Optical Components

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.