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Buying Optical Flats

Top-level product category: icon optical components and devices

Optical flats are transparent pieces with highly flat surfaces, typically made of glass. They offer high material and surface quality, essential for various optics 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 flats

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 flats. 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 flats. 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:

Suppliers for Optical Flats

48 suppliers for optical flats are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 2 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 flats

Artifex Engineering offers precisely flat reference plates for optical testing. Our optical flats are available as single surface and dual surface options. We will gladly customize to your requirements. Additionally we offer standard optical flats in N-BK7 and fused silica. Visit our product page for more information. We look forward to your inquiry.

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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 flats

Used as a reference surface, Knight Optical's optical flats are provided in single-or double-sided Zerodur and quartz varieties with λ/10 or λ/20 flatness available. Our stock catalogue includes 26 mm to 302 mm diameter optical flats which are packaged in a protective wooden box. Custom optical flats are also available with differing dimensions and flatness specifications. We also stock monochromatic light units which are used to view the fringe patterns on the surface of the optical flat when testing a surface.

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Other Suppliers
Advanced Optics, Inc.
United States
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Albrighter Technology Co., Ltd.
China
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Align Optics
United States
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Archer OpTx
United States
Base Lab Tool Inc
United States
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Beijing Golden Way Scientific Co. Ltd.
China
Bluebean Optical Tech Ltd.
China
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BMV Optical Technologies Inc.
Canada
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CASIX Inc.
China
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Comar Optics Ltd
United Kingdom
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CPG Optics
China
Crystran Limited
United Kingdom
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Custom Scientific, Inc.
United States
CVI Laser Optics
United States
ELUXI Ltd.
United Kingdom
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IL Photonics
Israel
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Inrad Optics
United States
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ios Optics
United States
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JG International
China
Lahat Technologies Ltd
Israel
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LaserOptec
China
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Lobre srl
Italy
Mark Optics, Inc
United States
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MICROS Optics GmbH & Co. KG
Germany
MLOPTIC Corp.
China
Mountain Photonics GmbH
Germany
Nanjing Shuncheng Optical Components Co., Ltd.
China
Optical Surfaces
United Kingdom
Optico AG
Switzerland
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Optics and Allied Engineering Pvt. Ltd.
India
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PFG Precision Optics, Inc.
United States
Phoenix Optical Technologies
United Kingdom
Changchun Positive Optics Co., Ltd.
China
Präzisions Glas & Optik GmbH
Germany
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PreciSe Hyper-iMage Optics Ltd.
China
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REFLEX Analytical Corporation
United States
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Reynard Corporation
United States
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Sherlan Optics
China
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Solaris Optics S.A.
Poland
Sydor Optics
United States
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Tianjin Tengteng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
China
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Torrent Photonics LLC
United States
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Tower Optical Corporation
United States
Vision Optics
United Kingdom
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WLoptical Co., Ltd.
China
Zygo Corporation
United States
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