Newport Precision Optics manufactures custom optics for OEM customers for industries ranging from semiconductor equipment and biomedical instruments to industrial and military applications.
- Located in Irvine, California
- Offshore sourcing available for competitive pricing
- 43,000 square feet production facility
- ISO 9001: 2008 Certified
- ITAR compliant
Overview
Newport Precision Optics processes a full spectrum of optics and optical components. When high performance, on-time delivery, and competitive pricing are important, Newport Precision Optics offers a wide range of capabilities to meet your challenging specifications.
- 100nm to 2µm
- High laser-induced damage threshold >25J/cm²
- Various substrate shapes processed including flat, spherical, aspheric, cylindrical, and right-angle prisms
- 5mm- 152mm lens diameter
- Surface figures to λ/40
- Scratch-Dig 5/2 or better
- Surface roughness to ~2 Å
- 24” flat optics
- Substrate materials include
- Fused silica
- Calcium fluoride
- Sapphire
- Zinc selenide
- Zerodur™
- Quartz
- Gallium arsenide
- Broad range of glasses
- Germanium
- Silicon
- Zinc sulfide
- Nickel plated aluminum & beryllium
- Others
Fabrication
Newport Precision Optics utilizes a variety of manufacturing process to provide the optimum solution for your specification:
- Cylindrical, spherical & aspherical processing
- 3-axis magnetroreoligical finishing (MRF)
- Spiral and raster capabilities (round and or square shapes)
- Diamond turning
- Flow benches & nitrogen-purge cabinets
- Full array of shaping, grinding and polishing equipment
- In-house tooling design and fabrication capability
- Vibration control
- UV, DUV, and EUV photocontamination control / high-purity aqueous clean line
- Multiple interferometers; ZYGO, Davidson, 4D, and many others
Diamond Turning
Newport Precision Optics has served customers with high-quality, precision diamond-turned components for many years for a wide range of applications.
Capabilities include:
- 4-axis diamond-turning capabilities for complex optical surfaces and mechanical interfaces
- Diamond fly cutter
- Reflective & transmissive infrared materials
- High-quality optical surfaces
- Surface irregularity to λ /10
- Surface roughness < 30 Å
- Supported by advanced metrology capability
- Sphere, asphere, parabola, diffractive optical elements, custom shapes, domes
- Aluminum, copper, nickel, germanium, silicon, calcium fluoride, zinc selenide, zinc sulfide, Cleartran®
Deep-UV Specialty
Newport Precision Optics has developed specialized, proprietary processes for coating deep-UV, 193 nm optics. These coatings withstand the most extreme testing including laser-induced damage threshold and survive over 50 billion pulses.
Deep-UV coating technology:
- High-damage coating down to 193 nm
- Strict photocontamination control
- Zygo interferometer and 193 nm assembly line within class-100 cleanroom
- Sophisticated and disciplined cleaning and handling practices
- 193 nm laser metrology
- Measure % transmission and % reflectance for polarized light at any angle of incidence with high degree of accuracy
- Wavefront measurement with Shack-Hartmann™ sensor
- Measure % absorption at 193 nm
- Precision-polishing capability for all UV materials
Thin-Film Coating
Newport Precision Optics brings over 40 years experience in custom thin-film technology offering a complete range of custom coating types, from reflectors to broadband antireflection.
| Technologies include: |
Coating Characteristics |
| E-B: Electron-beam deposition |
Damage-resistant coatings, power stability and long lifetime |
| IBS: Ion-beam sputtering |
Environmentally stable, long component lifetime |
| IAD: Ion-assisted E-beam deposition |
Contamination-insensitive coatings |
| PVD: Resistance source evaporation |
Broad experience with wide-ranges of oxides and fluorides |
| MS: Magnetron sputtering |
Durable, broadband antireflection coatings |
| APS: Advanced plasma source |
Enhanced metallic-coating reflectivity with dielectrics |
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