SCHOTT North America Inc.

SCHOTT has over 140 years of experience in creating groundbreaking glass solutions, which has evolved into our commitment to material innovations. As a world-leading supplier of advanced optics and specialty glass, SCHOTT offers a huge portfolio of high-performance windows and lens caps for fiber optics, sensors, LEDs, and other optical components that require hermetic protection, as well as over 120 precision optical glasses for a vast range of applications and are available in the form of bulk glass, semi-finished blanks, pressings & finished components. 

We have been a leading designer and manufacturer of fiber optics and LED solutions for over 60 years. We apply our advanced glass technology capabilities to create leading-edge flexible and rigid glass fiber optic guides for transferring images or light with precision as well as to produce high-quality LED light sources.

Our proficiency in advanced optics and lighting and imaging is improving lives by advancing applications in medical, industrial, aviation, automotive, lithography, industrial lasers, and defense areas. We provide a full range of services from assistance with early stage product development all the way to serial production.

Please contact us at [email protected] with any inquiries or questions. See below for our range of products:

• SCHOTT ZERODUR® glass ceramic can be used for lithography, telescopes, aviation, metrology, and more! ZERODUR® is a near-zero thermal-expansion glass ceramic that is homogeneous throughout the entire volume. It’s ideal for applications demanding highest precision that rely on this material to avoid changes under temperature variances.
• Active and passive laser glass and components come in a vast range that are customizable and used for several applications including medical skin treatment, laser range finders and high-power laser applications like fusion energy. 
• Aspherical lenses can be customized for you in our full range of optical glasses & almost every type of fused silica. 
• Optical coatings with precise light control that are highly reliable 
• Optical Filter Glass by SCHOTT is well known for its purity & outstanding properties.
• Infrared glass & material portfolio enables customers to fulfill all their needs in the visible, shortwave, midwave and longwave infrared. For high transmission, low dn/dt SCHOTT's Infrared Glasses are the ideal solution.
• Our prisms have excellent thermal stability and avoid loss of light in the optical path. All prisms can be coated to specific custom designs to serve your chosen application.
• SCHOTT BOROFLOAT® is tough, light and versatile and is coveted by technology companies and scientific institutes for its superb technical capabilities. Excellent transparency and thermal and chemical resistance make it ideal for use in automotive applications, digital projection, inspection windows and much more.
• Fiber Optic Lightguides perform vital roles in many industries, and SCHOTT has the expertise to understand the key requirements of them all. Our in-house development teams and production facilities produce the latest glass optical fibers, bundles, cables and assemblies for versatile and customized solutions.  
• Light guide rods ensure perfect illumination for instruments in dentistry, endoscopy, level sensing and many other fields in industry. Our advanced shaping processes enable a large variety of different shapes, bending angles and cross-sections. We also act as an expert partner when you need to develop challenging designs. 
• Fiber Optic Bundles, Imaging When remote images and hard-to-access locations need to be seen, SCHOTT Flexible Imaging Bundles provide a unique solution. Our glass fiber optics combine flexibility and high resolution with light weight. We offer a wide range of diameters and lengths to provide solutions for the most challenging conditions.
• Fused imaging fiber optics transmit a high quality image with minimal distortion and transmission loss. We transform our customers’ vision into customized forms, shapes, lengths and diameters of fused fiber optics. These are developed for specific applications and environments.
• SCHOTT Puravis® glass optical fibers offer the advantages of outstanding light transmission and a long lifetime, giving designers the freedom to create lighting solutions for a vast range of applications. Winner of a German Innovation Award, PURAVIS® delivers intense, precise light for medical and industrial applications.
• High-performance windows and lens caps are available in a huge portfolio for fiber optics, sensors, LEDs, and other optical components that require hermetic protection. 
• SCHOTT’s microelectronic packages with hermetic glass-to-metal-sealing are custom-designed for individual requirements. They are used in opto-electronic applications and also increasingly in microelectronic mechanical systems (MEMS).  
• Fiber Optic Component Packaging: Fiber optic data transmission uses a transmitter (laser) on one side of the line and a receiver (photodiode) on the other. Both components utilize a transistor outline package, which protects them from external influences – primarily humidity.  SCHOTT’s hermetic transistor outline (TO) packages provide reliable encapsulation and protect sensitive semiconductor components from adverse effects. Since the package is based on a TO footprint, it is also reduced in size compared to the conventional box packages.
• Laser Diode Packaging: As a one-shop supplier for laser diodes packaging materials, SCHOTT offers TO headers, as well as high precision TO caps. TO headers provide a mechanical basis for the installation of laser diodes and simultaneously deliver power to the encapsulated components with the aid of feedthrough pins. The high precision caps reliably and permanently protect the laser diodes in transmission and receiving functions. These hermetic windows and lens caps also enable the transmission of optical signals by acting as an optical interface.  
• For the latest laser-based illumination applications, SCHOTT offers protective caps and cool header for blue laser diodes. The TEC cool header features a thermoelectric cooler that allows for controlled heat dissipation, which leads to regulated and stable laser wavelengths.
• Solidur® LED delivers unparalleled reliability in conditions previously unsupported by conventional LEDs. This includes safety-critical medical, dental, UVB/UVC, and other harsh-environment applications. Solidur® LEDs are offered in four fully customizable base designs:  Solidur® Mini LED, Ring LED, TO LED and SMD LED variants can be adapted to suit different application needs.