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Buying Custom Optics

Top-level product category: icon optical components and devices

Related product categories: lenses, prisms, mirrors, diffraction gratings, diaphragms, superpolished optics

Various suppliers offer custom optical elements and assemblies with high precision or special properties. Custom optics solutions are tailored to meet specific requirements and can include lenses, prisms, mirrors, diffraction gratings, and more.

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:

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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 custom 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.

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3. Find suitable suppliers

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  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for custom optics. Use the checkboxes to mark possibly suitable suppliers.
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Suppliers for Custom Optics

148 suppliers for custom optics are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 23 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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Custom Precision optical components

Ecoptik (Changchun) Ltd.
No. 399, Bocai Road
Changchun City, Jilin, 130000
China
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See us at Photonics 2025 in Moscow, Russia, April 1–4 (booth FH081) and LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B2.450)!

custom optics

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

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Optical Coatings with knowledge, quality & speed

Vortex Optical Coatings Ltd.
10 Jacknell Road
Dodwells Bridge Industrial Estate
Hinckley
Leicestershire LE10 3BS
United Kingdom
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See us at SENSOR+TEST 2025 in Nürnberg, Germany, May 6–8!

At Vortex we hold a large stock of standard optics on the shelf ready for immediate coating such as glass, sapphire, silicon, IR quartz. If we do not have the materials or sizes that you require, we have a network of trusted optics suppliers whom we can source from and apply any custom optical coatings that you require between 300 and 6000 nm.

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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)!

custom optics

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.

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LightMachinery
80 Colonnade Rd. North, Unit 1
Nepean, Ontario K2E 7L2
Canada
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.

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Home of high power optics and coatings

LASEROPTIK
Horster Str. 20
30826 Garbsen
Germany
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B1.120)!

custom optics

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.

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Universe Kogaku (America), Inc.
116 Audrey Avenue
Oyster Bay, New York 11771
United States
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custom optics

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.

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AMF Optical Solutions
30 Nashua Street
Woburn, MA 01801
United States
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custom optics

One of AMF specialties is the ability to offer custom optics to our customers demanding specifications. We have the ability to cut & shape with our 5 Axis CNC Machine.

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Thorlabs
43 Sparta Avenue
Newton, NJ 07860
United States
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See us at OFC 2025 in San Francisco, April 1–3 (booth 1551) and LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B2.403, A1.530)!

custom optics

Thorlabs manufactures both custom optics and full custom optical assemblies. Our QuickTurn™ Optics capabilities for both optical lenses and full assemblies allow us to turn new ideas into reality within a fraction of typical industry lead times. At Thorlabs, we can help you tackle and solve complex optical design challenges and can transition a product seamlessly from early concept planning all the way to volume manufacturing.

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Your sidekick for laser optics development

OPTOMAN
Ukmerges g. 427
14185 Vilnius
Lithuania
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custom optics

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, with spectral range from 193 nm up to 5000 nm and size range from 3 mm up to 420 mm, 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.

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AMS Technologies AG
Fraunhoferstr. 22
82152 Martinsried
Germany
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B2.203)!

custom optics

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!

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Precision Optics & Coatings for High Energy Laser Applications

Perkins Precision Developments
4110 North Valley Drive
Longmont, CO 80504
United States
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custom optics

Perkins Precision Developments (PPD) specializes in a variety of custom optics, including wedge windows, curved and plano HEL mirrors, spherical lenses, right angle prisms, plate polarizers, beam splitter cube assemblies, and Brewster windows. They employ Ion Beam Sputtering coating technology to accommodate complex spectral designs and high-power systems such as Nd:YAG and fiber lasers, where minimizing losses from absorption and scatter is crucial.

All custom optics are manufactured and coated in-house, supported by a technical staff with over 100 cumulative years of experience in the photonics industry.

