Photonics Suppliers

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.

Develops, manufactures, and markets advanced fiber optic preparation and glass processing solutions. Innovation and technologies meet the demanding requirements of many specialized markets including medical, high power fiber laser, aerospace and defense, telecom, and oil and gas.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Manufactures systems for physical vapor and diamond-like carbon deposition, R&D and production coating of optical components, sensors, and plastics. Provides process development for sputtering, ion-beam sputtering and etching, and ion-assisted evaporation.

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.

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.

Established in 1983, Kentek Corporation has served thousands of laser users in more than 60 countries around the world. Kentek has the most comprehensive laser safety products and services including eyewear, barriers and curtains, viewing windows, beam control, beam evaluation, training and consulting for all laser users in any environment.

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.

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.

Develops, manufactures, and markets solid-state Light Engines that facilitate imaging and photometric analysis for applications in biomedical and materials sciences and other areas. Expertise in analytical chemistry, materials science, solid-state physics, optics, and engineering.

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.

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 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.

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 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).

Manufacturer of custom optics, optical replication, diffraction gratings, electro-optical assemblies, metallic and dielectric thin-film coatings for prototype and volume production. State-of-the-art manufacturing, coating, QC, assembly and class 1000 cleanrooms. Serving commercial and defense markets worldwide.

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.

PPD provides custom laser optics, assemblies, and IBS coatings for prototype, research, and OEM applications. PPDs precision fabrication, dielectric thin-film coatings, and epoxy-free assembly processes enable total optics solutions. Products include PBS cubes, high power laser mirrors, super-polished lenses, prisms, polarizers, and Brewster windows.

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.

Provides optical engineering services for all product development phases including specification, conceptual through detailed optical design, system analysis, tolerancing, customer and vendor interfacing, ghost and stray light analysis, illumination design and modeling, radiometry and contamination control. Develops optical engineering software.

Publisher of Photonics Spectra, BioPhotonics, and Vision Spectra magazines (print and digital); the Photonics Marketplace featuring the Buyers' Guide and Handbook, (online and in print), ProdSpec, Career Center, and Dictionary; and Photonics.com - with online versions of all our publications, daily news, feature articles, webinars, videos, whitepapers, subscriptions, tradeshow coverage, a bookstore, the All Things Photonics Podcast, and more. Organizer of Photonics Spectra online conferences throughout the year.

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.

Manufacturer of digital cameras and imaging software for machine vision and scientific applications. Color and monochrome cameras based on CCD and CMOS sensors offer easy connectivity via GigE, FireWire, USB 2.0 and 3.0 interfaces. SDK, DCAM, and other software support allow quick integration with application.

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.