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Шаблон:Infobox company Avo Photonics, Inc. is a service corporation that designs, develops, and manufactures private-label opto-electronic products for the medical, industrial, defense, aerospace, and communication markets.[1]

The company headquarters is located in Horsham, PA, a suburb of Philadelphia, and consists of a Шаблон:Convert manufacturing facility that features Шаблон:Convert of clean room space.

Additional design verification is performed at Avo's satellite campus in Toronto, Ontario,[2] and the company has European distributorship in Germany, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Norway.[3][4]

History

Avo Photonics was founded in 2003 by a group of engineers and laser physicists led by Dr. Joseph L. Dallas, co-creator of NASA's Space Lidar Technology Center.[5] Avo was acquired by Halma, p.l.c., in 2011 as part of their global photonics division.[6][7]

Design and development capability

Avo Photonics' design and development capabilities include optical, mechanical, thermal, and electrical modeling and design integration, as well as prototyping and testing.

Manufacturing capability

Avo Photonics is ISO 9001:2008-certified[8] and ISO 13485:2003-certified.[9] 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.[5][10]

References

  1. Optical Key Hole. "Interview with Dr. Jeff Perkins." Interview. 3 January 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
  2. Invest in Canada Bureau. “Avo Photonics delivers unique design-build services from Canada.” Invest in Canada. Spring 2005. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
  3. AMS Technologies. "Avo Photonics." [1]. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
  4. Bloomberg Businessweek. Company Overview. [2] Retrieved 3 May 2012.
  5. 5,0 5,1 NASA Spinoff. "The Space Laser Business Model."NASA's relationship with Avo Photonics 2005. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
  6. "Avo Photonics Acquired by Halma." Halma Press Release 2011 19 July 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
  7. Optics. Org. "Halma picks up Avo Photonics in $9M cash deal." Optics.org Retrieved 17 April 2012.
  8. Avo Photonics Production Retrieved 17 April 2012.
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  10. Avo Photonics Manufacturing Capabilities Retrieved 17 April 2012.