Equipment

Apre designs and manufactures high performance interferometers, upgrades interferometers, designs and develops OEM interferometer software and supplies custom interferometer systems.

Coherent specializes in the optical fabrication, metrology, and optical coating of reflective and refractive optics; and engages in the design, analysis, fabrication, assembly, alignment, and test of optical components, assemblies, and sub-assemblies.

Rotary Surface Grinders w/Vertical Spindle for plano grinding.

DIOPTIC Inc. was established as a subsidiary of DIOPTIC GmbH in 2023, and offers its customers in the medical, photonics and automotive sectors comprehensive consulting services and system development in the field of optical inspection. Our ARGOS systems for automated surface defect inspection and our CGHs for interferometric shape inspection of optical surfaces are world leaders in their fields. We offer both a standard range of lenses for different spectral ranges and customer-specific lens design and manufacturing.

The SBS Ecoclean Group develops, produces, and markets forward-looking machinery, systems and services for applications involving industrial parts cleaning and degreasing, ultrasonic precision parts cleaning, high-pressure water jet deburring, surface preparation and surface treatment. Its globally leading solutions help companies around the world in conducting efficient and sustainable manufacturing to high quality standards. The client base comes from a broad range of market sectors like the industrial mass and precision manufacturing, the automotive industry with its suppliers, the aircraft & aerospace industry, medical technology and medical device, optics, and high-tech & high purity sector. The Group's success is based on innovation, cutting-edge technology, sustainability, closeness to the customer, diversity, and respect. The Group employs a workforce of around 900 at its 12 sites in nine countries worldwide.

Small, agile 5-axis CNC shop that can address custom prototypes to production quantities of precision metal, plastic, glass, ceramic, fused silica, and fused quartz parts supporting optical fabrication and assemblies. Metal/plastic 5-axis parts can be addressed in weeks and glass/ceramic 3-axis parts need to be scheduled at least a month in advance.

Specializing in manufacturing high precision optical metrology systems to manufacturers or users of precision surface, e.g. hard disks, plano optics, polished valves, and silicon and glass wafers, such as the low coherence OptoFlat for measurement of flatness and transmitted wavefront of polished optical quality surfaces to sub-nanometer precision.

Thin film deposition systems; coatings; ion beam etch systems

Manufacturer of polishing machines for small optics, peripheral equipment and tooling.

Supplier of measurement solutions for surface and wavefront metrology. Core technologies include phase-shifting interferometry, wavefront sensing (Shack-Hartmann type), MTF, optical and mechanical profilometry. Standard and custom instrumentation offered, as well as support of existing metrology, training and measurement services.

Global supplier of ultra-precision diamond turning lathes/flycutters, deterministic micro-grinders/milling machines, and glass press molding machines. Applications include spherical, aspheric, diffractive, conformal and freeform optical components in metals, crystals and glass.

Develops and manufactures precision optical fabrication machines and metrology systems. Designs and builds computer controlled grinding, polishing, and measuring equipment for the precision optics industry.

Designs, develops and manufactures machinery and new process technology for precision optics and ophthalmics. CNC and conventional high-speed generators/polishers (1 to 2000 mm diam), 5-axis processing centers, centering/edging, plano/prism, rod, cylinder, aspheric machines, interferometers, autocollimators and software. In-house tool design and manufacture. Consumables, parts, repairs and maintenance contracts.

Specializes in the design, assembly and characterization of high-precision optical systems using interferometric testing at numerous wavelengths. Applications include semiconductor inspection and processing, military, metrology, telecommunications, biomedical and polymer optics. Offers contract engineering services and development of custom software and optical hardware.

Manufacturer of 4-, 3- and 2-way double-sided lapping and polishing equipment. Lapping carriers available for all models of planetary machines. Specializes in insert carriers, single-sided, specialty carriers for any application. Waxless mount single-side polishing templates.

Precitech designs and manufactures ultra precision machining solutions for freeform diamond turning, milling, and grinding which are used to produce optical lenses, mold inserts, mirrors, and precision mechanical components. Our diamond turning machines produce rotationally symmetric, asymmetric, freeform, and sculpted geometries with form tolerances in the sub-micron range and nanometer surface finishes.

QED Optics provides optical manufacturing services including grinding, polishing, and metrology for a wide variety of mirrors, lenses and windows from 10mm to 1m in diameter. QED Optics specializes in on and off axis aspheres, phase correctors and other high precision components requiring optical engineering support.

Manufacture and design of coatings, electronics, electro optics, optical assemblies, and personal protective equipment for the defense industry.

Satisloh offers machinery and suitable process equipment for the complete production process of any kind of precision optics components. We offer machines for grinding, polishing, centering and thin-film coatings, as well as equipment and concepts for automating the manufacturing process. Our portfolio, completed by suitable software solutions, tools, consumables, and services, enables us to satisfy customer-specific needs in the optical industry.

Scratch and Dig inspection equipment, education, training, and consulting.

Founded in 1986 by Gunter Schneider, the family-owned SCHNEIDER GmbH & Co. KG is one of the world’s leading companies for the development and production of machines and solutions for ophthalmics, precision optics and ultra-precision optics.

SOMOS IWT is a manufacturer of industry-leading equipment & technologies for critical surface preparation and material slicing to high technology industries. Our equipment technologies include: • Double-side lapping & polishing • Single-side lapping & polishing • Diamond wire slicing – Single-wire, multi-wire

Manufacturer of polishing bobs, wheels and pads for flat glass, crystal, precision optics, plastic and metal industries. Pads up to 60-in. diameter for stock removal applications.

Established in 1886, Taylor Hobson is the world leader in surface and form metrology and developed the first Roundness and Surface Finish measuring instruments. We provide contact and non-contact measurement solutions for the most demanding applications on a global basis, with a worldwide infrastructure to support our clients. We are pioneers, continually developing our products to meet the ever-increasing demands of next generation technologies, particularly in Optics, Bearings, Space, Defense, Aerospace, Automotive, Medical and Renewable Energy technologies.

Designer and manufacturer of photonics equipment for research, manufacturing, and biomedical applications. Offerings include optomechanical, motion control, vibration isolation, optical, fiber, light analysis, laser, SLD, optical amplifier, and imaging components and systems.

Lapping and polishing consumables/machinery for glass, plastic, crystals, infrared, semiconductor, electro, laser and fiber optics. Microcellular foam elastomer pads, polishing compounds, ultrapure alumina, colloidal silica, diamond powders/compounds, and water-based, nano-sized, alpha-alumina, diamond slurries; precision optical and synthetic pitch.

Wire Saw Solutions Group LLC is a US based supplier of diamond wire saws, diamond wire and consumables. We offer on-site repair, installation and engineering services for almost all Wire Saws and ID Saws. We have our own diamond wire slicing facility and offer contract slicing services. Our group consists of industry experts who have decades of experience slicing crystalline, ceramic, brittle and exotic materials. We understand the importance of cutting your valuable materials, accurately, efficiently and reliably.

XONOX is a leading manufacturer of optical metrology equipment, tools and software for optics manufacturing and testing. XONOX offers affordable high tech equipment and software with production-oriented functionality. Our ideas, our innovative strength as well as our practical approach represent the basis for the success of our customers.