Purchasing Advisor for Optical Glasses (original) (raw)

Find all you need for professional sourcing of optical glasses: a comprehensive expert-curated directory of suppliers, scientific and technical background information, and an interactive AI-based tool with guidance for a structured decision process.

NEW: Not only hardware can be listed here, but also consulting, software, training on optical glasses, etc. – see the "offer types" below.

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Purchasing high-value photonics products is a substantial responsibility. Using a structured decision-making process and high quality supplier data helps a lot:

Find all relevant suppliers (not limited to advertisers).
Our interactive tool conveniently assists you in defining and applying your application-specific requirements.

Note that purchasing decisions based on just a few randomly picked suppliers and without carefully defined specifications are risky; therefore, we strongly recommend using our data and tool. See also:

Go through the process:

1. Understand the technical background

2. Define your requirements

It is essential to fully understand and clearly define your requirements before you purchase.

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 optical glasses. 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.

I think that I am sufficiently informed about our requirements.

Otherwise, you will need to talk to your technical colleagues.

I consider the above list of specifications to be sufficiently complete, clear and accurate.

If you cannot sufficiently clarify your requirements, you may want to get technical consultancy from RP Photonics.

Insert these criteria when creating inquiry mails to suppliers with the buttons "Get quotation".

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 optical glasses. 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:

(none so far)

Decision

The most suitable supplier you found:

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

4. Document the decision process

It is essential to document your purchasing process, not only its result (chosen supplier):

You will find it easier next time.
If something goes wrong, you can defend your decision by showing that you properly considered all important aspects. Or you see what needs to be done better next time.

Our interactive tool makes it easy: Fill out the form, and in the end print it to a PDF. Note that the document will show all sections (including those not currently shown on the screen), while omitting some irrelevant details such as the page navigation.

Suppliers for Optical Glasses

37 suppliers for optical glasses are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which two present their product descriptions and images. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

Leader in fluoride glass and optical fiber technology Le Verre FluoréRue Gabriel VoisinCampus de Ker Lann35170 Bruz, BrittanyFranceSee us at Photonics West 2026 in San Francisco, Jan. 20–22 (booth 1860)!

⚙ hardware

LVF can provide any kind of bulk fluoride glasses such as parallelepipeds, ribbons, rods, tubes, prisms etc. These bulk elements can be homogeneously doped or co-doped with rare earths depending on your requirements. Our bulk fluoride glasses can be used as robust fluorescent solid-state dye, wavelength reference material, light converter, as well as for glass science, study of specific properties of fluoride glasses, in UV, visible and mid-infrared ranges. Discover our range of bulk fluoride glasses. Product-specific web page

IRD Glass810 E St Paul St.Litchfield, MN 55355United StatesSee us at Photonics West 2026 in San Francisco, Jan. 20–22 (booth 3312)!	⚙ hardware IRD Glass is a leading supplier of float glass components for the biotechnology, microelectronics, photovoltaic, security, law enforcement, chemical, commercial, and construction industries. We are an official distributor of Schott Borofloat, allowing us to serve your Borofloat needs both quickly and efficiently. Product-specific web page

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Report Additional Suppliers for These Products

If you are a supplier and want to be listed, please use the registration form.

An already registered supplier can use a customized form to report the full list of offered photonics products. That form is reachable with the red button "Edit profile data" on the supplier's profile page.

Anyone, not only suppliers themselves, can [**report additional suppliers**](/report%5Fsupplier.html?product=Optical Glasses).