Bonding and Assembly Techniques
The assembly group at II-VI Aerospace & Defense has experience in opto-mechanical and various opto-electronic assemblies ranging from simple to complex configuration. Our team can build assemblies to print, refine a current optical design to provide a more cost effective / manufacturable solution or design an assembly based on a Statement of Work (SOW). Our Assembly team utilizes class 1,000 / class 10,000 clean room space and is geared toward defense based industries.
II-VI Aerospace & Defense is proficient in optical contacting, UV cure bonds, various adhesives and chemically activated bonds. Appropriate techniques will be utilized based on the application. Below are some examples of bonded assemblies II-VI Aerospace & Defense routinely provides:
Beamsplitter Cubes


Waveplates


Dissimilar Materials


Product Experience:
- Opto/Mech Assemblies
- Electro/Optical Sub
- Window Assemblies
- Null Lens Assemblies
- Doublets, Triplets
- Reflector Assemblies
- LED Assemblies
- Aspherical Lens Assemblies
- Beam Combiners
- Reticle Assemblies
- Eye Piece Assemblies
- Mirror Mount Wedge Assemblies
- Rifle Scopes
- Prism Assemblies
- Binocular Assemblies
Thin Film Coating
II-VI Aerospace & Defense is a recognized leader in the application of visible and infrared thin film coatings for a wide variety of substrate materials. Our team of highly skilled optical thin film coating engineers design advanced coatings to meet customers’ specifications for next generation visible and infrared imaging systems, aircraft application and commercial products.
II-VI Aerospace & Defense' coatings have been proven to withstand a variety of hostile environmental conditions such as severe abrasion, including the windshield wiper test, salt-water submersion, rain erosion, missile exhaust, humidity, and salt fog. Most of these tests are performed in-house.


II-VI Aerospace & Defense' highly skilled optical thin film coating engineers design advanced coatings to meet our customers’ demanding specifications for next generation visible and infrared imaging systems, aircraft applications, and commercial products.
Coatings Offered
- Durable Anti-Reflection (AR)
- High-efficiency AR
- Thorium-free AR
- Conductive ITO
- Diamond-like Hard Carbon (DLC)
- Band-pass filters
- Spectral broadband filters
- Beam splitters
Specializing in:
- Broadband, Dualband, & Partial Reflective Coatings
- Highly Reflective >99.99%
- Low Scatter Reflective Coatings >99.9% Reflectivity Average
- DPSS Dichroic Coatings
- Metallic Coatings
- High Laser Damage Threshold
II-VI Aerospace & Defense Standard Coatings:
15501 | Conductive <20 Ω/square visible and near IR Anti-Reflection Coating |
16217 | Sapphire near and midwave IR Anti-Reflection Coating |
22100 | Zinc Sulfide Durable Anti-Reflection Coating |
22101 | Zinc Sulfide Anti-Reflection Coating |
22112 | Zinc Sulfide long wave, near IR, and visible AR |
24101 | Zinc Selenide Anti-Reflection Coating |
25101 | AMTIR™ Anti-Reflection Coating |
27107 | Durable Hard Carbon Coating on IG-6 |
34206 | Silicon Anti-Reflection Coating for midwave IR |
34207 | Silicon Hard Carbon Coating |
40100 | Germanium Anti-Reflection Coating |
40101 | Germanium Anti-Reflection Low Reflection Coating |
40102 | Germanium AR Broadband Coating |
40107 | Germanium Hard Carbon Coating |
Whether a design calls for UV, Visible, NIR or IR wavelengths, II-VI Optical Systems can meet your most challenging coating specifications. Operating in a Clean Room environment, II-VI Optical Systems produces coatings which withstand high LDT requirements.
Coating Technologies
II-VI Aerospace & Defense has various coating technologies in the UV, Visible, NIR or IR wavelengths to achieve demanding customer specifications for laser quality optics. II-VI Aerospace & Defense’s coating engineering team has 100+ years of experience in the Optics field. All coating is conducted in a clean room environment. High LDT results are a key output of II-VI Aerospace & Defense’s coatings – and II-VI Aerospace & Defense’s commitment to this includes and in-house Laser Damage testing capability.
II-VI A&D uses several different common glass substrates for film depositing:
- Fused Silica
- Crown Glass
- Flint Glass
- Filter Glass
Amongst the general substrates, II-VI A&D also works with several specialty materials:
- Laser Gain Crystals (YAG, YLF)
- Non-Linear Materials (LiNbO3)
- Crystals (KTP)
- Calcium Fluoride
Thoriated Coatings and remediation of optics containing Thorium Flouride are available on request here: Thorium Safety