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Buying Cylindrical Lenses

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Cylindrical lenses have different focusing properties in the x and y directions. They can be used to generate elliptical beams, transform elliptical beams into circular beams, or create a line focus. These lenses are essential in applications requiring precise beam shaping and control.

Making Good Purchase Decisions

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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 cylindrical lenses. 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

We suggest three steps:

  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for cylindrical lenses. 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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Suppliers for Cylindrical Lenses

108 suppliers for cylindrical lenses are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 12 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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Expanding your spectro-vision

Henan UM Optics Ltd
No. 100, Light Industrial Park
Shangcheng County, Henan Province, 465300
China
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cylindrical lenses

UM Optics offers both plano-convex and plano-concave cylindrical lenses based on a wide range of materials and coatings, such as CaF2, K9, UVFS, Si, Ge and ZnSE.

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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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cylindrical lenses

Shanghai Optics offers cylindrical lenses e.g. with a dimension tolerance of ±30 μm or even ±10 μm, λ/4 or λ/8 surface irregularity and a centration better than 3 arcmin or even 1 arcmin.

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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)!

cylindrical lenses

Artifex Engineering offers custom plano-convex, plano-concave or achromatic cylindrical lenses. Achromatic cylindrical lenses significantly reduce chromatic, spherical and coma aberrations. Visit our product page for more information. We look forward to your inquiry.

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IRD Glass
810 E St Paul St.
Litchfield, MN 55355
United States
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cylindrical lenses

IRD Glass manufactures cylindrical optics, both convex and concave, from numerous substrate materials and with optical coatings like high laser damage threshold or anti-reflection coatings. Custom solutions are available in less time than from competitors, while still offering competitive pricing.

We use custom centering equipment to locate the center of curvature and custom ripple-checking equipment to ensure form and flatness of curves. Our machining, polishing, and grinding capabilities produce radii less than 2 mm or greater than 125 mm.

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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)!

cylindrical lenses

As the name suggests, a cylindrical lens or cylinder lens is an optical lens with a cylindrical or semi-cylindrical shape. Like a spherical lens, a cylindrical lens has one curved and one flat side. Unlike a spherical lens, however, cylindrical lenses aren’t fully symmetrical — the orientation of a cylindrical lens affects how it transmits light.

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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) and CLEO 2025 in Long Beach (CA), USA, May 4–9 (booth 205)!

cylindrical lenses

EKSMA Optics offer a selection of uncoated plano-convex and plano-concave cylindrical lenses for quick delivery. Custom cutting, edging, coating or complete fabrication can be offered on request.

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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), CLEO 2025 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), LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B1.416) and CLEO 2025 in Long Beach (CA), USA, May 4–9 (booth 317)!

cylindrical lenses

Edmund Optics selection of cylinder lenses include achromatic, acylinder, plano-convex, or plano-concave. Achromatic cylinder lenses provide additional color correction by minimizing chromatic aberration. Hybrid acylinder lenses are ideal for color correction, in addition to minimizing spherical aberration. Edmund Optics offers cylinder lenses with glass or plastic substrates, or with circular, rectangular, or oblong dimensions. Multiple anti-reflection coating options are available from the ultraviolet to the infrared, including UV-AR, UV-VIS, MgF2, VIS-NIR, VIS 0°, NIR I, or laser line coatings designed for specific wavelenghts. Edmund Optics offers full prescription data, in addition to 2D or 3D models.

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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 the company profile page for additional contact information.

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

cylindrical lenses

Knight Optical‘s stock catalogue includes BK7 and UV fused silica cylindrical lenses designed to focus light across one plane rather than to a point. We currently offer 12.5mm to 150mm focal lengths, with AR-coated options available in the visible region. Custom cylindrical lenses can also be provided to meet bespoke requirements.

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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)!

cylindrical lenses

Shalom EO is a specialized supplier of cylindrical lenses, we provide a full portfolio of cylindrical optical lenses including plano-convex cylindrical lenses plano-concave cylindrical lenses, fast axis collimators and slow axis collimators made of various materials such as fused silica, BK7, optical glass, BaF2, CaF2, MgF2, and ZnSe, etc. Coating options include: uncoated, MgF2 single layer, V-coating, and broadband AR coating.

With stringent inspection measures carried out using instruments like Zygo interferometer, Shalom EO’s cylindrical lenses are excellent for laser line generation, anamorphic beam shaping, and one-dimensional compression of images in laser scanners, spectroscopes, dye lasers, acousto-optics, optical processors and other similar applications.

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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)!

cylindrical lenses

We offer cylindrical lenses up to 100 mm width, λ/4 surface quality with centering of 2 arcmin. Plano-convex cylindrical lens, plano-concave cylindrical lens, bi-concave & bi-convex cylindrical lens. Achromatic cylinder lenses are also available.

