Cilas to present new thin-film coating chamber at Photonics West

Cilas is launching the largest thin-film coating machine in Europe. The company will exhibit at Photonics West 2010 in San Francisco, from Jan. 26 to 28, on the French Pavilion at booth 1823. The company develops and manufactures high-precision coated components in the spectral range from 250 nm to 2.5 µm. The company has recently invested in a new coating chamber using magnetron sputtering technology, which can coat large optics up to 2 x 2 meters with a very high uniformity and thus makes industrial volume serial production possible. The platform also includes a large automated chain to clean optical components, as well as a variety of control and metrology devices. This platform boasts unmatched productivity and has been selected to perform the coating of protected silver plating on the Megajoule Laser's amplifier reflectors for the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), as well as to produce the mirrors used in space telescopes on behalf of the French National Center for Space Studies (CNES) and the European Space Agency (ESA), and to refurbish the mirrors in the French Weaponry Department's (DGA) Odeillo solar furnace.
Cilas
Peynier, France
www.cilas.com

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CILAS presents new thin-film coating chamber at Photonics WEst in San Francisco

CILAS, an expert in optical coated components and thin film coatings, is launching the largest thin film coating machine in Europe. The company will exhibit at Photonics West 2010 in San Francisco, from Jan. 26 to 28, on the French Pavilion at booth 1823.

Involved in defense, space, astronomy, scientific, and industrial markets, CILAS develops and manufactures high-precision coated components in the spectral range from 250 nm to 2.5 µm. The company has recently invested in a new coating chamber using magnetron sputtering technology, which can coat large optics up to 2 x 2 meters with a very high uniformity and thus makes industrial volume serial production possible. The platform also includes a large automated chain to clean optical components, as well as a variety of control and metrology devices.

This platform boasts unmatched productivity and has already been selected to perform the coating of protected silver plating on the Megajoule Laser's amplifier reflectors for the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), as well as to produce the mirrors used in space telescopes on behalf of the French National Center for Space Studies (CNES) and the European Space Agency (ESA), and to refurbish the mirrors in the French Weaponry Department's (DGA) Odeillo solar furnace.

CILAS's know-how is based on its expertise in thin-film vacuum-coating deposition and its use of dense coating technology. The company's coating equipment is equipped with optical control systems designed to control its thin film deposition in real-time. CILAS has developed its own coating design software, to master the production process from design to manufacture.

For high-resolution imaging applications of Earth observation from satellites, CILAS has combined ultra-dense coating processes with the latest microstructure manufacturing technology issued from microelectronics, in order to supply high precision optical coated components.

For more information, please contact:

CILAS
Richard Palomo
Sales and Contract Manager
Tel.: +33 4 42 36 97 00
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.cilas.com

or:

FRENCH TECHNOLOGY PRESS OFFICE
205 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 3740
Chicago, IL 60601
Tel.: (312) 327-5260
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