The Company RP Photonics

RP Photonics is an independent and privately owned company. We strive for excellence and great reliability in the quality of our products and customer service, often taking unconventional and innovative approaches. The founder and executive of RP Photonics is the photonics expert Dr. Rüdiger Paschotta, a widely recognized leader in the field.

The main activities of RP Photonics are:

RP Photonics Encyclopedia

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RP Photonics Encyclopedia tour!

1046 comprehensive encyclopedia articles on photonics, laser technology, fiber optics and general optics: huge amount of authoritative expert content
open access, no registration, perfect privacy for users
connected with the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide (see below)
also offers valuable tutorials and case studies, the Photonics Spotlight (a blog), a glossary of photonics terms and the Photonics Quiz
extremely popular website: typically >200,000 page views per month on the Encyclopedia alone, in total around 3 million page views per year!

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RP Photonics Buyer's Guide

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intimately connected with the RP Photonics Encyclopedia, providing a huge amount of trusted high-quality technical information
best source for reliably finding suitable photonics suppliers, also providing AI-based tool for low-risk purchasing process
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easy to use, convenient and fast, respects your privacy
excellent reputation
huge traffic and excellent Google ranking
very high advertising value based on trusted content, huge user base and excellent marketing expertise

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RP Photonics Software

Advanced simulation & design software:

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Technical Consulting

Product design, problem solving, calculations and simulations, independent expertise and staff training on

Lasers and Amplifiers	Nonlinear Optics	Fiber Optics
Ultrashort Pulses	Fluctuations and Noise	Energy

from a highly reputed expert: author of the RP Photonics Encyclopedia, of other books and over 100 scientific journal papers.

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The Companies

Due to our move from Germany to Switzerland in 02/2022, there are currently two RP Photonics companies:

RP Photonics AG (Switzerland)

This is the active company.

The address: RP Photonics AG, Bannhaldenstr. 38, CH-8500 Frauenfeld (see also: contact information).

Founder and executive: Dr. Rüdiger Paschotta

Company ID: CHE-141.173.265

RP Photonics Consulting GmbH (Germany)

Originally (in 2004), RP Photonics was founded in Zürich, Switzerland. In 2010, RP Photonics moved to Bad Dürrheim, Germany (Waldstr. 17, 78073 Bad Dürrheim), and kept the original name. Since February 2022, RP Photonics is back in Switzerland. It is now an AG (stock corporation), and “consulting” has been removed from the company name, since it is no longer the central business area.