Purchasing advisor for custom optics with supplier directory and AI-based advice; precision optics, custom design, optical assemblies (original) (raw)
Find all you need for professional sourcing of custom optics: 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 custom optics, 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:
- How Responsible Purchase Decisions for Expensive Goods Like Lasers Are Done
- Explanations on this purchasing tool
Go through the process:
1. Understand the technical background
It is important to sufficiently understand the technology before buying.
Use the comprehensive learning resources of RP Photonics:
If you need personal help, contact RP Photonics to get technical consultancy.
I feel that I sufficiently 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 custom 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.
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 custom 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:
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 Custom Optics
154 suppliers for custom optics are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 22 present their product descriptions and images. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.
 Quality You Can Trust, Expertise You Can See. Hangzhou Shalom Electro-optics Technology Co., Ltd.A635, Boke MansionNo. 9 Xiyuan RoadXihu District, Hangzhou 310030China |
⚙ hardware🧩 accessories and parts🧴 consumables🔧 maintenance, repair📏 metrology, calibration, testing💡 consulting🧰 development Hangzhou Shalom EO is an expert supplier and manufacturer of various types of custom optics including lenses, windows, mirrors, prisms, laser optics, super-polished optics, sapphire optics, and infrared optics with a wide operation wavelength range from UV, VIS, to IR. A vast selection of shapes, dimensions, coatings, and other specifications of the optical components can be tailored to meet customers’ specific requirements. In addition, we are also a supplier of custom optical coatings, where we can tailor customized coatings like AR coatings, HR coatings, dielectric/metallic coatings, optical filter coatings, and beamsplitter coatings on different substrates. With cutting-edge production technologies (like IAD e-beam coating, single-point diamond turning, and Kyropoulos sapphire growth method), Shalom EO's engineers and production line are competent at and committed to endowing our optical components with optimized optical excellence. All the optics will go through in-process inspections during the production course and further tests in our class 1000 clean room before dispatch to ensure the parameters of optical components meet or exceed the published specifications. Utilizing top-tier metrological instruments such as Zygo interferometers and PerkinElmer Lambda 1050+ spectroscopes, Shalom EO secures the persistent, reliable quality of our optical components. Product-specific web page |
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 Your Custom Optics Expert Shanghai Optics Inc.425 Main St Suite 2EMetuchen, NJ 08840United States |
⚙ hardware Shanghai Optics relies on over 55 years of design and manufacturing experience and advanced metrology to provide our customer with world-class lens design and manufacturing services. Our engineering team can provide various types of lens design and assembly, covering all aspects of imaging and illumination design, from LED to gas discharge lamp illumination system design, as well as the design of the overall opto-instrument components and customized optical modules. Product-specific web page |
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 Optical Coatings with knowledge, quality & speed Vortex Optical Coatings Ltd.10 Jacknell RoadDodwells Bridge Industrial EstateHinckleyLeicestershire LE10 3BSUnited Kingdom |
⚙ hardware At Vortex we hold a large stock of standard optics on the shelf ready for immediate coating such as glass, sapphire, silicon, IR quartz. If we do not have the materials or sizes that you require, we have a network of trusted optics suppliers whom we can source from and apply any custom optical coatings that you require between 300 and 6000 nm. Product-specific web page |
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 The Future Depends on Optics Edmund Optics101 East Gloucester PikeBarrington, NJ 08007United StatesSee us at Photonics West 2026 in San Francisco, Jan. 20–22 (booth 1139)! |
⚙ hardware From design to prototype to production, Edmund Optics manufactures over 2 million optical components every year, manufactures over 175.000 optical assemblies including imaging lenses, laser beam expanders or microscope objectives and provides in-house expertise and metrology to support your custom manufacturing. Edmund Optics’ engineers can design and manufacture fully-custom components, build-to-print following customer-supplied designs, and quickly modify any of our thousands of off-the-shelf optics sold in our Marketplace. Product-specific web page |
