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Buying Optical Materials

Top-level product categories: materials, optical components and devices

More specific product categories: birefringent materials, coating materials, optical crystals, optical glasses, photonic metamaterials, photorefractive materials, scintillator crystals

Related product category: cutting and polishing services

A wide range of mostly transparent materials is used for optical elements, including inorganic glasses, insulating crystalline materials, semiconductors, polycrystalline ceramics, and organic polymers.

Making Good Purchase Decisions

RP Photonics helps you to not only to find all relevant suppliers, but also to make good purchasing decisions.

NEW: Structured Decision Process

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.

(Various further improvements of this feature will come soon.)

1. Learn about the technology

It is important to sufficiently understand the technology before buying.

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With its comprehensive resources, RP Photonics helps you to well prepare purchase decisions:

2. Define your requirements

It is important to fully understand and define your requirements before you buy.

We recommend that for your preparation and for inquiries to suppliers, you draw up a list of clear specifications according to your specific needs:

To help you, we have already listed some aspects we recommend you consider when buying optical materials. Of course, there may be other aspects that are relevant to your specific case.

Otherwise, you will need to talk to your technical colleagues.

If you check this, the criteria will be inserted into the inquiry mail if below you use a button titled "Get quotation".

3. Find suppliers

We suggest three steps:

  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for optical materials. Use the checkboxes (or just click somewhere on the text) to mark possibly suitable suppliers.
  • The selected suppliers will appear below this list, along with your list of specifications. You can then use the checkboxes to indicate which specifications they meet according to your research.
  • Based on the results, you can choose a supplier that is hopefully a good enough fit.

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The most suitable supplier you found:

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Find Suppliers for Optical Materials

127 suppliers for optical materials 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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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.

Whether your application works in the visible, ultraviolet (UV), near-infrared (NIR) or infrared (IR) spectrum, we have a wide variety of wavelength-specific substrates for customisation or from our extensive stock range. From BK7 (or equivalent), UV-grade fused silica and quartz to germanium, sapphire and zinc selenide – plus many more substrate alternatives – our components are capable of meeting any requirement.

Engineering on Your Wavelength

Covesion Ltd.
Unit F3, Adanac North
Adanac Drive
Nursling, Southampton SO16 0BT
United Kingdom
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optical materials

Lithium niobate is a ferroelectric material in which the domain structure can be inverted by application of an electric field. By applying a spatially patterned electric field, so called periodic poling, a periodic reversal in the in-built polarization can be produced within the crystal.

Doping PPLN with 5% MgO significantly increases the optical and photorefractive resistance of the crystal while preserving its high nonlinear coefficient allowing for broader temperature tuning of the device, increased wavelength tunability and increased power handling capabilities of the device.

This broad wavelength tuneability means PPLN can be used for a range of applications from microscopy to quantum communication.

Your reliable partner for photonics innovations!

EKSMA Optics, UAB
Dvarcioniu St. 2B
LT-10233 Vilnius
Lithuania
Profile page  Website  
optical materials

EKSMA Optics offers a wide range of optical materials, including various nonlinear crystals, laser crystals and Raman crystals, polarizing optics crystals and materials for UV and IR optics like calcium fluoride, barium fluoride, sapphire, zinc selenide (ZnSe) and germanium (Ge).

