Proven platforms for precision optical and large telescope mirror thin film PVD coating

With over 40 years of experience, we support you from initial design through daily operation. You can be confident in the long-term performance of your Dynavac optical PVD coating system, and in the backing of an established company that can meet your needs now—and years down the road.

Optical Coating Systems

Our optical coating systems cover a wide array of applications serving multiple industries. From precision optical coatings, DLC Coatings or astronomical mirror coatings, our systems are designed to meet your most complex coating needs. No matter how demanding the coating challenge—anti-reflective, high reflectors, edge filters, polarizers, or beam splitters, we can design a system that achieves the results you expect.

Precision Optical Coating

Optical PVD thin film coating systems for R&D, pilot, or small-scale production.

DLC Coating Systems

Amorphous diamond-like carbon coatings for extreme applications.

Astronomical Mirror Coating

Astronomical coating systems with high-reflectivity metals for large telescope mirrors.

Markets

From thin film deposition to thermal vacuum to custom one-of-a-kind systems, Dynavac innovation in high vacuum systems helps our customers excel in their markets. Learn more about the many markets we serve.

Resources

Astronomy

High reflectivity large scale telescope mirror coatings via long throw sputtering

Here we present reflectivity measurements of long-throw sputtered aluminum coatings at normal and oblique incidence angles on glass test chips. Experimental results indicate that water vapor partial pressure, not incident angle, is the dominant factor for front surface reflectivity of sputtered aluminum.

Astronomy

Eos Astronomical Mirror Deposition System Successfully Installed in Spain

Dynavac, the trusted leader in Astronomical Mirror Deposition Systems, is pleased to announce that it has successfully commissioned its flagship Eos System at the Observatorio Astrofisico de Javalambra (OAJ) in Teruel, Spain.

Astronomy

Dynavac Develops Multi-Layer Silver Coating for Astronomical Telescope Mirror at KAFB Facility

Dynavac has successfully developed and deposited a multi-layer silver coating onto a 3.5-meter astronomical mirror at the Air Force Research Lab’s Starfire Optical Range at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. This significant milestone is expected to establish a new industry standard in producing silver coatings for large-area mirror applications.

Optics

Dynavac Delivers Large Optical Coating System to U of Rochester/LLE

Dynavac recently delivered a 74” Hyperion Optical Coating System to the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE), a national resource for high energy physics.

Astronomy

Dynavac's Optical Coating System Helps Capture "First Light" From Discovery Channel Telescope

Dynavac, a market leader in precision optical coating systems, engineered and manufactured the optical coating system for the Lowell Observatory’s newly commissioned flagship telescope: the Discovery Channel Telescope (DCT), the fifth largest optical telescope in the continental United States.

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