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Buying Retroreflectors

retroreflectors

Top-level product category: icon optical components and devices

Related product category: mirrors

Retroreflectors, such as corner cube prisms and cat's eye retroreflectors, reflect beams back towards their source. They are used in applications like road signs, interferometers, optical delay lines, and long-distance time-of-flight measurements.

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 retroreflectors

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 retroreflectors. 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 retroreflectors. 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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Decision

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Comments, e.g. reasons for your choice, or things which still need to be checked:

Suppliers for Retroreflectors

17 suppliers for retroreflectors 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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Hangzhou Shalom Electro-optics Technology Co., Ltd.
A635, Boke Mansion
No. 9 Xiyuan Road
Xihu District, Hangzhou 310030
China
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retroreflectors

Hangzhou Shalom EO has developed a capable production workshop that could offer various kinds of custom and off-the-shelf corner cube retroreflectors made of N-BK7, UV fused silica, and other custom materials with diverse coating options like silver/gold coatings, and coatings in the visible, UV, and NIR spectrum.

Shalom EO's main types of corner cube retroreflectors include:

  • Standard corner cube retroreflectors of routine choices
  • Truncated corner cube reflectors of lightweight and compact dimensions
  • Lateral transfer corner cube retroreflectors with one trihedral reflecting face at one terminal of the prism and two trihedral reflecting faces forming a roof edge at the other end are designed for applications requiring a lateral beam displacement.
  • Customized hollow corner retroreflectors that perform well in low-pressure conditions and mitigate the aberrations derived from glass dispersion and temperature fluctuations.
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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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retroreflectors

Knight Optical have stock N-BK7 corner cube retroreflector prisms in 12.5 mm to 64 mm diameters with a 3" deviation angle. These corner cube prisms offer excellent parallelism between the entry and exit beam. We can also offer custom corner cube retroreflectors with different substrates and coatings available.

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Your sidekick for laser optics development

OPTOMAN
Ukmerges g. 427
14185 Vilnius
Lithuania
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retroreflectors

OPTOMAN can manufacture various optical assemblies, including retroreflectors.

OPTOMAN concentrates solely on Ion Beam Sputtering (IBS), with which we can manufacture various coatings, including high LIDT (>1 J/cm2 @ 1030 nm, 500 fs), low absorption (<1 ppm), and highly reflective (R > 99.995%) ultrafast mirrors.

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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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retroreflectors

Artifex Engineering offers custom retroreflectors tailored to your requirements. These can be either solid or hollow. Our corner cube prisms are available in a range of substrates and coatings. Visit our product page for more information. We look forward to your inquiry.

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Other Suppliers

CeNing Optics Co., Ltd
China
IMOS Gubela GmbH
Germany
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ios Optics
United States
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Laser Components GmbH
Germany
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Newport Corporation
United States
Optiforms
United States
OptoCity
United States
ORAFOL Europe GmbH
Germany
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PLX Inc.
United States
Sinoceramics (USA), LLC
United States
Spectrum Scientific, Inc. (SSI)
United States
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Xi'an Aofa Optoelectronics Technology Inc.
China
Yutai Optics
China

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