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Purchasing Advisor for Metal-coated Mirrors

Find all you need for professionally buying metal-coated mirrors: an interactive tool with a comprehensive and trustworthy directory of suppliers and expert guidance for a structured decision process with scientific and technical background information.

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More general product categories: mirrors

Related product category: first surface mirrors

metal-coated mirrors

Metal-coated mirrors, coated with materials such as silver, gold, or aluminum, serve as broadband, low-dispersion reflectors for numerous optical and laser technology applications. These mirrors can be tailored for different spectral regions, including the infrared, and are often protected with a coating to enhance durability and performance.

Interactive Purchase Decision Tool

Purchasing high-value photonics products is a substantial responsibility. Using a structured decision-making process and high quality supplier data helps a lot:

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How Responsible Purchase Decisions for Expensive Goods Like Lasers Are Done Explanations on this purchasing tool

Go through the process:

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 metal-coated mirrors laser mirrors dielectric mirrors neutral density filters

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 purchase.

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 metal-coated 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 metal-coated 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.

Selected suppliers:

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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:

4. Document the decision process

It is essential to document your purchasing process, not only its result (chosen supplier):

  • You will find it easier next time.
  • If something goes wrong, you can defend your decision by showing that you properly considered all important aspects. Or you see what needs to be done better next time.

Our interactive tool makes it easy: Fill out the form, and in the end print it to a PDF. Note that the document will show all sections (including those not currently shown on the screen), while omitting some irrelevant details such as the page navigation.

Suppliers for Metal-coated Mirrors

79 suppliers for metal-coated mirrors are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 9 present their product descriptions and images. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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Hangzhou Shalom Electro-optics Technology Co., Ltd.
A635, Boke Mansion
No. 9 Xiyuan Road
Xihu District, Hangzhou 310030
China
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (hall B1, booth 258)!

metal-coated mirrors

Metal-coated mirrors have several important characteristics, including a wide reflective spectral range, low cost, and being non-sensitive to the incidence angle and polarization state. However, the disadvantages of metallic mirrors compared to dielectric mirrors include lower reflectance and laser damage threshold.

Shalom EO offers two types of metallic mirrors based on N-BK7 or UV fused silica mirror substrates: N-BK7 metal-coated mirrors and UV fused silica metallic coated mirrors, with coating options including enhanced Al coating, protective Ag coating or protective Au coating and flatness options of λ/10 or λ/4. Both off-the-shelf and custom metal mirrors are offered.

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Avantier
1100 US-22
North Plainfield, NJ 07060
United States
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B1.171B)!

metal-coated mirrors

Avantier offers custom metallic coatings that enable high reflection within specific wavelength ranges and are extensively utilized in optical elements and laser systems. Our metallic coatings are characterized by low absorption properties, which results in better and more efficient spectral performance. Additionally, these mirror coatings can be customized to deliver additional high pass or low pass wavelength performance, complementing the desired reflection band.

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Home of high power optics and coatings

LASEROPTIK
Johannes-Ebert-Str. 1
30826 Garbsen
Germany
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B1.120)!

metal-coated mirrors

LASEROPTIK offers standard mirror metal coatings such as aluminium, gold or silver, normally with protection layer or even enhanced, i.e. with an additional dielectric coating system.

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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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metal-coated mirrors

Shanghai Optics provides custom metallic coatings which provide high reflection in some wavelength range, and are widely used in laser system and other optical elements. Our metallic coatings provide more effective and efficient spectral performance due to the low absorption properties. These mirror coatings can also be further customized to provide additional high pass or low pass wavelength performance in addition to the specified reflection band.

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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 LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B1.416)!

metal-coated mirrors

There is a wide range of metal-coated mirrors, including flat and focusing (concave) mirror, off-axis mirrors, specialty mirrors, broadband dielectric mirrors and other infrared mirrors.

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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)!

metal-coated mirrors

EKSMA Optics offers a wide selection of various sizes of round, rectangular, spherical mirrors with protected gold, silver or aluminium coatings. Most of our metal-coated mirrors are available for quick delivery.

