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Buying Deformable Mirrors

deformable mirrors

Top-level product category: icon optical components and devices

More general product categories: mirrors

Related product category: adaptive optics

Deformable mirrors are mirrors that can be deformed in operation using electrically controlled actuators to adjust their focusing properties or compensate for beam distortions. They are primarily used in adaptive optics systems, such as those for astronomical telescopes and high-resolution imaging instruments.

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 deformable mirrors

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 deformable mirrors. 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 deformable mirrors. 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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Decision

The most suitable supplier you found:

Comments, e.g. reasons for your choice, or things which still need to be checked:

Suppliers for Deformable Mirrors

17 suppliers for deformable mirrors are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 2 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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Thorlabs
43 Sparta Avenue
Newton, NJ 07860
United States
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deformable mirrors

Thorlabs offers a selection adaptive optics equipment, including MEMS deformable mirrors, piezoelectric deformable mirrors, Shack–Hartmann wavefront sensors, spatial light modulators, and adaptive optics kits. With the introduction of the OM6N series of high-speed optical modulators, Thorlabs has also designed and manufactured a new all-reflective technology based on deformable mirrors for modulating laser power in the 700 – 1350 nm range.

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OPTOMAN
Ukmerges g. 427
14185 Vilnius
Lithuania
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deformable mirrors

OPTOMAN manufactures high quality deformable mirrors, also called membrane mirrors, solely with Ion Beam Sputtering (IBS) technology. The key advantage of our membrane mirrors lies in the ability to apply high-quality IBS dielectric coatings while maintaining precise surface flatness, even on extremely thin substrates. This ensures excellent optical performance and long-term reliability, providing a significant improvement in system efficiency and reducing distortion. Moreover, these optics feature an enhanced lifetime, reducing the need for frequent replacements and significantly lowering the total cost of ownership.

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Other Suppliers

A.D.S. International S.r.l.
Italy
Adaptica Srl
Italy
ALPAO SAS
France
Axiom Optics
United States
Boston Micromachines Corporation
United States
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CILAS
France
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Dynamic Optics s.r.l.
Italy
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Flexible Optical B. V.
Netherlands
Imagine Optic SA
France
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LAS Photonics
Israel
Microgate Srl
Italy
New Age Instruments & Materials
India
Optics and Allied Engineering Pvt. Ltd.
India
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Orientir, Inc
China
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PHASICS
France
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