Where to Buy Optical Filters

Our OTDR FBG filters can be used for precisely analyzing power losses in fiber-optic telecom systems with optical time domain reflectometry (OTDR). They reflect the OTDR signal while fully transmitting (not disturbing) the data signal.

Exail (formerly iXblue)’s gain flattening filter based on fiber Bragg grating technology represents an easy and effective solution to flatten the gain in a WDM systems. The high accuracy (very low ripple) allows the use of cascaded filters, and the return loss is high (low reflections).

The IXC-FBG-PS bandpass filter has a sharp resonance peak in the transmission spectrum with less than 1 dB of insertion loss. It can be used in telecom as well as in sensing applications, also for distributed feedback (DFB) fiber lasers.

Exail offers a broad range of Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBG) to address a wide array of applications in telecommunications, sensing, harsh environments, research and development, etc.

The excellent know-how in the FBG manufacturing process gives Exail the capability to produce various filters on a variety of in house fibers. We stand ready to adapt our services to your needs from quick prototyping to volume production.

Artifex Engineering offers custom absorption filters and dieletric filters in almost any design. Bandpass, long pass, short pass or ND filters can be tailored to your wavelength range. The filters can be cut to any shape. Black anodized aluminium rings may be provided for ease of mounting. Visit our product page for more information. We look forward to your inquiry.

Laserton has various types of optical filters, including color class filters, birefringent filters, neutral density filters (absorptive or reflective, also versions with variable transmission) and bandpass interference filters.

ICC currently has six different coating machines, including one for diamond-like carbon (DLC) and two for broadband anti-reflection coatings. We mainly produce infrared antireflection coatings, infrared filters, and diamond-like carbon coatings, providing customers with various coating services and products.

Our DCL coatings are made with advanced technology to meet US military standards and reach excellent surface finish.

Ecoptik produces glass filters of different types (absorbing or with thin film coating) for selecting certain radiation bands. We can make many different types and custom optical filters, such as optical comb filters, high/low pass filters and linear variable filters.

LEUKOS offers the widely tunable filter BEBOP. Combine this with our supercontinuum source Rock to obtain a broadband tunable light source.

The BEBOP can be tuned from 350 nm to 850 nm with a bandwidth between 7 nm and 100 nm. It reaches a transmittance of up to 90% and a blocking OD of >4. You can have a free-space output beam or a fiber-coupled output, and there is an additional infrared output.

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Optical filters selectively allow certain wavelengths of light to pass freely while blocking other wavelengths. Avantier manufactures a wide range of optical filters for engineering, scientific, and photographic applications.

UltraFast Innovations (UFI) offers spectral filters for ultrashort pulse applications – for example, for preserving the pulse duration of reflected or transmitted pulses.

By using such spectral filters, researchers from Prof. Krausz’s group were able to build a so-called wave synthesizer. We were able to split or combine radiation from 250 to 1100 nm in four channels: 250–290, 290–350, 350–500, and 500–1100 nm. The phases of reflection and transmission are controlled. This allows one to precisely combine radiation from four channels, both spatially and in time, resulting in the generation of sub-optical-cycle pulses. Based on that technology, we also offer the first commercial light field synthesizer.

See us at Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science in Tacoma, Washington, USA, Oct. 08–12 (booth 310)!

Shanghai Optics manufactures a wide range of custom optical filters for engineering, scientific, and photographic applications.

OPTOMAN optical filter coating designs are available in short pass, long pass or bandpass configurations. Our IBS-coated optics are optimized for high power applications and feature spectral drift-free performance, which is why very sharp edge configurations are feasible.

Standard in-stock IBS coated optics can be found in OPTOSHOP.

We offer a complete design and manufacture service for optical filters from 300–6000 nm, all deposited using sputter deposition to ensure excellent environmental properties, adherence to very demanding optical requirements and a cost effective solution. Prototype volumes to many tens of thousands all covered.

Iridian Spectral Technologies is a leading global supplier for applications in telecommunications, spectroscopy (Raman, fluorescence, and flow cytometry), biomedical imaging, endoscopy imaging, sensing, display and entertainment (glasses for 3D cinema, display coatings). Our optical filters and coatings cover the spectral range from UV 300 nm to LWIR 10 μm. Our custom fitler products include narrow bandpass filters, steep edge long- or shortpass filters, dichroic edge filter, notch filter, patterned and assembled multi-zone filter and optics for satcom and earth observation.

Edmund Optics offers a variety of optical filters for many applications, including bandpass interference, notch, edge, dichroic, color substrate, or ND. Edmund Optics also offers highly durable hard coatings for applications that require high optical densities with maximum performance.

See us at Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science in Tacoma, Washington, USA, Oct. 08–12 (booth 606)!

EKSMA Optics has introduced OD 6.0 notch filters for specific laser wavelengths in the range from 488 nm to 561 nm. Other filter choices are: neutral density reflective type filters designed to operate in the 400–2000 nm range, neutral density absorption type filters designed to operate at VIS wavelengths (450–650 nm) and Schott color glass filters.

Knight Optical's offers a large variety of stock and custom optical filters. Our bandpass, shortpass, and longpass filters are available as different filter types each with their own advantage including colour glass filters, dichroic filters, and interference bandpass filters. We also offer heat control filters. IR cut filters, neutral density (ND) filters, and Wratten filters. Knight Optical also have a fluorescence filter sets compatible with certain fluorophores, these consist of an excitation and emission filter, as well as a dichroic mirror.

World leader in Fiber Bragg grating and Fabry Perot filters. Product portfolio includes athermal Fabry–Perot etalons (TWR30) and athermal FBGs (TWR50), as well as tunable FBGs (T10-T980) and tunable Fabry–Perot filters (TFP10-TFP50).

IRD Glass custom manufactures optical filters that expand the applications and improve the capabilities of almost any optical component. IRD works with a variety of filter glass materials from all the leading filter glass manufacturers: Schott, Kopp, Ohara, Hoya and others. IRD Glass also has the capability to apply thin-film optical coatings, from UV through IR spectrum.

Shalom EO offers a vast variety of optical filters of both reflective and absorbing type: bandpass filters, neutral density filters, dichroic filters, notch filters, colored glass absorptive filters, IR filters and laser line filters.

Universe Kogaku offers various lens filters and asscessories, specifically UV and IR band pass filters for use with our UV quartz lenses.

Teraxion makes high-precision optical filters for ASE and Brillouin filtering in sensing applications or for the isolation of a modulated RF signal in RF communications. Signal isolation filters exhibit unbeatable flat top steep edge specifications. Low dispersion filters are also available for picosecond laser spectral filtering.