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3photon
Lithuania
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A. Optical Components Ltd.
Israel
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Abrisa Technologies
United States
Acal BFi
Germany
Advanced Glass Industries
Advanced Thin Films
United States
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Alkor Technologies
Russian Federation
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Argyle International
United States
Asue Co., Ltd.
Vietnam
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AZURE Photonics Co., Ltd.
China
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BAE Systems, Inc.
United States
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BeamQ Lasers
United States
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Beijing JIEPU TREND Technology
China
Belford Research Ltd.
United Kingdom
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Bluebean Optical Tech Ltd.
China
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Cascade Optical Corporation
United States
CASIX Inc.
China
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CASTECH
China
CDGM Glass Company Europe GmbH
Germany
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CeNing Optics Co., Ltd
China
CILAS
France
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Core Optronics Co., Ltd
China
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Corning Inc.
United States
CPG Optics
China
Cristal Laser S. A.
France
Crystal GmbH
Germany
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Crystech Inc.
China
Crystran Limited
United Kingdom
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Crytur, spol. s r.o.
Czech Republic
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Compound Semiconduclor (Xiamen) Technology Co., Lld.
China
CVI Laser Optics
United States
Docter Optics SE
Germany
Dynasil
United States
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EcoGlass, a.s.
Czech Republic
Egismos Technology Corporation
Taiwan
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Electro Optical Components, Inc.
United States
Element Six Ltd.
Ireland
EMCORE Corporation
United States
Epolin
United States
Esco Optics
United States
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FICHOU
France
FOCtek Photonics, Inc.
China
Fresnel Technologies
United States
Fuzhou Caston Optronics Co., Ltd.
China
GAMDAN Optics Inc.
United States
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Gigahertz-Optik GmbH
Germany
Glass Fab Inc.
United States
HAM Präzision - Hartmetallwerkzeugfabrik Andreas Maier GmbH
Germany
HEBO Spezialglas
Germany
Hellma GmbH
Germany
Heraeus Holding GmbH
Germany
Heraeus Conamic
Germany
HOYA Corporation USA
United States
IL Photonics
Israel
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Impex High Tech
Germany
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Inkron Oy
Finland
JG International
China
Jinan Nanosecond Photoelectric Technology Co., Ltd.
China
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Korth Kristalle
Germany
Labsphere, Inc.
United States
Laser S.O.S. Ltd.
United Kingdom
LightOptics, Co. Ltd.
United Kingdom
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Litech Optics Co., Ltd.
China
Marktech Optoelectronics
United States
Meller Optics
United States
Metrolux
Germany
Moltech GmbH
Germany
Newlight Photonics Inc.
Canada
Nihon Kessho Kogaku Co., Ltd.
Japan
Northrop Grumman - Cutting Edge Optronics
United States
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nortus Optronic GmbH
Germany
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OASYS GmbH Optics and Systems
Germany
Ohara Corporation
United States
OPCO Laboratory
United States
Optico AG
Switzerland
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Optics and Allied Engineering Pvt. Ltd.
India
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OPTO Precision Pte Ltd
Singapore
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OptoCity
United States
Opton Laser International
France
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Optoprim Germany GmbH
Germany
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Orientir, Inc
China
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Oxide Corporation
Japan
Phoenix Optical Technologies
United Kingdom
Phosctech Photonics
China
PHOTONIS Technologies S.A.S.
France
Physical Sciences Inc.
United States
Pixelligent Technologies
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Präzisions Glas & Optik GmbH
Germany
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PreciSe Hyper-iMage Optics Ltd.
China
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Precision Glass & Optics PG&O
United States
Precision Technologies Pte Ltd.
Singapore
Princeton Scientific Corp.
United States
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Prof. Feierabend GmbH
Germany
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Qingdao NovelBeam Technology Co. Ltd.
China
Rainbow Photonics AG
Switzerland
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REFLEX Analytical Corporation
United States
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Roditi International Corporation Ltd.
United Kingdom
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Roithner LaserTechnik
Austria
S1 Optics GmbH
Germany
Schott AG
Germany
Schröder Spezialglas GmbH
Germany
Scientific Materials Corp.
United States
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Hangzhou Shalom Electro-optics Technology Co., Ltd.
China
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Shanghai SICCAS High Technology Corporation
China
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Sinoceramics (USA), LLC
United States
Sirah Lasertechnik GmbH
Germany
Sky Scientific Press
United States
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SphereOptics GmbH
Germany
Sutter Instrument
United States
Sydor Optics
United States
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Tydex
Ultra Photonics
China
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Umicore
Belgium
UNI Optics Co. Ltd.
China
United Lens Company, Inc.
United States
UQG Ltd. The Norman Industrial Estate
United Kingdom
Vision Lasertechnik für Forschung und Industrie GmbH
Germany
VM-TIM GmbH
Germany
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Wavelength Opto-Electronic (S) Pte Ltd
Singapore
Xiamen Powerway Advanced Material Co., Ltd.
China
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Xi'an Aofa Optoelectronics Technology Inc.
China
Hangzhou Yong Hee Photonics Co., Ltd.
China
Yongan Optics Co. Ltd.
China
Yutai Optics
China

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