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Buying Research and Development Services

Top-level product category: icon services and training

Related product categories: design and development services, patent development, prototype building and testing, testing equipment and services for optics and photonics

External research and development (R&D) services can be invaluable for aspects such as patent development, prototype building, and testing. Utilizing external expertise can accelerate innovation and improve project outcomes.

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 resources of RP Photonics. Unfortunately, we do not have a specific article related to research and development services.

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 research and development services. 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 research and development services. 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 Research and Development Services

20 suppliers for research and development services are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

Suppliers with Advertising Package

presenting their product descriptions

RP Photonics AG
Bannhaldenstr. 38
8500 Frauenfeld
Switzerland
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RP Photonics supports both research institutes and companies with scientific research and product development.

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Other Suppliers

Aerodyne Research, Inc.
United States
Castor Optics Inc.
Canada
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Chronos Photonics LLC
United States
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CodeSScientific - Photonics
Canada
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EXFO Inc.
Canada
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Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications
Germany
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Inkron Oy
Finland
LIDARIS Ltd.
Lithuania
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nanoplus Nanosystems and Technologies GmbH
Germany
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National Laser Company
United States
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Optikexpertisen
Germany
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Ossila Ltd.
United Kingdom
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PRIMES GmbH
Germany
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RIVoptics
Russian Federation
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Solaris Optics S.A.
Poland
Sydor Instruments LLC
United States
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The Photonics Group
United States
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Tribal Existance Productions Worldwide
United States
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VM-TIM GmbH
Germany
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