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Contents
- 1 Regular suppliers
- 1.1 Ablation targets, pressing, materials
- 1.2 Hardware
- 1.3 Camera
- 1.4 Optics
- 1.5 Nonlinear crystals
- 1.6 Laser Diodes
- 1.7 Low noise oscillators
- 1.8 Electronics
- 1.9 Ceramics
- 1.10 Vacuum
- 1.11 Cryogenics
- 1.12 Quasi-Optical, Microwaves
- 1.13 mm-wave Microwave Components
- 1.14 Detectors, PMTs
- 1.15 Metals
- 1.16 Coatings, deposition
- 1.17 Electroplating
- 1.18 Diamond-Turned Optics
- 1.19 Heavy Duty Actuators and Motion Control
- 1.20 Magnetometery
- 1.21 Vibration Isolation
- 1.22 Workshops (machine and PCB shops)
- 1.23 Temperature stabilization
- 1.24 C-band optics and lasers
- 1.25 High tech modules
- 1.26 Ultra low expansion glass
- 1.27 Nanotech
Regular suppliers
- Used equipment aggregator
- 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
- Aerodiode Laser diode, semiconductor amplifiers, fiber-coupled acousto-optical modulators.
- 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
- Ozoptics Canadian fiber optics manufacture
- 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
- Optisource polarization optics
- Research Electro Optics - High end optics
- Advanced Thin Films - custom jobs
- EO tech - Isolators
- Koheron - Photodetectors, diode laser temperature and current controllers.
- 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
- Qubig Qubig EOM free space
- 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
- Infiber.ru Волокна склад в рф
- Fiberlabs ZBLAN and Fluoride fiber doped with rare earth ions
- Technicasa FBG
- Teraxion FBG
- Le Verre Fluore ZBLAN fibers
- ogmentum ZBLAN fibers in North America
- Alluxa optical filter (narrow ~ 1 nm)
- Optigate volume bragg grating (mirror, filter, etc.)
- HoLoor Phase plate
- Assetrelay Fiber communication equipment
- OEMarket Fiber communication equipment
- DKPhotonics Chinese PM fiber optics: Circulators, PBS, Couplers, WDM, etc.
- SKEO Российский производитель пассивной волоконной оптики
- [2] Телекоммуникационное Волокно в РФ (производитель)
- Holograte производитель дифракционных решеток в РФ.
- Швабе производитель дифракционных решеток в РФ (возможно совок).
- RIVoptics Производитель поляризационной оптики в РФ
- Luna High finesse Fabry-Perot Frequency filters.
- Amonics High power fiber lasers and amplifiers
- wdmquest fiber optics, WDM, FBG, lasers
- Meisuoptics fiber array, lens fiber
Nonlinear crystals
- Raicol
- RedOptronics
- Eksmaoptics
- HCPhotonics Periodically polled crystals/waveguides
- Covesion PP LN crystals
- Wisoptic Chinese PPKTP and PPLN crystals
- NanoLN LITHIUM NIOBATE THIN FILM
- CASTECH
- 4lasers
- Labfer PPLN crystals, Russia, Ekaterinburg
Laser Diodes
- BeamQ Cheap laser diode
- aixiz Cheap laser diode, laser pointers
- lasertack High power Laser diode and laser diode optics and hardware
- 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.
- Meshtel Meshtel, laser diodes with price
- Moglabs Moglabs, external cavity laser diode with interference filter.
- Markettechinc Different Lasers
- Величанский + gas cells
- maimanelectronics Laser diode drivers
- [3] Tapered ampilifiers
- Laser diode market overview from hanel photonics
- Sheumann Single mode FP LD with high power (former Axcel Photonics)
- nolatech Russian laser diode and semiconductor amplifier manufacture
- superlumdiodes semiconductor optical amplifiers
- Pure photonics 1.5 um compact tunable lasers.
- Optilab DFB and Fabry-Perot laser diodes, optical modulator, semi-conductor amplifier, EFDAs.
- LD-PD DFB and Fabry-Perot laser diodes, semi-conductor amplifier
- Modular one technology TEC, Laser diode current controllers
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 (New & Used test equipment)
- Valuetronics (New & Used 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
- Windfreaktech - Affordable microwave signal generators
- BE-Electronics - Local Calgary seller
- [4] - Российские производители электроники
- Микран Российские осцилографы и анализаторы спектра
- ТМ Электроникс Российский магазин электронных компонентов
- Milandr Российский производитель электронных чипов
Ceramics
- 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
- 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
- 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
mm-wave Microwave Components
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Vibration Isolation
- EAR Specialty Composites ==> Jan's smelly Blue Stuff = #6309-0026
- Vibra System
- MinusK Vibration isolation platform
Workshops (machine and PCB shops)
- Engineering department Tel: 403-220-6746
- Science workshop
- Rapi Direct Custom build mechanics, based in China
- pcbway one of the cheapest pcb manufacturing
- JLCPCB the same as pcbway, some options may be cheaper
- PCBGOGO same as julpcb
- pcbshopper compare price of PCB manufacturing/assembly
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
- Agiltron high power EDFAs, modulators, MEMS switches, Fiber splicer, woptical
- Civillaser high power EYDFA
- haphit different fiber optical components
- lightcomm different fiber optical components
- Keopsys EDFA and YDFA
- CSrayzer Chinese manufacture of C-band lasers, AOMs and optical components
- whgatech free space and fiber-coupled AOM
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
- Cold Gas System
- Oewaves WGM resonators and WGM-based lasers
- Liquidinstruments ADC/DAC hardware-platforms with advanced software PID, etc.
- Infleqtion Cold atom and trap ion UHV chambers
- [5] s-fifteen Cheap time-digital conversion
- [6] Qutools, time-digital conversion, time-tagger
