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Anti-reflection Coatings

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Anti-reflection coatings (AR coatings) are dielectric thin-film layers applied to optical surfaces to minimize reflectivity and enhance light transmission. These coatings are essential for improving the efficiency of optical systems by reducing unwanted reflections and glare, thereby increasing the overall performance of lenses, displays, and other optical components.

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Some aspects to consider before buying anti-reflection coatings: reflection reduction, wavelength range, coating durability, compatibility with substrates, environmental resistance, laser damage threshold, ease of application.

Manufacturers and Other Suppliers for Anti-reflection Coatings

145 suppliers for anti-reflection coatings (AR coatings) are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 11 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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Optical Coatings

Optical coatings are thin layers of materials applied to optical components, such as lenses, mirrors, filters, and prisms, to modify their reflective and transmissive properties. These coatings are designed to enhance the performance of optical systems by controlling the way light interacts with the surfaces of the components. Learn more about optical coatings &#;

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Shanghai Optics Inc. - Metuchen, NJ

Shanghai Optics is able to provide all types of anti-reflective, high reflective, and partial reflective coatings. Whether you need a single layer anti-reflective coating or complex multilayer dielectric stacks, we can manufacture exactly what you need. Dielectric coatings such as BBAR, V-coatings, dual wavelength coatings, and sharp cut-on and cut-off filters are available in stock.

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MLD Technologies LLC - Mountain View, CA

Produces high-performance optical coatings and components specializing in the design, development, and manufacture of ion-beam sputtered, low optical loss, laser-damage resistant thin films for the UV-VIS-IR spectral region. Applications include lasers, laser devices, nonlinear crystals, medical instruments, and other photonic devices.

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3 products

Avantier Inc. - North Plainfield, NJ

Avantier Inc. is a leader in providing imaging systems solutions. We offer advance precision custom optical design, optical engineering, optical lens assembly, rapid optical prototyping, image processing, and manufacturing services. Avantier is both ISO : and ISO : certified.

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57 products

Lambda Research Optics Inc. (USA) - Costa Mesa, CA

Lambda Research Optics manufactures catalog and custom lenses, mirrors, beamsplitters, windows, prisms, filters, and polarizers for defense, commercial, and medical laser applications. Lambda specializes in high-power coatings for excimer, YAG, fiber, CO2 lasers, and FLIR coatings. Precision polishing of CaF2, MgF2, BK7, fused silica, ZnSe, Ge, and Si.

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AccuCoat Inc. - Rochester, NY

Supplier of thin-film coatings on polymer, metal, and glass components. Produces a wide variety of antireflective, beamsplitter, hot and cold mirror, filter and metallic coatings as well as custom coatings. Experienced in handling prototype through OEM volumes. Coatings available from UV to the IR.

Custom Manufacturer

4 products

OPCO Laboratory Inc. - Fitchburg, MA

Manufacturer of custom optics, optical replication, diffraction gratings, electro-optical assemblies, metallic and dielectric thin-film coatings for prototype and volume production. State-of-the-art manufacturing, coating, QC, assembly and class cleanrooms. Serving commercial and defense markets worldwide.

Custom Manufacturer

9 products

Edmund Optics - Barrington, NJ

Global supplier and manufacturer of optics, imaging, and photonics technology supporting the R&D, semiconductor, biotech, and defense markets. Products include a wide array of multi-element lenses, lens coatings, imaging systems, and optomechanical equipment. Supports OEM applications with volume production of stock and custom products.

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G&H - Somerset, United Kingdom

G&H provides design and manufacturing solutions to OEM customers around the world. We meet challenging specifications and offer long product lifetime and guaranteed performance in harsh environments. Our Group is comprised of three businesses: G&H Aerospace and Defense, G&H Industrial and Telecom, G&H Life Sciences and Biophotonics.

Custom Manufacturer

1 product

North American Coating Laboratories - Mentor, OH

Manufactures custom vacuum-deposited thin-film coatings for glass, plastic, and infrared optics, specializing in AR, reflective, ITO, conductive, metallic, filter, and scratch-resistant films. Now offering diamond-like carbon for all substrates, including severe abrasion DLC for chalcogenide material.

