Where to Buy First Surface Mirrors

Edmund Optics offers a range of laser, flat, metal substrate, focusing, or specialty optical mirrors in a multitude of reflective coating options, including protected aluminum, enhanced aluminum, protected silver, protected gold, and dielectric.

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VisiMax metal mirrors are available both as first and second surface mirrors. For many applications, the reflectivity of the metal can be further enhanced by adding dielectric overcoat layers; these hybrid coatings are known as enhanced metal mirrors. For applications requiring additional hardness or oxidation stability, protected metal mirrors can be made, which are overcoated with a single dielectric layer.

UltraFast Innovations (UFI) offers a range of first surface mirrors, including both dielectric and metal-coated versions. We particularly emphasize mirrors with broad bandwidth and well controlled chromatic dispersion.

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LASEROPTIK offers a wide range of dielectric and metal coatings for first surface mirrors – for different spectral regions and including special designs e.g. for multiline performance, OPO applications and with tailored chromatic dispersion. We can also deposit such coatings on special substrates.

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EKSMA Optics offers a wide range of dielectric first-surface windows as well as metal-coated mirrors. Our metallic mirrors feature a moderate level of reflection over a very broad spectral range. Protected gold coatings are suggested for applications in the IR, protected silver is the most efficient in VIS, while protected aluminum is a popular economical choice for the entire 300 nm – IR range. We also offer enhanced silver mirrors optimized for best performance with femtosecond lasers.

Knight Optical has a range of first surface mirrors available. Coatings include UV enhanced aluminium (180–650 nm), enhanced aluminium (450–650 nm), dielectric (450–700 nm), NIR dielectric (700–1604nm), ion-plated silver (450–2000 nm), and protected gold (750 nm to far IR). We also offer a variety of different flatness options dependent on the application, from 2λ down to λ/10. Custom mirrors are also available if our stock optics are not a match for your requirements.