# Viavi OSP Precision Optical Coatings
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Viavi OSP (Optical Security and Performance Products) is the precision thin-film optical coating division of Viavi Solutions, founded 1948 as Optical Coating Laboratory (OCLI). One of the principal global precision coating houses, with USD 300M annual division revenue at 34% operating margin reflecting a cost-insensitive customer base of NASA cost-plus contracts, defence primes, and the high-volume currency anti-counterfeiting pigments market. Generally the wrong pricing tier for commercial smallsat constellation work, where in-house alternatives (Admesy IBS coating chain, similar smallsat-tier vendors) compete on cost rather than absolute heritage.

## Specifications
- **manufacturer**: viavi-solutions
- **analysis service**: {"processing_capabilities":["Precision thin-film optical coating manufacturing across the full UV to LWIR spectral range. Magnetron sputtering and ion-assisted evaporation deposition, in-house metrology including tunable laser spectrophotometers. Product range covers narrowband bandpass filters, multispectral filters, anti-reflection coatings, dichroic beamsplitters, solar rejection filters, and large-scale optics up to 2.5 m. Heritage on NASA OSIRIS-REx OVIRS instrument filter assembly; defence-prime contractor base."]}
- **entity type**: analysis_service
- **last verified date**: 2026-05-25
- **verified by**: operator
- **claim status**: unclaimed
- **provider**: viavi-solutions
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## Editorial
VIAVI OSP Precision Optical Coatings covers custom thin-film optical coatings and filters for UV, visible, near-infrared, shortwave-infrared, midwave-infrared, and longwave-infrared applications.[^viavi-custom-optical-coatings]

VIAVI's custom coating material describes bandpass filters, multispectral filters, dichroics, beamsplitters, antireflection coatings, and solar rejection filters as part of its optical coating offer.[^viavi-custom-optical-coatings][^viavi-premier-custom-coatings]

VIAVI states that its precision optics were delivered for NASA's SPHEREx mission, including optical filtering hardware for the observatory.[^viavi-spherex-2025]

## Sources
- [viavi-custom-optical-coatings] | Custom Optical Coatings, VIAVI OSP | https://www.viavisolutions.com/en-us/osp/technology/custom-optical-coatings | tier=operator-datasheet | accessed=2026-05-25
- [viavi-premier-custom-coatings] | Premier Custom Coatings offer, VIAVI OSP | https://www.viavisolutions.com/en-us/literature/premier-custom-coatings-offers-en.pdf | tier=operator-datasheet | accessed=2026-05-25
- [viavi-spherex-2025] | VIAVI Delivers Precision Optics for NASA's SPHEREx Mission | https://investor.viavisolutions.com/news-events/news-releases/news-details/2025/VIAVI-Delivers-Precision-Optics-for-NASAs-Groundbreaking-SPHEREx-Mission/default.aspx | tier=operator-press | accessed=2026-05-25 | published=2025-03-12

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