Suppliers

 

Regular suppliers

• Laser Focus Buyers Guide
• Physics Today Buyers Guide
• CERN Courier Buyer's Guide

Ablation targets, pressing, materials

• Semiconductor Wafer - semiconductor materials (link added by company)
• Sigma-Aldrich
• American Elements -- pretty much the whole periodic table
• Sophisticated alloys
• Plasmaterials
• Sputtering target suppliers
• Alfa aesar
• Process Materials
• Sputtering Materials Inc
• Refrac systems - Diffusion bonding, hot-pressing
• Cercom Ceramics

 

 

Hardware

• Rack Rack for eurocard PCB
• Copper Gaskets - Copper Gaskets, Blank Vacuum Flanges, Vented screws etc...
• McMaster Super fast send out, shipping cost ~$24
• Copper and brass sales - THE copper and brass supplier
• MSC - When McMaster just won't do
• RAM mounts - Mounts for scopes and other instruments.
• S&W Coil - Magnet coils/wire
• Small Tube Products custom tubing, water-cooled magnet wire.

 

 

 

Camera

• Photomerics single photon CMOS/CCD cameras
• IDS IDS Ueye cameras
• Princeton Instruments CCD cameras

Optics

• [1] Microscope objective lens
• Go4fiber Cheap fiber marketplace
• AMStechnologies
• evanescentoptics Fiber strentchers and other fiber optics
• ixBlue fast lithium niobate intensity & phase modulators for different bands.
• Eospace C-band phase and intensity modulators
• Fiber Optics Marketplace Huge variety of different fiber optics components with instant prices.
• Thorlabs
• Fiber Optic Feedthroughs, Accu-Glass Products, Inc. - Large selection of fiber optic feedthroughs on industry standard flanges.
• CVI
• BATOP GmbH Saturable absorbers and mirrors
• New Focus
• Newport
• Alpine Research Optics
• Casix - dirt cheap, long lead times?
• conoptics - Isolators
• Edmund optics
• Optosigma - windows
• Research Electro Optics - High end optics
• Advanced Thin Films - custom jobs
• EO tech - Isolators
• Andover - colored glass filters, interference filterse with 0.1 nm bandwith.
• Semrock - Filters + MaxMirror
• Intor - cheap interference filters
• Uniblitz - shutters
• Omega - stock + custom interference filters
• Coherent - Tell them you want the 'Family Discount' & Get 20% Off all laser measurement products. For problems contact service manager: rose.medina@coherent.com (408) 764-4426
• OFR - fiber optics and isolators
• Technical Glass- Talk to Jack Watson and tell him Sarah sent you.
• Rubicon - Sapphire
• NEOS - AOMs
• Intraaction - AOMs
• Brimrose - AOMs, custom
• St. Gobain Crystals - custom crystalline optics
• Standa - mostly optomechanics
• Expla - laser systems, OPOs, some components
• Optometrics - diffraction gratings
• Argyle Optics - custom stuff might be cheap but standard optics are also custom made = expensive
• Vere Optics lab accessories
• Esco Products-unusually fast and inexpensive for custom optics jobs, proven reliable. Also good selection of stock optics
• OpticalTables.com Used and new optical Tables by woman

 

Nonlinear crystals

• Raicol
• RedOptronics
• Eksmaoptics
• HCPhotonics Periodically polled crystals/waveguides
• Covesion PP crystals
• NanoLN LITHIUM NIOBATE THIN FILM

Laser Diodes

• BeamQ Cheap laser diode
• qPhotonics Rich diode variety
• Sacher Suggestion - do not buy!
• Eagleyard - AR coated laser diodes
• Roither Lasertechnik - Laser diodes, LEDs
• Toptica - Lasers, AR Coated Diodes
• Intelite - Non-AR Coated Diodes, Sacher gets some of their diodes here before AR Coating
• Photonic Products - Laser diodes, will frequency-select on certain products.
• [1] Meshtel, laser diodes with price
• Moglabs Moglabs, external cavity laser diode with interference filter.
• Markettechinc Different Lasers

Low noise oscillators

• Wenzel Low phase noise Oscillators
• vectron low noise Oscillators
• IQD frequency products low noise Oscillators & Rubidium standard
• MicroSemi low noise oscillators & atomic clocks (small clocks starting from $1900 on Mouser)
• ThinkSRS Rubidium standard starting from $1500

Electronics

• Saelig
• Test Equipment
• MiniCircuits
• Sierra IC Inc
• Mouser Electronics
• Digikey
• Analog Devices
• Apex Microtechnologies - High Voltage/Power Op-Amps
• Lansing Instruments - Really Nice Enclosures
• Emco High Voltage - DC-DC Converters
• Allied Electronics
• L-Com - Cheap connectors/adaptors
• Powell Electronics - Hard to find/out of stock stuff
• Meritronics - Board Assembly
• BE-Electronics - Local Calgary seller
• [2] - Российские производители электроники

Ceramics

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• Stratamet - will do small custom jobs. Talk to Mark Wesson. Tell him Sarah sent you.
• CoorsTek ceramic tubes etc.
• Kyocera - expensive
• Marketech - will do almost anything, but take ~1 week to send quotes
• Progressive Technology - ceramic tubes etc.
• LSP Ceramics - has many stock sizes of tubes and washers (even top hat washers).

