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Purchasing Advisor for Photorefractive Materials

Find all you need for professionally buying photorefractive materials: an interactive tool with a comprehensive and trustworthy directory of suppliers and expert guidance for a structured decision process with scientific and technical background information.

Top-level product category: icon materials

More general product categories: optical materials

Related product category: photosensitive materials

Photorefractive materials exhibit changes in refractive index when illuminated, for example, with ultraviolet light. These materials are used in various optical applications, including holography and dynamic grating formation.

Interactive Purchase Decision Tool

Purchasing high-value photonics products is a substantial responsibility. Using a structured decision-making process and high quality supplier data helps a lot:

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How Responsible Purchase Decisions for Expensive Goods Like Lasers Are Done Explanations on this purchasing tool

Go through the process:

1. Understand the technical background

It is important to sufficiently understand the technology before buying.

Use the comprehensive resources of RP Photonics. Unfortunately, we do not have a specific article related to photorefractive materials.

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 purchase.

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 photorefractive materials. 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 photorefractive materials. 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:

4. Document the decision process

It is essential to document your purchasing process, not only its result (chosen supplier):

  • You will find it easier next time.
  • If something goes wrong, you can defend your decision by showing that you properly considered all important aspects. Or you see what needs to be done better next time.

Our interactive tool makes it easy: Fill out the form, and in the end print it to a PDF. Note that the document will show all sections (including those not currently shown on the screen), while omitting some irrelevant details such as the page navigation.

Suppliers for Photorefractive Materials

3 suppliers for photorefractive materials are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which one presents their product descriptions and images. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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presenting their product descriptions

Optogama
(4Lasers)
Mokslininku str. 6B
08412 Vilnius
Lithuania
Profile page  Website  
photorefractive materials

Optogama offers high-quality bismuth silicon oxide (Bi12SiO20, BSO) crystals known for exceptional photoconductivity and low dark conductivity, enabling strong space-charge field formation. These photorefractive materials are ideal for advanced applications such as spatial light modulators, optical switches, and phase-conjugate wave mixing.

BSO crystals are available with aperture sizes up to 3″ in diameter. For added functionality, ITO (indium tin oxide) coatings can be applied upon request to support electrical interfacing and custom integration.

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Other Suppliers

Alkor Technologies
Russian Federation
Profile page  Website  
Laserand, Inc.
Canada

If any displayed information is incorrect (e.g., a listed supplier does not offer such products) or legally problematic, please notify RP Photonics so that the problem can be solved.