FAQs: Optimize Your Optical Coating Process
How can I speed up the turnaround on coatings? Start with standard specifications rather than creating unique ones requiring the optical coater to reinvent the wheel. Penn Optical Coatings has several hundred standard recipes to choose from, specifically in anti-reflection coatings. Manufacturers should use optics that are in a common diameter for existing tooling. An […]
Optimized Coating Designs for Polarizing Optics
Beamsplitter coatings are normally produced on plate glass or in cube format. The incident beam splits into a partially transmitted beam and a partially reflected beam, where the reflected beam is typically directed 90 degrees from the Incident and transmitted beam. Figure 1 Here we discuss a special group of beam-splitters that use polarization and […]
Optical Coatings Enhance Beam-splitter Performance
Beam-splitters are one of the most widely used components in optical systems. A Beam-splitter is an optical component that divides an incident beam of light into two or more beams by wavelength, polarization, or intensity. A portion of the beam is transmitted, while the other portion is reflected. Cube and plate Beam-splitters are two of […]