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| Industry: | Photonics |
|---|---|
| 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[edit]
Avo 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[edit]
Avo Photonics’ design and development capabilities include optical, mechanical, thermal, and electrical modeling and design integration, as well as prototyping and testing.
Manufacturing Capability[edit]
Avo 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.