Helia Photonics partners with Brilliant Optics to advance optical coatings
Thin-film coating company Helia Photonics (Livingston, Scotland), specializing in coatings for laser optics and semiconductor laser facets, are partnering with precision optical component supplier Brilliant Optics (Shenzhen, China). The partnership establishes a significant trading link between the UK and China and expands the availability of products in the rapidly expanding, increasingly ubiquitous photonics arena.
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Helia uses a wide range of materials along with well-established deposition techniques to fabricate coatings with excellent optical performance and resistance to high-power densities and extreme environments. These innovative processes have been developed over many years in conjunction with extensive industrial and academic collaborations, producing coatings designed for wavelengths from the ultraviolet (UV) to far-infrared (FIR) region.
Brilliant Optics supplies custom optical components and assemblies, specializing in super-polished mirrors, windows, and couplers that have high laser damage thresholds for high-power optical environments. Available services include complex module design and assembly for a wide range of applications and industries including machine vision, space and instrumentation, as well as specialist lenses (aspheric, ball, cylinder, toroidal) and fiber-optic components in materials such as plastic and visible/IR glasses.
SOURCE: Helia Photonics; http://www.helia-photonics.com/news/new-strategic-partnership-helia-photonics-brilliant-optics
Gail Overton | Senior Editor (2004-2020)
Gail has more than 30 years of engineering, marketing, product management, and editorial experience in the photonics and optical communications industry. Before joining the staff at Laser Focus World in 2004, she held many product management and product marketing roles in the fiber-optics industry, most notably at Hughes (El Segundo, CA), GTE Labs (Waltham, MA), Corning (Corning, NY), Photon Kinetics (Beaverton, OR), and Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA). During her marketing career, Gail published articles in WDM Solutions and Sensors magazine and traveled internationally to conduct product and sales training. Gail received her BS degree in physics, with an emphasis in optics, from San Diego State University in San Diego, CA in May 1986.