Overview

Boulder Optical Design Inc. is dedicated to serving the optics industry with high-level scientific and technical support in optical physics. Our consulting services include thin film materials, thin film design, laser damage, optical measurement, mathematical modeling, and scientific writing.

Products

• White light optical monitor system. Enjoy this optical monitor endpoint movie showing the endpoint spectra and theoretical target at the end of each layer in a long thin film deposition run.

Examples of services that we provide

• Material choices and design for applica-tions requiring high laser damage threshold.
• Design the optical system for a particle detector.
• Create or review thin film designs and/or specifications for a complex optical system.
• Determine optical parameters for a coating material, based on spectrophotometer scans and other data. Extrapolate to other wavelengths where possible.
• Design and set up an experimental measurement of the group delay dispersion (GDD, sometimes called group velocity dispersion) over a given wavelength range for an ultra-fast laser mirror.
• Design a thin film for an ultra-fast, controlled-GDD mirror.
• Optimize coating designs for improved manufacturability.
• Designed an ExtremeRangeTunableFilter, with a tuning range of over two octaves (factor of 4 in wavelength or frequency). A UV/VIS/NearIR example tunes from 322 to 1070 nm, and a mid IR example tunes from 1380 to 5580 nm.
• Modeling a complex optical system, e.g. an interferometric interleaver for telecommunications, including detailed effects of thin film designs, dimensional errors, and material dispersion.
• Review and help write the scientific content on a grant proposal.