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Buying Axicons

Top-level product category: optical components and devices

More general product categories: lenses

Axicons are lenses with conical surfaces that transform laser beams into ring-shaped or Bessel beams. These lenses are used in applications such as optical trapping, microscopy, and laser machining, where unique beam profiles are advantageous for precision and control.

Making Good Purchase Decisions

RP Photonics helps you to not only to find all relevant suppliers, but also to make good purchasing decisions.

NEW: Structured Decision Process

Purchasing involves a lot of responsibility. We recommend that you apply best practice by using the following structured process: Go through the following expandable sections, complete the form and finally come to a purchase decision. You can then print that to a PDF for documenting the process.

Our article on best practices for purchasing gives you valuable insights.

1. Understand the technical background

It is important to sufficiently understand the technology before buying.

Use the comprehensive resources of RP Photonics:

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 buy.

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 axicons. 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.

3. Find suitable suppliers

We suggest three steps:

  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for axicons. 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.

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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:

Suppliers for Axicons

18 suppliers for axicons are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 7 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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The Future Depends on Optics

Edmund Optics
101 East Gloucester Pike
Barrington, NJ 08007
United States
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axicons

Edmund Optics offers a wide range of specialty lenses, including Bessel grade and ring grade axicons.

Laser solutions for your µ tasks

Workshop of Photonics | WOP
UAB Altechna R&D
Mokslininku St. 6A
08412 Vilnius
Lithuania
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axicons

Workshop of Photonics has circular gratings, also known as flat axicons, are space-variant retarder plates that can transform Gaussian beams into Bessel–Gauss beams.

Main features:

  • flat optics – saves space, easy to handle
  • positive and negative Bessel–Gauss zones – 3 in 1 usage possibilities
  • suitable for high-power lasers (high damage threshold)
  • reliable and resistant surface – the structure is inside the bulk piece
Avantier
1100 US-22
North Plainfield, NJ 07060
United States
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axicons

An axicon lens is a special lens with one plano (flat) surface and one conical surface. Also known as a rotationally symmetric prism, an axicon lens creates a focal line along the optical axis using interference, and can convert a laser beam into a ring shaped beam of light. Axicons are typically defined by their apex angles.

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EKSMA Optics, UAB
Dvarcioniu St. 2B
LT-10233 Vilnius
Lithuania
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axicons

EKSMA Optics offers axicon lenses with quick ex-stock delivery. The range of standard cone apex angles varies from 140° to 179°. Custom axicons can be manufactured in EKSMA Optics CNC polishing facility starting from a single-piece prototype to batch production.

Your Custom Optics Expert

Shanghai Optics Inc.
425 Main St Suite 2E
Metuchen, NJ 08840
United States
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axicons

Shanghai Optics offers high-precision axicon lenses for medical, scientific and industrial applications. From eye surgery to optical tweezers to laser drilling, from optical coherence tomography to particle physics, these prisms play a very important role in a wide range of optical systems. We produce a variety of axicon lenses from optical materials such as fused silica, sapphire, ZnSe, and plastics. Our lenses can be made with almost any ring diameter, and both refractive and diffractive axicon lenses are available. We can also design optical assemblies such as a combination of axicons with beam expanders, lenses, or additional axicons to produce your desired beam profile.

Shaping the light

Cailabs
1 rue Nicolas Joseph Cugnot
35000 Rennes
France
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axicons

CANUNDA-AXICON by Cailabs is a reflective axicon that generates a high-quality Bessel beam. Its design offers far superior beam properties compared to classical refractive design: no oscillation, closer to the theoretical profile.

Optical components at better price

Sinoptix
Office 16 D, Yujia Mansion
N° 1336 HuaShan Road
Shanghai 200052
China
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axicons

We offer axicons with all optical glasses. Diameters from 3 mm to 250 mm.

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Other Suppliers
Alien Photonics
Lithuania
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asphericon
Germany
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Doric Lenses Inc.
Canada
Holmarc Opto-Mechatronics
India
HOLO/OR Ltd.
Israel
Laser Components GmbH
Germany
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STANDA Ltd.
Lithuania
Sunday Optics
China
Tokyo Instruments, Inc.
Japan
ULO Optics Ltd.
United Kingdom
Wavelength Opto-Electronic (S) Pte Ltd
Singapore

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