Buying Prototype Building and Testing
Developing lasers and other optical devices often requires building and testing prototypes. This process ensures the feasibility and performance of the final products before large-scale manufacturing.
Making Good Purchase Decisions
RP Photonics helps to not only to find all relevant suppliers, but also to make good purchase decisions:
Learning Resources
With its comprehensive resources, RP Photonics helps you to well prepare purchase decisions:
Aspects to Consider Before Buying
Some aspects to consider before buying prototype building and testing: accuracy, functional performance, testing versatility, scalability, integration feasibility.
For responsible purchase decisions, we recommend applying good practices.
Find Suppliers for Prototype Building and Testing
16 suppliers for prototype building and testing are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 2 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.
| Suppliers with Advertising Package presenting their product descriptions | |
|---|---|
 Your Custom Optics Expert Shanghai Optics Inc.425 Main St Suite 2E Metuchen, NJ 08840 United States |
Shanghai Optics offers rapid optical prototype solutions. Reducing custom optical product life-cycles and delivering true rapid prototyping is critical to the success of devices, instruments, and platforms that rely on optics and imaging. With new technologies being introduced at such lightning speed, decreasing the time it takes to develop prototypes has become a necessity. The faster customers can prototype, the faster a product can get to market. Depending on the customer’s timeline and sourcing requirements, Shanghai Optics (S.O.) different solutions and resources to quickly create solutions and optimize the speed of prototyping for our customers. |
 1100 US-22 North Plainfield, NJ 07060 United States See us at SPIE Photonics West 2025 in San Francisco, January 25–30 (booth 954)! |
Avantier provides quick optical prototype solutions that reduce product development life-cycles and enable rapid prototyping. This is crucial for devices, instruments, and platforms that rely on optics and imaging, especially with the introduction of new technologies. Faster prototyping leads to faster time-to-market, which is essential for our customers. |
| Other Suppliers | |
|---|---|
| ALL-IN OPTICS Germany | |
| ASE Optics Europe Spain | |
| Castor Optics Inc. Canada | |
| Docter Optics SE Germany | |
| Fibersense & Signals Inc. United States | |
| Fraunhofer-Institut für Zuverlässigkeit und Mikrointegration (IZM) Germany | |
| Greenlight Optics United States | |
| Leister Technologies LLC United States | |
| Newport Corporation United States | |
| Fuzhou Solid Photon Inc China | |
| Southern Photonics Ltd New Zealand | |
| Technologie Manufaktur GmbH & Co. KG Germany | |
| The Photonics Group United States | |
| UK Optical Plastic sLimited United Kingdom | |
