Suppliers
A collection of manufacturers and suppliers I use or find interesting.
Computers
- @Xi Computer
- Top performance workstations, laptops and servers.
- Colfax
- Workstations, servers, storage and cloud services for engineers and researchers.
- Dell
- All kinds of computer options...
- Raspberry Pi
- The everything computer. Optimised.
Control
- ADwin
- Engineers and scientists all over the world precisely control time dependent processes with ADwin.
- Daqscribe
- High-performance digital data recording and signal conditioning (buffer amps).
- FTDI Chip
- Solutions that ‘bridge technologies’ with feature-rich, robust and simple-to-use product platforms (e.g. long-established USB product line).
- National Instruments
- Automated test and measurement systems for engineers to solve challenges.
- MadgeTech
- We build data loggers.
- Phidgets
- Products for USB Sensing and Control.
- Wavelength Electronics
- Controllers for laser diodes, quantum cascade lasers and thermoelectrics.
Detectors
- Andor
- Scientific cameras, microscopy systems and spectrographs.
- Basler
- Hardware and software vision solutions from a single source.
- Hamamatsu
- Photon is our business.
- PCO
- Digital imaging for scientific and industrial applications.
- Teledyne Photometrics
- High-performance scientific CMOS, CCD and EMCCD cameras.
- The Imaging Source
- Over 30 years experience in machine vision technology.
Electronics
- Allied Electronics (RS)
- Distributor of industrial automation and control products.
- Digi-Key Electronics
- Distribution of electronic components and automation products.
- Mouser
- Distributor of semiconductors and electronic components.
- Newark (Farnell)
- Distributor of technology products, services and solutions for electronic system design, maintenance and repair.
- Prostat
- Premium ESD control related instruments and products.
- Tektronix
- Test and measurement solutions.
Lab and general
- Akro-Mils
- Plastic and metal storage, organization, transport and material handling.
- Brady
- Complete solutions that identify and protect people, products and places.
- Kentek Corporation
- Laser safety eyewear, protective barriers, viewing windows and beam evaluation tools.
- McMaster Carr
- Hardware, tools, raw materials, industrial materials, and maintenance equipment.
- Minitool
- Small tools, micro tools and micro-instruments.
- Minus K
- Leading edge negative-stiffness vibration isolation solutions
- Schaller corporation
- Storage solutions.
Light
- Coherent
- Lasers, sensors, and optics for commercial, industrial, scientific, academic, and government.
- Energetiq
- Ultra-bright laser-driven light source and EUV technologies.
- HÜBNER Photonics
- High performance lasers and terahertz systems.
- Leukos
- Supercontinuum lasers.
- Lumencor
- LEDs, light pipes and lasers.
- MenloSystems
- Optical frequency combs, ultrastable lasers, terahertz systems and femtosecond fiber lasers.
- NKT Photonics
- High-quality optical fiber and laser technology.
- Opto Engine
- Scientific and OEM laser systems.
- Oxxius
- Advanced continuous-wave laser modules.
- Spectra-Physics
- Lasers for precision industrial and scientific research applications.
- Vortran Laser Technology
- Instrumentation grade laser diode modules and OEM optical subsystems.
Microscopy: big companies
- Leica microsystems
- Microscopes and imaging systems.
- Mitutoyo
- High-performance microscopes and profile projectors.
- Nikon
- Microscopes and imaging techniques with integrated system solutions.
- Olympus
- Microscopy systems for all your application needs.
- Zeiss
- Your partner in cutting-edge microscopy.
Microscopy: small companies
- 3i
- Technologies for living cell, live cell, and intravital fluorescence microscopy.
- 89 North
- Bringing optical engineering from science labs to a wide range of industries.
- ASI
- Solutions for microscopes, automation devices and inspection systems.
- Bruker
- Differentiated high value life science research and diagnostics solutions.
- Cairn Research
- Fluorescence microscopy: design to integration.
- Ludl
- Provider of leading edge microscope automation.
- Okolab
- A provider of complete and reliable solutions for live cell microscopy.
- Prior Scientific
- Precision positioning devices, optical systems, automation solutions and components.
- Sutter Instrument
- Micropipettes, amplifiers, microscopes, micromanipulators and imaging products.
