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Buying LIDAR Equipment

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LIDAR technology is used for a wide range of applications, including turbulence detection for airplanes and wind turbines, atmospheric and environmental studies, geodesy, security surveillance, autonomous vehicles, robotics, and military applications. LIDAR systems analyze reflected or back-scattered laser light to provide detailed spatial information.

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 LIDAR laser applications distance measurements with lasers

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 LIDAR equipment. 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 LIDAR equipment. 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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Comments, e.g. reasons for your choice, or things which still need to be checked:

Suppliers for LIDAR Equipment

35 suppliers for LIDAR equipment 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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Laser Technology Redefined

LEDlas Corp.
Hope-IPT No.101, Section 2
Kuang-Fu Road, Hsinchu
Taiwan 30013, R.O.C
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B3.120)!

LIDAR equipment

Our cutting-edge range finder utilizes advanced dToF technology to deliver exceptional long-range performance, reaching distances of 2–20 km. Designed with safety in mind, our product is completely eye-safe, making it ideal for a variety of applications, in particular, detecting space derbies and drone tracking.

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Laser Diodes. Redefined.

Eblana Photonics
3 West Pier Business Campus
Dun Laoghaire
Dublin A96 A621
Ireland
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LIDAR equipment

Whether the application is Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) or Time-of-Flight (ToF) LIDAR, Eblana Photonics’ Discrete-Mode (DM) laser diodes are suitable in a wide range of operating environments, with inherently narrow linewidth and excellent tunability as well as high scalable production capability – crucial for automotive markets.

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The specialist in laser technologies

Lumibird – Quantel, Keopsys, Convergent, Continuum brands
2 rue Paul Sabatier
22300 Lannion
France
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth A2.341)!

LIDAR equipment

Lumibird offering in lasers for LiDAR is large, thanks to its expertise in several key laser technologies: diodes for ADAS, diode-pumped or flashlamp-pumped pulsed Nd:YAG lasers for atmospheric LiDAR, pulsed fiber lasers in turnkey benchtops or in OEM modules for wind LiDAR, 3D scanning or ADAS. Lumibird lasers are designed for use in harsh environment and are easy to integrate into systems.

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30 Years of Laser Excellence

Monocrom
C/ Vilanoveta 6
08800 Vilanova i la Geltrú (Barcelona)
Spain
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B3.418)!

LIDAR equipment

Monocrom supplies LiDAR laser technology for the automative, military and space industry, also for meterology and agriculture. Our LiOM series lasers are short-pulse fiber-coupled lasers with up to 1 kW output peak power. They are usable for scanning, flash or iToF LiDAR applications. Driver electronics are integrated in the housing.

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all wavelengths.

TOPTICA Photonics AG
Lochhamer Schlag 19
82166 Gräfelfing
Germany
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See the company profile page for additional contact information.

See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B2.103)!

LIDAR equipment

TOPTICA’s added value for LIDAR systems is in providing best cw seeding lasers and external references. With their extremely narrow linewidth, high frequency stability and unmatched wavelength availability, TOPTICA's scientific lasers are ideal seeders for the high power pulsed lasers employed for LIDAR. Fiber coupling with the ultrastable FiberDock allows for straight forward implementation of our lasers. We also offer the most accurate and most stable wavelength meters, Fabry–Pérot interferometers (FPI 100) and spectroscopy cells or spectroscopy modules as well as electronic locking modules which are needed to stabilize a cw diode laser to an external reference.

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OEM Electronics for the Generation and Detection of Laser Light

Analog Modules, Inc.
126 Baywood Avenue
Longwood, FL 32750
United States
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth A2.104)!

LIDAR equipment

AMI personnel have extensive experience designing hybrid laser rangefinder receivers for military applications. Over 30,000 receivers have been fielded in handheld, tank, ground-mobile, TUAV, and airborne applications. AMI’s patented technology allows superior performance in dynamic range and rapid recovery from overload. The family of standard receivers offers products optimized for visible to 1.7 µm wavelengths over a wide range of pulse widths.

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The lasers you need. From the people you trust. Our experience, your advantage.

RPMC Lasers, Inc.
8495 Veterans Memorial Pkwy
O’Fallon MO 63366
United States
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LIDAR equipment

Serving North America, RPMC Lasers offers a wide range of pulsed and CW lasers for LIDAR, bathymetry, and 3D scanning applications. This includes single-frequency CW fiber lasers at 1.5 microns, ideal for Doppler LIDAR, and short-pulsed Q-switched lasers for time-of-flight LIDAR and bathymetry. Standard and custom options available. Let RPMC help you find the right laser today!

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Bright Solutions SRL
Via Artigiani 27
27010 Cura Carpignano (Pavia)
Italy
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B3.316)!

LIDAR equipment

Bright Solutions offers various Q-switched lasers which are suitable for LIDAR applications:

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CNI Laser
No. 888 Jinhu Road
High-tech Zone, Changchun 130103
China
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth A2.261)!

LIDAR equipment

CNI has developed various lasers which are suitable for integration into LIDAR equipment, e.g. for aerosol detection and temperature measurements in the atmosphere. Various wavelengths ranging from 1573 nm to 266 nm are available.

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Other Suppliers

Abacus Laser
Germany
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Advanced Scientific Concepts
United States
ams AG
Austria
AUREA Technology
France
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Beamagine
Spain
BKtel photonics
France
Bright Aerospace
Italy
Chronos Photonics LLC
United States
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CILAS
France
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Egismos Technology Corporation
Taiwan
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Focuslight Technologies Inc.
China
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See the company profile page for additional contact information.

GEHT International Ltd
Hong Kong
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HTDS
France
Laser Components GmbH
Germany
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Leonardo Electronics US Inc.
United States
Level Five Supplies
United Kingdom
Lumentum Operations LLC
United States
LumiMetric Co., Ltd.
China
Lumispot Technology Corp.
China
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Lusospace
Portugal
Panel Graphic Limited
United Kingdom
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Photonics Industries International, Inc.
United States
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Physical Sciences Inc.
United States
PicoQuant GmbH
Germany
STANDA Ltd.
Lithuania
Tematys
France
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