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Optics

This category is for listing COMPANIES, so please submit company sites, not product sites. The title of your site should reflect your company name, nothing more. Note that this is for companies who sell or resell high technology, high precision, optical equipment, such as precision lenses, mirrors, detection or imaging equipment, and prisms. Laser entertainment (such as light shows) does not belong in this category. It belongs in a business or entertainment category. Companies selling low-tech products which can be purchased at a local general store probably is not appropriate for this category. This would include small He-Ne lasers for use as laser pointers, 3-D glasses, and light bulbs. A business category would be best in that case.

Companies included: Please submit companies that manufacture and design coatings for precision or opthamalic optics.

Title: As your listing''s Title, please submit the exact name of your company including words such as Corp, Inc, Gmbh, LLC, or Ltd, but excluding slogans.

Description: For your Description, include a brief statement of what services or coatings you provide. You may highlight features that differentiate your shop from others; if you specialize in large optics, if you are ISO9001, if you are a large firm with many many coating chambers, if you supply stock items, if you emphasize crystals.

Keywords: Do not overuse keywords listing your target market (since we are basically all after the same customers in the same markets in the same countries). Any thin-film capable company does AR and reflection coatings -- don''t include such things. Only include markets you are specifically set up for. For example, if you happen to have security clearances, then list defense.

Example: An appropriate Description would look like this: "Provides thin film optical coatings. Specializes in coatings for lighting applications. Texas."

Coatings and Thin Films

About this category: This category lists companies that design and create optical coatings. Some companies work with precision optics including mostly reflection and antireflection thin-film coatings. Some are opthamalic which include thin-film antireflection coatings, and also wet-process scratch-resistant coatings.

Companies included: Please submit companies that manufacture and design coatings for precision or opthamalic optics.

Title: As your listing''s Title, please submit the exact name of your company including words such as Corp, Inc, Gmbh, LLC, or Ltd, but excluding slogans.

Example: An appropriate Description would look like this: "Provides thin film optical coatings. Specializes in coatings for lighting applications. Texas."

Engineering Services

Optical Engineering Services includes lens design, illumination system design, optical instrument design and optical testing

Please submit only sites dealing primarily with design and testing services. Sites selling products should be listed under Business : Industrial Goods and Services: Optics

Infrared Optics

Vendors for infrared optical systems and components.

Optical Components

About this category: This category lists companies that design or manufacture precision optical components including lenses, mirrors, beamsplitters, windows, diffraction gratings, and assembled optics such as prisms and beamsplitters.

Companies included: Please submit companies that manufacture and design free-space optics. Companies that produce exclusively fiber optics belong in the Optoelectronics/Fiber category.

Title: As your listing''s Title, please submit the exact name of your company including words such as Corp, Inc, Gmbh, LLC, or Ltd, but excluding slogans.

Description: For your Description, include the general set of optics you supply. A typical optical shop offers lenses, windows, and mirrors. You may highlight features that differentiate your shop from others; if you specialize in a certain type of optic like bonded optics, if you are ISO9001, if you have an extra large inventory of raw material, if you supply stock items, if you emphasize crystals or low-expansion glass. Or, if you''re simply what one expects from a optics shop (which is what a lot of visitors are looking for). Less is more.

Keywords: Do not overuse keywords listing your target market (since we are basically all after the same customers in the same markets in the same countries). Only include markets you are specifically set up for. For example, if you happen to have security clearances, then list defense.

Example: An appropriate Description would look like this: "Manufacturer of custom precision optics including lenses, prisms, mirrors, and filters. Specializing in miniature and micro-optics."

Optical Materials

This category is for COMPANIES, which concentrate on optical materials manufacturing. Should not be confused with optical materials PROCESSING, that is prism, mirror and lens manufacturing.

Category includes materials which directly affect propagating optical beam properties.

Please make sure you product does not fall into Business: Electronics and Electrical: Optoelectronics and Fiber category.