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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 LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B2.450) and OPIE 25 in Pacifico Yokohama, Japan, April 23–25 (booth O-22)!

cylindrical lenses

Ecoptik offers cylindrical lenses with different substrate shapes and high surface accuracy. As one of the best optical components manufacturers, we monitor the quality of each individual lens using Trioptics centration measurement and a Zygo GPI interferometer. All Ecoptik lenses are available both uncoated or coated with a broad range of high durability, low loss AR coatings, and can be manufactured to 20–10 surface roughness.

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Other Suppliers

3L-Systems, LLC
Korea
3W Photonics
United States
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A. Optical Components Ltd.
Israel
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Align Optics
United States
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Alkor Technologies
Russian Federation
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Allied Scientific Pro
Canada
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ALL-IN OPTICS
Germany
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Alpine Research Optics
United States
AOG Crystal Technology Co, Ltd.
China
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AOS Optics Co., Ltd
China
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Archer OpTx
United States
Asphera Incorporated
United States
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Axetris AG
Switzerland
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B&M Optik GmbH
Germany
Befort Wetzlar
Germany
Beijing Golden Way Scientific Co. Ltd.
China
Bluebean Optical Tech Ltd.
China
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BMV Optical Technologies Inc.
Canada
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Changchun Boxin Photoelectric Co., Ltd.
China
CASIX Inc.
China
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CeNing Optics Co., Ltd
China
Chang Chun Jiu Tian Optoelectronics Co. Ltd.
China
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Changchun Juncheng Optical Instrument Co., Ltd.
China
Changchun Realpoo Photoelectric Co., Ltd.
China
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Chineselens Optics Co., Ltd
China
Claser Photonics Inc.
China
CLZ Optical Co., Ltd.
China
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Coligh Optics Technology Co. Ltd
China
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Comar Optics Ltd
United Kingdom
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CPG Optics
China
Creator Optics, Inc.
China
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Crylight Photonics, Inc.
China
Crysmit Photonics Co., Ltd.
China
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Crystal GmbH
Germany
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CVI Laser Optics
United States
Fujian DayOptics, Inc.
China
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Diverse Optics
United States
Doric Lenses Inc.
Canada
Egismos Technology Corporation
Taiwan
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FICHOU
France
Focus Technology Co., Ltd.
China
Fuzhou Hundreds Optics Inc.
China
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Galvoptics Ltd
United Kingdom
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Global Optics UK Ltd
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GMP SA, Büro Zürich
Switzerland
He Rui Optics Co., Ltd.
China
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Hellma GmbH
Germany
5th Floor, No. 19 Building
China
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Holmarc Opto-Mechatronics
India
IL Photonics
Israel
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INGENERIC GmbH
Germany
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Inlight Precision Optics Co. Ltd
China
ios Optics
United States
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Jenoptik Optical Systems GmbH
Germany
JG International
China
Jilin Tianhua Opto-electrical Technology Development Co, Ltd.
China
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Lahat Technologies Ltd
Israel
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Lano Photonics Co., Ltd.
China
MICROS Optics GmbH & Co. KG
Germany
MLOPTIC Corp.
China
Nanjing Shuncheng Optical Components Co., Ltd.
China
Oplens
China
Optico AG
Switzerland
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Optimax Systems, Inc
Canada
OptoCity
United States
OptoSigma
United States
ORAFOL Europe GmbH
Germany
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Pacific Coast Optics, LLC
United States
Phosctech Photonics
China
Photonchina
China
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Changchun Positive Optics Co., Ltd.
China
Rainbow Research Optics, Inc.
United States
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Reynard Corporation
United States
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Roditi International Corporation Ltd.
United Kingdom
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Ross Optical
United States
Shangai Jingsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
China
Shenzhen Zentech Optics Ltd.
China
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Sherlan Optics
China
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Sinoceramics (USA), LLC
United States
Solaris Optics S.A.
Poland
Fuzhou Solid Photon Inc
China
Sunday Optics
China
Tian Cheng Optic Co., Ltd.
China
Tecnottica Consonni S.r.l.
Italy
Tillquist Group AB
Sweden
Tokyo Instruments, Inc.
Japan
Torrent Photonics LLC
United States
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Trionplas Technologies GmbH
Germany
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Tydex
Ultra Photonics
China
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Vertex Optics
United States
Vision Optics
United Kingdom
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VM-TIM GmbH
Germany
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VY Optoelectronics Co., Ltd.
China
WLoptical Co., Ltd.
China
Yongan Optics Co. Ltd.
China
Yutai Optics
China

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