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Buying Prisms

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Top-level product category: icon optical components and devices

More specific product categories: anamorphic prism pairs, corner cube prisms, wedge prisms

Related product category: custom optics

Optical prisms serve various functions, including retroreflecting beams without changing their angular direction, image rotation, and dispersing light into its spectral components. They are used in many optical applications.

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:

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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 prisms. 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

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  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for prisms. 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.

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Suppliers for Prisms

191 suppliers for prisms are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 12 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)!

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We offer custom optical prisms from 0.3 mm to 500 mm with up to λ/10 flatness and custom coatings.

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Your problem is our challenge – flexibility is our standard!

Artifex Engineering GmbH & Co KG
Dortmunder Str. 16–18
26723 Emden
Germany
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B2.230)!

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Artifex Engineering offers a wide variety of custom prisms, including all typical designs tailored to your requirements (right angle prism, dove prism, pentaprism, corner cube reflector, wedge prism). Prisms are used for reflection, deviation and image manipulation. Visit our product page for more information. We look forward to your inquiry.

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IRD Glass
810 E St Paul St.
Litchfield, MN 55355
United States
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prisms

IRD Glass manufactures custom optical prisms for nearly any application – from laser optics to imaging devices. We produce basic right-angle prisms, rhomboid prisms, wedge prisms, penta prisms, dove prisms, roof prisms and many other challenging variations and assemblies – even completely new optical prisms for new applications as our customers’ industries require them.

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Your reliable partner for photonics innovations!

EKSMA Optics, UAB
Dvarcioniu St. 2B
LT-10233 Vilnius
Lithuania
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth A2.107) and CLEO 2025 in Long Beach (CA), USA, May 4–9 (booth 205)!

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The EKSMA Optics optical prism product line includes wedge prisms, laser dispersing prisms, Pellin–Broca prisms, right angle prisms, corner cubes and non-polarizing cube beamsplitters.

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Hangzhou Shalom Electro-optics Technology Co., Ltd.
A635, Boke Mansion
No. 9 Xiyuan Road
Xihu District, Hangzhou 310030
China
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (hall B1, booth 258)!

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With decades of professional experience and a profound engineering background, Hangzhou Shalom EO delivers a full portfolio of optical prisms ideal for light deviation, rotation/inversion of the image, beam steering/aligning, etc. where versatile characteristic of our prisms allows for their widespread applications in periscopes, binoculars, lasers, interferometers, spectroscopes, cameras, laser rangefinders.

Shalom EO supplies diverse prism types, including: right angle prisms, corner cube retroreflectors, wedge prisms, Brewster angle prisms, and equilateral prisms, in addition to Penta prisms, dove prisms, roof prisms, and Porro prisms. There is a wide selection of materials: BK7, N-BK7, UV-grade fused silica, N-SF11, CaF2, Ge and ZnSe. Coating options include uncoated, MgF2 AR coating, broadband AR coating, and laser line wavelength V-coating.

Shalom EO is an expert supplier of optical prisms, we implement both in-process quality control and optical inspection for finished products, where Shalom EO leverages state-of-the-art metrological equipment, such as Zygo interferometers and PerkinElmer Lambda 1050+ spectroscopes, to uphold the consistent reliability of our optical components.

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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)!

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Knight Optical offers an extensive range of stock prisms which are suitable for a wide array of projects and applications. Our range of prisms includes Amici, corner cube, Dove, equilateral, Fresnel, homogenising light pipe, Pellin–Broca, penta, Porro, rhomboid, right angle, as well as prisms manufactured from UV and infrared substrates. Custom prisms are also available in different substrates and with applied coatings.

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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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prisms

Shanghai Optics can provide custom high-precision prisms with arbitrary angles, sizes below 300 mm and angular accuracy of 1 arcsec. Customized coatings are available for different UV, visible and infrared wavelengths according to customer requirements.

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Precision Optics & Coatings for High Energy Laser Applications

Perkins Precision Developments
4110 North Valley Drive
Longmont, CO 80504
United States
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prisms

Perkins Precision Developments (PPD) manufactures custom, high-precision prisms and prism assemblies of all shapes and sizes and in a variety of materials including fused silica, fused quartz, N-BK7, YAG, ZnSe, SF11 and other high index glasses. Prisms are available uncoated or coated with our low-loss, high energy IBS thin film coatings for applications in the UV, visible and near-infrared (NIR). Typical coatings include anti-reflection (AR), high-reflector (HR), dichroic, beam splitter, and polarizing designs.

