# Optic Wave Laboratories

> Telescope mirror coating, recoating and aluminizing, optical fabrication, testing and
> refiguring. Serving the amateur and professional astronomy community since 2004.

## Services
- Telescope mirror coating and recoating (aluminizing) up to 22 inches in diameter
- Coating types: standard aluminum (89%), semi-enhanced (92%), enhanced aluminum (96%),
  protected silver (97%), protected or bare gold. All coatings carry a protective overcoat.
- Parabolic and Newtonian telescope primary mirrors made in-house, 6 to 22 inches
- Telescope mirror refiguring and figure correction
- Free optical testing
- Schmidt-Cassegrain (SCT) mechanical services

## Process
All work is performed in-house: diamond curve generation, grinding, polishing, figuring,
interferometric testing and vacuum coating. The coating system is a multi-pocket electron beam
source with a Veeco ion source providing Ion Beam Assisted Deposition, preceded by glow
discharge plasma cleaning.

## Key pages
- Coatings and pricing: https://www.opticwavelabs.com/coating.php
- Coating reflectivity data: https://www.opticwavelabs.com/coatingdata.php
- Telescope mirrors: https://www.opticwavelabs.com/parabolic.php
- Refiguring: https://www.opticwavelabs.com/refiguring.php
- Optical testing: https://www.opticwavelabs.com/testing.php
- Contact: https://www.opticwavelabs.com/contact.php

## Customer portal
A customer account system is planned for the 2027 reopening: order submission, inbound and
outbound shipment tracking, per-mirror project status, invoicing and optical test results.
Not yet available. https://www.opticwavelabs.com/portal.php

## Notes
- Maximum mirror diameter for coating: 22 inches
- Record: 15+ years of coating work with zero substrate damage claims
- The business is reopening in a new facility; first operational phase (coatings) is
  expected January 2027. Pricing shown is under revision for the new facility.