Infrared (IR) optical windows and blanks from various infrared materials. Custom shapes and AR coatings available.
What is Infrared Optical Window?
Infrared (IR) optical windows are transparent, flat, parallel plates, designed to effectively perform in infrared (IR) light. They can be used as protective windows, substrates or mirror blanks in infrared (IR) applications and various other devices.
How Infrared (IR) Optical Windows (substrates) are made?
Infrared optical window production is quite similar UV-VIS-NIR widows and begins with the design of it. Once designed, the drawing of optical component with desired characteristics is drawn. Infrared optical material is sliced, grinded, polished and inspected before stocking or sending these IR windows to customers. Sometimes these windows are coated with infrared anti-reflective (AR) coating. The key difference from Alien Photonics wedged windows is that infrared windows’ both surfaces are parallel to each other.
Infrared (IR) Windows for night vision devices
Alien Photonics Infrared (IR) windows enhance the clarity of image by transmitting infrared light from observed objects and scenes. This enables high-definition even under low-light conditions in night vision hunting or military (e.g. recon) equipment.
LIDAR Infrared Windows for remote sensing.
Anti-reflection coated Infrared (IR) windows allows low loss transmission of laser pulses in LIDAR devices, allowing precises environmental mapping and topographical analysis.
Infrared (IR) Windows for Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) instruments
Infrared windows permit transmission of IR light into biological samples.