New at AHF: Ultra-thin Optical Filters from Everix
Innovative and Flexible Filters on Polymer Basis
AHF puts you in the technological pole position! The new, innovative polymer-based filters are ultra-thin (0.1 – 0.5 mm) and can be installed particularly well where conventional glass filters reach their limits. They can be applied to curved surfaces and cut to special shapes. This is made possible by an innovative, patented thermal manufacturing process. Take advantage of these new possibilities for your project!
Matching Ultra-thin Filters for Your Project
OEM- and Custom-specific Filter Designs
The coating-free manufacturing process opens up a great freedom of design and application for Everix filters. We are happy to work with you to develop the right ultra-thin filter design for your project. Thanks to our direct contact with Everix, we can quickly clarify the feasibility and support the realisation.
With AHF, you benefit from a strong project partner:
- Interdisciplinary expertise
- Experience from many OEM projects
- Technical flexibility
- Constant contact person
- Support from prototyping to series production
- In–house quality control
Standard Filter Designs
Everix's ultra-thin, all-plastic optical filters feature total thickness in the range 100 - 500 microns, suitable for device miniaturization, optical path length reduction, and innovative designs requiring non-traditional geometries. It also provide an ideal balance between cost and performance for most applications
Available standard filters:
- Single- and multi-Notch filters (OD6+)
- Bandpass filters (FWHM > 25 nm, OD 2–4)
- Narrow bandpass filters (FWHM < 10 nm, OD2–6)
- Longpass- and shortpass filters (OD2–4)
Innovative Filters for Innovative Applications
- Compact & Complex Forms:
For optical devices with limited space, or for the most innovative optical designs benefitting from non-traditional filter geometries. - Conformal to Free-Form Optics
For retrofitting simple or complex optical filter designs to any non-flat optical surface that challenges traditional coating methods. - Compensated Angular Shift:
For optical devices that can benefit from an interference filter in a curved geometry to compensate for (and even completely eliminate) the undesired spectral shift of thin-film interference filters. - Enhanced Signal-to-Noise Ratio:
For optical devices where every micron of gap between a source of light and a sensor means reduced signal or increased noise. - Light Weight:
For devices that can benefit from reduced substrate weight or a replacement of filter-coated glass components with plastic optics.
Markets and Applications
Life Sciences and Med. Tech.
Everix ultra-thin optical filters increase signal-to-noise ratio by reducing the gap between tissue and detectors. They also enable better light emission and light capture with simplified optical designs thanks to the conformity and moldability of our products onto curved surfaces to reduce or even completely eliminate angular shift in thin-film filters.
Applications:
- Fluorescence microscopy
- Imaging and sensing
- Point of Care
- Wearable, and portable health monitoring devices
- Phototherapy
- Flow cytometry
- Microfluidic devices
- Food and agriculture quality sensors
Industrial, Robotics & IoT Sensors
Everix ultra-thin optical filters enhance signal-to-noise ratio and range for Time of Flight sensors with simplified optical designs thanks to the conformity and moldability of our products onto curved surfaces to reduce or even completely eliminate angular shift in thin-film filters.
Applications:
- ToF sensors (Time of Flight)
- 3D sensing
- 3D mapping
- Drone sensors
- Robotic sensors
- industrial automation sensors
- LiDARs and smart city sensors
Consumer Electronics
The ultra-thin optical filters enhance signal-to-noise ratio and range for 3D sensors and Time of Flight sensors in consumer electronic devices.
Applications:
The filters also address a major unmet need in consumer electronics segment for high-performing filters on curved plastic surfaces in devices such as AR/VR headsets where PVD and other coating methods are not sufficient either for scaling or for performance on plastic substrates. Everix ultra-thin, plastic-based filters can be molded to complex curvatures at scale while maintaining optical performance commensurate to vacuum-coated filters.
The Technology
Everix's manufacturing platform is based on thermal drawing of a scaled-up multi-layer block (a preform) down to a substrate-free ultra-thin optical filter. This process is similar to how optical fibers are thermally drawn from a fiber preform and demonstrates scaling economics significantly better than the traditional coating-based methods of manufacturing optical filters.
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