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Laser solutions for your µ tasks

Workshop of Photonics | WOP
UAB Altechna R&D
Mokslininku St. 6A
08412 Vilnius
Lithuania
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B3.413)!

custom optics

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
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DPM Photonics
P. O. Box 3002
Vernon, CT 06066
United States
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custom optics

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.

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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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custom optics

Hangzhou Shalom EO is an expert supplier and manufacturer of various types of custom optics including lenses, windows, mirrors, prisms, laser optics, super-polished optics, sapphire optics, and infrared optics with a wide operation wavelength range from UV, VIS, to IR.

A vast selection of shapes, dimensions, coatings, and other specifications of the optical components can be tailored to meet customers’ specific requirements.

With cutting-edge production technologies (like IAD e-beam coating, super-polishing, and Kyropoulos sapphire growth method), Shalom EO's engineers and production line are competent at and committed to endowing our optical components with optimized optical excellence. All the optics will go through in-process inspections during the production course and further tests in our class 1000 clean room before despatch to ensure the parameters of optical components meet or exceed the published specifications. Utilizing top-tier metrological instruments such as Zygo interferometers, and PerkinElmer Lambda 1050+ spectroscopes, Shalom EO secures the persistent reliable quality of our optical components.

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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)!

custom optics

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.

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YOUR KEY to innovation and success

UltraFast Innovations GmbH
Dieselstr. 5
85748 Garching (München)
Germany
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B1.543)!

custom optics

UltraFast Innovations (UFI®) offers numerous 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 extreme ultraviolet (XUV) and soft X-rays.

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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)!

custom optics

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.

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Bringing quality into focus

Knight Optical (USA) LLC
1130 Ten Rod Road
Suite D102
North Kingstown
Rhode Island 02852
United States
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth A3.533)!

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.

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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)!

custom optics

We offer on-demand custom optics manufacturing – lenses, prisms, windows, filters and free-form optics. High quality at better pricing.

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IRD Glass
810 E St Paul St.
Litchfield, MN 55355
United States
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custom optics

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.

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Laserton Optic Co., Ltd.
C506, #1 Building
Pioneering Park for Overseas Chinese Scholars
No. 69 Huayang Road
Lixia District Jinan, Shandong
China
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custom optics

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.

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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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custom optics

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.

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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 OPIE 25 in Pacifico Yokohama, Japan, April 23–25 (booth F-32), SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing in Orlando (FL), USA, April 13–17 (booth 917), CLEO 25 in Long Beach (CA), USA, May 4–9 (booth 317), 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)!

custom optics

From design to prototype to production, Edmund Optics manufactures over 2 million optical components every year, manufactures over 175.000 optical assemblies including imaging lenses, laser beam expanders or microscope objectives and provides in-house expertise and metrology to support your custom manufacturing. Edmund Optics’ engineers can design and manufacture fully-custom components, build-to-print following customer-supplied designs, and quickly modify any of our thousands of off-the-shelf optics sold in our Marketplace.

