Photonics Suppliers

Designs and manufactures thin-film optical coatings for both visible and IR applications. AOC specializes in high-layer-count coatings associated with laser protection optics. Proficient at high-volume optical assembly, subassemblies and optomechanical bonding. Large capacity coating, and in-house metrology.

Manufacturer of precise closed-loop XY stages, Z drives, piezo stages, and other precision positioning equipment; and light sheet microscopes and custom microscope/optics. Works directly with end users and OEMs to provide stock products and custom solutions. Products are designed for long life under demanding applications.

Manufacturer of mid-IR lasers, sensors, and imaging systems for mid-IR applications including molecular spectroscopy, life sciences, remote sensing, process control, and defense and security. Laser performance spans 3 to 13 microns, with options for pulsed, CW, broadly tunable, narrow linewidth, rapid-scan, and high power output.

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 precision micro, small, and lead frame injection-molded plastic components. Designs, builds, and produces molds and parts for markets that include microelectronics, medical, micro-optics, and other emerging technologies. Accumold is ISO 13485:2016, ISO 9001:2015, and ISO 14001:2015 certified.

AdTech Ceramics is a fully integrated US manufacturer of alumina and aluminum nitride multilayer co-fired products, including QFN, PGA, and BGA packages. Specializing in mission-critical ceramics for challenging environments. We engineer the finest quality ceramics. ITAR registered, CUI trained, AS9100D, NADCAP certified.

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.

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 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.

Avantier Inc. is a leader in providing imaging systems solutions. We offer advance precision custom optical design, optical engineering, optical lens assembly, rapid optical prototyping, image processing, and manufacturing services. Avantier is both ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 13485:2016 certified.

BAE Systems wholly owns Fairchild Imaging, a designer and manufacturer of low-light, sCMOS, and x-ray sensor designs. We specialize in design, development, and manufacture of high-performance image sensors for defense, security and surveillance, space, scientific; medical, dental, veterinary x-ray; industrial, and pro-video markets.

Instrumentation manufacturer of precision test and measurement equipment including pulse and delay generators, arbitrary waveform generators, HV pulse generators, LD drivers, and custom scintillation detectors. Capabilities in photonics, timing, gating, synching, triggering, mass spectrometry, Pockels cells, Q switching, lidar, research, medical research and testing.

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.

Extensive suite of application-focused instrumentation for life sciences and materials research and production covers the full range of metrology techniques, sample sizes, and imaging resolutions. Technologies include AFMs, NanoIR spectrometers, fluorescence microscopes, stylus and optical profilers, mechanical testers, and nano-indenters.

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.

Manufacturer of polarization maintaining fiber optic couplers, WDMs, pump couplers, polarization splitters, interferometers, and noncontact displacement sensors.

Optical coatings for precision glass and polymer optics, fiber optic devices, crystals, and semiconductors. Designs include optical filters, high power AR and HR laser mirrors, ultralow antireflection, enhanced mirrors, beamsplitters, transparent conductive coatings, LWP/SWP filters, antistatic, attenuation, and custom designs. ISO 9001:2015 certified.

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.

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.

Specializes in the manufacturing of fine pitch manual adjusters, with standard pitches ranging from 80 to 508 threads/in. (0.05-mm pitch). Also manufactures components for the photo optics industry, including lens holders, adapters, connectors, and posts. All products manufactured in USA.

For over 75 years, LaCroix Precision Optics has positioned itself as a customer-driven, world-class manufacturer of custom precision optics. Capabilities include custom precision optics, coatings, assemblies, and design support. LaCroix Precision Optics is certified to ISO 9001:2015 and is ITAR registered and compliant.

Laservision USA designs and manufactures a complete line of laser protection products, including laser safety eyewear, goggles, face shields, laser viewing windows, laser curtains and barriers systems, and comprehensive laser safety audits and training. Specializes in creating custom solutions for safety requirements.

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.

Manufactures standard and custom polarization control components and systems including polarizers, retarders, LC devices, Pockels cells, polarimeters, and SLMs. Applications are in optogenetics, aerospace, defense, medical imaging and analysis, data storage, polarimetry, semiconductor inspection and processing, astronomy, and more.

Manufacturer of high-precision optical components made from sapphire. Capabilities include finish of other materials including Spinel, ALON, ZnS, Ge, Si, optical glass and more. Configurations provided include windows, spherical lenses, prisms, and domes available from stock or made to precise customer specifications. ITAR/DFARS/NIST Compliant.

Manufactures custom vacuum-deposited thin-film coatings for glass, plastic, and infrared optics, specializing in AR, reflective, ITO, conductive, metallic, filter, and scratch-resistant films. Now offering diamond-like carbon for all substrates, including severe abrasion DLC for chalcogenide material.

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.

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.

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.

Photron develops and manufactures high-speed camera systems that provide extremely high frame rates and extraordinary light sensitivity. Photron cameras are effectively utilized in a wide variety of applications within the automotive, military, aerospace, medical, scientific, R&D, and manufacturing industries.

PG&O provides reliable, cost-effective, precision optics and commercial components from 0.040 in. to 30 in. diam., highly precise thin-film coatings, custom and standard components and turnkey optical solutions that operate from 0.2 to 15 microns. Delivering highly durable sapphire optics for broad-spectrum apps and finished IR optics for mission-critical tasks.

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.

Supplier of sophisticated materials for research or production applications. Offers laser crystals and laser components, optical components, optoelectronic components, metals (high purity or single crystals), plasma technology, UHV components, and precision wire saws.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Designs and manufactures high power metal mirrors, passive and water-cooled copper, molybdenum tungsten, titanium, aluminum, and stainless-steel mirrors, metal mirror corner cubes, laser beam shaping systems, optical integrators, line image focusing modules, 100-plus-kW beam dumps, laser optics, small and large mirror mounts, and lightweight metal mirrors.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.