Advanced Optical Technologies (AOT) products

The ultimate extension of polarized-light microscopy (PLM), AOT`s CrystalView CPCI ushers in a new era of non-destructive testing of crystallographic structure.  CrystalView CPCI allows visualization of material microstructural properties correlated with failure and corrosion probabilities in high-strength and high-performance parts for aerospace, energy, architectural, and medical applications.  CrystalView CPCI works in air and, as a parallel imaging technique, at much higher speeds and fields-of-view than scanning alternatives.

AOT`s free-space registered-channel multiplexers (RCM) produce laser beams with temporally modulated characteristics including power, color, spatial mode, divergence, or polarization, with low insertion loss and inter-channel pointing stability better than one arc-second.  These multiplexers provide novel capabilities for high-speed remote-sensing, microscopy, and material-processing with low- or high-power lasers, and can be integrated with active imaging systems, lasercom systems, lidars, and laser-machining systems.

As our flagship product, AOT`s patented field polarimeters are redefining how sensors classify materials in real time. Field polarimeters are available in low-cost compact passive mode, high-specificity robust active mode, or hybrid active-passive mode, all in various bands including eye-safe short-wave infrared (SWIR) and video rate as needed.  Field polarimeters can include application-specific classification algorithms and software, installation and training, and long-term technical support. An AOT field polarimeter can boost your imaging and classification performance well beyond conventional imaging sensors.

If you want accurate and actionable optical metrology at your facility, for instance manufacturing quality-control, a graphics or material-characterization laboratory, or an add-on to an existing system, then AOT may be able to build your instrument utilizing our core advantages.  Considering the high-dimensional material and configuration spaces accessible through AOT designs, we recognize that no instrument can measure even a majority of these coordinates, so every instrument is custom to your requirements. AOT will understand your material and configuration spaces and offer the most efficient and affordable custom optical metrology instrument.