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Applied Optics Center (AOC) - Dallas, TX

Designs and manufactures thin-film optical coatings for both visible and IR applications. AOC specializes in high-layer-count coatings associated with laser protection optics. Proficient at high-volume optical assembly, subassemblies and optomechanical bonding. Large capacity coating, and in-house metrology.

Custom Manufacturer

3 products

Evaporated Coatings Inc. - Willow Grove, PA

Optical coatings for precision glass and polymer optics, fiber optic devices, crystals, and semiconductors. Designs include optical filters, high power AR and HR laser mirrors, ultralow antireflection, enhanced mirrors, beamsplitters, transparent conductive coatings, LWP/SWP filters, antistatic, attenuation, and custom designs. ISO : certified.

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3 products

Andover Corporation - Salem, NH

Manufacturer of precision optical filters and coatings for the aerospace, astronomy, research, environmental, military, machine vision, and medical markets. Extensive line of standard products; specializes in custom designs. US owned, ITAR registered and AS and ISO certified.

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Optimax Systems Inc. - Ontario, NY

Optimax is located in Ontario, NY, and manufactures high precision optics in aerospace, defense, and semiconductor. During the past 30 years, we have grown to more than 400 employees, our capabilities include research, optical coatings, and engineered solutions. We are America's largest prototype optics manufacturer.

Custom Manufacturer

1 product

Reynard Corporation - San Clemente, CA

Reynard Corporation manufactures custom optics and thin-film coatings from 0.2 to 50 microns (UV-IR). Other in-house capabilities include diamond turning, optical fabrication, photolithography pattern optics, environmental testing, and design services. Prototype to production, ISO : certified, ITAR registered, and Cybersecurity (CMMC) compliant.

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16 products

Alluxa - Santa Rosa, CA

Provides cutting-edge optical thin-film coatings for the most challenging optical filter scenarios. Produces custom filters with a combination of automation, algorithms, and a plasma thin-film deposition process. ISO : certified and ITAR registered.

Stock Manufacturer

1 product

Delta Optical Thin Film A/S - Horsholm, Denmark

Design and manufacture advanced custom thin-film components for OEM volume applications. Products include linear variable filters, variable dichroics, high-quality fluorescence filter sets, filters and dichroics, and filter sets for point-of-care instruments, beamsplitter cubes, and many other components.

Custom Manufacturer

10 products

OPTOMAN - Vilnius, Lithuania

Specialist in designing, developing, and manufacturing advanced, high-accuracy, and repeatability thin-film coatings by ion beam sputtering (IBS) technology. Provides customized and application-optimized laser optics featuring high LIDT, longevity and reliability.

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19 products

Alpine Research Optics - Boulder, CO

Produces custom, high-damage threshold, long lifetime laser optics including mirrors, polarizers, beamsplitters, and windows. Specializes in coatings from 193 nm to 2 microns. Materials include CaF2, MgF2, FS, and BK7. Supplier to linear accelerators using ultrafast, excimer, and solid-state laser systems worldwide.

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10 products

Chroma Technology Corp. - Bellows Falls, VT

Manufacturer of optical filters and coatings for many demanding applications such as biomedical instruments and imaging systems, fluorescence microscopy, aerospace, surveillance, machine vision, industrial inspection such as semiconductors, automation, multispectral imaging, chemical analysis. Custom and catalog optical filters. 100-percent employee-owned.

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Iridian Spectral Technologies - Ottawa, Canada

Iridian Spectral Technologies, an IDEX Optical Technologies company, provides custom, wavelength selective optical filter solutions for communications (telecom, datacom, lasercom/satcom), spectroscopy (Raman, fluorescence), remote sensing (EO, lidar), and more applications. Our optical filters cover the spectral range from UV 300 nm to LWIR 15 microns.

Custom Manufacturer

3 products

Omega Optical - Brattleboro, VT

Precision optical filters since , from UV to NIR. We specialize in custom filters from prototype to OEM quantities. Fluorescence, astronomy, and overrun filters in stock. Prototyping, engineering, and high-volume production utilizing plasma-assisted reactive magnetron sputtering, e-beam, thermal evaporation, and ion assist. ISO : Certified.

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5 products

Deposition Sciences Inc. (DSI) - Santa Rosa, CA

Deposition Sciences, Inc. (DSI) produces a wide variety of highly durable and heat-resistant optical coatings. Our technologies and customer deposition chambers offer coatings in the visible (VIS) near-infrared (NIR), shortwave infrared (SWIR), and midwave infrared (MWIR) spectral wavelengths. ISO : certified.

