Partners

APE Angewandte Physik Elektronik GmbH was founded in 1992 and employs about 70 people at present. Headquartered in Berlin, APE is a worldwide leading supplier in the field of ultrashort laser pulse diagnostics and tunable wavelength conversion. The company is a hidden champion in the photonics industry: highly specialized, in the ultrashort pulse niche closely connected with users and customers, but for many rather unknown. However, due to its highly specialized focus on nonlinear optics, APE is a sought-after OEM development partner and supplier for laser manufacturers, microscopy companies and other well-known technology giants.

Today, the APE repertoire encompasses a large range of nonlinear optics equipment, from spectrometers to harmonic generators, from pulse compressors to quantum-dot single photon generation sources. Over the years, APE has built up an impressive array of more than 30 products entirely developed and produced within its headquarters in Berlin.

ATL Lasertechnik GmbH was established in 1993 and made a breakthrough in UV laser technology in 1994 by developing the world's first compact, high repetition-rate, short-pulse excimer laser. ATL has refined this revolutionary concept through several product generations and, today, the ATLEX product range leads the world with its patented preionization and discharge technique. ATL continues to develop compact short-pulse excimer lasers, and remains the technology leader in this area.

EdgeWave is a highly innovative provider of high-end laser beam sources. The Aachen- based company was the pioneer in the conception of InnoSlab technology and now leads the international field in this new area of technology. InnoSlab lasers count among today’s most efficient production tools, with a unique combination of high power output, high pulse frequencies, beam quality, scalability in power and energy and tailorable beam profiles. They allow users to improve existing manufacturing processes and extend them to new types of products.

The range of services offered by EdgeWave includes the development, manufacture and marketing of solid-state lasers and peripheral components, together with consulting on the application and integration of such sources. As an internationally oriented company, EdgeWave maintains close ties with a network of experienced laser users and component manufacturers who rely on the latest in advanced technology.

EdgeWave supplies its products to system manufacturers and engineering companies and to end users who need application-specific, tailor-made laser solutions. Users of InnoSlab technology can be found in many branches of industry, including photovoltaic, glass, ceramics, semiconductor, car manufacturing, tool- and die making, cabinet making, micromachining, medical engineering and analytical tools and in scientific society.

Innovative manufacturer of solid-state and fiber lasers, from customized systems to small and medium OEM series. In-house R&D team and more than 27 years of experience ensure professional laser design, customization and manufacturing of reliable and state of the art products.

76 out of the 100 top universities use EKSPLA lasers. Customers like CERN, NASA, ELI, Max Planck Institutes, Cambridge University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Japan University of Science showed trust in Ekspla lasers & systems.

The company is leading in the global market for scientific picosecond lasers.

The ability to tailor the product for specific applications and/or according to specific OEM requirements is one of the main competences of EKSPLA. For customers, who need reliable laser equipment designed for long-term operation and delivered on time, EKSPLA provides optimized and tailored solutions for specific requirements that enables customers’ product or research to be unique.

A broad range of available laser parameters, such as pulse duration, wavelength, average power, pulse energy, repetition rate and others make it easy to select an appropriate laser source from EKSPLA and to tailor it, if needed, for various applications. A wide range of available options, accessories and modifications enable you to tailor lasers to better fit your requirements.

Highly stable and reliable EKSPLA lasers combined with our own subsidiaries in the US, UK and China as well as more than 20 approved representative offices with properly trained laser engineers worldwide, ensure short response time and fast laser service and maintenance which contributes to shorter downtimes and lower life-time ownership costs.

The main products are femtosecond,picosecond and nanosecond lasers,industrial ultrafast lasers,ultrafast fiber lasers,tunable wavelength systems, high intensity laser systems,spectroscopy systems.

EKSMA Optics is a manufacturer and global supplier of precision laser components used in lasers, laser systems, and other photonic instruments. The company serves customers across different laser and photonics applications in industrial, medical, aesthetic, scientific, and defense markets.

EKSMA Optics has been built on the long term of expertise in the laser and optics fields. Starting the first activities in 1983 developing of the opto-mechanical components for scientific laboratories later in 1990 the company has started sales and marketing of optical components dedicated to laser applications, nonlinear and laser media crystals. Along with additional investments into manufacturing capabilities EKSMA Optics currently expanded its product portfolio with electro-optical modulators – Pockels cells and their high voltage drivers, high voltage power supplies, timing generators for precise synchronization of laser components or entire laser systems, pulse picking systems for ultrafast lasers, laser diode drivers.

