Photonics Suppliers

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.

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.

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.

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.

Provides measurement solutions for optical surfaces and systems. Custom metrology for measuring surface figure error, precision alignment, and transmitted wavefront error. Products include computer-generated holograms (CGHs) for interferometric measurement of aspheric and freeform surfaces, mechanics, and accessories for enabling CGH measurements.

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.

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.

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.

CASTECH is a global leader in nonlinear optical crystals, laser crystals, precision optics, and laser components for laser applications, optical communications, biomedical VR/AR, and lidar. With ISO 9001 and IAFT 16949 quality management system, we consistently enable our customers from prototype to mass production stage.

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, automation, multispectral imaging, chemical analysis. Custom and catalog optical filters. 100-percent employee-owned.

ECOGLASS is a family-owned company developing and manufacturing glass optics for lighting applications. Our products are lenses in car headlamps, optics in railway and signal lights, prisms in runway lighting, optics for solar power plants, street or LED lighting or primary optics for LED. We also offer optical design and technical support.

Custom optics, such as spherical lenses, dome lenses, prisms, windows, filters, cylindrical lenses, aspherical lenses, mirrors, beamsplitters, optical assemblies. Also custom lens design and optical systems design.

Global supplier and manufacturer of optics, imaging, and photonics technology supporting the R&D, semiconductor, biotech, and defense markets. Products include a wide array of multi-element lenses, lens coatings, imaging systems, and optomechanical equipment. Supports OEM applications with volume production of stock and custom products.

Industrial imaging and data processing company offering sensor-based, real-time solutions for sorting, monitoring, and inspection applications in the recycling, mining, and food processing industries. Core expertise is the classification and analysis of data using hyperspectral, inductive, and color sensor technologies.

Excelitas is a leading provider of advanced, life-enriching technologies that make a difference, serving global market leaders in the life sciences, advanced industrial, next-generation semiconductor, aerospace and defense end-markets.

We design systems and products, we produce optics, we assemble optics, mechanics and electronics to enable our customers' applications mainly for health, tech and luxury. Our team is dedicated to customer satisfaction, quality and on time delivery. We are passionate optics enthusiasts, we love technology, nature, culture and ourselves as a team.

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.

FISBA is a global company that is committed to customized solutions from concept to serial production. We focus on optical technologies for endoscopy, lasers in life sciences and defense. Our key capabilities are design and system engineering, precision micro optics, laser system and imaging optics assemblies as well as advanced optical coatings.

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 provides design and manufacturing solutions to OEM customers around the world. We meet challenging specifications and offer long product lifetime and guaranteed performance in harsh environments. Our Group is comprised of three businesses: G&H Aerospace and Defense, G&H Industrial and Telecom, G&H Life Sciences and Biophotonics.

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.

Custom optics development and manufacturing of plastic optics, projection systems, AR/VR/HUD, LED illumination, and imaging and sensing optics. Capabilities include in-house optical and mechanical design, diamond turning, CNC machining, glass lens manufacturing, plastic optics molding, metrology, and assembly and testing. ISO 9001:2015 certified.

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.

As a matured and professional global supplier with a sophisticated engineering background, we specialize in the manufacturing and sales of electro-optics, including laser crystals and components, laser mirrors, nonlinear crystals, wave plates, polarizers, optical windows and lenses, IR camera lens assemblies/optical filters, scintillators, and more.

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.

Inrad Optics is a vertically integrated manufacturer specializing in glass, crystal, and metal based optical components and assemblies. Manufacturing capabilities include precision optical surfacing, precision diamond turning, large substrate handling, optical contacting processes, thin film coatings, and high resolution in-process metrology.

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.

For over 75 years, LaCroix Precision Optics has positioned itself as a customer-driven, world-class manufacturer of custom precision optics. Capabilities include custom precision optics, coatings, assemblies, and design support. LaCroix Precision Optics is certified to ISO 9001:2015 and is ITAR registered and compliant.

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.

Designs, manufactures, and distributes optical and infrared components including molded glass aspheric lenses and assemblies, infrared lenses and thermal imaging assemblies, and fused fiber collimators. Also offers custom optical assemblies, including full engineering design support for both optics and mechanics.

LightTrans offers solutions for the entire development cycle of optical components where progressive simulation technology shows its advantages in designing optical components, complex systems, detailed modeling, and more. All products and services are based on the optical modeling and design software VirtualLab Fusion.

Designs and manufactures piezo nanopositioning systems and nanoscale precision instruments for metrology, photonics, astronomy, and microscopy. Closed loop nanopositioners with low noise, high stability PicoQ sensors. Products include piezo nanopositioners, single molecule microscopes, high precision micropositioning, AFM, and custom design.

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.

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.

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.

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 diamond-turned optical components and precision, electroformed optics. Diamond-turning capabilities include 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-axis technology to deliver custom, precision optical components. Also provides thin-film optical coatings for stringent specifications.

Manufactures and sells Fresnel lenses, lenticular lenses, sheet prisms, and linear Fresnel lenses. Manufactures any type of lens to customer specifications.

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).

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.

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.

Omicron-Laser offers CW light sources from 355 to 2500 nm, as well as high-speed modulated systems (up to 350 MHz analog and 500 MHz digital), as well as picosecond lasers, as single and multi-wavelength solutions. In addition, laser combiners, narrow bandwidth laser diode modules, and PDT medical laser systems are available.

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.

Manufacturer of diamond-turned IR optics, metal mirrors, Ge/Si aspheric and diffractive optics, parabolic and off-axis mirrors, lenses, prisms, wedges, windows, laser optics, thin-film coatings, beamsplitters, filters, polymer imaging optics, large-size windows/mirrors, optomechanical assemblies, mounts.

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.

Optimax is located in Ontario, NY, and manufactures high precision optics in aerospace, defense, and semiconductor. During the past 30 years, we have grown to more than 400 employees, our capabilities include research, optical coatings, and engineered solutions. We are America's largest prototype optics manufacturer.