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Buying White Light Interferometers

Top-level product category: icon detectors and measurements

More general product categories: interferometers

Related product category: chromatic dispersion measurement devices

White light interferometers are used in various applications such as optical coherence tomography (OCT), chromatic dispersion measurements, and distance sensing. These interferometers employ broad-spectrum light to achieve high-resolution measurements.

Making Good Purchase Decisions

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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 white light interferometers interferometers coherence chromatic dispersion

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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 white light interferometers. 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.

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3. Find suitable suppliers

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  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for white light interferometers. 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 White Light Interferometers

8 suppliers for white light interferometers are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 2 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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Thorlabs
43 Sparta Avenue
Newton, NJ 07860
United States
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white light interferometers

Thorlabs manufactures a robust benchtop white light interferometer for characterizing reflective and transmissive dispersive properties of optics and coatings designed for ultrafast applications. The Chromatis™ dispersion measurement system covers 500 – 1650 nm, providing a means for measuring optics used for common femtosecond systems, including Ti:sapphire systems as well as 1 µm and 1550 nm oscillators. The Chromatis compliments our ultrafast family of lasers, amplifiers, and specialized optics including nonlinear crystals, chirped mirrors, low GDD mirrors/beamsplitters, and dispersion compensating fiber.

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UltraFast Innovations GmbH
Dieselstr. 5
85748 Garching (München)
Germany
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See us at LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B1.543)!

white light interferometers

GOBI, the white light interferometer from UltraFast Innovations (UFI®), implements spectrally resolved interferometry to accurately measure the group delay dispersion (GDD) of multi-layered ultrafast optics. The device has been developed to characterize and refine some of the most advanced coatings to date. GOBI offers unique spectral coverage of up to 250–1100 nm (UV/VIS/NIR version) and 900–2400 nm (IR version). Spectrally resolved detection makes reference lasers obsolete and removes restrictions concerning any related test samples. This opens the full spectral range for characterizing even ultra-broadband or advanced narrowband coatings. The flexible optical setup can be used for mirrors and transparent samples under angles of incidence between 0° and 70°.

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Other Suppliers

Heliotis AG
Switzerland
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Lahat Technologies Ltd
Israel
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New Span Opto-Technology Inc
United States
Polytec GmbH
Germany
YSL Photonics
China
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Zygo Corporation
United States
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