Purchasing advisor for waveguides with supplier directory and AI-based advice; photonic integrated circuits, frequency conversion, glass, crystal materials (original) (raw)

Find all you need for professional sourcing of waveguides: 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.

NEW: Not only hardware can be listed here, but also consulting, software, training on waveguides, etc. – see the "offer types" below.

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

• Find all relevant suppliers (not limited to advertisers).
• Our interactive tool conveniently assists you in defining and applying your application-specific requirements.

Note that purchasing decisions based on just a few randomly picked suppliers and without carefully defined specifications are risky; therefore, we strongly recommend using our data and tool. 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

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 waveguides. 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.

I think that I am sufficiently informed about our requirements.

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

I consider the above list of specifications to be sufficiently complete, clear and accurate.

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

Insert these criteria when creating inquiry mails to suppliers with the buttons "Get quotation".

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 waveguides. 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:

(none so far)

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 Waveguides

20 suppliers for waveguides are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 4 present their product descriptions and images. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

Quality You Can Trust, Expertise You Can See. Hangzhou Shalom Electro-optics Technology Co., Ltd.A635, Boke MansionNo. 9 Xiyuan RoadXihu District, Hangzhou 310030China

⚙ hardware🧩 accessories and parts🧴 consumables🔧 maintenance, repair📏 metrology, calibration, testing💡 consulting🧰 development Periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) crystal is a type of nonlinear optical crystal with distinguished high conversion efficiencies and a wide transparent spectrum of 0.4–5 μm. The 5% MgO doping in LiNbO3 improves the damage threshold of the PPLN to a significant extent and broadens its phase-matching bandwidth. MgO: PPLN crystals exhibit a unique quasi-phase-matching (QPM) phenomenon, which allows the utilization of a higher nonlinear coefficient than in the case of birefringent phase matching. Shalom EO offers standard and off-the-shelf MgO:PPLN crystal and waveguides for SHG of 976 nm to 2100 nm and for various upconversion and downconversion applications including DFG, SFG, OPO, and OPA. Different dimensions, MgO concentrations and AR coatings are available. Product-specific web page

Engineering on Your Wavelength Covesion Ltd.Unit F3, Adanac NorthAdanac DriveNursling, Southampton SO16 0BTUnited KingdomSee us at Photonics West 2026 in San Francisco, Jan. 20–22 (booth 3672)!

⚙ hardware Covesion’s MgO:PPLN waveguide solutions provide high efficiency for SHG and SFG wavelength conversion processes. Ideal for a wide range of pump sources, these solutions offer robust performance from femtosecond to continuous wave applications, ensuring reliable and versatile frequency conversion for both scientific research and industrial applications. We offer a range of free space and fiber coupled solutions for one-off orders to large-volume manufacture with customizable options including: free space or fiber coupled solutions tailored AR coatings 2×1, 2×0, 1×1 or 1×0 fiber input/output configurations resistive or Peltier temperature control integrated or external temperature control custom wavelength coverage power monitoring, control and output filtering compatibility with both CW and pulsed lasers Product-specific web page

Composing with Light Teem Photonics S. A.61 chemin du Vieux Chêne38246 MeylanFrance

⚙ hardware Teem Photonics offers photonic integrated circuits based on its versatile and cost effective IoNext platform. Specifics include high quality waveguides with high or variable confinement for mode diameters from 3 to 20 μm, propagation losses below 0.1 dB/cm, low bending radius (<1 mm), efficient coupling to single-mode fibers (<0.2 dB loss), low polarization-dependent loss and a large optical bandwidth range (400–2100 nm). Product-specific web page

Your trusted value co-creation partner HC Photonics Corp.F4, No. 2, Technology Rd. VHsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu 300TaiwanSee us at Photonics West 2026 in San Francisco, Jan. 20–22 (booth 1536)!

⚙ hardware HCP provides high conversion efficiency PPLN waveguides (periodically poled lithium niobate waveguides) to support full-spectrum applications, including up-conversion (SHG/SFG) and down-conversion (DFG/OPA/OPG/SPDC). These waveguides are particularly suited for quantum application and light squeezing, where SPDC is widely utilized. We have two types of the waveguide — proton-exchanged waveguides (up to 50 mm long) and ridge waveguides for high power handling (~8.5 W at 780 nm output). Tailored waveguides are available by specific demands. In addition to bare crystals (waveguides), the plug-and-play fibered mixers are well-received by the market, too. Product-specific web page

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