Common types of thin film coated prisms that we produce for both laser and imaging applications include right angle turning prisms, Risley prisms, equilateral dispersion prisms and penta prisms. Precision optical assemblies such as polarizing beam splitter cubes and dichroic prism beam splitters are also an option.

Our technical sales team will work with you at the design and quotation phases to ensure the optimal balance of performance, manufacturability and cost.

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Laserton Optic Co., Ltd.
C506, #1 Building
Pioneering Park for Overseas Chinese Scholars
No. 69 Huayang Road
Lixia District Jinan, Shandong
China
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Laserton has a wide range of optical prisms, including penta prisms, corner cube retroreflectors, anamorphic prisms, Dove prisms, right angled prisms, pyramid prisms, beam splitter penta prisms, half penta prisms, roof prisms, wedge prisms, equilaterla prisms, Porro prisms, rhomboid prisms, Brewster prisms and Pellin—Broca prisms. Also, we can produce custom prisms of other forms.

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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)!

prisms

An optical prism is a solid, transparent optic with flat surfaces which refract light. Light enters through one surface, and may be rotated, deviated, or dispersed before leaving through another surface. These surfaces are highly polished, and the angles between them, the number of surfaces, and the position of them determine the function of the prism.

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Custom Precision optical components

Ecoptik (Changchun) Ltd.
No. 399, Bocai Road
Changchun City, Jilin, 130000
China
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B2.450) and OPIE 25 in Pacifico Yokohama, Japan, April 23–25 (booth O-22)!

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Ecoptik produces optical prisms for various applications. We can make many different geometrical shapes, e.g. roof prisms, tetrahedral, wedge, octagon, penta, Powell and right angle prisms. We are happy to develop custom versions for you.

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Expanding your spectro-vision

Henan UM Optics Ltd
No. 100, Light Industrial Park
Shangcheng County, Henan Province, 465300
China
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UM OPTICS offers right-angle prisms based on calcium fluoride(CaF2), silicon (Si) and zinc selenide (ZnSe) in a variety of sizes.

