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Germanium windows are ideal for IR applications with its broad transmission range and opacity in the visible portion of the spectrum. Germanium windows is commonly used in IR thermal imaging applications typically operating in the 2 µm to 12 µm spectral range, covers the LWIR (8-12μm) and MWIR (3-5μm) thermal imaging wavelength range. Germanium can be AR coated with Diamond producing an extremely tough front optic.

 Zinc Selenide (ZnSe) windows is an excellent choice for any IR applications due to its broad wavelength range (3 µm to 16 µm). Zinc selienide is a chemically vapor diposited material commonly used in thermal imaging and medical systems. Zinc selenide (ZnSe) windows has a high index of refraction which normally requires an anti-reflection coating to achieve high transmission.

Sapphire is single crystal aluminum oxide (Al2O3) and is useful in a transmission range from 0.2 - 5.5μm, it is suitable for MWIR 3-5μm thermal imaging applications. Sapphire Windows are made from single crystal sapphire, they are ideal for demanding applications because of their extreme surface hardness, high thermal conductivity, high dielectric constant and resistance to common chemical acids and alkalis. Sapphire is the second hardest crystal next to diamonds and, because of their structural strength, sapphire windows can be made much thinner than other common dielectric windows with improved transmittance.

Barium Fluoride is often suitable for applications in the passive IR band (8 to 14 μm) and is often used as a viewport window for thermal imaging inspection application in electric power facilities and petroleum indutries. For an equivalent thickness the transmission extends approximately 1 micron further into the IR than Calcium Fluoride.

For its good transmission properties at LWIR range, the CaF2 are often selected as the windows for thermal imaging security inspections in electric power facilities and petroleum industries. A protective coated could be made on the windows surface to improve its deliquescence properties.

ZnS or Zinc Sulphide crystals grown by chemical vapor desposition (or CVD) exhibits exceptional fracture strength and hardness leading to its frequent choice for military applications or other harsh environments. This material is often used in the LWIR 7 to 14 microns region of thermal imaging. Its high resistance to rain erosion and high-speed dust and particulate abrasion makes it particularly suitable for exterior IR windows on aircraft frames. Hangzhou Shalom EO provides the ZnS windows of IR grade and Cleartran or multi-spectrum grade materials, the AR/AR coating is made to increase the transmission of the windows.

Infrared Neutral Density Filters are designed to attenuate radiation over a wide sprectral range. These filters are coated on germanium substrates. The ND coating is optimized at 2.2 microns and can be used out to 15 microns

In some countries, thermal imagine inspections is compulsory for accident insurance. And in some industrial equipment like the high temperature metallurgic oven, it is necessary to use the thermal imagine to watch its temperature inside. An infrared windows assembly is needed to be installed on the housing of the electric and industrial equipment as the viewport windows for thermal image camera.

Packaging windows is a key components for the FPA detectors of thermal imaging cameras, it posseses both infrared filtering and welded packaging,germanium (Ge) and Silicon (si) are often used as the substrates materials. Several kinds of filtering coating is available: broad band AR coating, long-pass filtering coating, band pass filtering. The high quality metalizing coating is made on the edge of the windows, the customi metallization is available upon your request.