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Buying Birefringent Materials

Top-level product category: icon materials

More general product categories: optical materials

Related product category: birefringent tuners

Birefringent optical materials have a refractive index that depends on the polarization direction. They are used in polarizers, laser tuners, and various other optical devices where control over polarization is essential.

Making Good Purchase Decisions

As the most professional photonics purchasing portal, RP Photonics helps you to not only to find all relevant suppliers (not limited to our advertisers), 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 and another one explaining this tool give you valuable insights.

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 birefringence refraction polarization of light birefringent tuners birefringent phase matching polarization-maintaining fibers Lyot filters

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 birefringent materials. 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 birefringent materials. 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:

Suppliers for Birefringent Materials

24 suppliers for birefringent materials are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 3 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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Artifex Engineering GmbH & Co KG
Dortmunder Str. 16–18
26723 Emden
Germany
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B2.230)!

birefringent materials

We offer a wide range of polarizers and polarization optics for many different uses. Choosing the right polarization optic for your application can be a bewildering task, as we offer a wide range for many different uses.

A brief tutorial is available on our website.

Feel free to contact us for assistance. Our experienced staff is only too pleased to help you with the decision process.

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EKSMA Optics, UAB
Dvarcioniu St. 2B
LT-10233 Vilnius
Lithuania
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth A2.107)!

birefringent materials

EKSMA Optics has various kinds of birefringent crystal materials including various nonlinear crystals, some of our laser crystals and Raman crystals and polarizing optics crystals.

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Hangzhou Shalom Electro-optics Technology Co., Ltd.
A635, Boke Mansion
No. 9 Xiyuan Road
Xihu District, Hangzhou 310030
China
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birefringent materials

Shalom EO offers various birefringent materials, including: MgF2 crystals, LiNbO3 and alpha-BBO crystals, quartz crystals, calcite crystals, and YVO4 crystals. The crystals exhibit excellent properties when used to make waveplates, Glan and Thompson polarizers, and other optical components. Crystal ingots, blanks, and polished and coated optical elements made of birefringent crystals are offered according to your request.

Shalom EO also offers other optical crystal materials, including: nonlinear crystals, laser crystals, and electric-optical and acousto-optic crystals.

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Other Suppliers

Bluebean Optical Tech Ltd.
China
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CASIX Inc.
China
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Crystran Limited
United Kingdom
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Fuzhou Caston Optronics Co., Ltd.
China
Jinan Nanosecond Photoelectric Technology Co., Ltd.
China
Profile page  Website  
Laserand, Inc.
Canada
Metalaser
China
Metrolux
Germany
Mountain Photonics GmbH
Germany
New Age Instruments & Materials
India
Newlight Photonics Inc.
Canada
OptoCity
United States
Photonchina
China
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Polytec GmbH
Germany
Rayser Optronics, Inc.
China
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RIVoptics
Russian Federation
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Roditi International Corporation Ltd.
United Kingdom
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Sinoceramics (USA), LLC
United States
Ultra Photonics
China
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Voyawave Optics Ltd.
China
Hangzhou Yong Hee Photonics Co., Ltd.
China

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