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*[http://www.thorlabs.com Thorlabs] | *[http://www.thorlabs.com Thorlabs] | ||
*[http://www.cvilaser.com CVI ] | *[http://www.cvilaser.com CVI ] | ||
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*[http://www.edmundoptics.com/ Edmund optics] | *[http://www.edmundoptics.com/ Edmund optics] | ||
*[http://www.optosigma.com/ Optosigma] - windows | *[http://www.optosigma.com/ Optosigma] - windows | ||
| + | *[http://www.escoproducts.com Esco Products]-unusually fast and inexpensive for custom optics jobs, proven reliable. Also good selection of stock optics, '''especially cheap windows, lenses, etc''' | ||
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*[http://www.reoinc.com/ Research Electro Optics] - High end optics | *[http://www.reoinc.com/ Research Electro Optics] - High end optics | ||
*[http://www.atfilms.com/ Advanced Thin Films] - custom jobs | *[http://www.atfilms.com/ Advanced Thin Films] - custom jobs | ||
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*[http://www.argyleoptics.com/Argyle_Main/argyle_main.html Argyle Optics] - custom stuff might be cheap but standard optics are also custom made = expensive | *[http://www.argyleoptics.com/Argyle_Main/argyle_main.html Argyle Optics] - custom stuff might be cheap but standard optics are also custom made = expensive | ||
*[http://www.vere.com/index.html Vere] Optics lab accessories | *[http://www.vere.com/index.html Vere] Optics lab accessories | ||
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*[http://www.tempotec.com/ Tempotec]- Chinese Company...like Casix or casix affiliate? | *[http://www.tempotec.com/ Tempotec]- Chinese Company...like Casix or casix affiliate? | ||
*[http://www.mightexsystems.com/ Mightex] - CCD cameras | *[http://www.mightexsystems.com/ Mightex] - CCD cameras | ||
Revision as of 20:09, 10 August 2009
Contents
- 1 Buyers guides
- 2 Ablation target preparation and testing
- 3 Radiation equipment
- 4 Chemicals and materials
- 5 Ceramics
- 6 Metals
- 7 Hardware
- 8 Optics
- 9 Laser Diodes
- 10 Electronics
- 11 Vacuum
- 12 Cryogenics
- 13 Quasi-Optical, Microwaves
- 14 mm-wave Microwave Components
- 15 Detectors, PMTs
- 16 Coatings, deposition
- 17 Electroplating
- 18 Diamond-Turned Optics
- 19 Heavy Duty Actuators and Motion Control
- 20 Vibration Isolation
- 21 Waterjet
- 22 Computers and Computer Hardware
Buyers guides
Ablation target preparation and testing
- Applied Test Systems - high-end materials testing and furnaces
- Futek - Load cells and other sensors
- MTI Corporation - relatively inexpensive materials science research supplies (furnaces, temp. controllers, crucibles, gloveboxes, benchtop presses, diamond blade saws, ball mills, nanopowders...); equipment seems generally reliable, but technical support is of little help.
- Renco Corporation - sells glovebox gloves
- Thermo Scientific - general lab supplies, including furnaces
Radiation equipment
- For radiation inspection, non-emergency cleanup, and radiation labels and waste bins, contact Ken Walker at ken_walker@harvard.edu.
- Atlantic Nuclear - radiation safety: shielding, radiation meters, dosimetry
- Ludlum Measurements - exhaustive assortment of survey meters
- Canberra - radiation measurement and safety supplies, including radioisotope samples
Chemicals and materials
- Alfa aesar - chemical supplier
- American Elements -- pretty much the whole periodic table, but don't get too excited - they don't carry a lot of what they list.
- Plasmaterials
- Process Materials
- Refrac systems - Diffusion bonding, hot-pressing
Ceramics
- Cercom Ceramics
- CoorsTek ceramic tubes etc.
- Kyocera - expensive
- Marketech - will do almost anything, but take ~1 week to send quotes
- Orton Ceramics - supplier for hobby or industrial ceramic making, carries pyrometric cones
- Progressive Technology - ceramic tubes etc.
- Stratamet - will do small custom jobs. Talk to Mark Wesson. Tell him Sarah sent you.
- Zircar Zirconia - refractory ceramics in various forms, mainly alumina and zirconia; also some furnaces
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
- Allfoils - "UHV Aluminum Foil"
- Sophisticated alloys
Hardware
- McMaster
- Copper and brass sales - THE copper and brass supplier
- MSC - When McMaster just won't do
- RAM mounts - Mounts for scopes and other instruments.
- Vlier - Screws with Springs inside and more.
