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OCP (Optical Control Platform) delivers high-precision control for thin-film coating processes. Integrating it into the production line enables intelligent, proactive process control, ensuring consistent product quality and maximizing the operational efficiency of costly equipment. This optimization is crucial in high-tech manufacturing environments where precision and reliability are paramount.

In the event of a deviation from the target, OCP automatically recalculates and adjusts parameters for subsequent layers to correct any discrepancies, ensuring precise coating results. Real-time optimization is available exclusively with the OCP Broadband model.

What Exactly is the OCP Optical Monitoring System?

A key strength of the OCP system is its exceptional accuracy in detecting even the smallest signal deviations. This allows potential issues to be identified and addressed before they affect the final product. The system offers continuous monitoring with instant anomaly alerts, reducing response times to just minutes.

OCP integrates seamlessly with existing coater monitoring systems, making it easy to incorporate into your current equipment with minimal setup. Its scalable architecture is designed to accommodate various vacuum coating systems, whether for smaller applications or more complex setups.

Applications of the OCP Optical System

OCP ensures consistent results in industries where precision and reliability are critical in the coating process. In the field of optical coating deposition, it provides real-time monitoring and immediate corrective adjustments, optimizing the deposition process and maintaining the highest level of coating quality.

For applications requiring high-precision coatings, such as optics, photonics, and advanced manufacturing, OCP guarantees the integrity and performance of the coating process, ensuring the production of multilayer optical stacks with exceptional consistency. It also supports special applications, such as coatings for complex substrates and challenging environments, offering continuous monitoring for quality control in critical production processes, including research and development.

How the OCP Optical Monitoring System Works

OCP serves as the intelligent core of the coating process, relying on precise measurement, detailed analysis, and visualization:

• High-precision measurement: The system uses a sensitive spectrometer to measure the spectral characteristics of each substrate during deposition.


• In-depth analysis: Proprietary algorithms process the data to calculate the thickness and optical constants of each layer, determining the exact moment when deposition is complete.


• Visualization: An intuitive, user-friendly interface displays the live spectrum, thickness growth curve, and time remaining for the current layer, ensuring full control over the process.

Additionally, OCP is easy to install and calibrate, integrating seamlessly into the vacuum chamber with fully automated setup and calibration routines. The OCP Monitor software provides a central control panel, live graphs, and analysis tools for efficient monitoring.

Why Choose the OCP Optical Monitoring System?

With over 20 years of experience in precision thin-film optical coatings deposition, I-Photonics has developed OCP to offer the most accurate and reliable solutions for advanced coating processes. OCP ensures fully automated control over all types of optical coating deposition for various vacuum coating equipment, operating across a wide optical range with spectral resolution of up to 0.5 mm, ensuring high-precision results.

Our customers in optics and photonics report significant improvements in reproducibility, reductions in defect rates, and the ability to produce coatings with previously unattainable parameters.

Ready to take your optical coating production to the next level of precision and efficiency? Our specialists are here to help you select the optimal solution for your needs. Contact us today by phone or email.

Magnetrons convert energy into high-frequency radiation. They are critical for advanced deposition processes, such as magnetron sputtering, RF IBS, PIAD, and PECVD, where their ability to generate stable and efficient electromagnetic waves makes them indispensable.

And among the manufacturers, I-Photonics is a key player, with their magnetrons setting the benchmark for quality. Their advantages include high performance across various modes, proven reliability with a long service life, and excellent signal accuracy.

Furthermore, I-Photonics produces both classic cylindrical and modern planar magnetrons – just to suit any technical requirement.

What Exactly is a Magnetron Device and How it Works?

A magnetron is a device that generates microwave radiation, typically used in advanced deposition processes such as magnetron sputtering.

This happens through the interaction of an electron stream with a magnetic field – inside the device’s vacuum chamber, electrons are emitted from the cathode and accelerate towards the anode. An applied magnetic field bends their trajectory, causing them to follow a circular path. As the electrons pass by the resonant cavities in the anode, they transfer energy, generating high-frequency oscillations.

The energy from the oscillations is then coupled out via an antenna right into a waveguide.

It is important to clarify a common misconception: magnetrons do not leak or emit harmful radiation. This is a misunderstanding. Magnetrons are designed with strict safety measures to prevent any radiation leakage during operation, ensuring that they function safely within controlled environments and do not pose any risk to users.

Applications of Magnetrons

I-Photonics magnetrons are designed to meet the demands of high-tech industries, generating stable and powerful high-frequency signals essential for advanced applications. Our magnetrons are deployed across a range of critical industries, providing reliable performance and precision.

Key application areas include:

• Aerospace & Telecommunications. They are widely used in radar systems for obstacle detection and in satellite communications equipment.


• Security. They are employed in radar stations and for non-invasive inspection systems.


• Science & Industry. Applications do include powering particle accelerator.

Features and Advantages of I-Photonics Magnetrons

Our products are known for their high precision, exceptional durability – thanks to the use of speciality materials, and the ability to develop bespoke, customised solutions – for specific challenges.

It is all our deep industry knowledge, rigorous quality control and focus on long-term partnership that makes us the preferred choice for high-quality magnetron solutions.

Contact us today to discuss your requirements and receive expert advice via phone or email.