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Buying Optical Glasses

Top-level product category: icon materials

More general product categories: optical materials

Related product categories: optical crystals, glass ceramics, plastic optics

Optical glasses are widely used materials in optics. A range of different optical glasses is available, varying in refractive index, chromatic dispersion, transmission range, parasitic absorption, density, and thermal properties.

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 glasses optical materials optical crystals lenses prisms

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 glasses. 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 glasses. 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 Glasses

38 suppliers for optical glasses are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 2 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

Suppliers with Advertising Package

presenting their product descriptions

Leader in fluoride glass and optical fiber technology

Le Verre Fluoré
Rue Gabriel Voisin
Campus de Ker Lann
35170 Bruz, Brittany
France
Profile page  Website  
optical glasses

LVF can provide any kind of bulk fluoride glasses such as parallelepipeds, ribbons, rods, tubes, prisms etc. These bulk elements can be homogeneously doped or co-doped with rare earths depending on your requirements.

Our bulk fluoride glasses can be used as robust fluorescent solid-state dye, wavelength reference material, light converter, as well as for glass science, study of specific properties of fluoride glasses, in UV, visible and mid-infrared ranges.

Discover our range of bulk fluoride glasses.

Product-specific web page
IRD Glass
810 E St Paul St.
Litchfield, MN 55355
United States
Profile page  Website  
optical glasses

IRD Glass is a leading supplier of float glass components for the biotechnology, microelectronics, photovoltaic, security, law enforcement, chemical, commercial, and construction industries. We are an official distributor of Schott Borofloat, allowing us to serve your Borofloat needs both quickly and efficiently.

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Other Suppliers

A. Optical Components Ltd.
Israel
Profile page  Website  
Advanced Glass Industries
Alien Photonics
Lithuania
Profile page  Website  
Alkor Technologies
Russian Federation
Profile page  Website  
CASIX Inc.
China
Profile page  Website  
CDGM Glass Company Europe GmbH
Germany
Profile page  Website  
Corning Inc.
United States
Crystran Limited
United Kingdom
Profile page  Website  
Docter Optics SE
Germany
EcoGlass, a.s.
Czech Republic
Heraeus Holding GmbH
Germany
Heraeus Conamic
Germany
HOYA Corporation USA
United States
IL Photonics
Israel
Profile page  Website  
Innotech Laser GmbH
Germany
Profile page  Website  
ios Optics
United States
Profile page  Website  
JG International
China
LightPath Technologies, Inc.
United States
Mark Optics, Inc
United States
Profile page  Website  
MICROS Optics GmbH & Co. KG
Germany
MOK Optics Co. Ltd.
China
Profile page  Website  
Ohara Corporation
United States
Optico AG
Switzerland
Profile page  Website  
Optics and Allied Engineering Pvt. Ltd.
India
Profile page  Website  
Orientir, Inc
China
Profile page  Website  
Phoenix Optical Technologies
United Kingdom
Präzisions Glas & Optik GmbH
Germany
Profile page  Website  
PreciSe Hyper-iMage Optics Ltd.
China
Profile page  Website  
Precision Glass & Optics PG&O
United States
Schott AG
Germany
Schröder Spezialglas GmbH
Germany
Sherlan Optics
China
Profile page  Website  
SINY Optic-Com Co., Ltd.
China
Profile page  Website  
Sumita Optical Glass, Inc.
Japan
Sydor Optics
United States
Profile page  Website  
Valley Design Corporation
United States

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