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Buying Mirror Substrates

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Related product category: mirrors

Mirror substrates, used in the production of dielectric and metal-coated mirrors, can be made from materials like BK7 glass, quartz glass (fused silica), sapphire, and Zerodur. Important properties include surface quality, optical transmission quality, thermal conductivity, and thermal expansion coefficients.

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 mirror substrates mirrors

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 mirror substrates. 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 mirror substrates. 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 Mirror Substrates

19 suppliers for mirror substrates are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 3 present their product descriptions. 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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mirror substrates

Hangzhou Shalom EO offers high quality polished mirror substrates or optical windows. We provide stoked and custom uncoated versions of UV fused silica mirror blanks and N-BK7 mirror blanks. For the off-the-shelf mirror blanks, Shalom EO delivers tight geometric control, obtaining 10/5 S/D surface qualities and two conventional surface flatness standards of λ/4 surface flatness or a finer λ/10 surface flatness.

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Your reliable partner for photonics innovations!

EKSMA Optics, UAB
Dvarcioniu St. 2B
LT-10233 Vilnius
Lithuania
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mirror substrates

EKSMA Optics has a wide array of different optical mirror substrates made from N-BK7 or quartz, ready for quick delivery. Custom coatings can be applied in the EKSMA Optics IBS coating facility.

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The Future Depends on Optics

Edmund Optics
101 East Gloucester Pike
Barrington, NJ 08007
United States
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mirror substrates

TECHSPEC® laser mirror substrates are manufactured from high quality fused silica and are designed for use with high power laser sources. These mirrors feature excellent surface specifications, including λ/10 surface flatness and 10-5 surface quality, to limit the possibility of reduced performance due to surface defects. The high surface quality of these mirror blanks also makes them ideal for use in demanding intra-cavity laser applications.

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Other Suppliers

3L-Systems, LLC
Korea
Abrisa Technologies
United States
Alien Photonics
Lithuania
Profile page  Website  
Alkor Technologies
Russian Federation
Profile page  Website  
Focus Technology Co., Ltd.
China
Manx Precision Optics
Isle of Man, IM9 2AP
Profile page  Website  
MLD Technologies, L.L.C.
United States
New Age Instruments & Materials
India
Nu-Tek Precision Optical Corp
United States
Ohara Corporation
United States
Optonas UAB
Lithuania
Präzisions Glas & Optik GmbH
Germany
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Princeton Scientific Corp.
United States
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Reynard Corporation
United States
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Sky Scientific Press
United States
Profile page  Website  
Solaris Optics S.A.
Poland

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