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Buying Plastic Optics

Top-level product category: icon optical components and devices

More specific product categories: plastic optical fibers

Plastic optics are made from various organic materials, including PMMA (acrylic), polycarbonate, and polystyrene. They include lenses, prisms, optical windows, and other optical elements.

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 plastic optics plastic optical fibers

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 plastic optics. 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 plastic optics. 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 Plastic Optics

41 suppliers for plastic optics are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 4 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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Optical components at better price

Sinoptix
Office 16 D, Yujia Mansion
N° 1336 HuaShan Road
Shanghai 200052
China
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B1.525)!

plastic optics

We offer plastic injection lenses in PMMA, PC or COP, AR treatment possible. Plastic lens matrix and collimators are also available. Custom plastic optics.

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Your Custom Optics Expert

Shanghai Optics Inc.
425 Main St Suite 2E
Metuchen, NJ 08840
United States
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plastic optics

Shanghai Optics produces the highest quality plastic optics in a variety of shapes, including aspheric lenses, optical prisms, cylinder lenses, toroid lenses, and free form optics. Our state of the art in house equipment allows us to use the most efficient ways to produce polymer optical components, including single point diamond turning and machining, CNC machining, and injection molding.

Injection molding is the most common way to manufacture large quantities of polymer optics. During the molding process melted thermoplastics are injected into prepared optical forms. Shanghai Optics has extensive experience in optics molding and especially in developing high quality molds for both standard and custom optics. Our optical design team has experience preparing both single cavity and multi-cavity molds, and molding acrylic (PMMA) lenses, polycarbonate lenses, cyclic olefin polymer lenses, etc.

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Avantier
1100 US-22
North Plainfield, NJ 07060
United States
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B1.171B)!

plastic optics

Avantier creates top-notch plastic optics in various shapes, like aspheric lenses, optical prisms, cylinder lenses, toroid lenses, and free form optics. We utilize state-of-the-art equipment, including single point diamond turning and machining, CNC machining, and injection molding to produce polymer optical components efficiently. Injection molding is the most common way we manufacture large quantities of polymer optics. Our experienced team can prepare both single and multi-cavity molds, molding different types of lenses like PMMA, polycarbonate, and cyclic olefin polymer lenses.

Aspheric manufacturing capabilities:

  • Diameter: 5 – 200 mm
  • Diameter tolerance: +0/-0.100 mm – +0/-0.010 mm
  • Asphere figure error (P – V): 3 μm – smaller than 0.06 μm
  • Vertex radius (asphere): ±0.5% – ±0.05%
  • Sag: 25 mm max.
  • Typical slope error: 1μm – 0.15 μm per 1 mm window
  • Centering (beam deviation): 3 arcmin – 0.5 arcmin
  • Center thickness tolerance: ±0.100mm – ±0.010mm
  • Surface quality (scratch-dig): 80–50, 40–20, 10–5
  • Aspheric surface metrology: profilometry (2D & 3D) & interferometry
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Bringing quality into focus

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.

See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth A3.533)!

plastic optics

Knight Optical offers a variety of plastic optics within our stock catalogue including spherical lenses, aspheric lenses, Fresnel lenses, windows, diffusers, filters, and waveplates. We can also provide custom plastic optics, such as optical domes, and due to the moulding process, we can also produce more complex shapes. Enquire for further information.

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Other Suppliers

Adamas Optics, LLC
United States
Profile page  Website  
Adept Optical Ltd
United Kingdom
AFL
United States
Align Optics
United States
Profile page  Website  
Allied Scientific Pro
Canada
Profile page  Website  
ALL-IN OPTICS
Germany
Profile page  Website  
B-Con Engineering Inc
Canada K2E 7V
Comcore
United States
Egismos Technology Corporation
Taiwan
Profile page  Website  
ELUXI Ltd.
United Kingdom
Profile page  Website  
Empire Precision Plastics
United States
Everix
United States
FiberLogix Intl. Ltd.
United Kingdom
FISBA AG
Switzerland
Profile page  Website  
Fresnel Technologies
United States
Greenlight Optics
United States
IL Photonics
Israel
Profile page  Website  
IMM Photonics
Germany
IMOS Gubela GmbH
Germany
Profile page  Website  
Industrial Fiber Optics, Inc.
United States
Kingfisher International
Australia
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Laser Components GmbH
Germany
Profile page  Website  
Lensel Optics Pvt Ltd
India
Profile page  Website  
NTKJ Co., Ltd.
Japan
Optics and Allied Engineering Pvt. Ltd.
India
Profile page  Website  
Optics Balzers AG
Liechtenstein
Optimal Optik Ltd.
Hungary
Profile page  Website  
ORAFOL Europe GmbH
Germany
Profile page  Website  
polyoptics GmbH
Germany
Profile page  Website  
REFLEX Analytical Corporation
United States
Profile page  Website  
Rochester Precision Optics
United States
S1 Optics GmbH
Germany
Shenzhen Zentech Optics Ltd.
China
Profile page  Website  
SHKE Communication Tech
China
Syntec Optics
United States
Profile page  Website  
Tecnottica Consonni S.r.l.
Italy
Vision Optics
United Kingdom
Profile page  Website  

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