Optical Components

We are a supplier of high quality precision custom optical components. We provide up-front technical support for optimizing manufacturability, cost, and quality. Capabilities include manufacturing and coating of optical components including lenses, aspheres, mirrors, windows, and prisms using a variety of visible and IR materials.

Specializes in the design and manufacture of advanced optical metrology instruments and systems, ultraprecise optical components and assemblies, and providing electro-optical design and manufacturing services.

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

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.

LightTrans offers solutions for the entire development cycle of optical components where progressive simulation technology shows its advantages in designing optical components, complex systems, detailed modeling, and more. All products and services are based on the optical modeling and design software VirtualLab Fusion.

SmarAct develops and produces solutions in the field of high-precision positioning, automation, and metrology. Since its foundation, SmarAct has grown from a small team of engineers to a group of companies with 200 highly qualified employees. Today, SmarAct can draw on years of experience and a passionate, customer-focused team.

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.

Designs and manufactures dynamic laser interferometers and optical profilers, and surface defect gauges. Applications include precision machined surfaces, optics, astronomy, aerospace, space-based telescopes, flexible electronics, automotive, and in-line production measurement.

Manufacturer of free-space and fiber-coupled lasers with diffraction limited performance. Lasers from 350 to 2000 nm have accessories for expanding or focusing the beam, fiber collimators, fiber focusers, tiny collimators and splitters to integrate with the pigtailed lasers. Custom assemblies for OEM users are routinely made.

Precision optical components, polarization optics, crystals, assemblies, megapixel CCTV lenses, 20 MP machine vision lenses, and optical system solutions. Advanced measurement systems include Prism Master, spheric lens measurement systems, interferometers, and spectrophotometers. ISO 9001, IATF/TS16949, ISO 14001, and ISO 13485 certified with SGS.

Custom optics, such as spherical lenses, dome lenses, prisms, windows, filters, cylindrical lenses, aspherical lenses, mirrors, beamsplitters, optical assemblies. Also custom lens design and optical systems design.

Manufacturer of laser-quality precision optical assemblies and components (VUV to IR) including prisms, mirrors, windows, retroreflectors, filters, plate-type beamsplitters, alignment cubes, polarizing and nonpolarizing cube beamsplitters, and coatings. ISO 9001:2015 certified.

Manufacturer of precision optical components (UV to mid-IR). Prisms, windows, filters, wedges, mirrors, beamsplitters, and all types of singlet, doublet, and triplet lenses. Electron and ion-assisted deposition coating services. Prototype production and OEM assemblies include design and manufacture of single- and multi-element systems.

Spectrum Scientific, Inc. (SSI) is a high volume manufacturer of aspheric and freeform mirrors, hollow retroreflectors, and holographic diffraction gratings. Our optical replication process allows us to supply high fidelity, highly repeatable precision optics.

Produces high-performance optical coatings and components specializing in the design, development, and manufacture of ion-beam sputtered, low optical loss, laser-damage resistant thin films for the UV-VIS-IR spectral region. Applications include lasers, laser devices, nonlinear crystals, medical instruments, and other photonic devices.

Importer and distributor of photonics components and subsystems for use in instrumentation. Products include photomultiplier tubes, solid-state photodetectors, IR detectors, image sensors, scientific cameras, light sources, and x-ray solutions.

Manufacturer of precision optical components and high-power laser coatings from UV to IR. Stock and custom optics: lenses, beamsplitters, filters, windows, mirrors, wave plates, large wedges, prisms, and many more. In-house custom coatings: AR, high reflection, dichroic, and polarizing. Optics from 4 mm to 16 inches.

Manufacturer of precision optical components and thin-film coatings in prototype and volume quantities. Products include lenses and lens systems (cylindrical, spherical), GRMs, etalons, beamsplitters, laser windows and mirrors, for work in the UV, VIS, NIR, and far-IR spectral regions. Metrology services are also available. ISO 9001:2015 certified.

Manufacturer of custom precision optical components, spectrometers, TEA CO2 lasers, and excimer lasers. Specializes in fluid jet polishing equipment, and laser systems. Specializes in the production of difficult, tight tolerance optical components, laser components and systems.

Advanced Optics manufactures custom optics, precision optics, as well as off-the-shelf optical mirrors, optical windows, optical flats, optical filters, and optical lenses from prototype to production. We carry a wide range of substrates in-house, precision polish up to lambda/20 and provide custom fabrication and coatings.

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.

CASTECH is a global leader in nonlinear optical crystals, laser crystals, precision optics, and laser components for laser applications, optical communications, biomedical VR/AR, and lidar. With ISO 9001 and IAFT 16949 quality management system, we consistently enable our customers from prototype to mass production stage.

Lambda Research Optics manufactures catalog and custom lenses, mirrors, beamsplitters, windows, prisms, filters, and polarizers for defense, commercial, and medical laser applications. Lambda specializes in high-power coatings for excimer, YAG, fiber, CO2 lasers, and FLIR coatings. Precision polishing of CaF2, MgF2, BK7, fused silica, ZnSe, Ge, and Si.

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.

Supplier of thin-film coatings on polymer, metal, and glass components. Produces a wide variety of antireflective, beamsplitter, hot and cold mirror, filter and metallic coatings as well as custom coatings. Experienced in handling prototype through OEM volumes. Coatings available from UV to the IR.

Manufacturer of optical filters and coatings for many demanding applications such as: biomedical instruments and imaging systems, fluorescence microscopy, aerospace, surveillance, machine vision, industrial inspection such as semiconductors, food and lumber, multispectral imaging, and chemical analysis. Employee-owned.

Design and manufacture advanced custom thin-film components for OEM volume applications. Products include linear variable filters, variable dichroics, high-quality fluorescence filter sets, filters and dichroics, and filter sets for point-of-care instruments, beamsplitter cubes, and many other components.

Iridian Spectral Technologies, an IDEX Optical Technologies company, provides custom, wavelength selective optical filter solutions for communications (telecom, datacom, lasercom/satcom), spectroscopy (Raman, fluorescence), remote sensing (EO, lidar), and more applications. Our optical filters cover the spectral range from UV 300 nm to LWIR 15 microns.

Materion Balzers Optics is a global leader in optical thin film coating solutions. We custom manufacture and supply precision optical filters and coatings. As a high-tech company with five production sites worldwide, our focus is on a variety of markets such as life science, industry, consumer, lighting, space, defense, and automotive.

Manufacturer of thin-film pellicles for use as beamsplitters, beam combiners, attenuators, filters, and optical windows. Standard items, uncoated and coated, are available from inventory; special frames, coatings, flatness, transmission and documentation are available for custom applications.

PPD provides custom laser optics, assemblies, and IBS coatings for prototype, research, and OEM applications. PPDs precision fabrication, dielectric thin-film coatings, and epoxy-free assembly processes enable total optics solutions. Products include PBS cubes, high power laser mirrors, super-polished lenses, prisms, polarizers, and Brewster windows.