[image: figure 6]

>From the graph, 1300C looks like a 2micron wave length, this corresponds to
a transmittance of about .85,


On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:

> A correspondent wrote to me (not an exact quote):
>
> a quick look a the literature scrub shows transmissivity of alumina
> quickly drops to zero past ~7 micron wavelength.  Much of the data seems to
> be in relation to the crystalline variant (e.g  sapphire) vs
> non-crystalline.
>
>
> http://www.janis.com/Libraries/Window_Transmissions/Sapphire_Al2O3_TransmissionCurveDataSheet.sflb.ashx
>
> Notice the Ecat report clearly states on page 4 “The spectral range for
> both cameras is from 7.5 to 13 μm.”  That seems to indicate that any
> transmitted IR through the alumina wouldn’t be detected by the IR cameras.
>

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