Carsoli Optical Coatings Centre

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Over more than two decades, SELEX Galileo has developed and qualified more than one hundred different Coatings, many of which are currently in use coating over 20.000 surfaces a year, with an increased forecast in demand. 
 
The Company's Carsoli (near L'Aquila, Italy) Vacuum Technologies base represents a Centre of Excellence for the design, development and production of optical and functional coatings for military, aerospace and civil applications. 
 
The optical coatings produced at the Carsoli centre are manufactured in vacuums and then applied to optics such as windows, lens and mirrors, maximising their optical properties in the UV-NIR range.
 
In 2007, the site was appointed with three major contracts by the European Space Agency (ESA) for high performance optical treatments to be applied on components that will be installed on-board optical systems in the next ESA missions.  The first contract involved the manufacturing of a demonstrator (BreadBoard) of the TIRD (Thermal Infrared Rejection Device). The second contract required a very sophisticated filter to protect the Visible Imager and Magnetograph (VIM), an instrument part of the payload of the Solar Orbiter rejecting a wide radiation from 300 nm to 5000 nm leaving a very narrow opening around 617 nm with high transparency.  The third contract involved the development of Linearly Variable Filters (optical components of small dimension) on which the special coating determines very small windows of transparency, with a regular (and linear) distance, both in Space and Frequency. 
 
The ESA contracts acknowledged SELEX Galileo's Centre of Excellence and the quality of its products.  This combined with the established Space line of business allows the Company to present itself as single supplier of entire optical systems.