Optical Components
Element Six is a leading supplier of synthetic and natural diamond optical components. Our windows, lenses and prisms can be found in applications requiring the highest technical standards. Whether it is for high power lasers, spacecraft or fiber optic backbones, the use of diamond will increase performance and extend the lifetime of the application. Diamond exhibits a number of exceptional properties that make it an outstanding optical material. Of great importance are its broadband optical transparency, from UV to far infrared, and extreme thermal conductivity. Combine these with hardness, wear resistance and chemical inertness, and it is clear why diamond is a durable solution for demanding applications.
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- High Powered Lasers
- Infrared Applications
- Microwave windows
- Endoscopy
Key benefits of diamond optics in high power CO2 lasers are improved beam quality, outstanding reliability and absence of thermal lensing during operations. Element Six produces output couplers, beam splitters, and exit windows for these applications. The increase in performance has been so great that CVD diamond optical components have enabled a new generation of high power laser systems to be developed.
Diamond offers a broadband transparency that ranges from the UV to the far IR, apart from one minor absorption band at around 5 mm. This makes diamond suitable for applications such as spectroscopy (FTIR and THz), infrared imaging, process control and analysis. Diamond optics are scratch proof and chemically inert, offering a long lifetime in such applications.
High Power Microwave Windows
Diamond offers a unique combination of properties such as extreme hardness, high thermal conductivity and low absorption of microwaves which makes it a idea window material for incorporation in instruments used in high energy physics such as fusion research.
Diamond material can also be produced as windows, lenses and prisms for applications such as endoscopes used in medical diagnosis. Such applications benefits from diamond’s combination of properties such as its high transmission, strength, high refractive index coupled with its biocompatibility and the fact it is scratch proof.