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5 products

HHV Advanced Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Thin Films & Optics Div. - Bangalore, India

Designs, develops, and manufactures a wide array of durable thin-film optical coatings in the UV, VIS, and IR (3 to 12 microns) region. Manufactures high-precision optical windows, spherical and aspherical lenses, wedges, prisms, and infrared domes in bulk volumes.

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NiPro Optics Inc. - Irvine, CA

Manufacturer of diamond-turned optical components and precision, electroformed optics. Diamond-turning capabilities include 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-axis technology to deliver custom, precision optical components. Also provides thin-film optical coatings for stringent specifications.

Custom Manufacturer

1 product

Omega Optical - Large Optics - Ithaca, NY

Offers precision custom and high-volume coatings on glass, metals, ceramics, and plastics for automotive, defense, consumer electronics, dentistry, astronomy, utilities, lighting, and entertainment. Twenty-six vacuum coating chambers offer 40 million sq. in. of coating capacity, enabling high volume and large format coatings up to 108 in. in diameter.

Custom Manufacturer

6 products

Cascade Optical Corporation - Santa Ana, CA

Manufacturer of custom vacuum-deposited thin-film coatings. Offers ion-assisted deposition, low-temperature, low-stress coatings for laser crystals and fiber optics. Prototype to production quantities. ISO and MIL SPEC compliant.

Custom Manufacturer

1 product

LaCroix Precision Optics - Batesville, AR

For over 75 years, LaCroix Precision Optics has positioned itself as a customer-driven, world-class manufacturer of custom precision optics. Capabilities include custom precision optics, coatings, assemblies, and design support. LaCroix Precision Optics is certified to ISO : and is ITAR registered and compliant.

Custom Manufacturer

17 products

Materion Balzers Optics - Westford, MA

Materion Balzers Optics is a global leader in optical thin film coating solutions. We custom manufacture and supply precision optical filters and coatings. As a high-tech company with five production sites worldwide, our focus is on a variety of markets such as life science, industry, consumer, lighting, space, defense, and automotive.

Custom Manufacturer

4 products

PFG Precision Optics - Ocean Springs, MS

Manufacturer of precision optical components (UV to mid-IR). Prisms, windows, filters, wedges, mirrors, beamsplitters, and all types of singlet, doublet, and triplet lenses. Electron and ion-assisted deposition coating services. Prototype production and OEM assemblies include design and manufacture of single- and multi-element systems.

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10 products

Precision Glass & Optics (PG&O) - Santa Ana, CA

PG&O provides reliable, cost-effective, precision optics and commercial components from 0.040 in. to 30 in. diam., highly precise thin-film coatings, custom and standard components and turnkey optical solutions that operate from 0.2 to 15 microns. Delivering highly durable sapphire optics for broad-spectrum apps and finished IR optics for mission-critical tasks.

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Rainbow Research Optics LLC - Centennial, CO

Manufacturer of precision optical components and high-power laser coatings from UV to IR. Stock and custom optics: lenses, beamsplitters, filters, windows, mirrors, wave plates, large wedges, prisms, and many more. In-house custom coatings: AR, high reflection, dichroic, and polarizing. Optics from 4 mm to 16 inches.

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G&H | GS Optics - Rochester, NY

G&H | GS Optics specializes in the custom design and manufacture of precision polymer optics for use in the biomedical, healthcare diagnostics, machine vision, and analytical instrument markets, as well as military and civilian night-vision and visible-range sighting applications.

Custom Manufacturer

1 product

Henan UM Optics Ltd. (Umoptics) - Xinyang, China

Provides customized materials for low stress, high purity, and high uniformity infrared crystals to customers in over 60 countries and regions around the world.

Custom Manufacturer

3 products

Inrad Optics Inc. - Northvale, NJ

Inrad Optics is a vertically integrated manufacturer specializing in glass, crystal, and metal based optical components and assemblies. Manufacturing capabilities include precision optical surfacing, precision diamond turning, large substrate handling, optical contacting processes, thin film coatings, and high resolution in-process metrology.

