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Buying Optical Breadboards

Top-level product category: icon various devices

Related product categories: optical tables, optical mounts, opto-mechanics

Optical breadboards are used for temporary optical setups, providing high flexibility for mounting components. They allow for easy adjustments and relocation of entire setups into different devices.

Making Good Purchase Decisions

As the most professional photonics purchasing portal, RP Photonics helps you to not only to find all relevant suppliers (not limited to our advertisers), but also to make good purchasing decisions.

NEW: Structured Decision Process

Purchasing involves a lot of responsibility. We recommend that you apply best practice by using the following structured process: Go through the following expandable sections, complete the form and finally come to a purchase decision. You can then print that to a PDF for documenting the process.

Our article on best practices for purchasing and another one explaining this tool give you valuable insights.

1. Understand the technical background

It is important to sufficiently understand the technology before buying.

Use the comprehensive learning resources of RP Photonics:

encyclopedia article optical breadboards

If you need personal help, contact RP Photonics to get technical consultancy.

2. Define your requirements

It is essential to fully understand and clearly define your requirements before you buy.

We recommend that you develop a list of clear specifications according to your specific needs, against which you can later check the suitability of found product offers:

To help you, we have already listed some aspects we recommend you consider when buying optical breadboards. Of course, there may be other aspects that are relevant to your specific case.

This list is for your own preparation, and can later (possibly in modified form) be used for quotation requests to suppliers.

Otherwise, you will need to talk to your technical colleagues.

If you cannot sufficiently clarify your requirements, you may want to get technical consultancy from RP Photonics.

You find these buttons in the supplier list below or under "3. Find suitable suppliers".

3. Find suitable suppliers

We suggest three steps:

  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for optical breadboards. Use the checkboxes to mark possibly suitable suppliers.
  • The selected suppliers will appear below this list, along with your list of specifications. You can then indicate which specifications they meet according to your research. (You should finalize your specifications before doing this.)
  • Based on the results, you can finally choose a supplier that is hopefully a good enough fit.

Selected suppliers:

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Decision

The most suitable supplier you found:

Comments, e.g. reasons for your choice, or things which still need to be checked:

Suppliers for Optical Breadboards

20 suppliers for optical breadboards are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 2 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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The Future Depends on Optics

Edmund Optics
101 East Gloucester Pike
Barrington, NJ 08007
United States
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See us at OPIE 25 in Pacifico Yokohama, Japan, April 23–25 (booth F-32), CLEO 2025 in Long Beach (CA), USA, May 4–9 (booth 317), Automate 25 in Detroit (MI), USA, May 12–15 (booth 4400), SPS Italia in Parma, Italy, May 13–15 (hall 5, booth 055), LASER World of Photonics 2025 in Munich, June 24–27 (booth B1.416) and CLEO 2025 in Long Beach (CA), USA, May 4–9 (booth 317)!

optical breadboards

Edmund Optics offers a range of optical tables and breadboards. Both imperial and metric versions are available in a range of dimensions.

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Excellence in Lasers, Optics, and Photonic Systems

Advanced Photonic Sciences
26741 State Route 267
Friendsville, PA 18818
United States
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optical breadboards

APS offers CarbonVision’s program of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) optical breadboards in the United States and Canada. CFRP boards provide similar thermal stability compared to Super Invar but at a lower cost and are inherently non-magnetic. Beside low-weight high-strength attributes, CFRP boards exhibit low-resonant frequencies and can be constructed for dynamic and/or vacuum applications.

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Other Suppliers

Base Lab Tool Inc
United States
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Capovani Brothers Inc.
United States
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CarbonVision GmbH
Germany
Ealing Catalog
United States
Holmarc Opto-Mechatronics
India
Lahat Technologies Ltd
Israel
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LIOP-TEC GmbH
Germany
Newport Corporation
United States
Optoprim Germany GmbH
Germany
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Ossila Ltd.
United Kingdom
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OWIS GmbH
Germany
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Pro-Lite Technology Ltd
United Kingdom
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Radiant Dyes Laser & Accessoires GmbH
Germany
Reliable Instruments House
India
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STANDA Ltd.
Lithuania
TMC
United States
Vision Lasertechnik für Forschung und Industrie GmbH
Germany
YIXI Smart Technology Co., Ltd.
China
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