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Purchasing Advisor for Micro-optics

Find all you need for professionally buying micro-optics: 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.

Top-level product category: icon optical components and devices

Related product categories: diffractive optics, microelectromechanical systems

Micro-optics encompasses components such as microlenses and miniature diffractive optical elements. These tiny optical components are crucial in applications like optical fiber communications, miniature imaging devices (e.g., for endoscopy), and laser beam shaping and homogenization.

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 micro-optics microlenses

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 micro-optics. 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 micro-optics. 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:

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 Micro-optics

67 suppliers for micro-optics 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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Artifex Engineering GmbH & Co KG
Dortmunder Str. 16–18
26723 Emden
Germany
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B2.230)!

micro-optics

Artifex Engineering offers a broad range of micro-optics including beamsplitters, windows, achromats, cylindrical lenses, prisms and windows. Visit our product pages 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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micro-optics

Shanghai Optics custom micro-optics are very small optical systems, typically between a few micrometers to a millimeter in size. They include optical fibers with a microscale core diameter, miniature diffractive optical elements, optical micro-mirrors, lens prisms and arrays of lenses. Shanghai Optics produces a wide range of custom micro optics, and we can work with you to design and develop micro-optic lens assemblies to meet your exact specifications.

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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's custom only micro-optics are specifically tailored to each project's requirements. Many of our optics can be manufactured to minute dimensions such as lenses (including ball lenses), windows, filters, and prisms. Enquire for further information.

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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)!

micro-optics

Hangzhou Shalom EO offers a diverse collection of micro-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 minimum of 0.2mm, 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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Optical components at better price

Sinoptix
Office 16 D, Yujia Mansion
N° 1336 HuaShan Road
Shanghai 200052
China
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B1.525)!

micro-optics

We offer custom micro-optics manufacturing for micro-lenses as small as 0.3 mm, micro-prisms, assemblies with optical fibers. We also have coatings and gluing solutions.

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Enhancing Beam Performance

PowerPhotonic Ltd.
5A St David's Drive
Dalgety Bay
Fife KY11 9PF
United Kingdom
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micro-optics

PowerPhotonics freeform direct write manufacturing process can allow for completely freeform and custom micro-optics to be designed and manufactured without any costly set up fees or masks. The use of high-quality fused silica leads to micro optics with high power handling capabilities, while delivering very low scatter and high performance.

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Creating a Spectrum of Optical Solutions

Holographix LLC
140 Locke Drive
Suite A
Marlborough, MA 01752
United States
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B1.520)!

micro-optics

Holographix’ proprietary UV replication technology can reproduce virtually any micro-structured surface onto a variety of substrate shapes, sizes and materials. From lenslet arrays and sub-micron motheye structures to high-aspect-ratio diffraction gratings, we can mold the surface structure with such fidelity that the performance of the component typically equals the master it was derived from. Holographix replicates structures with pitches and depths ranging from less than 10 nm to more than 100 microns.

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Your sidekick for laser optics development

OPTOMAN
Ukmerges g. 427
14185 Vilnius
Lithuania
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Micro-optics, which are between a few micrometers and a millimeter in size, are difficult to handle throughout the whole coating process. OPTOMAN, by solely concentrating on Ion Beam Sputtering (IBS) technology and mastering it, is capable of manufacturing IBS-coated micro-optical systems with low absorption transmissive coatings, which pushes the overall efficiency to the new levels. On fast axis collimators (FAC), for example, low absorption coatings minimize the unwanted effects originating from the heat generated by the laser diode, which ensures environmental stability while maintaining the desired optical configurations.

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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)!

micro-optics

Micro optics are very small optical systems, typically between a few micrometers to a millimeter in size. We produces a wide range of custom micro optics, and we can work with you to design and develop micro-optic lens assemblies to meet your exact specifications.

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Other Suppliers

AC Photonics
United States
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Access Optics
United States
Accumold
United States
Acrolite Fiber Optic Lighting and Sensing
United States
Advanced Thin Films
United States
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Alien Photonics
Lithuania
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Alkor Technologies
Russian Federation
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Allied Scientific Pro
Canada
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ALL-IN OPTICS
Germany
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Allwave Lasers Devices Inc.
China
A-ONE Technology Ltd.
China
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AOS Optics Co., Ltd
China
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Argotech a.s.
Czech Republic
Axetris AG
Switzerland
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BMV Optical Technologies Inc.
Canada
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BrightView Technologies, Inc.
United States
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Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH
Germany
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CASIX Inc.
China
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Chang Chun Jiu Tian Optoelectronics Co. Ltd.
China
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Comcore
United States
Crylight Photonics, Inc.
China
Crystech Inc.
China
Doric Lenses Inc.
Canada
Egismos Technology Corporation
Taiwan
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ELUXI Ltd.
United Kingdom
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Feinwerkoptik Zünd AG
Switzerland
FISBA AG
Switzerland
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Focuslight Technologies Inc.
China
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See the company profile page for additional contact information.

Freedom Photonics LLC
United States
Fuzhou Farview Optics Co., Ltd.
China
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GELINDE Optical Co., Ltd.
China
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Hitachi High-Tech America, Inc.
United States
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HOLO/OR Ltd.
Israel
HYC Co., Ltd
China
IMOS Gubela GmbH
Germany
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INGENERIC GmbH
Germany
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Jenoptik Optical Systems GmbH
Germany
Lahat Technologies Ltd
Israel
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Lightcomm Technology Co., Ltd.
China
LightMachinery
Canada
Optics Balzers AG
Liechtenstein
Optikron GmbH
Germany
OptoCity
United States
OptoSigma
United States
ORAFOL Europe GmbH
Germany
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Pacific Coast Optics, LLC
United States
Photonchina
China
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polyoptics GmbH
Germany
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Changchun Positive Optics Co., Ltd.
China
poc Precision Optics Corporation
United States
Ross Optical
United States
Sumita Optical Glass, Inc.
Japan
Sunday Optics
China
Tower Optical Corporation
United States
Vescent Photonics, Inc.
United States
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Vision Optics
United Kingdom
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WLoptical Co., Ltd.
China
zünd precision optics
Switzerland

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