Highly repeatable laser optics with enhanced LIDT in various environments
These systems use kW or even MW power lasers, that require laser optics to have very high LIDT, while also being large (even up to 500mm)
For this application laser optics must be very precise to give the most accurate distance or other information. Moreover, the repeatability and lifetime of laser optics are also crucial.
High-resolution mapping and navigation require high precision. Additionally, repeatability in manufacturing these optics ensures that each lidar system operates with the same level of accuracy.
OPTOMAN’s mission is to be Your Sidekick for Laser Optics Development. Our core value is the desire to make application-optimized and highly customized solutions for you collaboratively and do that with ultrafast turnaround, being quick to react, consult and serve your optics needs.
OPTOMAN is completely concentrated on Ion-Beam Sputtering Technology (IBS) using solely in-house manufacturing capabilities run by highly skilled professionals, enabling OPTOMAN to increase the longevity and reliability of our partners’ laser systems, eventually resulting in a lower total cost of ownership.
OPTOMAN digs deep into each application, providing highly customized and application-optimized solutions that will fit your business needs.
Together, we will be able to set the priorities that are most important for your application and needs, whether it is reaching fundamental limitations, proving the concept, or making a well-balanced industrial high runner. We keep an open discussion about main price drivers and help customers optimize BOM costs while maintaining the highest quality level.
IBS is an inherently stable sputtering process that enables OPTOMAN to make highly repeatable laser optics that feature bulk-like coating density, negligible scattering, high resistance to laser irradiation and advanced spectral performance. OPTOMAN chose to focus on this technology, seeing it as the most suitable tool to enable higher laser energy levels and further advancements in laser technology.
Laser optics manufacturing is a more complicated process than choosing the right substrates and coating materials and uploading the coating design to the IBS machine. The right intermedium between the coating design and coating chamber is essential, and that intermedium is a human with the know-how.
OPTOMAN is driven by highly skilled professionals who aim to maximize the value of IBS-coated optics for you with an ultrafast turnaround. OPTOMAN defense market development manager, together with highly skilled coating engineers, is ready to consult you and provide highly customized and application-optimized solutions.
Yes. Based on the customer’s presented business case, OPTOMAN, with its R&D-driven attitude and collaborative approach, can design, develop, and manufacture products for testing purposes and present a plan for serial production. Different-size IBS coating chambers are very handy in this case because small-scale production can be easily transferred to our giant IBS machine – Albert (the atom smasher), where we can coat large optics or 400-500 units of 1“ laser optics in a single coating run, ensuring high uniformity, meaning that all mirrors will work the same making your laser systems highly repeatable and reliable too.
Moreover, our in-stock optics marketplace, OPTOSHOP, features over 400 different laser optics made with love by OPTOMAN. These optics can be provided for testing directly from stock and delivered in 1-3 business days. After successful tests, OPTOMAN can present the most optimal production plan matching your business needs.
We consider ourselves trailblazers of IBS-based optics manufacturing. We are eager to innovate in the field, so your RnD challenges are our best tasks. The passion for creating something new and our team’s satisfaction from seeing the solutions implemented are huge rewards. We have versatile manufacturing equipment suitable for prototyping and, later on, scalable mass production of thousands of units per day.
OPTOMAN’s coatings can offer transmittance exceeding 99.98% for AR/AR coated components and reflectance of R>99.995% for high reflective coatings.
OPTOMAN understands the importance of repeatability, has many metrology processes, and ensures that each optic works as promised. Read more in tech note about repeatability.
OPTOMAN is invested in prolonging the lifetime of optics, no color-change effect and enhanced lifetime (over 10000h at some wavelengths) that at certain wavelengths can be backed up with lifetime measurements.
OPTOMAN’s coatings can withstand extremely powerful laser beams, with a threshold exceeding >426 kW/cm @ 1070nm, CW for HR coatings. This makes them suitable for high-power laser systems. You can find more LIDT measurements on our LIDT capabilities page.
The capability of manufacturing large optics is paramount for DEL weapons. OPTOMAN has one of the largest IBS chambers in the world and is capable of manufacturing laser optics up to ⌀ 420 mm.
OPTOMAN is capable of manufacturing all types of laser optics with wavelengths ranging from 193 to 5000 nm. Moreover, OPTOMAN has put in a lot of effort in the Mid-IR spectral range, with knowledge in handling different substrates. Learn more about Mid-IR optics in tech note.
Direct Energy Laser Weapons (DELW) differ in size, wavelength, powers and other important specifications that require optics manufacturer to customize mirrors for this application. Some typical core requirements for mirrors for DELW:
Missile guidance systems, detectors and rangefinders typically operate in the Mid-IR spectral range, commonly used for thermal emissions detection.
OPTOMAN offers low loss AR coated windows with Mid-IR suitable substrate materials (IR fused silica, CaF2, Sapphire, Germanium, Silicon, ZnSe). Windows are suitable for IR detectors (InSb, HgCdTe, InGaAs), SWIR laser designators, MWIR thermal cameras, infrared search and track (IRST) systems.
Missile guidance systems operate under extreme conditions, requiring optics that can withstand high temperatures, mechanical stress, and harsh environments.
A major challenge is ensuring that optical components can provide reliable, high-transmission performance across specific infrared wavelengths, such as 1550 nm, which is critical for target acquisition and laser communication, while also offering high reflection in other wavelength ranges for specific laser guidance needs.
OPTOMAN optics are designed to resist thermal degradation and offer exceptional optical precision, which is critical for maintaining the integrity of laser pulses used in missile guidance.
Silicon carbide (SiC) is favored for laser mirrors in space and defense applications due to its lightweight, high thermal conductivity, and mechanical robustness.
OPTOMAN helps us to scale our business. From standard mirrors to custom coatings - OPTOMAN delivers the highest quality with fast response times.
CEO at Class 5
OPTOMAN helped improving our 3 µm laser device efficiency due to the exceptional transmission performance of their coatings at that challenging wavelength.
R&D Team Lead Laser - Optics - Lab
We are very satisfied with the quality of OPTOMAN's mirrors. After months and even years of use there is no sign of coating degradation, which is a sign of their good work. In addition to this, we also highly appreciate their eagerness to develop custom coatings for us, the clarity and accuracy of their communications, and the high speed in processing our requests. Definitely, OPTOMAN is one of our main mirror suppliers.
Dr. Juan B. Gonzalez-Diaz, Laser Engineer at DESY
OPTOMAN’s 0-45° mirrors ULLM19 and dual-wavelength ultrafast mirrors (1030+515 nm) have been extremely useful to our work. Both products deliver exceptional performance and quality!
Anne-Lise Viotti, Assistant Professor at Lund University
OPTOMAN's expertise and reactivity have made them our trusted partner for developing dispersion-controlled optics at unique wavelengths.
Clement Ferchaud, Extreme Light Consortium, Imperial College London, UK
The OPTOMAN optics perform excellently in facilitating high-power, high-energy, and ultrafast Yb lasers, which provides a strong foundation for its application in high flux EUV generation and attosecond spectroscopy.
Xiaochun Gong, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, China
Laser engineers from defense companies appreciate OPTOMAN‘s transparency and reliability the most.
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