- Air Incorporated - 80/20 supplier. Phone: 800-341-2800. Best to have the cut numbers and location codes (from an 80/20 catalog) ready for any anchor fastener counterboring, etc., before you call.
- Amazing Magnets - Permanent magnets
Optics
Essentials
- Thorlabs
- CVI
- New Focus
- Newport - Excellent damage threshold for price
- Alpine Research Optics - Harmonic separators & other optics w/ great specs and low prices. Speak with Mike Ellison.
- Casix - dirt cheap, long lead times?
- conoptics - Isolators
- Edmund optics
- Optosigma - windows
- Esco Products-unusually fast and inexpensive for custom optics jobs, proven reliable. Also good selection of stock optics, especially cheap windows, lenses, etc
Specialty
- Research Electro Optics - High end optics
- Advanced Thin Films - custom jobs
- EO tech - Isolators
- PI action - CCD cameras
- Semrock - Filters + MaxMirror
- Intor - cheap interference filters
- Uniblitz - shutters
- Andover - colored glass filters
- 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
- Rubicon - Sapphire
- NEOS - AOMs
- Intraaction - AOMs
- 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
- Tempotec- Chinese Company...like Casix or casix affiliate?
- Mightex - CCD cameras
- Siskiyou - Unusual optomechanics: top-drive flexures & stages, etc.
- Optical fiber fault checker
- Laser Components - Both custom and stocked cavity mirrors
- Photonic Cleaning Optics cleaning supplies for astronomy, including 'First Contact' goop.
Laser Diodes
- Sacher
- Eagleyard - AR coated laser diodes
- Roither Lasertechnik - Laser diodes, LEDs, Optics,
- Toptica - Lasers, AR Coated Diodes
- Intelite/Meshtel - Non-AR Coated Diodes, Sacher gets some of their diodes here before AR Coating
- Power Technology - Single Mode Diodes, TAs, DFBs and more
- m2K - Tapered Amplifiers and More
- FLT Laser - Huge selection including DFBs from many suppliers in addition to their own line
- Nanoplus - DFBs
- RPMCLasers - Single Mode diodes and more, not AR
- Intenseco - I think only Multimode / Broad Area
- qPhotonics - Single Mode Laser diodes and more. 895-915 nm and 1050-1080 nm diodes are offered with AR coating (for $300-400)
- Opnext - Make a lot of Non-AR coated diodes
- Axcel Photonics - Common NIR Laser Diodes
- Lab351 - Russian Laser Diode Company
Electronics
- 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
- Pasternack - Quality BNC cables
Vacuum
Essentials
- LDS Vacuum Shopper - fast + cheap
- Duniway stockroom Cheap, good selection of used vacuum equipment
- Huntington
- Kurt J. Lesker
- MDC
- A & N Corp - Feedthroughs, flanges etc.
Specialty
- AVS Technical Resources - Useful calculator for conversion factors, pump/gauge ranges
- Varian
- Kimball physics - special (cool) chambers
- Sharon - custom chambers
- Key High
- vacuum generators Best quality UHV all-metal valves.
- Insulator Seal - Feedthroughs
- Apiezon Greases and Waxes
- EVAC Vacuum - Unique! Standard QF/ISO hardware, but made out of glass(!), aluminum, etc.
- accuglass products - Unusually nice selection of feedthroughs, in-vacuum electrical connectors, hardware, etc. Prices better than Lesker.
- MPF Products - Similar to accuglass for electrical feedthroughs, but also has nice selection of viewports
Cryogenics
- Cryodepot
- Cryofab
- Janis
- Lakeshore Cryotronics
- Oxford Instruments
- Cryomech
- Calgon Carbon
- discountcryo
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
- RoentDek - Makes MCPs and readout electronics
- DelMar Photonics - MCP
- Beam Imaging - MCP directly coupled to a camera through a fiberoptic rod.
- Primer on MCPs
Coatings, deposition
- AIMCAL - Assoc. of Metallizers, Coaters & Laminators FAQ
- Spectrum coatings>
- Helia Photonics - Ion-assisted deposition
- Ionedge - Ion-assisted deposition
- 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
- Sophisticated alloys
- Process Materials
- Sputtering target suppliers
- Sputtering Materials Inc
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
- Velmex Low cost, large travel motorized stages
- Aerotech Precision stages
Vibration Isolation
- EAR Specialty Composites ==> Jan's smelly Blue Stuff = #6309-0026
Waterjet
- Barton Mines Garnet abrasive for the waterjet. Details here.
- OMAX Waterjets, and supplies. Details here
