Vendors
Official UW Vendor Site
Shop@UW
MD Number: MD09227
Password: EIT6.8GHz
Shop@UW includes internal UW supplies and also special external vendors. For Shop@UW, you can order directly from the external suppliers without going through purchasing. The approximately two dozen external suppliers include Airgas (compressed air, liquid nitrogen), Dell Computers, and Grainger (tools, hardware supplies).
Frequently Ordered Items
Airgas - liquid nitrogen container - part number: NI230LT22
External Vendors
Electronics
Mini-Circuits
Mini-Circuits is where we get most of our RF circuitry.
Optics and Opto-mechanics
Edmund Optics
Edmund Optics has a pretty good selection of optics, but it can be expensive. We purchase optical filters from Edmund.
Newport
Newport sells a variety of optics and opto-mechanics. Most of our opto-mechanics are from Newport. Newport includes the following brands: ILX Lightwave, New Focus, Ophir, Oriel, Richardson, and Spectra-Physics.
Thorlabs
Thorlabs has a wide variety of optics and opto-mechanics. Most are reasonably priced. Nick is probably going to marry their website because he loves it so much.