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Optical Components & Solutions
FLIR PR EC IS IO N O PTICS: A L EADER IN OPTICAL TECHNOL OGY
FLIR PRECISION OPTICS
Leader in Optical Technology
FLIR Systems’ Precision Optics division is a premier provider of high-quality precision optics,
serving the commercial imaging and defense industries for more than thirty years. Our focus on
quality has earned us a reputation as a world-class manufacturer of precision optical products
and solutions supporting a wide array of market applications. FLIR’s Precision Optics group
manufactures components for sensing and imaging systems, bore-sight alignment and targeting,
warning systems and satellite imagery. As a leading supplier of a variety of components such as
infrared lenses, windows and filters, passive and illuminated reticles, and metalized optics, our
continuous innovation and investment in state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment helps to ensure
a competitive advantage capability, as well as superior service to customers.
FLIR Precision Optics is meticulous in the design and deposition of thin-film coatings that
enable us to manufacture optics across a broad spectral range, covering the ultraviolet (UV) to
long-wave infrared (IR) bands. A multitude of technical capabilities coupled with a highly-skilled
technical staff are what make FLIR Precision Optics a recognized leader in optical component
technology for many unique and custom applications. As an AS9100-certified company,
you are guaranteed our products will conform to the most stringent military and
aerospace standards. Our customers are confident in FLIR’s commitment to deliver solutions
for the most difficult engineering problems.
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With a broad range of fabrication and metrology equipment, FLIR is able to maintain
extremely tight tolerances and specifications
in order to meet the aggressive needs of
our customers. We are committed to providing the highest level of capability possible in
order to keep pace with the ever-changing
technological needs of the optics industry.
FLIR Precision Optics has established itself
as a merchant supplier of high-quality optics
to a variety of industries, and is also a vertically-integrated manufacturer of precision
optics supporting applications throughout
FLIR Systems.
Depending on the required surface figuring
and finish quality, FLIR has the capability
of diamond turning (aspheric surfaces),
conventional spindle polishing (spherical
surfaces), as well as continuous polishers
(CP), and double-side polishing (DSP) for
optical flats and windows. Where ultra-high
accuracy is needed in figuring, most IR
materials can be finished using our QED
MRF (Magneto-Rheological Finishing)
system, enabling figure errors less than /10.
Customer Service Solutions
The quality and customer satisfaction provided by FLIR Precision Optics is a credit to our
team. Every FLIR employee is highly skilled and takes pride in the production and manufacturing of the products we produce. Years of experience enables our engineers, scientists and
technicians to be creative and break from conventional approaches when needed. Attention to
detail allows our employees to get the most efficient and effective results from our advanced
optical processing and figuring equipment. We are differentiated from our competitors by the
collective skill level, manufacturing equipment, and industry knowledge within our team.
OPTICAL FABRICATION
HOW WE DO IT
Fabrication Excellence
RETICLES
DIAMOND TURNING
Fine Line-Width Photolithography
As a specialty of FLIR Precision Optics, Etch-and-Fill reticles can achieve line-widths
ranging from 4um to 400um can be reproduced on a variety of substrates and geometries.
Dielectric reticles involve state-of-the-art combination of reticle and vacuum coating
techniques. These reticles can either be bright or dark-field when combined with our AR
coatings and/or electronic circuitry. The reflection and transmission characteristics of these
reticles are custom designed for each product. Such designs can include a partial-patterning
with Tin Oxide while other features may be AR-/HR- coated, or spectrally filtered. Reticle
patterns can be on a single side or both sides of the optical components. Capabilities allow
FLIR Precision Optics to create precision patterns on curved surfaces and provide optically
aligned cemented reticle assemblies.
Precision Turned Optics
Ultra-high precision CNC (computer numerical controlled) lathe platforms, using natural and
synthetic diamond cutting tools, allows FLIR Precision Optics to produce complex (aspheric)
surface figures that are too difficult to accomplish using other techniques. Toroidal, aspheric,
binary, parabolic, and ellipsoidal surfaces are all manufacturable with our state-of-the-art
diamond turning capability. We are able to support a wide variety of materials, including: Zinc
Selenide, Zinc Sulfide, Silicon, Germanium, Calcium Fluoride and non-ferrous metals. These
types of materials require sub-micron accuracies that are easily achieved with diamondturning. Dependent upon material, surface roughness below 20 angstroms RMS is attainable,
with typical surface figure error better than /10 (peak-to-valley) at .6328um.
Solderable Edge Metallization
FLIR Precision Optics solderable edge
metallization is a proprietary multi-layer
metallic coating for hermetically sealing
optical windows and filters. Metallization
can be applied to both visible and IR
windows, and can be bonded or soldered
to enable a durable hermetic seal when
needed in opto-mechanical systems.
New Generation Surface
Quality Standards
Consistent with the latest generation of
surface quality standards, FLIR produces
the only Picatinny Arsenal approved surface
quality standard per MIL-PRF 13830B,
meeting the needs of today’s modern
optical requirements. These new standards
are designed with anodized aluminum
housings for better durability and visibility.
FLIR also offers recertification services
required to keep the standards current.
