984 - 2009 LASEROPTIK GmbH celebrates the 25 anniversary! |
Glossary
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Anti Reflection Coating minimizes surface reflection of substrates for highest transmission, coated both sides, used as - window or, to minimize back side reflection of beam splitters, used as - rear side coating |
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High Reflection Coating for highest reflection, used as - cavity mirror - full reflector - bending mirror also available as - metallic mirror |
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PR |
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- partial reflector, - output coupler, - attenuator, - beam splitter, also available as - non polarizing beam splitter |
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Filter |
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HR / PR + AR Coating Combination of AR and HR or PR coatings for separating wavelengths, used as - long / short wave pass - steep edge filter - band pass / interference filter - notch / negative filter - dichroic filter - harmonic beam separator |
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or for combining laser beams, used as - beam sampler - combining mirror - pump mirror |
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Polarizer |
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Polarizer separates the polarizations, coated on plates for - thin film polarizer (TFP) also available for - cube polarizer - broad band polarizer works also as - polarization sampler |
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Variable Attenuator Gradient Coating for changing the transmission / reflection ratio with the angle, used as - variable attenuator or with the beam position used as - gradient output coupler - gradient attenuator - gradient pass filter - gradient interference filter |