Silicon windows, Silicon lenses, Silicon optics

Alkor Technologies produces a wide variety of Silicon Optical Components, including Silicon optical lenses, IR filters, or windows.

Silicon windows and wedges are available uncoated or with a 1.5-6, 2-4, 3-5, 8-12μm antireflection coating.

Silicon optical lenses are ideal for collimation or focusing applications that utilize monochromatic light. These lenses are available in a range of sizes or focal lengths for a wide variety of application needs. We also produce HRFZ Si lenses of different types: hyper-/hemispherical for Thz applications

IR intereference filters, which are integrated into IR applications such as FTIR spectroscopy, are used to transmit or block a specific range of IR wavelengths.

Silicon mirrors are lighter than copper mirrors and lend themselves to lightweight applications with small to medium power output. Silicon mirrors are generally coated with silver, gold and/or dielectric coatings.

• Silicon windows catalog
• Silicon lenses catalog
• Silicon prisms (ATR, hemicylindrical)
• Gold coated Silicon mirrors for lasers
• IR interference filters
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The largest dimensions of Silicon optics - up to 300mm diameter.

Optical grade Silicon is normally specified with a resistivity of 10 to 40 Ohm-cm which is higher than most semiconductor applications. The usual Silicon material, unless otherwise specified is Czochralski (Cz) Grade which has a Si-O absorption band at 9μm and so not important if the windows are used in the 3 to 5μm thermal band. Where required Float Zone (FZ) material can be supplied which does not have this absorption. Thin FZ Si windows of 0.5-1mm thickness can be used at 8-12μm band.

Very high resistivity (>1000 Ohm*cm) material can be supplied on special order, particularly for THz applications. We produce hyper- and hemispherical Si lenses with R2-R12.7mm.

Silicon is used for windows and lenses in the 2-6µm range, ideal choice for IR LED lenses. The refractive index is near 3.4 throughout the range. Silicon high thermal conductivity and low weight are attractive features in IR or FTIR applications. Silicon is also used as a high reflectivity mirror substrate for lasers and for IR silicon viewports.

3.5-3.9µm AR/AR Coated Silicon window

1.5-5µm AR/AR Coated Silicon window

Different types of Silicon are available:

• Czochralski standard low-cost n-type (resistivity >10 Ohm*cm) or p-type (>20 Ohm*cm)
• high resistivity Float-Zone Silicon with resistivity >1000 Ohm*cm.

Optical grade Silicon - index of refraction