PRODUCTS
Our niche expertise and proven technology make us the leader in optical IBS coatings and low loss optics. Components coated with FiveNine's technology have proven to be the most rugged and high-performing in the field addressing the industry's key issues including foreign-object damage, contamination resistance, size limitations and more.
IBS COATINGS
- We develop revolutionary methods for redesigning IBS machines, both new and old, to support a range of novel coating capabilities
- Our enhanced IBS machines incorporate groundbreaking "monitoring" platform to achieve predictable and reliable optical coatings
- NFO's proprietary monitoring technology supports in-situ monitoring even for large format optics with complex coating structures
- Our team has built/modified over 30 IBS Machines over their extensive careers
- Cutting-edge coatings are vital to the US government, resulting in a $1.8M (2024) government-sponsored retrofit of an existing IBS machine to further expand FiveNine's capabilities
LOW LOSS OPTICS
- Uniquely qualified to offer in-house, best-in-class super polishing
- FiveNine established polishing process and metrology tools required for production of best in class, super-polished substrates with sub-angstrom rms roughness for critical scientific and industrial applications requiring low optical loss
- Proprietary instrumentation for characterizing the rms roughness of super-polished surfaces
- Super-polishing substrates in-house eliminates key sourcing risks impacting quality and timing
- Our super-polishing facility is focused on high quality surfaces for a narrow range of curvatures and form factors
- We do not currently sell uncoated substrates, instead focusing on selling high margin coated optics in lower volumes
- We partner with highly technical and capable specialty polishing shops when large substrates are needed.