Laser Focus World Features Alluxa Technology - Multiband coated filters redefine performance standards for scientific applications
Advances in thin-film technology have given rise to a new class of multiband coatings that task manufacturers to offer improved performance at competitive prices, enabling multiband filters that redefine the performance standards and drive innovation across a variety of disciplines.
Multiband filters can be categorized into a variety of classes that solve unique optical problems. Each class presents its own set of fabrication challenges, placing limits on what is practically achievable and affecting the reliability of the thin-film manufacturing process. By understanding the scientific and industrial applications for multiband filters, the various filter classes and manufacturing possibilities are better understood.

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Alluxa is an ISO 9001:2008 certified, ITAR registered, highest performance optical filter and optical coating manufacturer located in Santa Rosa, CA. Founded in 2007 by a team of thin-film deposition veterans; Alluxa's core team brings together decades of expertise and diverse backgrounds in deposition, automation, metrology, and optics.

Alluxa produces its filters with a new class of custom optical thin-film coating equipment designed and built by our team. The combination of our state-of-the-art automation, proprietary control algorithms, and our SIRRUS plasma deposition process allows the world's most difficult filters to be created in a fraction of the time required by other hard coating methods. Our proprietary thin-film optical coating platform allows us to reliably and repeatedly reproduce the same high-performance optical thin films over several different coating runs which translates to consistent performance across all of your systems.

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