Vacuum

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• Vacuum Feedthroughs, Accu-GlassElectrical Vacuum Feedthroughs and components of all types.
• AVS Technical Resources - Useful calculator for conversion factors, pump/gauge ranges
• Varian
• LDS Vacuum Shopper - fast + cheap
• Duniway stockroom Cheap, good selection of used vacuum equipment
• Huntington
• Kimball physics - special (cool) chambers
• Precision glass blower custom glass chamber, cheap rubidium source
• Kurt J. Lesker
• Sharon - custom chambers
• Key High
• vacuum generators Best quality UHV all-metal valves.
• MDC
• Insulator Seal - Feedthroughs
• Apiezon Greases and Waxes
• A & N Corp - Feedthroughs, flanges etc.
• frontier vacuum - Looks like good selection, pictures, seems pretty cheap...
• Accu-Glass Products, Inc. - Unusually nice selection of feedthroughs, in-vacuum electrical connectors, hardware, etc. Prices better than Lesker.
• MPF Products - Similar to Accu-Glass Products, Inc. for electrical feedthroughs, but also has nice selection of viewports
• EVAC Vacuum - Unique! Standard QF/ISO hardware, but made out of glass(!), aluminum, etc.

Cryogenics

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• Cryodepot
• Cryofab
• Janis
• Lakeshore Cryotronics - Cryotonics, funny name.
• Oxford Instruments
• Cryomech - Pulse Tubes PLEASE, JUST ONE!!! Thank you sir, may I have another?
• Calgon Carbon - Coconuts
• ESPI Metals - Will trade indium for money.

Quasi-Optical, Microwaves

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• Photonics Innovation Center
• Thomas Keating Ltd

mm-wave Microwave Components

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• Quinstar - Large selection of waveguide and coax, ask for Sage Kuno
• Miteq - Largest supplier (and stock) but more expensive

 

 

Detectors, PMTs

• electron tubes
• burle
• hamamatsu
• Ultra fast photodiodes C-band
• Ultra fast photodiodes 22 GHz 1um< <1.6 um
• Ultra fast photodiodes 25GHz 1um< <1.6 um
• Ultra fast photodiodes 50GHz 1.5um
• $5000 Single photon detectors (Ex Perkin-Elmer)

Metals

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• ESPI - expensive, but has everything
• Goodfellow
• Rembar- Good for Tantalum, Tungsten etc
• Hagstoz - Gold and precious metals, usually cheap
• Refining Systems - Gold and precious metals
• Hauser and Miller - Even cheaper gold and precious metals-Customer # 760971 (Yale)

Coatings, deposition

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• AIMCAL - Assoc. of Metallizers, Coaters & Laminators FAQ
• Spectrum coatings>
• Helia Photonics - Ion-assisted deposition
• Ionedge - IAD
• Thin Films Inc. - Sputtering, Evaporation, Lithography - flexible small shop
• Thin Film Labs - specialize in optical component coatings
• Koral Labs - thin film deposition + vacuum furnace stuff
• IJ Research - ceramics, deposition, lithography - flexible, associated with USCB, IIRC

Electroplating

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• Paramount Metal Finishing - Rack Electroplating - reasonable prices
• AMZ Manufacturing - High quality electroplating
• Metal Finishing Technologies - Various plating services
• Epner Technology - Fancy gold electroplating - expensive, high-tech

Diamond-Turned Optics

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• II-VI Infrared - good CO2 optics; possibly worst url ever
• Corning NetOptix - used to be OFC Diamond Turning
• Kugler - German precision optics company, ja.
• Kaleido Technology - in Denmark...

Heavy Duty Actuators and Motion Control

• Newmark Systems
• Arrick Robotics
• Parker Hannfin Motion Control
• Cyber Research Motion Control
• Techno Linear Motion Systems
• IntelLiDrives linear actuators, rotary tables, XY tables

Magnetometery

• Cheap chip for low fields
• Different magnetometers
• Atomic magnetometers

Vibration Isolation

• EAR Specialty Composites ==> Jan's smelly Blue Stuff = #6309-0026
• Vibra System
• MinusK Vibration isolation platform

Workshops(machine shops)

• Engineering department Tel: 403-220-6746
• Science workshop

Temperature stabilization

• Wavelength electronics Temperature controllers

C-band optics and lasers

• Emcore
• Ultra fast photodiodes
• KPhotonics Cheap Mode-Locked Lasers modules
• LightWaveStore Cheap/Used C-band fiber optics, amplifiers, Lasers

High tech modules

• Stable Laser Ultra Stable reference cavities.
• Single photon source 940 nm
• Single photon sources and high effeciency superconducting detectors
• high effeciency superconducting detectors

Ultra low expansion glass

• United lens
• Zygo
• PGO
• Schott