Custom Manufacturer

8 products

Intlvac Thin Film Corp. - Fort Collins, CO

Manufactures systems for physical vapor and diamond-like carbon deposition, R&D and production coating of optical components, sensors, and plastics. Provides process development for sputtering, ion-beam sputtering and etching, and ion-assisted evaporation.

Custom Manufacturer

4 products

Meopta s.r.o. - Prerov, Czech Republic

Manufacturer of precision optics, specializing in the design, engineering, and assembly of complex optical, optomechanical, and optoelectronic systems.

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MKS/Newport - Franklin, MA

MKS/Newport designs and manufactures high performance optical filters and replicated mirrors in the UV, VIS, and NIR. Filters include bandpass, dichroic, edge, fluorescence, neutral density, and notch filters, as well as optomechanical and electro-optical assemblies based on filter technology. Mirrors include retroreflector, aspheric, and spherical.

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Perkins Precision Developments LLC - Longmont, CO

PPD provides custom laser optics, assemblies, and IBS coatings for prototype, research, and OEM applications. PPDs precision fabrication, dielectric thin-film coatings, and epoxy-free assembly processes enable total optics solutions. Products include PBS cubes, high power laser mirrors, super-polished lenses, prisms, polarizers, and Brewster windows.

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Precision Optical - Costa Mesa, CA

Manufacturer of laser-quality precision optical assemblies and components (VUV to IR) including prisms, mirrors, windows, retroreflectors, filters, plate-type beamsplitters, alignment cubes, polarizing and nonpolarizing cube beamsplitters, and coatings. ISO : certified.

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4 products

Rocky Mountain Instrument Co. (RMI) - Lafayette, CO

Founded in , RMI designs and manufactures precision optics and coatings. Our technical expertise include laser optics from DUV to Far IR; IR optics including high output diamond turning; and custom optical assemblies. We have proven experience in solutions for aerospace/defense, life science, medical, semiconductor, industrial, and research markets.

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1 product

SCHOTT North America Inc. - Duryea, PA

Develops products for applications in optics, lithography, astronomy, automotive, consumer electronics, industrial, and life sciences. Offers a variety of optical and laser glasses, optical filters, glass ceramic, IR materials, optical components, custom glass development, precision finishing, and metrology capabilities.

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TecOptics Corp. - Merrick, NY

Manufacturer of air-spaced and solid etalons, ultrahigh damage threshold laser optics and interferometer optics. Coatings from UV to near-IR. Optomechanical systems.

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Teledyne Acton Optics - Acton, MA

Provides high laser damage threshold excimer and UV laser optics, Al and MgF2 broadband mirrors and coatings, VUV/UV optical filters, detector-enhanced coatings and assemblies. Works with researchers and engineers in disciplines including aerospace, medical, analytical, and semiconductor technologies.

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Coursen Coating Labs Inc. - Costa Mesa, CA

Guernsey Coating Laboratories Inc. - Ventura, CA

Abrisa Technologies - Santa Paula, CA

ACM Coatings GmbH - Naumburg, Germany

Adamas Optics LLC - Moscow, ID

Advanced Materials Processing Corp. - Lowell, MA

Advanced Thin Films - Boulder, CO

Glossary

• coated optics Optical elements that have been coated with one or more layers of dielectric, or metallic material. These coatings serve to reduce or increase reflection from the surface, and to protect the surfaces from fumes or abrasion. Magnesium fluoride,...
• antireflection coating An antireflection coating (AR coating) is a thin film or coating applied to optical surfaces, such as lenses or windows, to minimize unwanted reflections and increase the transmission of light through the surface. These coatings are designed to...
• dielectric coating A high-reflectance coating consisting of alternating layers of quarter-wave film of a higher refractive index and lower refractive index than the substrate. Such coatings can be made very specific to a reflected wavelength or, by varying the layers'...
• metallic coating A thin layer of metal deposited on the surface of a substrate. The film may serve as a reflector, beamsplitter, neutral density filter or electromagnetic interference filter.
• reflective coating Thin-film coating, single or multilayer, that is applied to a substrate to increase its reflectance over a specified range of wavelengths. Metal film, transparent or opaque, is the oldest form of reflective coating.
• optical coatings Optical coatings are thin layers of materials applied to optical components, such as lenses, mirrors, filters, and prisms, to modify their reflective and transmissive properties. These coatings are designed to enhance the performance of optical...

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