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
The Photonics Community is Learning Here!
Explore this resource with the
RP Photonics Encyclopedia tour!
- 1137 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 several million page views per year!
RP Photonics Buyer's Guide
The Best Place for Finding Photonics Suppliers and Advertising Photonics Products
- 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
- virtual exhibition
- 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
Find out about highly efficient lead generation for photonics suppliers with our Advertising Package!
RP Photonics Software
Advanced simulation & design software
Simulate your devices to fully understand and efficienctly optimize their operation:
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Technical Consulting
Reliable Competence
Product design, problem solving, calculations and simulations, independent expertise and staff training on
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from a highly reputed expert: author of the RP Photonics Encyclopedia, of other books and over 100 scientific journal papers.










