List of Firms

By Vadim Makarov

Optic, electrooptic and fiber-optic components category... This is my personal list of manufacturers, which I’ve dealt with during my research life. Sorry I don’t have time to kill dead links or organize it nicely... still, it works for me and my students, could be useful for you as well :).
Speckle pattern from multimode fiber

All-Around Sources

Cahners Electronics Group publishes a bunch of magazines covering all segments of the industry and maintains classified on-line databases of manufacturers. They even offer to complete free subscribtion forms for many of the magazines. I haven't found them worthwhile to read, it's basically a bunch of ads that don't match my need (except EDN).
SUBSC: 12.98[(T&M World), T&M Europe(got from 02-03.99 issue), Fiberoptic Product News(got from 02.99 issue), Laser&Optronics(got an offer to subscribe instead), EDN(ans: may or may not get; got a year later: 11.99 issue)], after that they were also occasionally sending samples of journals I didn't subscribe to

TechSavvy (claim to incorporate data from now defunct Industry.net, which I wrote about: a classified directory, which lefts you guessing URLs of the manufacturer's sites. Requires registration. LOGIN: email address, PWD: TI74XX)

NESA Links Page

It is not always possible to classify a company, especially large one, into just one category. In that case, its name may appear in several parts of the list or in the one that is most relevant to me.

Companies and their sites sometimes change faster than I can follow. If you encounter a broken or misleading link in my list, please consider it as indication of company's attitude towards its customers.

Vadim Makarov
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