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Optoelectronic systems · Armenia

Engineering.
Manufacturing.
Integration.

Since 1992, Aragats has developed and manufactured optoelectronic systems that combine optics, precision mechanics, electronics and embedded software — designed, machined, assembled and tested in one building in Yerevan.

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Aragats AR-040-01 networked observation system: a wide olive-green gimbal head with a large thermal window, coated day-camera lens and rangefinder optics, seen from the front.
AR-040-01200 mm thermal objective · 90× day channel · 20 km rangefinder

Who we are

An engineering company that also owns its production.

Aragats was established in 1992 in Yerevan. Its field of activity is the research, development, design and manufacturing of optoelectronic systems and robotics — and the whole of that sentence happens inside one 4,000 m² building.

The company’s own staff covers the four disciplines a complex optoelectronic instrument needs: mechanics, electronics specialists, physicists and software engineers. They work the same specification at the same time, which is why an optical decision here is costed in mechanics, power and software the same week it is made.

That structure is the reason a customer can bring a requirement rather than a drawing package, and still receive a finished, documented system.

More about the company
Established
1992
Facility
4,000 m²
People
~100
Location
Yerevan, Armenia

Multidisciplinary by construction

Not an optics house, a machine shop, or an electronics firm. All three, plus the software.

Most suppliers own one of these disciplines and buy the rest. When the disciplines sit in different companies, the interfaces between them become somebody’s contract risk. Here they are colleagues.

Integration & test

One complete system

Four disciplines resolved into a single documented product — optical performance, mechanical accuracy, electronics and software verified against one specification.

What we can design and make

Five capabilities, one organisation.

Each of these is evidenced by a delivered product, not by a statement of intent. Follow any of them through to the specification it produced.
All capabilities in detail
Close view of an Aragats thermal binocular: a coated long-wave infrared objective, the day-camera lens and a twin-aperture laser rangefinder module set into a machined olive-green housing.

Made hereCoated long-wave infrared optics, a machined and sealed housing, rangefinder optics and the electronics behind them — one assembly, four disciplines.

How a system is built

Concept to accepted system, without leaving the building.

Because prototyping, machining, optical fabrication and electronics assembly are all on site, the loop between a decision and a physical part is measured in days.
  1. 01

    Requirements and concept

    Range, resolution, envelope, power and environment are turned into a set of engineering targets that the optical, mechanical and electronic designs are all held against.

    • Optics
    • Electronics
    • Integration
  2. 02

    Engineering

    Physicists, mechanical engineers, electronics engineers and software engineers work the same specification at the same time, so an optical decision is costed in mechanics and power immediately.

    • Optics
    • Mechanics
    • Electronics
    • Firmware
  3. 03

    Optical, mechanical and electronic design

    Detailed design of the objectives and channel layout, the housings, barrels and pan-and-tilt mechanism, and the detector, video, drive and power electronics.

    • Optics
    • Mechanics
    • Electronics
  4. 04

    Prototyping

    Parts are made in the company's own workshops, which keeps the loop between a drawing and a physical part short enough to iterate on.

    • Mechanics
    • Electronics
  5. 05

    Manufacturing

    Optical components are ground, polished and centred; housings, barrels and mechanism parts are machined; electronic assemblies are built and inspected.

    • Optics
    • Mechanics
    • Electronics
  6. 06

    Assembly

    Optical channels are assembled and aligned, mechanisms are fitted and adjusted, and the sealed head is closed up to its ingress-protection rating.

    • Optics
    • Mechanics
  7. 07

    Firmware and system integration

    Detector correction, tracking, coordinate solving and the network control plane are brought up on the real hardware, and the channels are boresighted to each other.

    • Firmware
    • Integration
  8. 08

    Testing

    Optical performance is verified on the bench, and the assembled system is tested against the ranges, accuracies and environmental limits published in its datasheet.

    • Optics
    • Integration
  9. 09

    Delivered system

    A complete, documented product — not a set of parts handed to somebody else to integrate.

    • Integration

What we have built

Delivered optoelectronic systems.

7 systems across 2 families, each published with its full technical data. These are the specifications the capabilities above were built to meet.
All products and datasheets

Inside Aragats

See where they are made.

Optical surfaces being figured and coated, parts being turned, boards being built and objectives being checked on the bench — 4,000 m² of it, at one address in Yerevan.

Facilities and process
Filmed on site at Aragats. Broadcast feature produced by Banak News, 2022.Watch on YouTube
  • The Aragats optical fabrication room: grinding and polishing machines along one wall, work benches behind, and a large enclosed machine on the right.
    01Optical fabricationOptical fabrication room
  • The Aragats machining hall: several vertical machining centres in operation with machinists working at them.
    05Precision machiningMachining hall
  • Hand soldering on an Aragats circuit board at an ESD-protected bench.
    08Electronics development and assemblyElectronics bench

Start a project

Bring us a requirement, not a drawing package.

Tell us what the system has to do and in what envelope. We will tell you which parts we would design, which we would make, and where the real constraints are.

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