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.

Expertise in photonic laser, spectrometer, and chemometric technologies producing mobile spectroscopy and laser instrumentation. Mobile spectroscopy business includes a full line of portable Raman and hand-held Raman systems, building block spectrometer and laser components for system integrators, and customized solutions.

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.

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 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.

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.

Manufacturer of high-precision optical components made from sapphire. Capabilities include finish of other materials including Spinel, ALON, ZnS, Ge, Si, optical glass and more. Configurations provided include windows, spherical lenses, prisms, and domes available from stock or made to precise customer specifications. ITAR/DFARS/NIST Compliant.

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.

Manufacturer of UV curing optical adhesives that meet Telcordia (Bellcore) specification of 85 degrees Celsius/85% relative humidity for 2000 hours, UV light sources, and fiber optic splicing systems.

Produces laser modules and distributes laser diodes from manufacturers for industrial OEMs, medical, and defense markets. Designs and manufactures LED lights for machine vision, industrial, security, and medical markets.

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.

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.

Manufactures high-performance, mercury-free pulsed UV flashlamps and UV systems for curing, printed electronics, and sanitization. Features include instant on/off and high-peak-power penetration enabling low-temperature curing and sintering of medical devices, semiconductor surfaces, PC boards, fiber optics, and DVDs/CDs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Design and manufacture of application-specific hyperspectral imaging systems for OEMs and end-users. Product groups: remote sensing, machine vision, optical components (master-quality holographic gratings, and light and compact optical modules with high spatial and spectral resolution). Spectral ranges from UV-VIS and VNIR to NIR and SWIR.

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.

Incom is a world leader in polymer and glass microstructure innovation. Our customers are instrument makers, researchers, and designers at the forefront of technology, providing innovation to science, medicine, security, and display technology. Our diverse products highlight our broad customization capabilities.

Development and manufacture of ultrastable semiconductor light sources, lasers, and systems. Specializes in single-frequency lasers for fiber laser seeding/pumping, frequency doubling, confocal microscopy, and Raman spectroscopy. Specialist in high power multimode and ultranarrow single-mode lasers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Manufactures precision optical glasses: strip/slab, blanks, fine gobs, polished ball lenses, near-UV transmitting i-Line glass, ceramic substrates, CaF2, UV/IR materials, quartz, fused silica (std./excimer grade). Ohara CCZ ultralow expansion (excellent CTE; large size). Nanoceram. Double-side polished substrates (low surface roughness, excellent flatness).

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 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.

The Optical Engineering Experts - Optikos offers a distinctive set of products and services for optical problem solving: select standard or custom products for testing optics at your facility; send us your optical systems for IQ Lab testing services; or work with our engineers on optically-based product development from concept through manufacturing.

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.

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.

Manufactures stock and custom off-axis parabolic mirrors. Flat, spherical, and aspheric mirrors in ceramic, glass and metal, precision mirror mounts; reflective beam expanders, collimators, FLIR test stations, lidar telescopes; Fourier transform systems, IR lens assemblies and a LUPI-IIA interferometer. Engineering, design, and field services.

Manufactures catalog and custom/OEM optical components and assemblies including microscope objectives, motorized zoom beam expanders, high-resolution diffraction-limited lenses, telecentric scanning, focusing and imaging lenses, wave plates, polarizers; also mounting hardware, optical coatings, and lens design services for UV to CO2 wavelengths.

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.

Manufacturer of air-spaced and solid etalons, ultrahigh damage threshold laser optics and interferometer optics. Coatings from UV to near-IR. Optomechanical systems.

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 IR detectors for the 0.5 to 24 micron range. Products include InGaAs, Ext-InGaAs, InAs, InSb, PC&PV HgCdTe detectors, linear and 2D arrays with a wide range of detector cooling options for defense, security/safety, chemical and biological detection, semiconductor inspection, life science, and spectroscopy markets.

AS9100/ISO 9001 manufacturer of substrates, wafers, flat optics, precision shims/spacers, 0.127-mm sq to 450-mm diameter. Precision lapping, polishing, dicing, 5-axis CNC machining, small diameter core drilling, hole drilling. Ultrathin 10-20 microns, ultraflat, tight tolerances. Fused silica, glass, sapphire, ceramics, metals. Large inventory.

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.