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Buying Optical Domes

Top-level product category: icon optical components and devices

More general product categories: optical windows

Optical domes are strongly curved optical windows, often used to protect sensitive optical systems in cameras and LIDAR applications.

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 optical domes

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 optical domes. 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 optical domes. 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 Optical Domes

24 suppliers for optical domes are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 8 present their product descriptions. 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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optical domes

Artifex Engineerings offers custom optical domes from glass, quartz and sapphire. These provide high resistance to temperature, shock and scratches. We offer low cost molded domes as well as high quality polished domes for distortion free vision applications. We look forward to your inquiry.

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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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optical domes

Hangzhou Shalom EO offers optical domes manufactured using various substrate materials: sapphire, BK7, hot-pressed MgF2, CVD and multispectral ZnS, ZnSe and germanium for operations both in the UV and IR spectra range.

While sapphire domes offer unrivaled hardness and good transmission in the MWIR region, hot-pressed MgF2 domes are excellent for the MWIR band with the additional benefit of thermal stability and decent mechanical hardness, and ZnSe domes and germanium domes are good choices for 3 μm to 12 μm covering the MWIR and LWIR region. CVD and multispectral ZnS domes provide superior thermo-mechanical properties and fracture strength, contributing to high endurance in hostile environments. The dimensions of the domes also come in a rich selection. The domes could be furnished with anti-reflection coatings or DLC (diamond Like Carbon) coatings.

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Avantier
1100 US-22
North Plainfield, NJ 07060
United States
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optical domes

Avantier produces optical domes in various substrates that are compatible with visible, infrared, or ultraviolet light. We offer personalized domes ranging in diameter from 5 mm to more than 200 mm, and we can also accommodate custom sizes upon request.

Manufacturing Capabilities:

  • material: BK7, CaF2, Cleartran, fused silica, MgF2, etc
  • diameter: 2~500 mm
  • thickness: >1 mm
  • coating: AR coating for VIS, SWIR, NIR, MWIR, LWIR, broadband
  • surface accuracy: 1/10–1 lambda
  • dimensional tolerance: ±0.1 mm
  • surface quality: 20/10-60/40
  • clear aperture: 90%
  • environmental testing: extreme cold-heat cycle, sand blasting, salt water, adhesive test
  • specification testing: qualification test, optimization test, dimensional test, according to DIN, ISO and MIL standards
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Custom Precision optical components

Ecoptik (Changchun) Ltd.
No. 399, Bocai Road
Changchun City, Jilin, 130000
China
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optical domes

ECOPTIK offers optical domes for applications in defense, weather tracking and optical imaging e.g. with underwater cameras. They are available for the visible region, the UV or for the infrared. Dimensions from 10 mm to 350 mm and thickness values between 1 mm and 10 mm are available. The domes can be equipped with reflecting or anti-reflection coatings.

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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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optical domes

Shanghai Optics manufactures optical domes in a wide variety of substrates, suitable for visible, IR or UV light. Our custom domes are available in sizes from 5 mm to over 200 mm diameter, with custom sizes on request.

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Sinoptix
Office 16 D, Yujia Mansion
N° 1336 HuaShan Road
Shanghai 200052
China
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optical domes

We offer custom optical domes. Precision optical machining or molding. The material can be optical glass, sapphire, fused silica or even optical plastic (blowing or injection).

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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.

optical domes

Knight Optical offers a range of optical domes manufactured from BK7 or UV fused silica. We can also provide custom domes in a variety of different substrates including optical glass, sapphire, acrylic, filter glass, infrared materials, and more. Domes are Ideal optics for protecting systems from the environment due to their durability and shape. Coatings can also be applied.

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Other Suppliers

1T Optics Ltd
China
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3W Photonics
United States
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A. Optical Components Ltd.
Israel
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Adamas Optics, LLC
United States
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Astro Optics Pvt Ltd
India
Bena Optical Products Ltd.
China
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Cryslaser Inc.
P.R. China
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He Rui Optics Co., Ltd.
China
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Lahat Technologies Ltd
Israel
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Meller Optics
United States
Changchun Positive Optics Co., Ltd.
China
Prolog Optics
Israel
RZ Optics
China
Sherlan Optics
China
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Vertex Optics
United States
VY Optoelectronics Co., Ltd.
China
Yutai Optics
China

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