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Buying Pinholes

pinholes

Top-level product category: icon optical components and devices

More general product categories: optical apertures

Pinholes are small circular apertures used in various optical devices, such as beam cleaners, to control light propagation and improve beam quality.

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 pinholes mode cleaners

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 pinholes. 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 pinholes. 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 Pinholes

8 suppliers for pinholes are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide. 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
Profile page  Website  

See the company profile page for additional contact information.

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pinholes

Available in two categories, high-powered and standard grade, our high-quality pinholes provide optimum control over beam size. Our stock laser-drilled apertures are ready for next-day dispatch, in options ranging from 0.5 μm to 1000 μm and in mounted and unmounted varieties. Alternatively, if you are searching for a more tailored approach to your specification, Knight Optical also provides custom-made pinholes in a variety of materials, mounting options and sizes.

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Other Suppliers

DIY-Optics GmbH
Switzerland
Profile page  Website  
Ealing Catalog
United States
Lahat Technologies Ltd
Israel
Profile page  Website  
Newport Corporation
United States
OWIS GmbH
Germany
Profile page  Website  
Oxford Lasers, Inc
United States
Vision Lasertechnik für Forschung und Industrie GmbH
Germany

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.



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