VLOC is a subsidiary of II-VI Incorporated (II-VI), a publicly traded company listed under the trading symbol IIVI on the NASDAQ National Market.

Located on the West Coast of Florida, near Tampa, VLOC operates out of facilities totaling 65,000 Sq. ft. and employs approximately 200 employees.

Find out more about VLOC

7826 Photonics Drive, New Port Richey, FL 34655
Tel: 727.375.VLOC (8562)
Fax: 727.375.5300
EMail: info@vloc.com
http://www.vloc.com

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Windows
Waveplates
Etalons
Lenses
Lens Ducts
Flow Tubes
Large Optics
Mirrors
Debris Shields
Polarization Optics
Non-linear Materials
YAG Rods
Ceramic YAG
Laser Gain Materials
Lightweight Optics
Optical Coatings

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May 6-8, San Jose, CA

	At a fraction of the cost of a new lens, VLOC's debris shields are used to protect the lens in industrial laser applications. Debris shields can extend the life of your lens up to 3X's depending on the application. View the DataSheet
FEATURED PRODUCT: Large Optics
	VLOC uses proprietary production technologies in designing and fabricating larger diameter windows for high power laser astronomy, metrology, and aeronautic applications. View the DataSheet

Laser Optics

VLOC is a worldwide leader in the fabrication of solid state laser optical components such as end mirrors, scanning mirrors, output couplers, brewster windows, risley prisms, dichroic mirrors, beamsplitters and polarizers, dispersing and reflecting prisms, and focusing lenses.

Our standard surface finish tolerance of 10/5 makes VLOC substrates suitable for a wide variety of laser applications. Intracavity and extracavity laser optics are an important part of our full service to the laser industry

Etalons

Our precision manufacturing processes produce etalons meeting your most stringent laser requirements for parallelism and wavefront transmission. Parallelism of <1 second of arc and wavefront up to Lambda/100 are achievable. VLOC maintains state of the art metrology for verification of wedge, flatness and surface roughness.

Glass Cavities

VLOC's precision machining capability and engineering skills provide for dimensional accuracy, inside hole polishing and special chemical strengthening. Standard and custom configurations are available to meet your requirements. Material options include samarium and cerium-doped glass, pyrex and fused silica.

Our Laser cavities serve two important functions in flashlamp pumped Nd:YAG lasers: first, they filter out ultraviolet light emitted by the flashlamp source which can cause darkening, or solarization, of the Nd:YAG crystal over time. The second purpose of the flowtube is to absorb light at 1.06μm emitted from the sides of the Nd:YAG rod. If this light is not attentuated, it can be reflected back into the rod where it will be amplified. This effect, called lateral depumping, can produce significant energy loss.

Lens Ducts

This truly unique product showcases our abilities in design and precision tooling. These multifaceted components, with a combination of spherical, cylindrical and plane faces, are all optically polished and manufactured to exact tolerances by sophisticated design methods, optically precise tooling and skilled craftspeople.

The lens duct is an optical element that can be used to transport, condense and homogenize light emerging from a single diode or an array of diodes. The diode light enters the curved surface of the lens duct and, through total internal reflection, is transported to the flat output end. The curved input surface acts as a lensing element while the flat canted planar surfaces allow for efficient total internal reflection and additional compression of the diode light. An AR coating can be applied to both the input and output surfaces of the lens duct to minimize Fresnel losses.

With this technology, the diode light can be delivered with efficiencies greater than 90%. Also, the duct can be designed to homogenize or smooth the emerging light – an added benefit for end-pumping a solid-state laser crystal. The output face of the lens duct can be fabricated into an octagonal or square shape for efficient coupling into round or square laser rod geometry.