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Purchasing Advisor for Corner Cube Prisms

Find all you need for professionally buying corner cube prisms: an interactive tool with a comprehensive and trustworthy directory of suppliers and expert guidance for a structured decision process with scientific and technical background information.

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More general product categories: prisms

Corner cube prisms are a common type of retroreflector used in applications where precise back reflections are needed without tight alignment tolerances. They are employed in interferometers, laser tracking systems, and variable optical delay lines.

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:

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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:

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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 corner cube prisms. 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 corner cube prisms. 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 Corner Cube Prisms

18 suppliers for corner cube prisms are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 8 present their product descriptions and images. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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Knight Optical (USA) LLC
1130 Ten Rod Road
Suite D102
North Kingstown
Rhode Island 02852
United States
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See the company profile page for additional contact information.

See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth A3.533)!

corner cube prisms

Knight Optical offer precision N-BK7 corner cube prisms with a 3 arcsecond deviation angle. Often used for beam steering, these retroreflector prisms are also available as custom orders including mounted options.

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Your Custom Optics Expert

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

Shanghai Optics Inc. custom corner cube prisms are used for applications in spectroscopy, satellites, or battlefield technology, also in land surveying, laser resonator cavities, electronic distance measurement, and space vessel docking.

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Your reliable partner for photonics innovations!

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)!

corner cube prisms

EKSMA Optics offers a selection of corner cube prisms for quick delivery. Custom metal or dielectric coatings can be applied on request.

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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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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (hall B1, booth 258)!

corner cube prisms

Shalom EO has developed a capable production workshop that could offer various kinds of custom and off-the-shelf corner cube prisms made of N-BK7, UV fused silica, and other custom materials with diverse coating options like silver/gold coatings, and coatings in the visible, UV, and NIR spectrum.

Shalom EO's main types of corner cube retroreflectors include:

  • Standard corner cube retroreflectors of routine choices.
  • Truncated corner cube reflectors of lightweight and compact dimensions.
  • Lateral transfer corner cube retroreflectors with one trihedral reflecting face at one terminal of the prism and two trihedral reflecting faces forming a roof edge at the other end are designed for applications requiring a lateral beam displacement.
  • Customized hollow corner retroreflectors that perform great in low-pressure conditions and mitigate the aberrations derived from glass dispersion and temperature fluctuations.
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Your problem is our challenge – flexibility is our standard!

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)!

corner cube prisms

Artifex offers custom corner cube prisms tailored to your requirements, which can be either solid or hollow. Our retroreflectors are available in a range of substrates and coatings and can be mounted on request. Visit our product page for more information. We look forward to your inquiry.

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The Future Depends on Optics

Edmund Optics
101 East Gloucester Pike
Barrington, NJ 08007
United States
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See us at Automate 25 in Detroit (MI), USA, May 12–15 (booth 4400), SPS Italia in Parma, Italy, May 13–15 (hall 5, booth 055) and LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B1.416)!

corner cube prisms

Edmund Optics offers mounted and unmounted retroreflection prisms in a range coating options. Reflective surfaces are available with reflection coatings including aluminum and silver. Entrance surfaces are available with VIS 0° anti-reflection coatings. Due to their complex shape, mounting a retroflection prism can be difficult. To ease system integration, mounted retroreflection prisms featuring ¼-20 tapped holes are available.

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Optical components at better price

Sinoptix
Office 16 D, Yujia Mansion
N° 1336 HuaShan Road
Shanghai 200052
China
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B1.525)!

We offer on-demand manufacturing of corner cube prisms / retroreflector prism. N-BK7 or HK9L substrate, with high reflective silver or aluminium coating and can reach precision down to 2″ of deviation.

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Avantier
1100 US-22
North Plainfield, NJ 07060
United States
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B1.171B)!

corner cube prisms

A corner cube prism, also known as a retroreflector, a CCR, or a trihedral prism, is an optical prism that sends an incoming beam of light directly towards its point of origin while translating it spatially.

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Other Suppliers

AOS Optics Co., Ltd
China
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Comar Optics Ltd
United Kingdom
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Crystran Limited
United Kingdom
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GiAi photonics Co., Ltd
China
MOK Optics Co. Ltd.
China
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Optics and Allied Engineering Pvt. Ltd.
India
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Precision Optical
United States
Solaris Optics S.A.
Poland
Tian Cheng Optic Co., Ltd.
China
Torrent Photonics LLC
United States
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