Optical Components

Manufacturer of custom blanks. Products include fused quartz and silica, optical and filter glasses, and low/ultralow expansion glasses. Capabilities include annealing, slumping, sawing, grinding, edging, drilling, waterjet cutting, and CNC shaping and generating.

Manufacturer of dichroic glass polarizers for the UV, VIS, NIR, and MIR spectral range. Also produces patterned polarizers that have arbitrary shaped areas with different directions of polarization.

Manufactures precision devices for scientific research and industrial OEM. Products include optical beam combiners, high-power LED, xenon light sources, high-speed wavelength switchers and shutters, multi-photon microscopes, translation systems, motorized stages, manipulators, electrophysiology amplifier systems, and micropipette pullers.

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.

Italian manufacturer in the optics and photonics market, with more than 65 years of experience in engineering, production, and assembly of lenses, prisms, mirrors, filters, lightguides, and finished optical systems for aerospace, biomedical, security and defense, imaging and lighting applications.

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.

Manufactures molded plastic optics and IR transmitting materials and optics. Also lens arrays for passive IR applications, diffusers and microlens arrays for illumination, and plastic optics for 3.4 microns. Design help, tooling and production, and diamond machining.

Precision optical filters since 1969, from UV to NIR. We specialize in custom filters from prototype to OEM quantities. Fluorescence, astronomy, and overrun filters in stock. Prototyping, engineering, and high-volume production utilizing plasma-assisted reactive magnetron sputtering, e-beam, thermal evaporation, and ion assist. ISO 9001:2015 Certified.

Precision optical glass: strip, blanks, pressings, polished balls, near-UV transmitting i-Line glass, ceramic substrates, CaF2, UV/IR materials, quartz, fused silica (standard/excimer grade), Nanoceram. Ohara CCZ ultralow expansion (excellent CTE uniformity, blank form, to 1.8 m diam). Double-side polished substrates (low surface roughness, excellent flatness).

Manufactures precision optical glasses: strip/slab, blanks, fine gobs, polished ball lenses, near-UV transmitting i-Line glass, ceramic substrates, CaF2, UV/IR materials, quartz, fused silica (std./excimer grade). Ohara CCZ ultralow expansion (excellent CTE; large size). Nanoceram. Double-side polished substrates (low surface roughness, excellent flatness).

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.

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.

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.

Reynard Corporation manufactures custom optics and thin-film coatings from 0.2 to 50 microns (UV-IR). Other in-house capabilities include diamond turning, optical fabrication, photolithography pattern optics, environmental testing, and design services. Prototype to production, ISO 9001:2015 certified, ITAR registered, and Cybersecurity (CMMC) compliant.

Manufacturer of precision optical filters and coatings for the aerospace, astronomy, research, environmental, military, machine vision, and medical markets. Extensive line of standard products; specializes in custom designs. US owned, ITAR registered and AS 9100 and ISO 9001 certified.

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.

Deposition Sciences, Inc. (DSI) produces a wide variety of highly durable and heat-resistant optical coatings. Our technologies and customer deposition chambers offer coatings in the visible (VIS) near-infrared (NIR), shortwave infrared (SWIR), and midwave infrared (MWIR) spectral wavelengths. ISO 9001:2015 certified.

Manufacture and designer of integrated lens arrays, microlens arrays, aspheric lenses, and condenser lenses by glass molding. Melting heat-absorbing and laser protection glass; and UV absorbing filters, ND filters, and color glass filters. Provides optical design and assembly services.

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.

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.

Excelitas Technologies Corp. is an industrial technology manufacturer focused on delivering innovative, market-driven photonic solutions to meet the illumination, optical, optronic, sensing, detection and imaging needs of our OEM and end-user customers.

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.

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.

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.

Founded in 2005, DayOptics is a leading integrated optical components manufacturer. Focusing on the field of optics, we are dedicated to establishing ourselves as a prominent brand known for reliable optical components. We specialize in the design, R&D, production, and sales of optical components such as wave plates, mirrors, PBS, crystals, filters, windows, prisms, lenses, and more.

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.

As a matured and professional global supplier with a sophisticated engineering background, we specialize in the manufacturing and sales of electro-optics, including laser crystals and components, laser mirrors, nonlinear crystals, wave plates, polarizers, optical windows and lenses, IR camera lens assemblies/optical filters, scintillators, and more.

MKS/Newport designs and manufactures high performance optical filters and replicated mirrors in the UV, VIS, and NIR. Filters include bandpass, dichroic, edge, fluorescence, neutral density, and notch filters, as well as optomechanical and electro-optical assemblies based on filter technology. Mirrors include retroreflector, aspheric, and spherical.

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.

Provides cutting-edge optical thin-film coatings for the most challenging optical filter scenarios. Produces custom filters with a combination of automation, algorithms, and a plasma thin-film deposition process. ISO 9001:2015 certified and ITAR registered.

Manufacturer of custom vacuum-deposited thin-film coatings. Offers ion-assisted deposition, low-temperature, low-stress coatings for laser crystals and fiber optics. Prototype to production quantities. ISO and MIL SPEC compliant.

Offers precision custom and high-volume coatings on glass, metals, ceramics, and plastics for automotive, defense, consumer electronics, dentistry, astronomy, utilities, lighting, and entertainment. Twenty-six vacuum coating chambers offer 40 million sq. in. of coating capacity, enabling high volume and large format coatings up to 108 in. in diameter.

Manufacturer of organic dyes and light absorbing compounds that manage UV, visible, and NIR light within injected molded and cast plastic parts, films, laminates, adhesives, and coatings. Our materials add performance and value to laser, welding, performance eyewear, light filters, sensor covers, display materials, inks, and night vision products.

Hyperion Optics offers custom optical solutions from UV-VIS-IR with optomechanical engineering expertise. We are known for our DFM-driven approach and flexibility for R&D projects. Our capabilities include precision diamond turning, conventional polishing, custom coatings, and precision assembly backed by metrology.

LASEROPTIK is a manufacturer of high LIDT laser optics and coatings from VUV to IR and employs more than 40 coating machines with 7 different coating methods. Products include mirrors and AR coatings, thin-film polarizers, complex filters, chirped mirrors and mirror pairs. Special IBS capabilities are available for coatings on large substrates.

Specializes in laser information application fields. Products cover semiconductor lasers, fiber lasers, solid-state lasers and related laser application systems. Offers customized products and production services.

Manufacture and research of high performance dyes. Our expertise includes narrow-band visible and infrared absorber dyes for optical filters, as well as fluorescent, and the closely-related laser dyes. Since early 2017 Exciton has been part of Luxottica, a leader in the design, manufacture, and distribution of fashion, luxury, and sports eyewear.

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.

PM fiber components; patch cords, splitters/combiners, polarizers, isolators, fused/PLCS couplers, test equipment; PER meter, polarized sources, PDL emulators, polarization controllers/analyzers, digital/motor driven/manual variable attenuators, laser/laser diode to fiber delivery systems; collimators/focusers, polarization entangled photon sources.

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.