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Purchasing Advisor for Optical Tweezers

Find all you need for professionally buying optical tweezers: a comprehensive expert-curated directory of suppliers, scientific and technical background information, and an interactive AI-based tool with guidance for a structured decision process.

Top-level product category: icon various devices

Related product categories: optical traps, laser cooling and trapping systems

Optical tweezers, a special form of optical traps, capture and manipulate tiny objects like bacteria or parts within living cells. They are used in biomedical research, fundamental research, and material science.

Interactive Purchase Decision Tool

Purchasing high-value photonics products is a substantial responsibility. Using a structured decision-making process and high quality supplier data helps a lot:

See also:

How Responsible Purchase Decisions for Expensive Goods Like Lasers Are Done Explanations on this purchasing tool

Go through the process:

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 tweezers

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 purchase.

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 tweezers. 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 tweezers. 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:

4. Document the decision process

It is essential to document your purchasing process, not only its result (chosen supplier):

  • You will find it easier next time.
  • If something goes wrong, you can defend your decision by showing that you properly considered all important aspects. Or you see what needs to be done better next time.

Our interactive tool makes it easy: Fill out the form, and in the end print it to a PDF. Note that the document will show all sections (including those not currently shown on the screen), while omitting some irrelevant details such as the page navigation.

Suppliers for Optical Tweezers

11 suppliers for optical tweezers are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

Suppliers with Advertising Package

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There are no suppliers for optical tweezers with our Advertising Package registered yet. These would have a company logo, a product description (very useful!), and a product image, and also appear in the corresponding Encyclopedia article.

Other Suppliers

Elliot Scientific Ltd.
United Kingdom
EuroLase
Russian Federation
GMP SA, Büro Zürich
Switzerland
Impetux Optics
Spain
Profile page  Website  
Lahat Technologies Ltd
Israel
Profile page  Website  
Lightspeed Technologies Inc.
United States
LUMICKS B.V.
Netherlands
Profile page  Website  
Mountain Photonics GmbH
Germany
Photon Lines Ltd.
United Kingdom
QuantumDesign Europe GmbH
Germany
Tokyo Instruments, Inc.
Japan

If any displayed information is incorrect (e.g., a listed supplier does not offer such products) or legally problematic, please notify RP Photonics so that the problem can be solved.