These films are deposited at low temperatures, below 50°C, to minimize process contamination concerns from epoxies, cladding or polymer optics. Our high energy deposition process produces very dense and stable films that will survive typical industry environmental testing. Attenuation coatings are designed to reduce or remove excess energy in an optical system by decreasing the transmission levels of the incident light energy. Typical designs absorb and reflect the unwanted energy but ECI offers special low reflection attenuation films that have very low first and/or. An optical attenuator, or fiber optic attenuator, is a device used to reduce the power level of an optical signal, either in free space or in an optical fiber. The basic types of optical attenuators are fixed, step-wise variable, and continuously variable. The attenuator circuit will allow a known source of power to be reduced by a predetermined factor, which is usually expressed as decibels.
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