Where to Buy Custom Optics

LightMachinery offers a wide range of custom optics. We work closely with our customers to really understand and define the parameters that are important to the functionality of the optical component.

The experience of the people at LightMachinery with tight tolerance optics is unique in breadth and scope. If you are looking for high quality optics then look no further. Our team of professionals is always ready to push the envelope of optical quality or make a quick piece for an R & D prototype. No job is too big or too small. Start by filling out our contact form and telling us about your project and your requirements, we can help refine the specification and provide feedback on price and delivery.

IRD has a strong presence in the laser OEM market, providing many types of custom components such as cavity reflectors for the solid-state laser industry, HLDT/HR steering mirrors, splatter shields, precision spacers and tooling, beamsplitters, custom corner cubes, filters. IRD Glass and IRD Ceramics work with all types of materials, from fused silica to sapphire, from filter glass to chalcogenides, doped glass to crystals.

Laserton has a wide range of stock optics, but can also produce custom optics covering a wide range of requirements. This ranges from sample to bulk production, with best quality at competitive prices.

We have over 50 years of expertise in custom optics and custom optical component manufacturing of lenses, prisms, windows, wafers, and custom-shaped substrates using materials such as UV grade fused silica, industrial grade fused silica, IR grade fused silica, filter glass, germanium, silicon, ZnSe, and more.

EKSMA Optics offers customized laser mirrors, lenses, windows, prisms, filters waveplates and other polarizing optics. We have a wide range of optical materials and coatings. EKSMA Optics in-house precision polishing and IBS coating facilities allow us to take full control over whole manufacturing process and provide you services starting from optical design to final quality control.

OPTOMAN manufactures a range of application-optimized custom laser optics. To achieve highest possible accuracy, repeatability and quality we employ ion-beam sputtering (IBS) technology. Custom-tailored IBS-coated optics feature high LIDT, precise spectral accuracy, durability and environmental stability.

Some of the special custom optics we do for our clients include: knife-edge coated optics, 100% coated aperture components, segmented coatings, coatings on multi-surface prisms, coatings on micro lens assemblies, fast axis collimators, fibers, end caps and large diameter wafers.

See us at LASER World of Photonics 2023 in Munich, June 27–30 and Laser Korea 2023 in Korea International Exhibition Center, July 5–7!

Artifex Engineering is an independent optics supplier with close relationships to several optical manufacturers. We have more than 20 years experience in precision optics applications and a solid understanding of the optical manufacturing process. We supply high quality industrial and medical optical components at extremely competitive B2B pricing, standard or customized. Please contact us to discuss your applications requirements. Visit our product page for more information. We look forward to your inquiry.

See us at LASER World of Photonics 2023 in Munich, June 27–30 (booth B1.104, B2.300)!

Universe Kogaku offers comprehensive project design cycle assistance by qualified lens application engineers. We provide your optimal lens solution by addressing all of your design considerations – from specs, to budget, to timetables – realizing that optics are not a stand-alone component. We understand electrical and mechanical requirements and integrate our lenses into your system with this in mind. Through this approach, custom lens designs from Universe can often reduce system cost by eliminating the need for other design components or modifications.

Complete custom design capabilities from concept to prototype to production provide ideal solutions for unique designs. We have full plastic optics capability for both lenses and barrels. Our facility contains the best in lens manufacturing and inspection equipment including a spectrophotometer, video MTF bench, laser interferometer, optical collimator bench, in-house single and multi-layer coating, full computer-aided lens and coating design and much more.

Custom precision optics has been an integral part of Photonic Devices' business for over 20 years; DPM Photonics has been their partners for many years. This extensive experience with custom products enables efficient design generation and very reasonable turn-around times, while keeping non-recurring charges low.

Whether the need is a slight modification of an existing product or an entirely new design, Photonic Devices welcomes the opportunity to review customer needs and provide enabling products. Let us put our experience to work for you.

Ecoptik offers most optical components in customized forms concerning dimensions, geometrical shapes, materials, anti-reflection coatings etc.

Shanghai Optics relies on over 55 years of design and manufacturing experience and advanced metrology to provide our customer with world-class lens design and manufacturing services. Our engineering team can provide various types of lens design and assembly, covering all aspects of imaging and illumination design, from LED to gas discharge lamp illumination system design, as well as the design of the overall opto-instrument components and customized optical modules.

WOP offers custom-made space variant retarders – adapted to the specific end-user needs. Space-variant retarders (SVR) fabrication is based on the inscription of self-organized nanogratings inside fused silica glass using a femtosecond laser.

Main features:

• wavelength range from 200 nm to 3500 nm
• high damage threshold: 63.4 J/cm² at 1064 nm, 10 ns and 2,2 J/cm² at 1030 nm, 212 fs – suitable for high LIDT applications and high-power lasers
• 94% transmission at 1030 nm (no AR coating)
• aperture size from 1 mm to 15 mm
• reliable and resistant surface – the structure is inside the bulk piece
• custom-designed fast axis and retardance patterns

Iridian specializes in providing custom filter solutions for a wide range of applications. Our in house design software, multiple fully automated coating platforms and 20 years’ experience dealing with a wide range of applications allows us to optimize the filter performance and cost for your product.

LASEROPTIK does not only offer a large selection of from-stock optics, but also custom optics designed according to your specifications. You can send us your substrates or choose from the large LASEROPTIK substrate stock.

With our online portal named LOOP, you can configure and buy your laser optics online: choose your coating, select a substrate and create your own optic!

For urgent jobs, we offer LASEROPTIK EXPRESS, being able to produce many optics even within 24 hours.

See us at LASER World of Photonics 2023 in Munich, June 27–30 (booth B1.117)!

Knight Optical's main area of expertise is its custom capabilities. We work closely with our customers on their bespoke specifications to ensure they receive both a high-quality product and service – something Knight Optical prides itself on. Customisation includes substrates, dimensions, tolerances, and coatings of the optical components.

UltraFast Innovations (UFI) offers many types of optical elements in customized forms – for example, ultrafast low-dispersion or dispersive mirrors, ultrahigh reflection mirrors, input and output coupler mirrors, spectral filters and mirrors for the XUV and soft X-rays.

Whole customized vacuum beamline setups are also offered.

See us at LASER World of Photonics 2023 in Munich, June 27–30 (booth B1.542)!

Off-the-shelf optics doesn’t match your project’s requirements, and you are looking for a customized solution? Together with our suppliers, the optics experts at AMS Technologies are happy to enable design and production of custom optics exactly tailored to your specifications. Our capabilities range from custom spherical or cylindrical optical lenses, prisms and beamsplitters, to optical windows, filters, mirrors, and custom freeform optics. Contact us now to discuss your customized optics solution in detail!

See us at LASER World of Photonics 2023 in Munich, June 27–30 (booth B2.203)!

Perkins Precision Developments (PPD) offers various kinds of custom optics – in particular, wedge windows, curved and plano laser mirrors, spherical lenses, right angle prisms, plate polarizers, penta prisms, filter glass and Brewster windows. PPD utilizes Ion Beam Sputtering coating technology because it is ideal for complex spectral designs, high power Nd:YAG and fiber lasers and applications where it is critical to minimize losses from absorption and/or scatter.

All custom optics are manufactured and coated in-house. Our technical staff possesses well over 100 cumulative years in the photonics industry.