Glass Ceramics | Suppliers | Photonics Buyers' Guide

Insaco Inc. - Quakertown, PA

Custom fabricator of optical and electro-optical components in sapphire, ruby, quartz, glass, and ceramics including oxides (alumina and zirconia), carbides (silicon carbide and aluminum), and nitrides (silicon nitride and other ultrahard materials).

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Glass Fab Inc. - Rochester, NY

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.

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Ohara Corporation - Rancho Santa Margarita, CA

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).

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Ohara Corporation, Eastern Office - Branchburg, NJ

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).

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Vertex Optics Inc. - Victor, NY

Manufacturer of precision optics from prototypes to low volume quantities for the medical, defense, semiconductor, aerospace, transportation, and many other industries. Specializes in larger optics (15 to 650 mm) and works with a wide range of difficult shapes and materials. Meets precision optics needs, on time, and within budget requirements.

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Accumet Engineering Corp. - Devens, MA

Accuratus Corp. - Phillipsburg, NJ

Alfa Chemistry - Holbrook, NY

American Elements - Los Angeles, CA

AMETEK Aegis Inc. - New Bedford, MA

Angstrom Precision Optics Inc. - Rochester, NY

Astro-Met Advanced Ceramics Inc. - Cincinnati, OH

Bullen Ultrasonics - Eaton, OH

H.V. Skan Ltd. - Solihull, United Kingdom

HEBO Spezialglas - Aalen, Germany

LouwersHanique - Hapert, Netherlands