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Industry: | Photonics |
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Service: | Contract manufacturing |
Founded: | 2003 |
Founder: | Joseph L. Dallas, Ph.D. |
Employees: | 35 |
Key People: | Joseph L. Dallas, Ph.D. (President) Tom Haslett, Ph.D. (Chief Technology Officer) David Winick (Vice President of Engineering) Jeff Perkins, Ph.D. (Vice President of Operations) Kimberly Wheeler (Vice President of Finance) |
Headquarters: | Horsham, PA |
Facility: | 20,000 sq.ft. manufacturing facility features 16,000 sq.ft. clean room space |
Website: | www.avophotonics.com |
Avo Photonics, Inc. is a service corporation that designs, develops, and manufactures private-label opto-electronic products and solutions for the medical, industrial, military, aerospace, and communication markets.
The company headquarters is located in Horsham, PA, a suburb of Philadelphia, and is comprised of a 20,000 square foot manufacturing facility that features 16,000 square feet of clean room space.
Additional design verification is performed at Avo’s satellite campus in Toronto, Ontario,[1] and the company has European distributorship in Germany, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Norway.[2]
History
editAvo Photonics was founded in 2003 by a group of engineers and laser physicists led by Dr. Joseph L. Dallas. Avo was acquired by Halma, p.l.c., in 2011 as part of their global photonics division.[3][4]
Design and Development Capability
editAvo Photonics’ design and development capabilities include optical, mechanical, thermal, and electrical modeling and design integration, as well as prototyping and testing.
Manufacturing Capability
editAvo Photonics is ISO 9001:2008-certified,[5] and its manufacturing capabilities include die bonding, laser welding, hermetic sealing, wire and ribbon bonding, fiber attach, vacuum packaging, and test and burn-in. In the past, Avo has manufactured such optical components and systems as diode-pumped solid-state lasers, fiber amplifiers, laser projector sources, high power isolators, tunable lasers, IR imagers, Lidar systems, Reagent photometers and space/airborne rangers.[6]
References
edit- ^ About Avo Photonics Retrieved 17 April 2012.
- ^ Bloomberg Businessweek. Company Overview. [1] Retrieved 3 May 2012.
- ^ "Avo Photonics Acquired by Halma." Halma Press Release 2011 19 July 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
- ^ Optics. Org. "Halma picks up Avo Photonics in $9M cash deal." Optics.org Retrieved 17 April 2012.
- ^ Avo Photonics Production Retrieved 17 April 2012.
- ^ Avo Photonics Manufacturing Capabilities Retrieved 17 April 2012.