Vendor List
From DoyleGroup
Contents
- 1 Molecular, material constants
- 2 Free Software
- 3 Laser Resources
- 4 Useful Websites
- 5 Regular suppliers
- 6 Ablation targets, pressing, materials
- 7 Hardware
- 8 Optics
- 9 Laser Diodes
- 10 Electronics
- 11 Ceramics
- 12 Vacuum
- 13 Cryogenics
- 14 Quasi-Optical, Microwaves
- 15 mm-wave Microwave Components
- 16 Detectors, PMTs
- 17 Metals
- 18 Coatings, deposition
- 19 Electroplating
- 20 Diamond-Turned Optics
- 21 Heavy Duty Actuators and Motion Control
- 22 Vibration Isolation
- 23 Visual Fault Checker
Molecular, material constants
- DiRef - recent references on molecular spectroscopy, searchable by atom
- NIST Chemistry Webbook - gives Herzberg constants of diatomic molecules
- RADEN - Database of diatomic molecule energies
- webelements.com - clickable periodic table
- AIP vapor pressure - vapor pressure vs T
- NIST Ceramics Division
- MatWeb - Materials properties, densities, hardness etc.
- Steck Alkali Data - Extensive Data on some Alkali Atoms
- O-ring size chart
- Nist Atomic Spectra Database
Free Software
- PDF 24 - Free software for creating PDFs
- Alibre Design Xpress - 3D CAD package
Laser Resources
Useful Websites
- Luxpop- Optics calculation applets backed by lots of material data
Regular suppliers
Ablation targets, pressing, materials
- 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
- 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.
Optics
- 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
- 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- Talk to Jack Watson and tell him Sarah sent you.
- 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
- Esco Products-unusually fast and inexpensive for custom optics jobs, proven reliable. Also good selection of stock optics
- Tempotec- Chinese Company...like Casix or casix affiliate?
- Mightex - CCD cameras
- Siskiyou - Unusual optomechanics: top-drive flexures & stages, etc.
Laser Diodes
- Sacher - They still make quality diodes...
- Eagleyard - AR coated laser diodes
- Roither Lasertechnik - Laser diodes, LEDs, Optics,
- Toptica - Lasers, AR Coated Diodes
- Intelite - 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 - Truly a huge selection including DFBs from many suppliers in addition to their own line
- GMBH - Offer 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
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.
Vacuum
- 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
- 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...
- 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
- 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
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
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"
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
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
Vibration Isolation
- EAR Specialty Composites ==> Jan's smelly Blue Stuff = #6309-0026