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1T Optics Ltd
China
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3L-Systems, LLC
Korea
3W Photonics
United States
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A. Optical Components Ltd.
Israel
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Acal BFi
Germany
Advanced Glass Industries
Advanced Thin Films
United States
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Albrighter Technology Co., Ltd.
China
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Alien Photonics
Lithuania
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Align Optics
United States
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Alkor Technologies
Russian Federation
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Allied Scientific Pro
Canada
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Altechna UAB
Lithuania
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Angstrom Precision Optics Inc.
United States
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AOG Crystal Technology Co, Ltd.
China
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AOS Optics Co., Ltd
China
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Archer OpTx
United States
Argyle International
United States
B&M Optik GmbH
Germany
Beijing Golden Way Scientific Co. Ltd.
China
Bena Optical Products Ltd.
China
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Bernhard Halle Nachfolger GmbH
Germany
Bluebean Optical Tech Ltd.
China
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BMV Optical Technologies Inc.
Canada
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Bond Optics
United States
Changchun Boxin Photoelectric Co., Ltd.
China
Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH
Germany
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CASIX Inc.
China
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CASTECH
China
CeNing Optics Co., Ltd
China
Chang Chun Jiu Tian Optoelectronics Co. Ltd.
China
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Changchun Juncheng Optical Instrument Co., Ltd.
China
Changchun Realpoo Photoelectric Co., Ltd.
China
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Chengdu Yasi Optoelectronics Co. Ltd.
China
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Claser Photonics Inc.
China
Coligh Optics Technology Co. Ltd
China
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Comar Optics Ltd
United Kingdom
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Core Optronics Co., Ltd
China
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CPG Optics
China
Crylight Photonics, Inc.
China
Cryslaser Inc.
P.R. China
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Crysmit Photonics Co., Ltd.
China
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Crystal GmbH
Germany
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Crystech Inc.
China
CVI Laser Optics
United States
Docter Optics SE
Germany
Doric Lenses Inc.
Canada
EcoGlass, a.s.
Czech Republic
Elent A
Ukraine
Elliot Scientific Ltd.
United Kingdom
Esco Optics
United States
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eSource Optics
United States
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Feinwerkoptik Zünd AG
Switzerland
FICHOU
France
Fleige Optik GmbH & Co. KG
Germany
FOCtek Photonics, Inc.
China
Focus Technology Co., Ltd.
China
Fuzhou Farview Optics Co., Ltd.
China
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Fuzhou Hundreds Optics Inc.
China
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Galvoptics Ltd
United Kingdom
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GiAi photonics Co., Ltd
China
GreenOptics Inc.
South Korea
Gurley Precision Instruments
United States
He Rui Optics Co., Ltd.
China
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HEBO Spezialglas
Germany
Hellma GmbH
Germany
HHV Advanced Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
India
5th Floor, No. 19 Building
China
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Holmarc Opto-Mechatronics
India
IL Photonics
Israel
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Impex High Tech
Germany
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Industrial Fiber Optics, Inc.
United States
Industrial Optics Unlimited
United States
Inlight Precision Optics Co. Ltd
China
Inrad Optics
United States
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InStockOptics
Lithuania
International Crystal Laboratories
United States
ios Optics
United States
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JG International
China
Jilin Tianhua Opto-electrical Technology Development Co, Ltd.
China
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Jinan Nanosecond Photoelectric Technology Co., Ltd.
China
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Kingsview Optical Ltd
United Kingdom
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Korth Kristalle
Germany
LaCroix Precision Optics
United States
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Lahat Technologies Ltd
Israel
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Lambda Research Optics
United States
Lano Photonics Co., Ltd.
China
Laser Sources Ltd.
United Kingdom
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LaserOptec
China
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Lensel Optics Pvt Ltd
India
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Litech Optics Co., Ltd.
China
Lobre srl
Italy
Manx Precision Optics
Isle of Man, IM9 2AP
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Meller Optics
United States
Metrolux
Germany
Meuser Optik GmbH
Germany
MICROS Optics GmbH & Co. KG
Germany
MLOPTIC Corp.
China
MOK Optics Co. Ltd.
China
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Moulded Optics GmbH
Germany
Sichuan MetalMiracle Industry Corp.
China
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Nanjing Shuncheng Optical Components Co., Ltd.
China
Nanyang Running Optical & Electronic
China
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New Age Instruments & Materials
India
Newlight Photonics Inc.
Canada
nortus Optronic GmbH
Germany
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NTKJ Co., Ltd.
Japan
OASYS GmbH Optics and Systems
Germany
Ocean Opto Co., Ltd
China
OPCO Laboratory
United States
Oplatek Group Oy
Finland
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Oplens
China
Optico AG
Switzerland
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Optics and Allied Engineering Pvt. Ltd.
India
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Optics Balzers AG
Liechtenstein
Optikron GmbH
Germany
Optimax Systems, Inc
Canada
OPTO Precision Pte Ltd
Singapore
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OptoCity
United States
ORAFOL Europe GmbH
Germany
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Pacific Coast Optics, LLC
United States
PFG Precision Optics, Inc.
United States
Phoenix Optical Technologies
United Kingdom
Phosctech Photonics
China
Photonchina
China
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Plano Optics Private Limited
India
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polyoptics GmbH
Germany
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PreciSe Hyper-iMage Optics Ltd.
China
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Precision Glass & Optics PG&O
United States
Precision Optical
United States
Princeton Scientific Corp.
United States
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Prolog Optics
Israel
Qingdao NovelBeam Technology Co. Ltd.
China
Radiant Dyes Laser & Accessoires GmbH
Germany
Rainbow Research Optics, Inc.
United States
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REFLEX Analytical Corporation
United States
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Rising Electro-Optics Ltd.
China
RIVoptics
Russian Federation
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Roithner LaserTechnik
Austria
Ross Optical
United States
Schott AG
Germany
Senop
Finland
Shangai Jingsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
China
Shenzhen Zentech Optics Ltd.
China
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Sherlan Optics
China
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Shinkosha Co. Ltd.
Japan
Sichuan MetalMiracle Industry Corp.
China
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Sinoceramics (USA), LLC
United States
Sirah Lasertechnik GmbH
Germany
SJLLASER
China
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Sky Scientific Press
United States
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Solaris Optics S.A.
Poland
Fuzhou Solid Photon Inc
China
STANDA Ltd.
Lithuania
Sunday Optics
China
Syntec Optics
United States
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Tian Cheng Optic Co., Ltd.
China
Tempotec Optics Co., Ltd.
China
Tianjin Tengteng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
China
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Tillquist Group AB
Sweden
Tokyo Instruments, Inc.
Japan
Topag Lasertechnik GmbH
Germany
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Torrent Photonics LLC
United States
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Tower Optical Corporation
United States
Ultra Photonics
China
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UNI Optics Co. Ltd.
China
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United States
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United Kingdom
Vertex Optics
United States
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United Kingdom
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Germany
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China
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Singapore
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China
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Switzerland
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China
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China
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China
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Switzerland

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