Photonics Suppliers

Provides measurement solutions for optical surfaces and systems. Custom metrology for measuring surface figure error, precision alignment, and transmitted wavefront error. Products include computer-generated holograms (CGHs) for interferometric measurement of aspheric and freeform surfaces, mechanics, and accessories for enabling CGH measurements.

Design and manufacture of satellite telescopes, aspheric mirrors, SiC optics, optics, and optical systems for high-energy lasers. Provides large aperture integrated mounts, beam expanders, beam steering mirrors, and telescopes. Optics are deployed in aerospace, directed energy, HEL research, and remote sensing applications.

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 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.

Distributor of IR pyroelectric, thermopile, PbS and PbSe, and LED detectors; UV detectors; VIS detectors. IR and VIS laser diodes and diode modules. Signal recovery amplifiers. UV through IR filters, metal mirrors, and other optoelectronic components. NDIR, laser, and electrochemical gas and flame detection modules. Spectroscopy systems. SiPMs.

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.

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.

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.

Schneider is a machine manufacturer in the area of ophthalmics, precision and ultra-precision optics. The product portfolio comprises grinding, polishing, and centering machines for spherical and aspherical precision optics applications. The diamond turning machines enable ultra-precision manufacturing of freeform optics and infrared optics.

Develops and supplies optical and photonics design software, and provides engineering consulting services. Software includes imaging design, illumination design, automotive lighting design, and photonic design.

Designs, manufactures, and distributes precision optics to OEMs for applications in high-resolution biometrics, CCD imaging, OCR, security, surveillance, machine vision, metrology, and medical instruments. Westech provides lens design, optomechanical design, and total QC management. Custom and stock optics and lens assemblies.

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.

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.

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.

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

High-power laser diode manufacturer specializing in laser assemblies in any combination of the light source, optics, cooling, and drivers with wavelengths from 375 nm to 12 microns. Custom laser drivers and laser systems, and standard laser diode packages in free-space and fiber-coupled configurations.

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.

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.

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.

Comprehensive automation solutions. Sensors and systems for position measurement, identification, object detection, process media monitoring and a comprehensive portfolio for industrial image processing, including industrial cameras, embedded vision cameras, and 3D cameras for various sectors.

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.

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 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.

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.

Manufacturer of InGaAs detectors in TO, connectorized, ceramic mount, or pigtailed packages. Active diameters range from 30 microns to 5 mm. Array products include InGaAs linear arrays and fiber ribbon arrays.

Fil-Tech supplies electron beam gun and ion source replacement parts, sensor heads and feedthroughs, INFICON rate monitors and controllers and Quality Crystals in Gold and Stress Relieving Alloy for the thin-film industry. We stock FT704, hydrocarbon oils and Krytox oils and greases, and ionization, thermocouple, INFICON and InstruTech vacuum gauges.

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.

G&H | GS Optics specializes in the custom design and manufacture of precision polymer optics for use in the biomedical, healthcare diagnostics, machine vision, and analytical instrument markets, as well as military and civilian night-vision and visible-range sighting applications.

US-based manufacturer of high quality nonlinear optical crystals for extremely demanding applications. Manufactures super-low absorption UV-grade BBO and LBO crystals for long lifetime and stable UV generation, and hydrothermally-grown KTP for high power green generation.

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.

Provides precision analog measurement and signal generation, data acquisition and control instrumentation, pulse and picosecond timing delay generation, laser diode drivers, waveform generators, and fiber optic, photonics, and mixed technology products for demanding aerospace and defense, scientific, and industrial applications.

Supplier of precision photomasks, microlithography, photomask tooling, contact printing, emulsion, chrome and see-through masks, laser written optical components, encoders, optical parts, mask design, precision cutting of glass or silicon, and CAD services. Fast turn services.

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.

Inrad Optics is a vertically integrated manufacturer specializing in glass, crystal, and metal based optical components and assemblies. Manufacturing capabilities include precision optical surfacing, precision diamond turning, large substrate handling, optical contacting processes, thin film coatings, and high resolution in-process metrology.

Specializes in high-performance fiber lasers and fiber amplifiers operating over a wide range of wavelengths and output powers. Applications include materials processing, telecommunications, and scientific research.

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.

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.

Supplier of avalanche photodiodes and modules (Si, InGaAs), IR detectors (InGaAs, PbS, PbSe, pyroelectric), photon counting modules, laser diodes and modules (different wavelengths and power), pulsed laser diodes (905 and 1550 nm), laser diode drivers, laser optics, spatial light modulators, polarizers, UV LEDs and glass filters.

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.

Offers mid-infrared fiber lasers for aesthetics, medical, and material processing applications. High brightness and specific control of the power in a maintenance-free architecture.

Designs and manufactures piezo nanopositioning systems and nanoscale precision instruments for metrology, photonics, astronomy, and microscopy. Closed loop nanopositioners with low noise, high stability PicoQ sensors. Products include piezo nanopositioners, single molecule microscopes, high precision micropositioning, AFM, and custom design.

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 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.

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.

Develops, calibrates, and markets a complete line of laser and LED measurement products, including laser power/energy meters, beam profilers measuring femtowatt to hundred-kilowatt lasers, high-performance IR and visible optical elements, IR thermal imaging lenses and zoom lenses for defense and commercial applications.

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.

Designer and manufacturer of precision optical solutions for a variety of industries including biomedical and life sciences, defense and security, industrial imaging, and projection. Applications include machine vision, assembly, imaging, testing, metrology, biomedical, R&D, noncontact measurement, simulation, autonomous vehicles, and semiconductor.