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 Your sidekick for laser optics development OPTOMANUkmerges g. 42714185 VilniusLithuaniaSee us at Photonics West 2026 in San Francisco, Jan. 20–22 (booth 3581)! |
⚙ hardware OPTOMAN manufactures a range of application-optimized custom laser optics. To achieve highest possible accuracy, repeatability and quality we employ ion-beam sputtering (IBS) technology. Custom-tailored IBS-coated optics, with spectral range from 193 nm up to 5000 nm and size range from 3 mm up to 420 mm, feature high LIDT, precise spectral accuracy, durability and environmental stability. Some of the special custom optics we do for our clients include: knife-edge coated optics, 100% coated aperture components, segmented coatings, coatings on multi-surface prisms, coatings on micro lens assemblies, fast axis collimators, fibers, end caps and large diameter wafers. Product-specific web page |
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 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 has a strong presence in the laser OEM market, providing many types of custom components such as cavity reflectors for the solid-state laser industry, HLDT/HR steering mirrors, splatter shields, precision spacers and tooling, beamsplitters, custom corner cubes, filters. IRD Glass and IRD Ceramics work with all types of materials, from fused silica to sapphire, from filter glass to chalcogenides, doped glass to crystals. Product-specific web page |
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 Laser solutions for your µ tasks WOP | Workshop of PhotonicsUAB Altechna R&DMokslininku St. 6A08412 VilniusLithuania |
⚙ hardware WOP offers custom-made space variant retarders — adapted to the specific end-user needs. Space-variant retarders (SVR) fabrication is based on the inscription of self-organized nanogratings inside fused silica glass using a femtosecond laser. Main features: wavelength range from 200 nm to 3500 nm high damage threshold: 63.4 J/cm2 at 1064 nm, 10 ns and 2.2 J/cm2 at 1030 nm, 212 fs — suitable for high LIDT applications and high-power lasers 94% transmission at 1030 nm (no AR coating) aperture size from 1 mm to 15 mm reliable and resistant surface — the structure is inside the bulk piece custom-designed fast axis and retardance patterns Product-specific web page |
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 Bringing quality into focus Knight Optical (UK)Roebuck Business ParkHarrietsham, Kent ME17 1ABUnited Kingdom |
⚙ hardware Knight Optical's main area of expertise is its custom capabilities. We work closely with our customers on their bespoke specifications to ensure they receive both a high-quality product and service — something Knight Optical prides itself on. Customisation includes substrates, dimensions, tolerances, and coatings of the optical components. Product-specific web page |
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 LightMachinery80 Colonnade Rd. North, Unit 1Nepean, Ontario K2E 7L2Canada |
⚙ hardware LightMachinery offers a wide range of custom optics. We work closely with our customers to really understand and define the parameters that are important to the functionality of the optical component. The experience of the people at LightMachinery with tight tolerance optics is unique in breadth and scope. If you are looking for high quality optics then look no further. Our team of professionals is always ready to push the envelope of optical quality or make a quick piece for an R & D prototype. No job is too big or too small. Start by filling out our contact form and telling us about your project and your requirements, we can help refine the specification and provide feedback on price and delivery. Product-specific web page |
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 Your reliable partner for photonics innovations! EKSMA Optics, UABDvarcioniu St. 2BLT-10233 VilniusLithuaniaSee us at Photonics West 2026 in San Francisco, Jan. 20–22 (booth 1635)! |
⚙ hardware EKSMA Optics offers customized laser mirrors, lenses, windows, prisms, filters waveplates and other polarizing optics. We have a wide range of optical materials and coatings. EKSMA Optics in-house precision polishing and IBS coating facilities allow us to take full control over whole manufacturing process and provide you services starting from optical design to final quality control. Product-specific web page |
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 Optical components at better price SinoptixOffice 16 D, Yujia MansionN° 1336 HuaShan RoadShanghai 200052China |
⚙ hardware We offer on-demand custom optics manufacturing — lenses, prisms, windows, filters and free-form optics. High quality at better pricing. Product-specific web page |