EKSMA Optics established also a department of lens production, where currently are produced spherical, aspherical, and conical lenses starting from 8 to 150 mm diameter and department of dielectric coatings deposition based on Ion Beam Sputtering technology that is dedicated to laser optics and crystals.

ELAS Ltd. is Lithuanian designer and manufacturer of laser micromachining systems for industrial and scientific applications. Highly customized micromachining workstations incorporate nanosecond, picosecond and femtosecond laser sources in combination with advanced beam steering in order to achieve micrometer scale machining precision and repeatability.

• ELAS Ltd. was established in 2010
• Based in Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe
• Distributors worldwide
• Customers include world famous Universities, Research Centers
• Member of LITEK – Laser & Engineering Technologies Cluster of Lithuania
• Backed by Applied Research Laboratories (FTMC, LTC, VU FF, KTU)
• Participant of the International R&D Project
• Nationaly awarded: “Innovation Award 2011” for the best innovative product of the year in Lithuania
• Nationaly awarded: “Product of the year 2012” awarded by Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists

INNOVAVENT is focused on the development and manufacturing of Laser-Optics-Systems for crystallization, annealing and dopant activation applications, which are integrated by system manufacturers for the display, semiconductor and solar cell industry.

INNOVAVENT GmbH is dedicated to

• development and manufacturing of Laser Optics Systems for scientific and industrial applications,
• feasibility studies for production laser processes in the application laboratories in close cooperation with customers, integrators and partners,
• consulting for integration of laser processes into manufacturing.

Our  focus is on applications of solid state lasers at 266 nm, 343 nm, 355 nm, 515 nm, 532 nm, 808 nm and 1064 nm for thermal processes from cw to the ms and ns range. Most of these applications involve silicon and other semiconductor materials. Activation of dopants for CMOS image sensors and IGBT power devices as well as crystallization of amorphous films for 3-dimensional circuits are the most important ones.

Laser Quantum was formed in the 1990s by three PhD physicists from the University of Manchester, England, Laser Quantum has grown into a company that is globally recognised for the quality, reliability and the scientific advances it brings to the photonics market. Since acquiring Gigaoptics GmbH and Venteon Laser Technology GmbH, Laser Quantum has been able to bring together the principles of robust design and leading ultrafast technology, resulting in unique GHz laser technology and ultra-short, few-cycle pulses and amplification. The company has a passion for the products and services we provide to our customers: We are dedicated to the design and manufacture of innovative laser technologies that provide researchers with the tools they need to advance scientific knowledge and understanding and OEM manufacturers to improve the capability and reliability of their products. The great variation and individuality in specification required by the research community and the repeatability and service required by the industrial customer could be a source of conflict for some companies; however, at Laser Quantum, we have found that these two demands are the driving force behind our company: it is the excitement of product development that drives the future high volume lasers for industry with the quality expected by all users.

LightMachinery is dedicated to producing the world's finest lasers, optical components and spectrometers.

The people at LightMachinery are veterans of the laser and optics world.  Each individual typically brings more than 20 years of experience in the areas of optical design, high power lasers, optical fabrication, laser systems, metrology, thin film coatings and custom machinery fabrication. We have produced components and equipment for customers throughout the world involved in space science, telecommunications, semiconductor, high power lasers, academic research, nondestructive testing, biophotonics, electronics, pharmaceutical manufacturing and materials processing.

The founders of LightMachinery have worked together for almost their entire careers. Many of the people at LightMachinery started out at Lumonics in Kanata, Ontario designing and manufacturing high power CO₂ and excimer laser systems. Another group of our team comes from a company originally known as Interoptics, founded by Jeff Wimperis, one of the founders of LightMachinery. Interoptics was later purchased by Lumonics and renamed WavePrecision.

WavePrecision was a renowned optical components manufacturer that was a key supplier to GSI Lumonics and JDS Uniphase as well as a key contributor to scientific and aerospace projects. In 2009 LightMachinery acquired the pulsed gas laser product lines of GSI Lumonics.