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1T Optics Ltd
China
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Abrisa Technologies
United States
AC Photonics
United States
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Accusy Photontech, Ltd.
China
AceXon
Singapore
Adamas Optics, LLC
United States
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Adept Optical Ltd
United Kingdom
Advanced Optics, Inc.
United States
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Alien Photonics
Lithuania
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Align Optics
United States
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Allied Scientific Pro
Canada
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ALL-IN OPTICS
Germany
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Altechna UAB
Lithuania
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Angstrom Precision Optics Inc.
United States
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Archer OpTx
United States
Argyle International
United States
Asphera Incorporated
United States
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Base Lab Tool Inc
United States
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Befort Wetzlar
Germany
Bena Optical Products Ltd.
China
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Bluebean Optical Tech Ltd.
China
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BMV Optical Technologies Inc.
Canada
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Bond Optics
United States
BrightView Technologies, Inc.
United States
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Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH
Germany
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CASIX Inc.
China
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CILAS
France
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CLZ Optical Co., Ltd.
China
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Coastline Optics, Inc.
United States
Comar Optics Ltd
United Kingdom
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Creator Optics, Inc.
China
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Crystal GmbH
Germany
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Crystran Limited
United Kingdom
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CVI Laser Optics
United States
Fujian DayOptics, Inc.
China
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DIOPTIC GmbH
Germany
Egismos Technology Corporation
Taiwan
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Esco Optics
United States
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Everix
United States
Firebird Optics
United States
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FireflySci, Inc.
United States
FISBA AG
Switzerland
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Fleige Optik GmbH & Co. KG
Germany
Fuzhou Farview Optics Co., Ltd.
China
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Galvoptics Ltd
United Kingdom
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Hardin Optical
United States
He Rui Optics Co., Ltd.
China
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Hellma GmbH
Germany
Hind High Vacuum Company Pvt Ltd.
India
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HOLO/OR Ltd.
Israel
IMOS Gubela GmbH
Germany
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INGENERIC GmbH
Germany
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Inlight Precision Optics Co. Ltd
China
Inrad Optics
United States
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ios Optics
United States
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Iridian Spectral Technologies
Canada
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Janos Technology, LLC
United States
Kingsview Optical Ltd
United Kingdom
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LaCroix Precision Optics
United States
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Lahat Technologies Ltd
Israel
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Lambda Research Optics
United States
Laser Research Optics
Laserex Technologies
Australia
LaserOptec
China
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Layertec GmbH
Germany
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LBP Optics Ltd.
United Kingdom
Lensel Optics Pvt Ltd
India
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Lobre srl
Italy
LohnStar Optics
United States
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Lytid SAS
France
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Manx Precision Optics
Isle of Man, IM9 2AP
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Mark Optics, Inc
United States
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Meller Optics
United States
Meuser Optik GmbH
Germany
MOK Optics Co. Ltd.
China
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NETWORK GROUP, s.r.o.
Czech Republic
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Newlight Photonics Inc.
Canada
nortus Optronic GmbH
Germany
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Nu-Tek Precision Optical Corp
United States
Optical Surfaces
United Kingdom
Optico AG
Switzerland
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Optics and Allied Engineering Pvt. Ltd.
India
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Optics Balzers AG
Liechtenstein
Optics For Hire
United States
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Optiforms
United States
Optolong Optics Co. Ltd
China
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ORAFOL Europe GmbH
Germany
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Pacific Coast Optics, LLC
United States
Photonchina
China
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Photonics Precision Engineering GmbH
Germany
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PIKE Technologies
United States
polyoptics GmbH
Germany
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Changchun Positive Optics Co., Ltd.
China
Präzisions Glas & Optik GmbH
Germany
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Precision Optical
United States
Pro-Lite Technology Ltd
United Kingdom
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Rainbow Research Optics, Inc.
United States
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REFLEX Analytical Corporation
United States
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Resolve Optics
United Kingdom
Reynard Corporation
United States
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RIVoptics
Russian Federation
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Ross Optical
United States
RZ Optics
China
Sciencetech Inc.
Canada
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Scientific Materials Corp.
United States
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Sill Optics GmbH & Co. KG
Germany
SLS Optics Ltd.
United Kingdom
Solaris Optics S.A.
Poland
SPAWR Industries Inc.
United States
Spectrum Scientific, Inc. (SSI)
United States
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STANDA Ltd.
Lithuania
Sydor Optics
United States
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Syntec Optics
United States
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Torrent Photonics LLC
United States
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Trionplas Technologies GmbH
Germany
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Tydex
UK Optical Plastic sLimited
United Kingdom
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United Lens Company, Inc.
United States
UQG Ltd. The Norman Industrial Estate
United Kingdom
Vision Optics
United Kingdom
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Voyawave Optics Ltd.
China
WLoptical Co., Ltd.
China
Xi'an Aofa Optoelectronics Technology Inc.
China
Hangzhou Yong Hee Photonics Co., Ltd.
China
Zygo Corporation
United States
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