Photonics Suppliers

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Manufacturer of thin-film pellicles for use as beamsplitters, beam combiners, attenuators, filters, and optical windows. Standard items, uncoated and coated, are available from inventory; special frames, coatings, flatness, transmission and documentation are available for custom applications.

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 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.

Provides high-performance lenses for demanding video, digital projection, and industrial optics applications offering precision optical design, manufacture, test, and distribution of both standard and custom solutions. Serving the precision industrial market, manufactures photographic and industrial lenses and filters.

Develops products for applications in optics, lithography, astronomy, automotive, consumer electronics, industrial, and life sciences. Offers a variety of optical and laser glasses, optical filters, glass ceramic, IR materials, optical components, custom glass development, precision finishing, and metrology capabilities.

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.

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.

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.

Antireflection nanotextures etched directly into the bulk optical material providing high optical performance with R down to 0.01%; extreme broadband performance UV-NIR, no added absorption, high laser damage threshold. Available in fused silica, diamond, sapphire, and a wide range of IR materials.

Designs and manufactures stock and custom lenses and precision assembled optical lenses including UV quartz, CCD and CMOS, CCTV and diode laser, high-res, mounts, filters, and accessories. Application engineers provide custom design services. Universe has over 1600 different lenses in stock, and ships worldwide. Since 1949.

Designs and manufactures dynamic laser interferometers and optical profilers, and surface defect gauges. Applications include precision machined surfaces, optics, astronomy, aerospace, space-based telescopes, flexible electronics, automotive, and in-line production measurement.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Emergent Vision Technologies was founded in 2007 in Vancouver, Canada. We are the first providers of cameras based on the 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GigE), 25 Gigabit Ethernet (25GigE), 50 Gigabit Ethernet (50GigE), and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100GigE) interfaces.

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.