Photonics Suppliers

Optimax is located in Ontario, NY, and manufactures high precision optics in aerospace, defense, and semiconductor. During the past 30 years, we have grown to more than 400 employees, our capabilities include research, optical coatings, and engineered solutions. We are America's largest prototype optics manufacturer.

Supplier of specialized optical components and subassemblies for wavelength selection. 400 masters available for optical replication, a capacity to produce 500,000 precision replicated optics and with R&D, engineering, and manufacturing under one roof for custom and OEM applications.

Optris is a leader in the field of noncontact temperature measurement with a full line of pyrometers and infrared cameras developed to support industrial automation and research applications. We design high quality, accurate, and innovative infrared temperature measurement solutions for research and process applications.

Publisher of Photonics Spectra, BioPhotonics, and Vision Spectra magazines (print and digital); the Photonics Marketplace featuring the Buyers' Guide and Handbook, (online and in print), ProdSpec, Career Center, and Dictionary; and Photonics.com - with online versions of all our publications, daily news, feature articles, webinars, videos, whitepapers, subscriptions, tradeshow coverage, a bookstore, the All Things Photonics Podcast, and more. Organizer of Photonics Spectra online conferences throughout the year.

Publisher of Photonics Spectra magazine, an international publication covering the photonics industry: lasers, optics, imaging, sensors and detectors, test and measurement, light sources, fiber optics, spectroscopy, microscopy, materials, coatings, and machine vision. Photonics Spectra is referred to by the largest qualified audience of engineers, designers, researchers, and managers seeking to keep abreast of photonics technology. Subscribe online at www.Photonics.com/subscribe.

Manufacturer of high precision electro-mechanical and optical components. With a variety of micro- and nano-positioning products, we can customize solutions to meet your exact needs. Prior produces high speed motorized stages, robotic sample handling systems, laser autofocus systems, motorized nosepieces and fully configurable motorized optical stands.

Produces laser modules and distributes laser diodes from manufacturers for industrial OEMs, medical, and defense markets. Designs and manufactures LED lights for machine vision, industrial, security, and medical markets.

Provides high-performance lenses for demanding video, digital projection, and industrial optics applications offering precision optical design, manufacture, test, and distribution of both standard and custom solutions. Serving the precision industrial market, manufactures photographic and industrial lenses and filters.

Develops products for applications in optics, lithography, astronomy, automotive, consumer electronics, industrial, and life sciences. Offers a variety of optical and laser glasses, optical filters, glass ceramic, IR materials, optical components, custom glass development, precision finishing, and metrology capabilities.

Sensors Unlimited is a supplier of InGaAs technology, products, and shortwave-infrared imaging solutions. Products built on our InGaAs platforms are SWIR 2D area cameras, 1D line-scan cameras, and linear photodiode arrays.

Manufacturer of advanced optical components and optical assemblies. Offers custom optics manufacturing and custom optical design and engineering services. A top lens manufacturer specializing in coated optics, thin-film coatings, custom lens assembly and delivering cost-effective custom optical solutions.

Manufactures stock and custom off-axis parabolic mirrors. Flat, spherical, and aspheric mirrors in ceramic, glass and metal, precision mirror mounts; reflective beam expanders, collimators, FLIR test stations, lidar telescopes; Fourier transform systems, IR lens assemblies and a LUPI-IIA interferometer. Engineering, design, and field services.

Manufactures catalog and custom/OEM optical components and assemblies including microscope objectives, motorized zoom beam expanders, high-resolution diffraction-limited lenses, telecentric scanning, focusing and imaging lenses, wave plates, polarizers; also mounting hardware, optical coatings, and lens design services for UV to CO2 wavelengths.

Specializes in precise IR optical components, coatings, system integration, and services from concept to production. Provides optical consulting, contract manufacturing, and engineering services.

Designer and manufacturer of interference filters: narrow and broad bandpass, long- and shortwave, ND filters, atmospheric windows, AR and metallic coatings. Holographic diffraction gratings: plano, concave and blazed, pulse compression/stretcher gratings. WDM and telecom applications include diode laser tuning gratings and network communications gratings.

Custom manufacturer of precision flat-surfaced, parallel, and wedged optics specializing in double-sided polishing for transmitted wavefront and parallelism. Products include optical and IR windows, glass wafers, color glass filters, mirrors, wedges, plate beamsplitters, and witness samples. ITAR registered, ISO 9001:2015 certified.

Manufacturer of air-spaced and solid etalons, ultrahigh damage threshold laser optics and interferometer optics. Coatings from UV to near-IR. Optomechanical systems.

Antireflection nanotextures etched directly into the bulk optical material providing high optical performance with R down to 0.01%; extreme broadband performance UV-NIR, no added absorption, high laser damage threshold. Available in fused silica, diamond, sapphire, and a wide range of IR materials.

Designs and manufactures IR detectors for the 0.5 to 24 micron range. Products include InGaAs, Ext-InGaAs, InAs, InSb, PC&PV HgCdTe detectors, linear and 2D arrays with a wide range of detector cooling options for defense, security/safety, chemical and biological detection, semiconductor inspection, life science, and spectroscopy markets.

Vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of photonics equipment for research, industry, life science, biomedical, and defense applications. Offerings include optomechanics, motion control, optics, fiber and fiber processing systems, light analysis, lasers and SLDs, optical amplifiers, imaging components, and microscopy systems.

Lapping and polishing consumables and machinery for glass, plastic, crystals, IR, semiconductor, electro, laser, and fiber optics. Microcellular foam elastomer pads, compounds, ultrapure alumina, colloidal silica, diamond powder/slurries; water-based, nanosize, alpha-alumina; optical blocking, synthetic pitch, double-sided polishers, and centrifuges.

Designs and manufactures stock and custom lenses and precision assembled optical lenses including UV quartz, CCD and CMOS, CCTV and diode laser, high-res, mounts, filters, and accessories. Application engineers provide custom design services. Universe has over 1600 different lenses in stock, and ships worldwide. Since 1949.

AS9100/ISO 9001 manufacturer of substrates, wafers, flat optics, precision shims/spacers, 0.127-mm sq to 450-mm diameter. Precision lapping, polishing, dicing, 5-axis CNC machining, small diameter core drilling, hole drilling. Ultrathin 10-20 microns, ultraflat, tight tolerances. Fused silica, glass, sapphire, ceramics, metals. Large inventory.

Manufacturer of linear and rotary motion control positioning equipment including manual and motor-driven assemblies; rotary tables, XY tables, elevating tables; motor controls and readouts; in a variety of configurations and sizes with payload capacities to 400 lbs.

US distributor for Moeller-Wedel Optical GmbH. Optical test, metrology, and quality control equipment: ELCOMAT electronic autocollimators, GONIOMAT electronic goniometers, custom electronic autocollimators, visual autocollimators, collimators, alignment telescopes, dioptometers, spherometers, focometers, interferometers, and refractometers.

Manufacturer of precision optics from prototypes to low volume quantities for the medical, defense, semiconductor, aerospace, transportation, and many other industries. Specializes in larger optics (15 to 650 mm) and works with a wide range of difficult shapes and materials. Meets precision optics needs, on time, and within budget requirements.

Custom embedded industrial-grade embedded video cameras and systems. Meets custom, high volume requirements of OEMs and large-scale integrators. Over 1 million cameras integrated into systems globally since 1995. ISO 9001 registered. Embedded board level, zoom block, and photo ID cameras. Global HQ based in Boston, MA and EU office in Eindhoven, NL.