When it comes to selecting the right optical coating method for your specific application, one must realize that there is no Swiss-Army Knife tool available to cover all the varying needs presented in the photonics technologies. To get the best out of your product, you need the best possible coating process for that specific need. If someone tries to sell you one tool for all your needs, then there are compromises ahead. In the worst case, this will prevent you from reaching the goals of your product development or steer you onto a non-optimal process path. This is where our expertise on handling different kinds of tools and developing and testing different coating processes for a variety of applications can offer valuable insight to find exactly the process you need; minding all the limitations you might have.
For the moment we can assist you to choose the right method for your application from the selection of ion beam sputtering, electron beam evaporation, and plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition. When choosing the right process for your needs, one also needs to weigh in the fact that no coating system is exactly like another, so the selected processes need to be robust enough to be transferable between different systems.
We are constantly widening our collaborative network and equipment capabilities to also cover other methods of optical coating deposition and characterization, so in every case it is best to reach out to us and we can together continue from there.
