news digest ♦ Lasers
(350 in Sussex County) and manufactures 95% of its product offerings (70% domestically, 25% internationally), which now number over 15,000.
“After many years of planning, I am thrilled to have an additional space that supports Thorlabs’ continued growth and desire to bring products to market quickly,” commented Cable. With the addition of the new building, Thorlabs intends to expand its machine shop at its 40,000-square-foot facility located two miles away from the new site on state Route 206 in Andover Township.
“Currently, the same equipment is shared for prototyping and production,” said Cable. “By expanding our machine shop’s footprint, we will be able to allocate specific resources and equipment to the creation of prototypes. In addition, the expansion will support faster turnarounds on special customer requests for small modifications to our stocked products.”
The new manufacturing, R&D, and administrative facility is built on a 5.6 acre former brownfield that had been vacant and in need of environmental remediation since 1993. The location, in the Newton downtown area, had been earmarked by the town for redevelopment.
The Town of Newton grew up in the 1800’s as a manufacturing and railroad town, and Thorlabs is excited to be leading a major redevelopment effort that will result in a cleaner, more energy efficient, high tech production facility that employs hundreds of individuals within walking distance of the downtown shops and eateries.
Thorlabs, a member of the Photonics community for over 20 years, manufactures equipment for the photonics industry, including optomechanics, optics, laser diodes, tuneable lasers, fibre optics, optical detectors, motion control equipment, and vibration isolation systems. The firm also provides system- level solutions such as our complete OCT, confocal, and multiphoton imaging systems.
QD Laser acquires ISO 9001:2008 certification
The new accreditation will leverage the firm’s ability to provide higher quality lasers which are mainly based on a gallium arsenide platform
QD Laser acquired the international quality management standard on January 25, 2012.
The firm is a provider of highly efficient semiconductor laser solutions for Telecom/ Datacom, consumer electronics, and industrial use. QD Laser provides finely tuned products ranging from wavelengths of 532, 1064 to 1310nm. The company helps its customers create new laser light products in a variety of applications such as LAN/ FTTH, optical interconnection, material processing, sensing and laser projection.
The firm has also developed and marketed high- performance optical semiconductor devices such as quantum-dot lasers.
By running and continuously improving the certificated quality management system, QD Laser says it will provide higher-quality semiconductor laser solutions to its customers.
Opnext AlInGaP laser diode joins the ProPhotonix portfolio
The new aluminium indium gallium phosphide LD provides high power single-mode 660nm output with a built-in photodiode for use by system designers and OEMs
ProPhotonix says the module is the highest power single-mode laser on the market at this wavelength in a package that includes an integrated monitor photodiode.
With continuous wave output power up to 120mW at 660nm, the single mode HL65051DG laser diode is well suited for a range of applications including medical, sensing and LIDAR systems.
Its monitor photodiode allows for a continuous 104
www.compoundsemiconductor.net March 2012
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