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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.

See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth A3.533)!

Knight Optical has a range of stock and custom metal-coated mirrors, including aluminium, silver or gold coated front surface mirrors available from stock.

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Custom Precision optical components

Ecoptik (Changchun) Ltd.
No. 399, Bocai Road
Changchun City, Jilin, 130000
China
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B2.450)!

metal-coated mirrors

Ecoptik offers metal-coated mirrors for various applications, in particular based on aluminum and gold. There is a wide choice of round, elliptical or custom shapes as well as flat, spherical, cylindrical and parabolic surfaces.

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YOUR KEY to innovation and success

UltraFast Innovations GmbH
Dieselstr. 5
85748 Garching (München)
Germany
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B1.543)!

metal-coated mirrors

UltraFast Innovations (UFI®) offers a range of metal-coated mirrors, including so-called hybrid or enhanced metal coatings with additional dielectric layers for higher reflectance and to protect the metal against oxidation.

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Other Suppliers

3photon
Lithuania
Profile page  Website  
Abrisa Technologies
United States
AccuCoat, Inc.
United States
Advanced Optics, Inc.
United States
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Alien Photonics
Lithuania
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Align Optics
United States
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Alkor Technologies
Russian Federation
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Befort Wetzlar
Germany
BMV Optical Technologies Inc.
Canada
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Bond Optics
United States
Cascade Optical Corporation
United States
CASIX Inc.
China
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CeNing Optics Co., Ltd
China
Changchun Realpoo Photoelectric Co., Ltd.
China
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CILAS
France
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CLZ Optical Co., Ltd.
China
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Coursen Coating Labs, Inc.
United States
Cryslaser Inc.
P.R. China
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CVI Laser Optics
United States
Dynasil
United States
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Esco Optics
United States
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Evaporated Coatings, Inc.
United States
FICHOU
France
First Surface Mirror LLC
United States
Fleige Optik GmbH & Co. KG
Germany
Focus Technology Co., Ltd.
China
Global Optics UK Ltd
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Gurley Precision Instruments
United States
Hardin Optical
United States
He Rui Optics Co., Ltd.
China
Profile page  Website  
InStockOptics
Lithuania
Kerdry
France
Laser Components GmbH
Germany
Profile page  Website  
Laser Research Optics
Layertec GmbH
Germany
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LBP Optics Ltd.
United Kingdom
Litech Optics Co., Ltd.
China
Materion Corporate Headquarters
United States
Newport Thin Film Laboratory
United States
Ocean Opto Co., Ltd
China
Omega Optical Holdings LLC
United States
Oplatek Group Oy
Finland
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Optical Mirror LLC
United States
Optics Balzers AG
Liechtenstein
OptoCity
United States
Optometrics Corporation
United States
Profile page  Website  
Opton Laser International
France
Profile page  Website  
Optoprim Germany GmbH
Germany
Profile page  Website  
OptoSigma
United States
Pacific Coast Optics, LLC
United States
Phosctech Photonics
China
PHOTONICPARTS
Germany
Profile page  Website  
Präzisions Glas & Optik GmbH
Germany
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Precision Glass & Optics PG&O
United States
Reynard Corporation
United States
Profile page  Website  
RZ Optics
China
Sherlan Optics
China
Profile page  Website  
Sinoceramics (USA), LLC
United States
Solaris Optics S.A.
Poland
Fuzhou Solid Photon Inc
China
SPAWR Industries Inc.
United States
Spectral Systems, LLC
United States
Sunday Optics
China
Tian Cheng Optic Co., Ltd.
China
Tecnottica Consonni S.r.l.
Italy
Tydex
Universal Thin Film Lab Corp., 232 North Plank Road, Newburgh
United States
UQG Ltd. The Norman Industrial Estate
United Kingdom
VisiMax Technologies, Inc.
United States
Profile page  Website  
Yutai Optics
China

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