METROLOGY TESTING
THIN-FILM COATINGS
Visible Coatings
With a variety of custom-tooled vacuum systems to
meet a myriad of customer coating requirements,
our engineering expertise can assist in the
development and production of laser coatings,
BBAR, AR, bandpass filters, notch filters, and
EOCCM. Offering experience in the visual spectrum
on a multitude of different glass materials, FLIR’s
optical coating design capabilities make it possible to
develop a coating that meets your exact spectral and
surface durability requirements. Coating processes
utilize ion-assist, such as Leybold’s Advanced Plasma
Source, for low temperature depositions, enabling
coatings with enhanced density and durability
against severe environmental exposure. In-house
machining capability enables the fabrication of
any necessary tooling for prototype or production
quantities. Quartz crystal and optical monitoring
allows for in-situ film deposition monitoring and
precise layer thickness control.
Near-IR to Far Infrared Coatings
State of the Art Metrology
As an established leader in the development
and manufacturing of infrared lenses and filters,
FLIR’s optics supports commercial, aerospace,
defense and medical applications. FLIR’s team of
engineers design customized infrared coatings
to meet precise optical specifications on a
variety of substrates, including Germanium, Zinc
Sulfide, Silicon, Gallium Arsenide, Sapphire and
chalcogenides. This thorough engineering expertise
can assist in the development and production of AR,
bandpass filters, notch filters, and EOCCM designs.
Enabled by Leybold’s Advanced Plasma Source
technology, FLIR offers high-performing, durable
coatings. In addition, FLIR has developed industryleading DLC (diamond like hard-carbon) coating for
applications requiring extreme durability.
With a complete line of metrology testing equipment, FLIR is able to manufacture lenses
with required precision and accuracy and have the confidence to back up their work. This
equipment includes Zygo XPHR, Taylor Hobson Form Talysurf and CCI, Precitech Servo-tool
Measuring System, and a new QED Sub-Aperture Stitching Interferometer (SSI). By rotating
and tilting an optic under test and taking data at given positions, an SSI allows several subapertures to be stitched into one large data set. This data set can be analyzed in the same
fashion as any single interferometer reading. The SSI allows the
following to be measured without other aids such as null lenses:
hemispheres, aspheres, plano, concave and convex surfaces up to
200mm. The SSI automatically controls positioning and nulling in
order to:
• Acquire and stitch the data
• Reduce errors due to ghost reflections
• Measure surface figure and radius of curvature errors
FLIR conducts both in-process production part testing and offers metrology services to
anyone in the industry.
Sample Coatings
Transmission of 3.5 to 5.0 Micron Coating of Si
Transmission of a Vis./NIR Short Pass Filter
95%
Transmission
90%
Transmission
Transmission of 8 to 11 Micron Band Pass Filter
100%
85%
80%
HEAR on both sides
75%
100%
90%
90%
80%
80%
70%
70%
60%
60%
Transmission
100%
50%
40%
50%
40%
30%
30%
20%
20%
10%
10%
HEAR with DLC
0%
70%
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
Wavelength (microns)
5.0
5.5
0%
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8
Wavelength (microns)
0.9
1.0
1.1
2.0
4.0
6.0
8.0
10.0
Wavelength (microns)
12.0
14.0
APPLICATION:
FORCE PROTECTION
FLIR Systems is an established global leader in the
design, manufacture and support of electro-optic
and infrared sensor technology. Recognized as a
principal supplier for force protection and military
base/border security around the world, FLIR is
the worldwide leader in the production of infrared
detectors and sensors. FLIR has provided more
than 100,000 military, dual-use and commercial IR
sensors for airborne, maritime, land and vehicle
platforms for customers in over 75 nations.
Since 1997, FLIR Systems’ Precision Optics division
has provided optics for thousands of un-cooled and
cooled cameras and systems to help secure and
protect air and naval facilities, combat and peacekeeping forces, borders and critical infrastructure.
Day and night, the Soldiers, Marines, Sailors and
Airmen of the U.S., NATO and allied nations live and
work under the security umbrella provided by FLIR
Systems and FLIR Precision Optics. Around the
world, Base Defense Operations and other security
staff are familiar with the quality, reliability and
performance of our sensors, systems, and optics.
AAR-47
Star SAFIRE HD
Sentry II
UV filters for AN/AAR-47 Missile Approach
Warning System
Full digital HD video EO/IR sensor with IR
components by FLIR Precision Optics
IR 360 full range remote surveillance
system with mil-spec internal optics
Howitzer
ITAS
IBAS
ACOG Scope
Javelin Dome
M1 Abrams Tank
Precision reticles supplied by FLIR to
support the mobile combat weapon
Direct View and boresight reticles increase
target detection, acquisition, and recognition
Illuminated reticle designs in the Improved
Bradley Acquisition Subsystem
Precision reticles featured in ACOG rifle
scopes with tritium source illumination
Coated domes to support manportable, fireand-forget, and antitank missile programs
Electro-optical illuminated reticles used to
support armed forces
Extraordinary Protection
Our Customers are Our Credentials
FLIR’s reputation for rapid and responsive service is
the result of our customer focus. We make the key
components used in our systems, so our customers
don’t have to wait while those integral parts are
returned to their original manufacturers. Lasers,
optics, coolers, detectors and other key components
are all made in-house. There is only one link in your
supply chain, and that’s FLIR.
CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS
FLIR Systems, Inc.
27700 SW Parkway Ave.
Wilsonville, OR 97070
PH: +1 800.727.3547
FLIR PRECISION OPTICS
PH: 503.498.3303
FAX: 503.498.3551
Optics.Solutions@flir.com
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