Photonics Suppliers

More than 25 years of experience in designing and manufacturing high precision motion stages up to providing turnkey system solutions for the semiconductor, 3D printing, and laser micromachining industries. Offers a number of optimized positioning systems, for example of granite or CFC, for maximum precision and dynamics.

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.

Manufacturer of InGaAs sensors. Offers SWIR image sensors and linear sensors, PIN photodiodes and APDs with a wavelength of 900 to 1700 nm. We offer visible and extended wavelength InGaAs products for the applications of power monitoring, imaging, semiconductor inspection, spectrometer, sorting, HSI, and remote sensing. Excellent quality at a reasonable price.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

International manufacturer of precision measurement and control equipment. This technology is utilized within precision motion control and machining systems worldwide. Products include encoders (linear, angle, rotary), length gauges, numerical controls, and touch probes for demanding positioning tasks.

Manufactures precision apertures and miniature micropositioning components. Apertures: pinholes, air slits, and patterns on foils, exotic materials, and reflective surfaces. Micropositioning products: miniature motorized linear and rotary translation stages, PC-based servo-control systems, and light-duty servo amplifiers.

Manufactures and sells Fresnel lenses, lenticular lenses, sheet prisms, and linear Fresnel lenses. Manufactures any type of lens to customer specifications.

Global leader in precision motion control, nanopositioning stages, and automation subsystems. Technologies include hexapods, air bearings, and piezo drives. More than 50 years of experience and 1600 employees. Manufacturing sites in USA, Europe, Asia. PI's customers are leaders in photonics, life sciences, semiconductors, and aerospace.

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.

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.

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.

Manufacturer of precision automation and motion control equipment ranging from component-level solutions (motors, drives, controllers, linear/rotary stages, gantries, piezos, and hexapods), custom-engineered motion subsystems and modules, and complete turnkey automation systems. We solve your toughest precision motion and automation challenges.

Produces custom, high-damage threshold, long lifetime laser optics including mirrors, polarizers, beamsplitters, and windows. Specializes in coatings from 193 nm to 2 microns. Materials include CaF2, MgF2, FS, and BK7. Supplier to linear accelerators using ultrafast, excimer, and solid-state laser systems worldwide.

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.

Specializes in the development of custom fiber optic sensing systems. Designs and manufactures application specific fiber Bragg grating sensors. Temperature independent, highly sensitive FBG pressure and force sensors provide output with temperature as well as pressure and force data from the same location.

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.

Manufacturer of sensors, encoders, measuring instruments, and components for automated image processing.

Supplies quantum cascade tunable IR lasers (3.3 to 17+ microns); UV and IR detectors; single-photon counting electronics and systems for single-molecule detection, FLIM, spectroscopy, diffuse optical tomography and laser radar. Also photon counting detectors and IR thermal sources, IR LED and UV LED.

Product line manufacturer of flex pivot bearings and flexible metal and super plastic couplings. Custom metal flexures and other metal precision components to customer specifications, as well as cryogenic transfer lines.

DataRay Inc. was founded in 1988 with a mission to advance the technology of laser beam analysis. We develop standard and custom laser beam characterization solutions that exceed customer expectations. Our product portfolio consists of beam profiling cameras, scanning slit beam profilers, specialized beam profilers, and laser profiling accessories.

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.

Diverse Optics manufactures custom precision polymer optic components and assemblies. Core processes include injection molding, SPDT, optomechanical design, metrology, assembly, bonding, and thin-film coating. Transforms optical systems from expensive, heavy, and complicated to commercially viable, lightweight, and simple.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

G&H provides design and manufacturing solutions to OEM customers around the world. We meet challenging specifications and offer long product lifetime and guaranteed performance in harsh environments. Our Group is comprised of three businesses: G&H Aerospace and Defense, G&H Industrial and Telecom, G&H Life Sciences and Biophotonics.

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.

Provides customized materials for low stress, high purity, and high uniformity infrared crystals to customers in over 60 countries and regions around the world.

Manufacturer of PbSe and PbS infrared detectors and arrays, sensitive from 0.7 to 5.5 microns, for capnometry, imaging, CO, CO2, and N2O gas analysis, flame detection, and process control. Detectors are offered in standard and custom packages in single element and array configurations. Options include IR filters, TE coolers, and temperature sensors.

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.

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.

Specialist in high operating temperature type-II superlattice and small pitch QWIP cooled infrared detector manufacturing. More than 30 years of detector manufacturing records, thousands of detectors deployed in harsh environments and demanding applications, from defense, optical gas imaging, to industrial markets.

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.

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.

Producer of retrofit parts and components for a variety of YAG laser systems. Manufacturer of lamp- and diode-pumped laser sources for OEMs and system integrators. Dual- and three-axis scanning systems for YAG and CO2 wavelengths. ISO 9001 certified.

LaserPoint manufactures laser power and energy meters for laser measurements with high accuracy up to multi-kilowatts optical power level. We also provide patented high-tech solutions to measure ultrafast lasers down to femtosecond pulse duration and high repetition rates up to MHz range.

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.

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.

NYFORS is your innovative supplier of advanced glass processing and preparation equipment for specialty optical fiber splicing operations. We supply precise solutions tailored to the individual challenges of our customers. Our highly automated systems lead to consistent, high yield production for both high and low volume.

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.

Standard and custom photodetectors and high-quality VIS and IR LEDs. Our advanced performance sensors operate from the extreme ultraviolet (UV) to the mid-infrared (mid-IR). Photodetectors provide high-energy particle, electron, x-ray, and UV detection; plus excellent mid-IR sensitivity to discriminate gases, detect heat, sparks, and flames.

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.

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.