Photonics Suppliers

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Fizeau and LUPI interferometers. Making optics is a daily challenge. Less time, more challenging specifications, and demands to lower cost. Apre interferometers give you the performance edge and architecture to grow with you, at minimal cost. APRE upgrades most brands and models of interferometers to keep your present systems working. Call today.

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.

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.

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.

Manufacturer of mid-IR lasers, sensors, and imaging systems for mid-IR applications including molecular spectroscopy, life sciences, remote sensing, process control, and defense and security. Laser performance spans 3 to 13 microns, with options for pulsed, CW, broadly tunable, narrow linewidth, rapid-scan, and high power output.

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 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.

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.

Supplier of precision photomasks, microlithography, photomask tooling, contact printing, emulsion, chrome and see-through masks, laser written optical components, encoders, optical parts, mask design, precision cutting of glass or silicon, and CAD services. Fast turn services.

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.

Designer and manufacturer of broad-beam ion and plasma technology products for the vacuum process community.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Manufacturer of laser-quality precision optical assemblies and components (VUV to IR) including prisms, mirrors, windows, retroreflectors, filters, plate-type beamsplitters, alignment cubes, polarizing and nonpolarizing cube beamsplitters, and coatings. ISO 9001:2015 certified.

Develops integrated imaging solutions to enable automated visual inspection and measurement of light, color, and surfaces. Scientific-grade imaging colorimeters are used for production-quality inspection and R&D testing of displays, backlit components, LEDs, and other light sources, as well as overall manufacturing integrity.

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.

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.

Designs and manufactures high power metal mirrors, passive and water-cooled copper, molybdenum tungsten, titanium, aluminum, and stainless-steel mirrors, metal mirror corner cubes, laser beam shaping systems, optical integrators, line image focusing modules, 100-plus-kW beam dumps, laser optics, small and large mirror mounts, and lightweight metal mirrors.

Manufactures precision devices for scientific research and industrial OEM. Products include optical beam combiners, high-power LED, xenon light sources, high-speed wavelength switchers and shutters, multi-photon microscopes, translation systems, motorized stages, manipulators, electrophysiology amplifier systems, and micropipette pullers.