Past Optical Products

Extreme Temperature Window Fixture

A sealed, high temperature, 5cm viewing diameter sapphire window with alumina holder rated for operation in combustion flows.

Designed to view hot fluids in process, this quartz tube is mounted in a sealed assembly of high temperature alloys.

Joining technique for sapphire to alumina or either ceramic to metal. To 1000°C or 1400°C; can be vacuum tight joints.

Alberta Research Council, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL - High Vacuum 450°C Viewport.

CardioMEMS Inc., Atlanta, GA

Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO

Core Laboratories, Houston, TX

Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo, Mexico City, Mexico

ITT, Roanoke, Va

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH - High temperature, elevated pressure Combustor Test Viewport

PTC, Princeton, NJ - High pressure Sapphire Viewport with explosion shield.

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX - TvU record setting High Pressure Viewport - Tested at 62,500 psi (4,250 atm)! Testing Fixture

Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

University of California Davis, Davis, CA

University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

EnvirOptics, Lansdale, PA. Gas Cooled Endoscope shell with sapphire window, rated 1000°C.

McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada - Inexpensive High Pressure Moderate Temperature Optical Cell

University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada

Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA

NASA Glenn Sapphire Windows, OH

Last updated: July 2010