Lasers & Sources

JDSU acquires ultrafast laser maker Time-Bandwidth Products

Jan. 30, 2014

Milpitas, CA--JDSU has acquired Time-Bandwidth Products, a provider of high-powered and ultrafast lasers for the industrial and scientific markets.

Conard Holton

Milpitas, CA--JDSU has acquired Time-Bandwidth Products (Zurich, Switzerland), a provider of high-powered and ultrafast lasers for the industrial and scientific markets. It also acquired most of the assets of Trendium (Boulder, CO), a provider of real-time intelligence software for 4G/LTE mobile network operators, which gives JDSU a broad portfolio of LTE solutions.

"For nearly twenty years, Time-Bandwidth Products has been developing ultrafast lasers that provide industrial-level reliability with the performance required for material-processing applications," said Kurt Weingarten, president and CEO of Time-Bandwidth Products. "Combining our expertise in ultrafast lasers for micromachining with JDSU's expertise at vertical integration and high-volume manufacturing will enable JDSU to bring powerful new laser solutions to the market."

The company was founded in 1994 to commercialize new developments in diode-pumped ultrafast laser systems. It is the only authorized spin-off of the Ultrafast Laser Physics group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH--Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule). Time-Bandwidth Products board member Ursula Keller heads the Ultrafast Laser Physics group.

Related article: Picosecond lasers: Achieving maximum processing speed, written by Time-Bandwidth Products

About the Author

Conard Holton | Editor at Large

Conard Holton has 25 years of science and technology editing and writing experience. He was formerly a staff member and consultant for government agencies such as the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and the International Atomic Energy Agency, and engineering companies such as Bechtel. He joined Laser Focus World in 1997 as senior editor, becoming editor in chief of WDM Solutions, which he founded in 1999. In 2003 he joined Vision Systems Design as editor in chief, while continuing as contributing editor at Laser Focus World. Conard became editor in chief of Laser Focus World in August 2011, a role in which he served through August 2018. He then served as Editor at Large for Laser Focus World and Co-Chair of the Lasers & Photonics Marketplace Seminar from August 2018 through January 2022. He received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, with additional studies at the Colorado School of Mines and Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.