The MicroCare^® products offer great answers to the challenges of cleaning optical systems such as lenses, diffraction gratings, mirrors, prisms, lasers, fiber optics and related devices. In addition to simply cleaning superbly, other important advantages include extended materials compatibility (many lenses are plastic) and with fragile coatings (used to improve the light-handling characteristics of the lenses), cleaning throughput, cost and reliability.

The primary contaminates found on optical devices usually are dust, polishing media and water spots. The fastest, most reliable, least energy-intensive and most consistent results are found with high-performance solvent drying systems (also called “dewatering systems”) and MicroCare chemistries.

Vapor-phase cleaning is an ideal choice for precision cleaning and for removing water spots. The MicroCare cleaners are very dense, so they lift away inorganic contamination and dissolve organic oils, fingerprints and more. When used in a solvent drying system, they can remove water quickly, at low cost and without spotting. Some of the best choices in optical applications include:

MicroCare® CCA General Purpose Degreaser
   
MicroCare® CFIPA Particle Rinse

DuPont™ Vertrel® XP Particulate Rinse

DuPont™ Vertrel® XDA/XDF (for heavily contaminated surfaces and large quantities of water) 

DuPont™ Vertrel® XP10  (for small quantities of water)

In addition, MicroCare markets a group of optical cleaners under the Sticklers brand. Primarily used for telecommunications and fiber optics, these cleaners also have found time-saving and money-saving applications in photonics labs and medical applications with lasers.