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Buying Hot Mirrors

hot mirrors

Top-level product category: icon optical components and devices

More general product categories: mirrors

Related product category: cold mirrors

Hot mirrors reflect infrared light while transmitting visible light. They can be used to reduce the heat load on an optical system caused by infrared light from a lamp, for example, in a projector. This helps in managing thermal effects and improving system performance.

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 hot mirrors cold 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 hot 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 hot 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 Hot Mirrors

25 suppliers for hot mirrors are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 5 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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Artifex Engineering GmbH & Co KG
Dortmunder Str. 16–18
26723 Emden
Germany
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Artifex Engineering offers custom hot mirrors tailored to your requirements for shape, coating and other specifications. Visit our product page for more information. We look forward to your inquiry.

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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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Hot and cold mirrors are both specialized dielectric mirrors which are used for heat control; to filter unwanted energy from a light source. A cold mirror will reflect 90% of the visible light spectrum while efficiently transmitting (and thus removing from the site of interest) infrared wavelengths. A hot mirror will reflect 90% of infrared and near infrared light, and transmit a large portion of visible light (up to 80%). Shanghai Optics can manufacture custom hot and cold mirrors for any angle of incidence desired, from 0 to 45°.

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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 DPG-Frühjahrstagung der Sektion kondensierte Materie in Regensburg, Germany, March 18–20 (booth 25)!

hot mirrors

Edmund Optics offers various specialty mirrors, including hot mirrors which reflect 90% of NIR and IR light. We also have extended hot mirrors with improved NIR reflectance and high performance versions with an optimized multi-layer dielectric coating.

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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.

hot mirrors

Knight Optical can provide hot mirrors from stock in 25 mm to 50 mm diameters or 25 mm × 25 mm to 100 mm × 100 mm squares, however these can be cut to custom dimensions with a quick turnaround. Hot mirrors reflect IR whilst transmitting visible light. These mirrors are an alternative to our KG1 heat filters which absorbs the infrared light rather than reflecting it.

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Avantier
1100 US-22
North Plainfield, NJ 07060
United States
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Dielectric mirrors, such as hot and cold mirrors, are specifically designed to regulate heat by filtering out undesired energy from a light source. Cold mirrors are capable of reflecting 90% of visible light spectrum and effectively transmitting infrared wavelengths, thereby removing them from the area of interest. On the other hand, hot mirrors can reflect 90% of infrared and near-infrared light while transmitting a significant portion of visible light (up to 80%). Avantier has the capability to produce tailor-made hot and cold mirrors for any angle of incidence, ranging from 0 to 45°.

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Other Suppliers

Abrisa Technologies
United States
Alien Photonics
Lithuania
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Andover Corporation
United States
Coursen Coating Labs, Inc.
United States
Crystran Limited
United Kingdom
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Dynasil
United States
Profile page  Website  
GiAi photonics Co., Ltd
China
He Rui Optics Co., Ltd.
China
Profile page  Website  
Hyperion Optics
China
Newport Corporation
United States
Präzisions Glas & Optik GmbH
Germany
Profile page  Website  
Precision Glass & Optics PG&O
United States
Reynard Corporation
United States
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Solaris Optics S.A.
Poland
Surface Optics Corporation
United States
Tower Optical Corporation
United States
UQG Ltd. The Norman Industrial Estate
United Kingdom
VisiMax Technologies, Inc.
United States
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WLoptical Co., Ltd.
China
Yutai Optics
China

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