Transparent Optical Ceramic

Transparent Optical Ceramic
Transparent Optical Ceramics are the fruit of research that has been conducted by the Limoges Ceramic Processes and Surface Treatment Sciences Laboratory (SPCTS), a Joint Research Unit federating the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the local university, for some ten years. The SPCTS has developed a process to fabricate transparent ceramics, known as (due to the name of the components: Yttrium and Aluminium Garnet). The feasibility of this operation was proven in cooperation with the Solids Modelling, Properties and Structures laboratory at the prestigious Ecole Centrale in Paris.

This transparent ceramic production activity is also the fruit of a partnership between CILAS, Rhodia Electronics & Catalysis and the European Centre of Ceramics within the framework of the Ceramoptic project. This project is backed by the French Minister for Industry, the Limousin region and the City of Limoges.

Supplier Product Code : 001

Competitive Advantages of the product

Anti-reflective coatings, metal and dielectric mirrorsdichroics, longwave and shortwave-pass filters, narrowband and broadband filters, Micro-structured components using lithography techniques

Main Markets/Key Customers : Laser and optics (laser amplifier sector, lens), military, industrial (Flame-resistant view holes for high-temperature ovens, protection for opticals, Clock and watchmaking: glass watch faces, jewellery, decorative items),