LightMachinery's new facility provides an excellent infrastructure that allows our team to focus on innovative process development. Our in-house designed business management system was acclaimed by our ISO auditors as the "the best system they had ever seen" and became the template for a revolutionary cloud computing system called OfficeBooks.

Luxmux supports the technological needs of our customers by developing industry-leading light sources, emission monitoring systems, and custom photonic solutions.

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Our Mission
To establish lasting relationships with clients by providing reliable products, exceptional customer service, and ongoing support. Everyone at Luxmux is part of our continuous improvement culture.

Our Vision
To illuminate photonic solutions through continuous innovation of our own products and technology.

Quality Policy
At Luxmux, we use only the highest-quality components, manufactured consistently to our stringent specifications. After assembly, we test each system in-house before it is carefully packaged and shipped. We ensure our customers receive well-built and thoroughly inspected products.

Luxmux designs and manufactures all photonic products and solutions with our customers in mind. Our unique designs power existing applications in Photonics and will facilitate the emergence of new applications within.

M Squared are a photonics and quantum technology company on a mission to harness the power of light to change the world. Our award-winning laser platforms were designed to help scientists understand more about the world around them, but we’ve grown to become much more than a scientific laser engineering company.

We’re helping to move novel science from the lab and into the real world and we’re dedicated to advancing the global scientific agenda, so that the next generation inherits new technologies and exciting challenges.

We’ve already established ourselves as one of the UK’s most innovative, disruptive technology businesses - recognised by the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 and Export Track 100 and awarded the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation in 2016 and International Trade in 2017.

Menlo Systems is a leading developer and global supplier of instrumentation for precision metrology on the highest level. The company with headquarters in Martinsried near Munich is known for its Nobel Prize winning optical frequency comb technology. Our main product lines are optical frequency combs, solutions for time and frequency distribution, ultrastable lasers, terahertz systems, and femtosecond lasers. We deliver state-of-the-art products to customers from industry and academia worldwide. To push the limits of the measureable, we work closely with selected customers and develop new solutions for laser-based precision measurements.

Founded in 2000 in Vancouver, Wash., nLIGHT is a leader in the development, design and production of innovative laser technologies and products.

Our high-power semiconductor and fiber lasers are not only changing the way things are made but also changing the things that can be made. Strong vertical integration enables us to rapidly introduce new products for a range of markets including industrial, microfabrication, aerospace and defense.

nLIGHT's semiconductor lasers are the industry's brightest and operate at unique wavelengths and power combinations. Our high-power continuous wave fiber lasers provide significant advantages over legacy fiber lasers for programmability, serviceability and reliability. We engage with customers early in the design cycle and use a platform approach to product development to optimize semiconductor and fiber laser solutions to meet customer requirements.

NUBURU^® is leading the transformation to a world of high-speed, high quality metal machining and processing. NUBURU ground-breaking blue laser technology has defined a new class of high-power, high-performance blue lasers, starting with the standard AO laser and the high-brightness AI laser, which each enable radical gains in speed and quality for metal processing. NUBURU lasers unlock a path to new designs for both conventional laser-metal machining and additive manufacturing (3D printing). Copper welding was the first application to benefit from the unique capabilities of the blue laser, with rapid processing and spatter-free welding that enables many new applications not possible with infrared lasers.

Optec, a laser engineering company

For over 30 years, Optec has specialized in the design and production of turnkey laser micromachining solutions. Our products range from flexible R&D workstations to robust 24/7 Industrial configurations with manual or automated part handling that cover all types of applications. Optec’s team of experts assess each case individually in order to find the best combination of laser wavelength (deep UV to far IR), pulse duration (femtosecond to CW), and beam delivery design for your application.

Optec is known as Athermal experts with unequaled experience in deep-UV excimer laser processing and more recently, picosecond and femtosecond laser processing. The Company is distinguished by its core competencies including in-house optical design capability, and Optec’s proprietary laser processing softwares: ProcessPower and OptecCAD. Our knowledge-base and resources make it possible to push system performance beyond industry standards.

Radiantis was created with the mission to enrich the photonics market with state-of-the-art, robust, and easy-to-use frequency conversion systems. Based in Castelldefels, Barcelona, the company was founded in July 2005 as a spin-off from ICFO-Institut de Ciències Fotóniques and ICREA-Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats.

