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Buying Large Diameter Optics

Top-level product category: optical components and devices

For applications like telescopes and high-energy pulse compressors, optical elements such as mirrors, lenses, or prisms with very large sizes are required. These elements often need to exhibit high optical quality and damage thresholds to withstand intense laser beams.

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Aspects to Consider Before Buying

Some aspects to consider before buying large diameter optics: optical quality, size and weight, coating durability, thermal stability, mounting options, alignment precision, compatibility with systems, environmental resistance.

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Find Suppliers for Large Diameter Optics

28 suppliers for large diameter optics are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 9 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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Knight Optical (USA) LLC
1130 Ten Rod Road
Suite D102
North Kingstown
Rhode Island 02852
United States
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Knight Optical can provide a variety of custom optical components with large diameters including optical flats, infrared windows and lenses, mirrors, optical domes, and many more.

Optical components at better price

Sinoptix
Office 16 D, Yujia Mansion
N° 1336 HuaShan Road
Shanghai 200052
China
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large diameter optics

We offer large optical components including borosilicate and fused silica windows, astronomical mirrors up to 1.5 mm diameter, with substrate in fused silica or zerodur.

Your sidekick for laser optics development

OPTOMAN
Ukmerges g. 427
14185 Vilnius
Lithuania
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See us at SPIE Photonics West 2025 in San Francisco, January 25–30 (booth 3217)!

OPTOMAN designs, develops and manufactures advanced, high accuracy and repeatability thin film coatings by ion beam sputtering (IBS) technology. By concentrating solely on IBS, OPTOMAN is capable of manufacturing large diameter (up to 420 mm) laser optics that feature low absorption and scattering losses and high laser-induced damage threshold in spectral range from 193 nm to 5000 nm. For mirrors, high reflectivity (up to R > 99.99%) and for anti-reflective coatings, high transmitivity (R < 0.05%) are feasible.

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Edmund Optics
101 East Gloucester Pike
Barrington, NJ 08007
United States
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See us at SPIE Photonics West 2025 in San Francisco, January 25–30 (booth 1139)!

large diameter optics

Edmund Optics offers an extensive selection of large diameter optics including achromatic lenses or aspheric lenses. Many of Edmund Optics’ lenses are offered with a variety of coating options for the ultraviolet (UV), visible, or infrared (IR) spectral range.

Hangzhou Shalom Electro-optics Technology Co., Ltd.
A635, Boke Mansion
No. 9 Xiyuan Road
Xihu District, Hangzhou 310030
China
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large diameter optics

Hangzhou Shalom EO offers a diverse collection of large diameter optics, with a diameter range of 0.2 mm – 300 mm. With cutting-edge crafts, Shalom EO is capable of providing different types of optics including optical lenses (ball lenses, aspheric lenses, etc.), optical mirrors, high-power laser mirrors, optical windows, infrared domes of large sizes at a maximum of 300 mm, accommodating to an extensive range of requirements. A large amount of stocked and custom optical components with various dimensions, shapes, coating wavelength ranges, and specifications are available.

All the optics will go through in-process inspections during the production course and further tests in our class 1000 clean room before despatch to ensure the parameters of optical components meet or exceed the published specifications. Utilizing top-tier metrological instruments such as Zygo interferometers, and PerkinElmer Lambda 1050+ spectroscopes, Shalom EO secures the persistent reliable quality of our optical components.

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UltraFast Innovations GmbH
Dieselstr. 5
85748 Garching (München)
Germany
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large diameter optics

A typical application of large aperture optics is in high-power/high-energy hertz (Hz) repetition rates systems for electron acceleration and high-field science. Here, the ability of the optics to withstand high average powers/energies is a pivotal requirement.

UFI’s optics have been tested to withstand up to 90 J/cm² energy density.

Your reliable partner for photonics innovations!

EKSMA Optics, UAB
Dvarcioniu St. 2B
LT-10233 Vilnius
Lithuania
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See us at SPIE Photonics West 2025 in San Francisco, January 25–30 (booth 657)!

large diameter optics

EKSMA Optics can manufacture custom large (up to ø 300 mm) optical lenses and mirrors with high power dielectric coatings, as well as metal-coated mirrors (silver, gold or aluminum) with diameters up to 500 mm.

Avantier
1100 US-22
North Plainfield, NJ 07060
United States
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See us at SPIE Photonics West 2025 in San Francisco, January 25–30 (booth 954)!

large diameter optics

Avantier’s specialization lies in the creation of high precision large diameter optics, surpassing dimensions of 100 mm. With our expertise in optical component production, which includes optical flats, lenses, mirrors, and optical domes, we offer a comprehensive range of coating options tailored to cater to UV, visible, or IR spectral needs.

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Shanghai Optics Inc.
425 Main St Suite 2E
Metuchen, NJ 08840
United States
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large diameter optics

At Shanghai Optics, we specialize in high-quality large diameter optics, surpassing dimensions of 100 mm. Our expertise lies in the production of optical components including optical flats, lenses, mirrors, and optical domes and offer a range of coating options for UV, visible, or IR spectral needs.

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Other Suppliers
Alien Photonics
Lithuania
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Bena Optical Products Ltd.
China
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Changchun Boxin Photoelectric Co., Ltd.
China
Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH
Germany
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HOLO/OR Ltd.
Israel
Manx Precision Optics
Isle of Man, IM9 2AP
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New Age Instruments & Materials
India
Newport Thin Film Laboratory
United States
Nu-Tek Precision Optical Corp
United States
Optical Surfaces
United Kingdom
OptoSigma
United States
ORAFOL Europe GmbH
Germany
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Changchun Positive Optics Co., Ltd.
China
Ross Optical
United States
Sill Optics GmbH & Co. KG
Germany
Solaris Optics S.A.
Poland
Sydor Optics
United States
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Tydex
Zygo Corporation
United States
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