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Buying Diffraction Gratings

diffraction gratings

Top-level product category: icon optical components and devices

More specific product categories: Bragg gratings, transmission gratings

Related product categories: pulse compressors, pulse stretchers

Diffraction gratings are optical devices with a periodic phase or amplitude structure. They are used in spectrometers and monochromators for wavelength separation and in ultrafast optics for stretching and compressing pulses. These gratings can be reflective or transmissive, depending on the application.

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:

encyclopedia article diffraction gratings Bragg gratings volume Bragg gratings spectrometers chromatic dispersion pulse compression pulse stretchers spectral beam combining

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 diffraction gratings. 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 diffraction gratings. 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

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Suppliers for Diffraction Gratings

43 suppliers for diffraction gratings are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 4 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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Creating a Spectrum of Optical Solutions

Holographix LLC
140 Locke Drive
Suite A
Marlborough, MA 01752
United States
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diffraction gratings

Holographix works closely with our customers to assist them in the development of custom grating-based solutions from concept to production. We produce both reflection gratings and transmission gratings using our proprietary UV replication technology. Blazed, binary, sinusoidal and slanted grating profiles are available options. As part of the Headwall Group of companies, we can also produce high-volume original gratings.

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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.

diffraction gratings

Knight Optical has a range of stock diffraction gratings available, choose from our commercial, holographic and ruled research diffraction gratings for your application. If these do not meet your requirements, Knight Optical also offers custom diffraction gratings, enquire for further information.

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Gitterwerk GmbH
Auf der Schanze 1a
99441 Magdala
Germany
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diffraction gratings

With the combination of ultra-pure fused silica substrates, all-dielectric coatings, and a unique grating design, Gitterwerk gratings offer a very high damage threshold with maximum diffraction efficiency (up to 99.5%). Beyond that, our unique mask-based full-field exposure process eliminates any stitching artifacts or period variations in our products, resulting in a perfect beam quality with excellent homogeneity. We cover the spectrum from 250 nm – 2500 nm with a series of line densities ranging from 600 l/mm up to 3000 l/mm, which both the optical performance and the mechanical dimensions can be tailored to the customer's specific requirements.

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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) and SPS Italia in Parma, Italy, May 13–15 (hall 5, booth 055)!

diffraction gratings

Edmund Optics offers a wide range of transmission and reflection gratings for the ultraviolet (UV), visible and infrared (IR) regions. This includes both ruled and holographic gratings. We also offer polarization gratings, transmission grating beamsplitters and other variants.

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Other Suppliers

Acal BFi
Germany
Albrighter Technology Co., Ltd.
China
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Apollo Optical Systems Inc.
United States
Axetris AG
Switzerland
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AZURE Photonics Co., Ltd.
China
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Bentham Instruments, Ltd.
United Kingdom
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Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH
Germany
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Changchun Realpoo Photoelectric Co., Ltd.
China
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CPG Optics
China
Data Optics Inc.
United States
Diverse Optics
United States
Dynasil
United States
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GMP SA, Büro Zürich
Switzerland
HOLO/OR Ltd.
Israel
HOLOEYE Photonics AG
Germany
HORIBA Scientific
United States
Ibsen Photonics A/S
Denmark
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Inprentus, Inc.
United States
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Jenoptik Optical Systems GmbH
Germany
Lambda Scientific Systems, Inc.
United States
Laser Components GmbH
Germany
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Laserglow Technologies
Canada M6C 1C
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Light Logics Holography and Optics Pvt. Ltd
India
Łukasiewicz Research Network
Poland
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McPherson
United States
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Midwest Laser Products, LL
United States
New Age Instruments & Materials
India
NIL Technology
Denmark
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OMedasemi Co.,Ltd
China
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OptiGrate
United States
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Optometrics Corporation
United States
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PhotoScribe Technologies, Inc.
United States
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Plymouth Grating Laboratory
United States
Pro-Lite Technology Ltd
United Kingdom
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Richardson Gratings
United States
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SILIOS Technologies
France
Spectrogon
Sweden
Spectrum Scientific, Inc. (SSI)
United States
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Wasatch Photonics
United States

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