The company strives at enabling cutting-edge advances at the frontiers of scientific research and technological innovation. Since its inception, Radiantis has developed a wide range of optical parametric oscillators and other frequency conversion systems in various operating time scales from ultrafast femtosecond and picosecond to continuous-wave regime, which has positioned it as the only company in the sector with this capability worldwide.

Radiant Dyes has 35 years of experience in Laser Dyes and Dye Laser development. We are the oldest existing manufacturer of tunable laser and laser accessories.

"Radiant Dyes Laser Acc. GmbH" is a synonym for high quality products: dye lasers.

Our dye laser "NarrowScan" has been developed further over the last years and is now the most advanced product of Radiant Dyes. Similarly Radiant Dyes kept the cw-ring and Titan-Sapphire lasers up to date. For more than 20 years, we also offer successfully, excimer lasers.

Since 2009 we are selling a tunable narrowband Diode Laser with interference-filter stabilization and external cavity, our "NarrowDiode", and now also available with amplifier.

With optomechanical components, such as mirror mounts, lens mounts and posts Radiant Dyes wanted to add a second string to our bow and we have developed them to absolute high-end products.

We also offer a variety of laser accessories such as laser dyes, filters, dye cells, optics, dye circulators, cooling aggregates, thyratrons etc for our own laser systems and also for old Lambda Physics, Coherent, Quantel, Quanta Ray lasers and much more.

Radiant Dyes gladly offers general overhauls of old laser systems (dye lasers and excimer lasers), as well as laser service and training.

We participate in the preparation of experiments and the equipment of laboratories, which is highly appreciated by universities and research centres worldwide.

For 30 years, Radiant Dyes satisfy individual wishes to the point of series manufacturing. We are the first address for Dye Laser, Laser Accessories and Optomechanics.

Vytran offers the industry's most comprehensive portfolio of precision fiber splicing and glass processing equipment for use in R&D and manufacturing settings. Vytran's current product portfolio includes fully integrated workstation and individual tools for every process step from fiber stripping to proof testing. For added efficiency and versatility, all of our products use the same fiber holding blocks, so operators can easily transfer a fiber from one process step to the next without sacrificing time or compromising precise fiber positioning.

LaVision was founded in 1989 in Göttingen, Germany. Since its foundation LaVision is the leading supplier of laser imaging systems in top selling application fields like fluid mechanics (aerodynamics, microfluidics), combustion (automotive, power generation) as well as spray and particle diagnostics (engines, pharma).

Recently this product portfolio was extended adding camera based surface inspection systems and in-cylinder infrared-sensors

Due to their non-intrusive nature our optical instruments offer unique capabilities for multi-parameter flow measurements with high spatial and temporal resolution. Our measurement equipment is used in well known R&D labs all over the world. Largely customer oriented, we offer user-friendly, reliable and high quality products tailored to the needs of our customers.

The LaVision team has extensive professional experience in laser and camera technology, imaging techniques for flow analysis, spectroscopy and digital image processing. LaVision is cooperating with leading research institutions and companies around the globe and is serving the worldwide markets through their subsidiaries or representatives.

Our core technologies are laser materials processing and materials deposition by ink-jet printing and spray. We have a team of highly-experienced scientists and engineers with 3 main business activities:

• Develop manufacturing processes for our clients.
• Build laser machines and materials printers
• Do contract manufacturing of large area electronic devices, such as touch sensors

Our main facility is in Oxford, UK and we have a development and support team in Hong Kong/ShenZhen. M-Solv is part of the Hong Kong-based CN Innovations group which is a broad-based manufacturing organisation, particularly active in the mobile sector.

NKT Photonics is a market leader in high-performance fiber lasers and photonic crystal fibers. They cater to various industries like Medical & Life Science, Industrial, Aerospace & Defense, and Quantum & Nano Technology.

Their products include supercontinuum white light lasers, low-noise fiber lasers, ultrafast lasers, and specialty fibers. NKT Photonics has a certified quality management system in compliance with ISO 9001 and ISO 13485 standards.

They have been a part of the industry for more than 15 years. Their dedication lies in transforming the world through advancements in life sciences, renewable energy, and a deeper comprehension of the universe.