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Stabilife ™ Technology
Stabilife is the choice for the most demanding filter applications. Two different coating processes are used to manufacture Stabilife coatings: Reactive Ion Plating (RIP) and Hybrid Plasma Deposition (HPD). Both of these processes produce highly dense, environmentally stable and durable thin films, composed predominantly of refractory metal oxides.

Ion Beam Sputtering
We use our Ion Beam Sputtering (IBS) coating technology predominantly for applications requiring environmentally stable and durable thin films with very low loss. This technology is also well suited many non-laser applications requiring dense, stable films. Our ion beam sputtered films are composed predominantly of refractory metal oxides.

Ion-Assisted E-beam
For applications where the film characteristics of the Stabilife or IBS processes are not required, but where exposed film durability and stability are still a requirement, we employ our Ion-assisted E-beam process. This process yields highly durable films, composed predominantly of refractory metal oxides, with excellent resistance to spectral shift due to humidity absorption.

E-beam
Many applications for exposed hard coatings do not require the spectral stability provided by our Stabilite, IBS, and Ion-Assisted E-beam processes. These are the applications for unassisted E-beam deposition. E-beam deposited refractory metal oxide coatings are extremely durable and can be designed to meet the spectral needs of optical components ranging from bar code reader filters to dental lighting mirrors.

Thermally Deposited Soft-Films
Soft Coating Technology encompasses the widest range of coating materials and deposition methods of all of the technologies currently in use for the manufacture of optical coatings and is perhaps the most flexible in terms of ability to achieve extreme technical requirements. It is the most seasoned of all of the technologies and as such, methods of protection of soft films are so highly evolved that in many environments, the difference in product life between a protected soft coating and an exposed hard coating is imperceptible.

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