Cascade Optical Corporation is an expert and leader in custom vacuum-deposited thin-film coatings, specializing in IAD, low temp, low stress coatings for laser crystals and fiber optics. We supply custom components in prototype and production quantities. Cascade Optical is ISO and MIL SPEC compliant.
Camera Lenses
Gradients
20-in. Diameter Beamsplitter
Custom Thin-Film Specialists
• Spectral range covers deep-UV 0125 µm to far IR 25 µm
• High laser damage > 10’s GW/cm^2 Rep rates as high as 1 kHz
• Coating that withstands T> 800°C
• Protected Ag and Au passes severe abrasion and adhesion
• AR and BBAR
Edge, Notch, BP, BS, Mirror, & ND
• Hot-Cold-Mirrors-BS-BP-AR
• NightVision Displays (OD 5)
• Covert Mirrors
• Color Filters-Gobos
Low Temp Coatings < 85°C
• Glass And Fiber Connectors
• Polycarbonate Lenses
• Ferrule and Bare Fiber Ends
• Cemented Lenses
Metal Coatings
• Au, Al, Ag, Cu, Pt
• Enhanced Au, and Ag
• Non-Polarizing BS
• Induced Transmission Filters
Electrically Conductive Thin Films
• ITO And IMITO
• Low Ohm High Transmittance
• EMI Shielding
• Cr-Ni-Au Bus Bars
Plano Optical Fabrication
• Ultra-Flat (λ/20)
• RMS down to 3Å
• // to ±1 arc-sec over Ø 3”
• Ø 3 – Ø 305 mm
Equipment and Facilities
• Class 100 and 10 clean rooms
• PE950, Shimazu FTIR IR Affinity-1
• WYKO 400 with 6” attachment
• Laser/Environmental Test Lab
Established: 1975
Employees: 20
Facility area (sq ft): 21,000
Ownership type: Privately Owned
Executives:
L.D. Hundsdoerfer, President
Brendon Faught, Sales Engineer
Kenneth Romo, General Manager