Optics for Laser Manufacturers
What can OPTOMAN
do for the laser manufacturers?
Laser optics that enable higher laser power and improve longevity
Nanosecond lasers
The most popular solution in the market that dominates heavy industrial and material processing sectors. Market maturity requires better efficiency and higher power. OPTOMAN can boost laser performance enabling higher power levels, lifetime, and performance.
Ultrafast lasers
The picosecond and femtosecond laser market is growing rapidly, especially in high-precision and low-thermal-impact applications. Short pulse duration requires a unique coating structure. OPTOMAN offers high LIDT, low absorption optics with precise dispersion control for maintaining ultrafast pulse integrity.
CW lasers
Continuous Wave lasers are crucial for material processing, telecommunications, and many medical applications. Long-term high-power exposure to optics could lead to spectral shifts due to heating and even damage. OPTOMAN offers thermal stability and long-term durability under continuous operation for cost-effectiveness and efficiency.
FAQ
What makes OPTOMAN different from other optics manufacturers?
OPTOMAN’s mission is to be Your Sidekick for Laser Optics Development. Our core value is the desire to make application-optimised and highly customised 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.
How can we be sure that OPTOMAN optics will fit our Business needs?
OPTOMAN digs deep into each application, providing highly customised and application-optimised solutions that will fit your business needs. Laser optics suitable for nanosecond, ultrafast and CW lasers are completely different as there is no one fits all solution when it comes to different laser parameters.
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 optimise BOM costs while maintaining the highest quality level.
Why Ion-Beam Sputtering Technology (IBS)?
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.
Moreover, IBS–coated optics help improve the Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) and reduce production and servicing costs in the long run. Operating one single coating technology reduces operational costs, which helps OPTOMAN destroy the myth that IBS coatings must be very expensive.
We already use IBS-coated optics, so why should we consider OPTOMAN?
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 human with the know-how. OPTOMAN is driven by highly skilled professionals who aim to maximise the value of IBS-coated optics for you with an ultrafast turnaround.
Is it possible to test the optics, and how scalable is the production?
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 are in the R&D phase; could OPTOMAN help at this stage?
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.
Capabilities
Spectral performance
OPTOMAN’s coatings can offer transmittance exceeding 99.98% for AR/AR coated components and reflectance of R>99.995% for high reflective coatings.
Repeatability
OPTOMAN understands the importance of repeatability, has many metrology processes, and ensures that each optic works as promised. Read more in the whitepaper about repeatability.
Lifetime
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.
LIDT
OPTOMAN’s coatings can withstand extremely powerful laser beams, with a threshold exceeding >39.4 MW/cm² @ 1070nm, CW and 1 J/cm² @ 1030 nm, 500 fs, for HR coatings. This makes them suitable for high-power laser systems.
Application optimised products
Unlike current components that degrade over time, our new Non-degrading UV Optics are designed to withstand prolonged exposure to high power laser pulses, enabling these systems to operate for more than 10,000 hours, which directly translates into lower maintenance costs, reduced downtime, and longer overall lifespan for high-power laser systems, which are crucial for industries that rely on continuous, high-precision operations.
- No color-change effect
- Enhanced lifetime (over 10000h)
- Higher LIDT (>0.35 J/cm² @ 343 nm, 300fs)
Design example
Lifetime measurements were performed to prove the “non-degradable” statement with the following laser parameters:
Wavelength: 343 nm
Pulse duration (FWHM): 300.8 fs
Repetition rate: 200 kHz
AOI: 45 deg
Polarization: Linear S
Beam diameter (1/e2): (40.9 ± 0.6) µm
According to measurement OPTOMAN UV mirrors can withstand 0.35 J/cm² laser fluence for at least 60 days of irradiation time.
Working at pulse durations less than 10ps, colour change effect become LIDT-limiting factor for ultrafast applications. OPTOMAN has developed a product specifically optimized for ultrafast laser applications – SuperHero Power Mirrors featuring no color-change damage.
- Very High LIDT (> 1 J/cm², 1030 nm, 500 fs, s-pol)
- No color-change effect and longer lifetime
- Low and spectrally uniform Group Delay Dispersion
Design example
Coatings (IBS)
S1 (arrow marks): HRs>99.95% & HRp>99.9%@1010 – 1050 nm, AOI=45°, |GDD Rs|<10 fs², |GDD Rp|<20 fs²
S2: Stress Compensating Coating
LIDT (measured):
> 0.7 J/cm², 1030 nm, 500 fs, 10 kHz, p-pol
> 1 J/cm², 1030 nm, 500 fs, 10 kHz, s-pol
> 3 J/cm², 1030 nm, 10 ps, 10 kHz, p-pol
> 5 J/cm², 1030 nm, 10 ps, 10 kHz, s-pol
Lifetime measurement
For laser that require very high spectral efficiency, extreme low-loss laser mirrors are a solution. Their superpower of high reflectance comes from the OPTOMAN’s continuous effort to add more and more nines after the point when talking about reflectance values.
- Low absorption and scattering (down to <2 ppm)
- For High Reflectivity mirrors, R>99.995% values.
- Low roughness and scattering
Design example
Coating (IBS):
HR>99.995% @ 1064 nm, AOI=0⁰
Absorption: <1.5 ppm
Pump mirrors require sharp High Reflectivity + High Transmittivity (HR+HT) conversion. Pump mirrors are challenging for laser optics manufacturers due to repeatability issues that arise from strict spectral requirements.
At OPTOMAN only 0.5% of all manufactured pump mirrors came with a spectral defect proving manufacturing repeatability capabilities.
Design example
Coatings (IBS):
S1: HRs>99.95% + HRp>99.5% @ 976 nm + HTp>98% (best effort 99%) @ 1030nm, AOI=45°
S2: ARp < 0.1% @ 1030 nm, AOI=45°
Certification
Here's what
our clients say
“OPTOMAN helps us to scale our business. From standard mirrors to custom coatings - OPTOMAN delivers highest quality with fast response times."
CEO at Class 5
"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 manufacturers are the biggest segment for OPTOMAN, accounting for half of total revenue.
Customers from this segment rely on OPTOMAN‘s optical assembly capabilities that simplify laser BOM.
9/10 laser engineers would recommend OPTOMAN to a colleague or business partner.
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