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DS: Fachverband Dünne Schichten

DS 14: Optical Layers: Basic Research and Applications

DS 14.1: Hauptvortrag

Dienstag, 26. Februar 2008, 12:00–12:30, H 2032

Demands on Coating Technologies in the Optical Component Industry — •Marcus Serwazi — CORNING GmbH; Abraham Lincoln Strasse 30; D-65189 Wiesbaden; Germany

Based on the famous and allways interesting improvements of the coating technologies during the last years and the upcoming question for the next challenges in development it might be useful to focus on the day by day business processes handled in the coating departments in the optical component manufacturing industry. The author will show some examples of state of the art coating products and describe and summarize the process chain and the related difficulties which needs to be adressed by upcoming development projects if the 'coater' should be supported by this projects for his future success in this market. Today very powerful and sophisticated coating technologies (e.g. several sputtering technologies) are available but the decision which is the right or best technology is sometimes not driven by the overall technical capabilities of this new technologies. Other factors like cost of operation, throughput and process reliability sometimes might lead to the outcome that the best decision for the next investment is not the 'newest' and most delicate technology which might be available in the market. The author light up some of this additional factors and also give his personal opinion in what he believes what drives allways the decision for the 'best' coating technology and the related investments in the optical component manufacturing industry in our days. He tries to summarize what kind of technology independent specifications can be derived from this knowledge for future systems and investigations.