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eagleyard Photonics expands high-power laser diode production in Germany

Sept. 19, 2015

eagleyard Photonics doubled laboratory and production capacity at its headquarters in Berlin, Germany.

Growing demand for high-power laser diodes has prompted eagleyard Photonics to expand laboratory and production capacity at its headquarters in Berlin, Germany.

eagleyard Photonics has doubled laboratory and production capacity at its headquarters in Berlin, Germany in response to the constantly growing demand for high-power laser diodes. The new facility is complete and has just started its activity without affecting ongoing operations.

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Jörg Muchametow, CEO and managing director of eagleyard Photonics says, "eagleyard has been a success story since the start in 2002. Today, we are one of the leading manufacturers for high power laser diodes serving customers worldwide."

Located at the historic campus Berlin Adlershof, which eagleyard says is one of the leading Science and Technology Parks in Germany, the newly constructed laboratory will be used especially for transferring new technologies into full production.

"By doubling the size of our production area we are well prepared to fulfill the needs of the huge demand for leading edge technology within the laser industry," Muchametow adds.

eagleyard Photonics has core competence is the development, production, and sale of high-power laser diodes based on gallium arsenide (GaAs). Its portfolio contains laser diodes with wavelengths ranging from 633 to 1120 nm that address applications in aerospace and defense, spectroscopy, medical instrumentation, test & measurement, and material analysis. The Portfolio is split in five product families: single-mode laser diodes; single-frequency laser diodes, multimode laser diodes, tapered amplifiers, and gain chips. eagleyard Photonics began as a spinoff from the Ferdinand-Braun Institut (FBH) in 2002. In 2013, Toptica Photonics acquired the majority ownership of eagleyard Photonics.

SOURCE: eagleyard Photonics; http://www.eagleyard.com/fileadmin/downloads/PressRelease/eyP_PR_expansion.pdf

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Gail has more than 30 years of engineering, marketing, product management, and editorial experience in the photonics and optical communications industry. Before joining the staff at Laser Focus World in 2004, she held many product management and product marketing roles in the fiber-optics industry, most notably at Hughes (El Segundo, CA), GTE Labs (Waltham, MA), Corning (Corning, NY), Photon Kinetics (Beaverton, OR), and Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA). During her marketing career, Gail published articles in WDM Solutions and Sensors magazine and traveled internationally to conduct product and sales training. Gail received her BS degree in physics, with an emphasis in optics, from San Diego State University in San Diego, CA in May 1986.