Intlvac Thin Film, a Canadian advanced manufacturing company that has a thirty-year history in the thin film deposition and materials science industry with clients in the aerospace & defense, medicine, telecommunications, energy, optics and photonics industries will be expanding its operations to meet demand for the Diamond Like Carbon (DLC) markets.

Like many topics in the optics field, much of the current technology is merely a seed of a much higher potential whose breadth of applications hasn’t yet been fully realized. Infrared Optics is one of those topics, and its popularity and scientific investment has grown in recent years.