Motion
- Dover Motion
- For the most demanding automated microscopy instruments.
- Mad City Labs
- Flexure based piezo nanopositioning systems and multi-axis stages for high speed optical microscopy imaging.
- Märzhäuser
- Positioning systems for microscopy.
- nPoint
- Piezo flexure stages and nanopositioning electronics for OEM, industry, and research.
- PI
- Precision motion systems and piezo technology.
- Piezosystem Jena
- Nano-positioning and metrology solutions for the semiconductor, aerospace, photonics, microscopy and synchrotron communities.
- Schneeberger
- Modern linear technology.
- SmarAct
- High precision and compact nano-positioning solutions.
- Vincent Associates
- Shuttering solutions for your optical system.
- Zaber
- Precision positioning devices that are affordable, integrated and easy to use.
Optics: custom
- Advanced microoptic systems
- Refractive microlenses and lenslet arrays.
- Applied Image
- Manufacture the highest quality custom precision imaged products.
- Asphericon
- Aspheric solutions made by one source.
- Comar
- Custom optics for OEMs.
- Focuslight Technologies
- Develops and manufactures lasers, laser optics, laser modules/assemblies/sub-systems (acquired SUSS MicroOptics).
- IMT
- Design and production of micro-optical and microfluidic components.
- Kreischer Optics
- Custom precision glass optical aspheres, spheres, freeforms and cylinders.
- Mark Optics
- Extremely thin optical substrates.
- Max Levy
- High precision phototooling and patterning.
- Mikrop
- Miniaturisation of high-precision optics starting at 0.3mm diameter.
- Optics technology
- Micro-optical and miniature mechanical design and fabrication.
- Optimax
- Prototype optics in one week.
- Plan Optik
- Manufacturer for customized glass wafers.
- Precision Optical
- Custom prisms, cubes, retroreflectors and flats.
- Shanghai Optics
- Manufacturers of advanced optical components and assemblies.
- Special Optics
- We design, manufacture and assemble high-quality, diffraction-limited optical systems.
- Zund
- Challenging planar optics and coatings of highest quality standards.
- Zygo
- Optical metrology, high precision optical components and complex electro-optical systems.
Optics: dynamic
- Alpao
- Adaptive optics components and systems for use in research and industry.
- Boston Micromachines
- Versatile deformable mirrors, optical modulators and retinal imaging systems.
- Gooch & Housego
- Acousto, electro, fiber and precision optic technologies.
- Maradin
- Laser scanning solutions based on MEMS technology.
- Meadowlark Optics
- Shutters, rotators, waveplates/retarders, spatial light modulators, tunable optical filters, tri-color filters, polarizers and polarimeters.
- Mirrorcle
- Programmable laser solutions based on MEMS mirror technology.
- Novanta Photonics
- Laser and beam delivery solutions.
- Preciseley
- High-quality MEMS design and manufacturing.
- Scanlab
- Experts for laser beam deflection and positioning.
- Scanner MAX
- Exceptional galvanometers and rotary actuators.
- Texas DMD
- Texas instrument digital micromirror devices.
Optics: general
- Chroma
- Precise optical filters using thin-film coating technology.
- Corning Advanced Optics
- Advanced optical materials and systems.
- Delta optical thin film
- High-performance custom optical filter solutions.
- Edmund Optics
- Optics, imaging and photonics technology.
- Exelitas
- Innovative photonic products and components.
- Kyocera
- R+D and manufacturing of precision optical parts and devices, including lasers.
- Newport
- A wide range of photonics technology and products.
- Osela
- Structured light and laser beam shaping solutions.
- Semrock
- Optical filters for the life science industry.
- Schott Optics
- Glass and optical technology and components.
- Standa
- Opto-mechanical products.
- Thorlabs
- Photonics equipment for research, manufacturing, and biomedical applications.
Samples
- Argolight
- Calibration slides designed for widefield, confocal and super-resolution fluorescence microscopes.
- Cargille
- Optical liquids calibrated for refractive indices for microscopy and optics.
- GATTAquant
- Probes for fast, easy and precise quantification of super-resolution microscopy systems.
- PSFcheck
- Calibration slides to quantify imaging performance.
- Ted Pella
- Microscopy products for science and industry.