American Photonics' Bradenton, Florida facility was built in 2000 with extreme precision and production in mind. The plant houses the latest in CNC optical grinding and CNC optical polishing equipment. Whether it is flats, spherical curves, or aspheres you require, APC can produce them in prototype or production volumes to meet any demand.
APC's grinding department is capable of shaping parts to any customer specification, and can provide generated blanks on zinc selenide (ZnSe), multispectral zinc sulfide (ZnS MS), germanium (Ge), silicon (Si), and gallium arsenide (GaAs). Round, square and rectangles are precision shaped and are available from any material at any quantity.
APC's polishing department incorporates high volume CNC methods for both spherical curves and double sided flats, and also conventional polishing spindles for low volume and special sizes. The surface and optical quality produced by this department regularly exceed industry standards. Coupled with the high quality THIN FILM COATIGNS, APC can produce finished infrared optics to most customer specifications.
Typical Specifications produced at APC include:
- Diameters: 9mm to 230mm
- Thickness: 0.5mm to 50mm
- Angles: down to 5 arc seconds
- Parallelism: down to 2 arc seconds
- Figure: to 1/10 wave
Thin Film Coatings
CO2 Coatings on ZnSe
AR at 10.6μm
AR at 10.6μm and 633 nm (HeNe)
AR at 10.6μm and 650 nm (diode)
Beam Combiner at 10.6μm & 633-650nm
Beam Splitter (50%) at 10.6μm
Partial Reflector at 10.6μm
CO2 Coatings on Silicon
00 Phase Shift Mirror at 10.6μm
900 Phase Shift Mirror at 10.6μm
Enhanced Silver at 10.6μm and VIS
Infrared Coatings
Infrared Coatings on Germanium
Infrared Coatings on Zinc Selenide
Infrared Coatings on Zinc Sulfide Multispectral
Infrared Coatings on Gallium Arsenide
Infrared Coatings on Silicon
Reflective Coatings on Various Metals and Glass
