Optical Design and Thin Film Coating Facility

Our facility is being established within the scope of the projects supported by the Central Anatolia Development Agency, Sivas Small and Medium Industry Establishment and Support Foundation and the Presidential Strategy and Budget Presidency.

We have optical design, production, infrared thin film coating, functional diamond like carbon (DLC) coating and metrology infrastructure.

In addition to the training, consultancy and R&D activities needed by the optics industry, mass production will be carried out with our industry-standard infrastructure.

Our capabilities and infrastructure can be listed as followed

• 120 m2 10000 standard clean room
• 100 m2 Machine Room
• Compressed air system, Nitrogen system, Chiller, Pure water, Laminar Flow Cabinets

Design of optical systems and components
• Lenses, mirrors, prisms and free surfaces
• Zoom lens, microscope objective and complex systems
• Opto-mechanical systems

Optical thin film design
• Anti-reflective coatings
• Mirror surfaces
• All kinds of filter coatings
• Beamsplitter surfaces
• Polarizers and color coatings

Single Point Diamond Turning System
• Obtaining various spherical, aspherical, diffractive, conical, fresnel, prism and free-form optical surfaces
• Virtual/augmented reality, LIDAR/remote sensing, spectrograph/hyperspectral imaging, medical imaging, portable consumer optoelectronic devices and systems - obtaining optical components such as cameras, x-ray, laser, solar and cell phone optics
• Injection molding, replication and electroforming
• Processing plastics, glass and crystals, metals and alloys and metal coatings

• Thin film coating and product development in four main regions (NIR, SWIR, MWIR, LWIR)

In the defense industry
• Forward Looking Infrared used in military vehicles (fighter jets, drones, etc.) and equipment
• (FLIR) system, thermal scanner warhead (heat-seeking) system on missiles
• Night and thermal vision camera applications

Other industrial applications
• Safety technology; Filters for gas analysis, mining, alcohol measurement, building technology
• Environmental technology; Biogas analysis, greenhouse gas analysis, emission monitoring
• Medical technology; Patient and anesthesia monitoring
• Agriculture; Biogas plants, quality control
• Flame detection; Pyroelectric detectors
• Infrared spectroscopy; Chemical analysis, e.g. alcohol, sugar and water content

• Functional coatings (DLC (hard carbon)) compatible with military harsh environmental conditions,
• Hydrophobic/hydrophilic surface and etc.)
• High resistivity multispectral optical coatings
• Durable and stable operation of optics for a long time
• Thermal sensor-based metrology, test and monitoring systems

Other areas of use
• Engine parts and injectors
• Aviation fasteners and components
• Industrial machine components
• Aluminum and non-ferrous metal forming
• Plastic injection molding tools
• Watches and jewelry
• Medical instruments
• Cutting tools
• Hard chrome replacement
• Semiconductor technology

• Step height measurement
• Measurement of surface roughness parameters
• Surface topography
• Imaging of nano and micro structures
• Areas of use: Precision engineering, MEMS, Sensors, Orthopedics/Obstetrics, Semiconductors and Optics

• Measurement of surface quality and shape
• Step height measurement
• Measurement of surface roughness parameters
• 300 mm single track measurement
• High accuracy measurement on complex surfaces such as spherical, diffractive, fresnel, aspherical lenses, cylindrical and freeform

• 2 - 25 micrometer bandwidth optical reflectance and transmittance measurements
• Analysis of thin films and coatings

• Surface shape error measurement
• Transmitted wavefront measurement