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Purchasing Advisor for Adaptive Optics

Find all you need for professionally buying adaptive optics: a comprehensive expert-curated directory of suppliers, scientific and technical background information, and an interactive AI-based tool with guidance for a structured decision process.

Top-level product categories: icon optical components and devices, icon vision, displays and imaging

Related product category: deformable mirrors

Adaptive optics systems adjust optical wavefronts to correct distortions and optimize image quality. Used in fields like astronomy and ophthalmology, these systems employ components such as deformable mirrors to achieve high-resolution imaging and precise optical corrections, thereby enhancing the performance of telescopes and other optical instruments.

Interactive Purchase Decision Tool

Purchasing high-value photonics products is a substantial responsibility. Using a structured decision-making process and high quality supplier data helps a lot:

See also:

How Responsible Purchase Decisions for Expensive Goods Like Lasers Are Done Explanations on this purchasing tool

Go through the process:

1. Understand the technical background

It is important to sufficiently understand the technology before buying.

Use the comprehensive learning resources of RP Photonics:

encyclopedia article adaptive optics

If you need personal help, contact RP Photonics to get technical consultancy.

2. Define your requirements

It is essential to fully understand and clearly define your requirements before you purchase.

We recommend that you develop a list of clear specifications according to your specific needs, against which you can later check the suitability of found product offers:

To help you, we have already listed some aspects we recommend you consider when buying adaptive optics. Of course, there may be other aspects that are relevant to your specific case.

This list is for your own preparation, and can later (possibly in modified form) be used for quotation requests to suppliers.

Otherwise, you will need to talk to your technical colleagues.

If you cannot sufficiently clarify your requirements, you may want to get technical consultancy from RP Photonics.

You find these buttons in the supplier list below or under "3. Find suitable suppliers".

3. Find suitable suppliers

We suggest three steps:

  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for adaptive optics. Use the checkboxes to mark possibly suitable suppliers.
  • The selected suppliers will appear below this list, along with your list of specifications. You can then indicate which specifications they meet according to your research. (You should finalize your specifications before doing this.)
  • Based on the results, you can finally choose a supplier that is hopefully a good enough fit.

Selected suppliers:

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Decision

The most suitable supplier you found:

Comments, e.g. reasons for your choice, or things which still need to be checked:

4. Document the decision process

It is essential to document your purchasing process, not only its result (chosen supplier):

  • You will find it easier next time.
  • If something goes wrong, you can defend your decision by showing that you properly considered all important aspects. Or you see what needs to be done better next time.

Our interactive tool makes it easy: Fill out the form, and in the end print it to a PDF. Note that the document will show all sections (including those not currently shown on the screen), while omitting some irrelevant details such as the page navigation.

Suppliers for Adaptive Optics

18 suppliers for adaptive optics are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

Suppliers with Advertising Package

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There are no suppliers for adaptive optics with our Advertising Package registered yet. These would have a company logo, a product description (very useful!), and a product image, and also appear in the corresponding Encyclopedia article.

Other Suppliers

A.D.S. International S.r.l.
Italy
Adaptica Srl
Italy
Allied Scientific Pro
Canada
Profile page  Website  
ALPAO SAS
France
Axiom Optics
United States
Boston Micromachines Corporation
United States
Profile page  Website  
CILAS
France
Profile page  Website  
Corning Inc.
United States
Dynamic Optics s.r.l.
Italy
Profile page  Website  
Flexible Optical B. V.
Netherlands
Imagine Optic SA
France
Profile page  Website  
LAS Photonics
Israel
Microgate Srl
Italy
New Age Instruments & Materials
India
Northrop Grumman - Cutting Edge Optronics
United States
Profile page  Website  
Optico AG
Switzerland
Profile page  Website  
Phaseform GmbH
Germany
Photon Lines Ltd.
United Kingdom

If any displayed information is incorrect (e.g., a listed supplier does not offer such products) or legally problematic, please notify RP Photonics so that the problem can be solved.