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 Home of high power optics and coatings LASEROPTIKJohannes-Ebert-Str. 130826 GarbsenGermany |
⚙ hardware LASEROPTIK does not only offer a large selection of from-stock optics, but also custom optics designed according to your specifications. You can send us your substrates or choose from the large LASEROPTIK substrate stock. With our online portal named LOOP, you can configure and buy your laser optics online: choose your coating, select a substrate and create your own optic! For urgent jobs, we offer LASEROPTIK EXPRESS, being able to produce many optics even within 24 hours. Product-specific web page |
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 Your problem is our challenge – flexibility is our standard! Artifex Engineering GmbH & Co KGDortmunder Str. 16–1826723 EmdenGermany |
⚙ hardware Artifex Engineering is an independent optics supplier with close relationships to several optical manufacturers. We have more than 20 years experience in precision optics applications and a solid understanding of the optical manufacturing process. We supply high quality industrial and medical optical components at extremely competitive B2B pricing, standard or customized. Please contact us to discuss your applications requirements. Visit our product page for more information. We look forward to your inquiry. Product-specific web page |
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 DPM PhotonicsP. O. Box 3002Vernon, CT 06066United States |
⚙ hardware Custom precision optics has been an integral part of Photonic Devices' business for over 20 years; DPM Photonics has been their partners for many years. This extensive experience with custom products enables efficient design generation and very reasonable turn-around times, while keeping non-recurring charges low. Whether the need is a slight modification of an existing product or an entirely new design, Photonic Devices welcomes the opportunity to review customer needs and provide enabling products. Let us put our experience to work for you. Product-specific web page |
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 Universe Kogaku (America), Inc.116 Audrey AvenueOyster Bay, New York 11771United States |
⚙ hardware Universe Kogaku offers comprehensive project design cycle assistance by qualified lens application engineers. We provide your optimal lens solution by addressing all of your design considerations — from specs, to budget, to timetables — realizing that optics are not a stand-alone component. We understand electrical and mechanical requirements and integrate our lenses into your system with this in mind. Through this approach, custom lens designs from Universe can often reduce system cost by eliminating the need for other design components or modifications. Complete custom design capabilities from concept to prototype to production provide ideal solutions for unique designs. We have full plastic optics capability for both lenses and barrels. Our facility contains the best in lens manufacturing and inspection equipment including a spectrophotometer, video MTF bench, laser interferometer, optical collimator bench, in-house single and multi-layer coating, full computer-aided lens and coating design and much more. Product-specific web page |
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 Precision Optics & Coatings for High Energy Laser Applications Perkins Precision Developments4110 North Valley DriveLongmont, CO 80504United StatesSee us at Photonics West 2026 in San Francisco, Jan. 20–22 (booth 2048)! |
⚙ hardware Perkins Precision Developments (PPD) offers a range of custom optics tailored for high-power systems like Nd:YAG and fiber lasers. Their products include wedged windows, curved and plano HEL mirrors, spherical lenses, super-polished substrates, right angle turning prisms, plate polarizers, beam splitter cube assemblies, and matched pair Risley prisms. PPD utilizes Ion Beam Sputtering coating technology to achieve complex spectral designs while minimizing losses from absorption and scatter. All custom optics are manufactured and coated in-house, supported by a technical staff with over 100 cumulative years of experience in the photonics industry. Product-specific web page |
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 Empowering Optical Innovations Avantier1100 US-22North Plainfield, NJ 07060United StatesSee us at BiOS 2026 in San Francisco, January 17 – 18 (booth 8220) and Photonics West 2026 in San Francisco, Jan. 20–22 (booth 857)! |
⚙ hardware We have over 50 years of expertise in custom optics and custom optical component manufacturing of lenses, prisms, windows, wafers, and custom-shaped substrates using materials such as UV grade fused silica, industrial grade fused silica, IR grade fused silica, filter glass, germanium, silicon, ZnSe, and more. Product-specific web page |
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