40 Nutmeg Lane
Glastonbury, CT 06033
Tel: (860) 657-9014
Email: thought@Thoughtventions.com
40 Nutmeg Lane
Glastonbury, CT 06033
Tel: (860) 657-9014
Email: thought@Thoughtventions.com
Thoughtventions is developing a technique where images can be transmitted through a single multimode sapphire fiber.
Sapphire viewport cell that operates up to 5000 psi and temperatures up to 700°C.
Thoughtventions sells multizone transparent furnaces operating up to 1200°C. This type of furnace uses a very thin gold coated outer tube that reflects radiant heat while allowing visibility.
Viewports for high temperature and pressure systems.
Polishing of sapphire for increased strength. Polishing sapphire fibers for inclusion in devices. Colloidal silica polishing.
Reduction of radiant heat tranfer for furnace improvement.
Used to develop a non-imaging light concentrator - in 1975.
High temperature sapphire fiber cladding.
Sapphire viewport furnace that operates up to 1000 psi and temperatures up to 700°C.
Developed Solar Furnace, Solar Heated Particle heat storage system.
Thoughtventions developed and successfully tested an inexpensive sapphire viewport - but was unable to find a way to market it.
Created and sold a long sapphire fiber detection system to transfer data from a high radiation environment.
Experiments and feasibility research were performed to determine whether sapphire could be made into faceplates for mobile phones.
Designed a non-contact fiber optic slip ring
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A high vacuum cell was fabricated to optically examine cesium vapor. An internally triggered ampoule breaker apparatus supplies cesium once the system is under vacuum. A heater furnace supplies cesium at a controlled pressure. The centerpiece of the apparatus is a sealed sapphire window that can cycle to 1000°C enclosed in a furnace using a Thoughtventions temperature controller.
Thoughtventions developed, built, and sold an infrared lamp heated furnace.
Developed and demonstrated techniques for reliably coiling a 50 micron diameter sapphire fiber around a small diameter core without breaking. The fiber was then sealed into a vacuum fitting and microdot fiber connectors attached to form a complete optical chemical sensor.
Used a commercial program to specify the materials appropriate to make a multilayer bandpass optical filter.
Developed a Sapphire Fiber Bonding System to adapt 2 diameter sapphire fibers with low loss.
Tube furnace designed to image molten metal droplets.
Thoughtventions was approached with the question as to whether a standard video camera could be operated in a vacuum. Thoughtventions demonstrated that the camera operated without problems under high vacuum, only having to be modified with a heat sink to the external structure to remove the heat generated by the electronics.
Sapphire window imaging system for high stress high speed vehicles.
Thoughtventions developed a sealed sapphire/alumina bulb for an HID (High Intensity Discharge) lamp.
After the Space Shuttle disaster, NASA solicited to modify a standard high speed camera so that it could operate with cooling, sealed in a low pressure environment. This type of camera was required to perform Back-to-Flight testing of shuttle components. Thoughtventions successfully sealed the multipin connected camera and provided umbilical internal cooling.
This was a project for the FAA that developed a high intensity inset (buried) runway flasher. This inset flasher meets above runway flasher specifications, but is buried in the center of a runway so that planes and snowplows can operated over it. The flasher emits a directed bright flash to guide planes into the runway. The challenge was to guide a large amount of flash energy at a low forward angle through a small window.
Investigated the use of an infrared gas detector to measure flow rate.
Used fiber optic heat transfer to control the interface shape of a growing crystal.
Thoughtventions developed a coated tip sapphire high temperature fiber optic temperature sensor.
Using ultra polished sapphire to increase the laser damage threshhold of windows.
Investigation of properties and use of diamond windows.
Design and demonstrated high power (1 MW) sapphire windows.
Demonstrated a sapphire fiber optic imaging bundle operating at 1000 C
Investigated using a CO2 laser to polish plexiglas/plastics. IR optics.
Used a far-focus microscope to image and monitor debinding and sintering of parts in a furnace.
Demonstrated a sapphire fiber optic imaging bundle operating at 1000 C
Combined a FT-IR instrument with Hadamard Tomography to measure 2D chemical species and temperature in a Sooting Flame
Used FTIR to monitor and diagnose a variety of combustion and chemical systems
Developed and demonstrated a technique to greatly strengthen sapphire windows.
Used a FT-IR instrument to detect chemical processes using evanescent sensing.
Developed and used a high speed video system to record flame images. Developed and used a phosphorescing tracer 3D flow imaging system.
Investigated the use of Particle Velocimetry in the Visualization IC Engine.
Designed, built and operated a visualization IC engine with a sapphire cylinder liner and quartz piston top.
2-photon spectroscopy plasma measurements.
X-Ray plasma property detection on the ISX-B Tokamak fusion experimental plasma device.
Designed, built and operated an H alpha detector on the ISX tokamak fusion device
Demonstrated and used (thesis) a Flashlamp driven UV optically pumped tracer to image turbulent mixing. Image intensified 2-D scene detection.
Investigated the use of fluorescent and phosphorescent particles as flow tracers.
Designed and demonstrated a non-imaging optic to concentrate light.
Last updated: October 2022
