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Buying Laser Viewing Cards

Top-level product categories: icon detectors and measurements, icon various devices

Related product categories: infrared-to-visible converters, infrared viewers

Laser viewing cards are frequently used in laser laboratories and industrial settings for checking the positions of infrared laser beams. They may work based on phosphorescence, upconversion fluorescence, or direct generation of fluorescence light. There are also thermochromic materials for beam visualization.

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 laser viewing cards infrared viewers laser beams infrared light

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 laser viewing cards. 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 laser viewing cards. 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 Laser Viewing Cards

17 suppliers for laser viewing cards 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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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), CLEO 2025 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), LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B1.416) and CLEO 2025 in Long Beach (CA), USA, May 4–9 (booth 317)!

laser viewing cards

Our laser alignment phosphor products offer greater performance and safety to users of UV, visible, and IR lasers. They reduce problems associated with beam visualization, profiling and alignment in many applications. All ranges available in three formats. The laminated credit card-style is for low power sources and reflective viewing only. The 25-mm disk and clip-on wand style is used when frequent component positioning is required. The removable disk is positionable at an optics location to enable precise alignment, while wand format permits handling into beam path. Optical bench-mountable head format has large active area and ¼-20 threaded mounting for standard imperial post/post holder integration.

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Your reliable partner for photonics innovations!

EKSMA Optics, UAB
Dvarcioniu St. 2B
LT-10233 Vilnius
Lithuania
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth A2.107) and CLEO 2025 in Long Beach (CA), USA, May 4–9 (booth 205)!

laser viewing cards

EKSMA Optics has sensitive laser light detection cards covering the visible and near-IR spectral regions. They are useful for laser alignment and safety visualization procedures.

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Your trusted value co-creation partner

HC Photonics Corp.
F4, No. 2, Technology Rd. V
Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu 300
Taiwan
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See us at CLEO 2025 in Long Beach (CA), USA, May 4–9 (Kiosk 525)!

laser viewing cards

HC Photonics (HCP) provides various unique IR sensing cards (laser viewing cards) laminated with PVC for a long lifetime. Tailored cards with your own company logos and designs are also welcome. High power versions are available upon request.

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Laser People Helping Laser People

Kentek Corporation
5 Jarado Way
Boscawen, NH 03303
United States
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B2.550)!

laser viewing cards

The VIEW-IT® infrared laser detector handheld pocket card, VS-22IR, features a target of 2 inches (50.8 mm) square. The target converts invisible 800–1700 nm light to a visible green with a minimum sensitivity of 1 mJ/cm² and a maximum damage threshold of 1 J/cm² for nanosecond pulses, 10 J/cm² for microsecond or millisecond pulses and 30 W/cm² for continuous wave operation. Outside dimensions are 3.5 × 2 × 0.025 inches [88.9 × 50.8 × 0.66 mm]. Requires no charging or batteries to illuminate.

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Other Suppliers

ABSee-Laser
Germany
Altos Photonics
United States
AZURE Photonics Co., Ltd.
China
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Data Optics Inc.
United States
Global Laser Ltd
United Kingdom
HAM Präzision - Hartmetallwerkzeugfabrik Andreas Maier GmbH
Germany
International Crystal Laboratories
United States
Laser S.O.S. Ltd.
United Kingdom
Metrolux
Germany
Mountain Photonics GmbH
Germany
Newport Corporation
United States
Scintacor
United Kingdom
VM-TIM GmbH
Germany
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