22-watt Toptica Photonics sodium guide star for ESO's Very Large Telescope

TOPTICA Photonics is a German manufacturer of lasers for quantum technologies, biophotonics and material inspection.[1]

History

The company was initially founded in February 1998 under the name TuiOptics GmbH for selling grating tuned diode lasers, but in 2001 it was renamed to TOPTICA Photonics AG.[2][3] TOPTICA won the contract to provide laser guide stars for the Very Large Telescope in 2010[4] and for the Extremely Large Telescope in 2017.[5] TOPTICA sponsored the joint OSA/DPG Herbert Walther Award and the American Physical Society's 2018 Norman F. Ramsey Prize.[6] Since 2021 Toptica is entitled for research and development incentivation from the state of Germany (BSFZ).

Locations and corporate structure

TOPTICA Photonics AG is a privately held[7] joint-stock company headquartered in Graefelfing near Munich in Germany with more than 490 employees and appr. 130 M€ turnover. Its subsidiary TOPTICA Photonics Inc. maintains the US facilities in New York State,[8][9] whereas the Japanese subsidiary TOPTICA Photonics K.K. is headquartered in Tokyo and the Chinese subsidiaries are located in Beijing and Shanghai.[10][11] The subsidiary TOPTICA Projects GmbH develops laser guide stars.[12][13] In 2023 Azurlight Systems (France) was acquired and added under the name TOPTICA Photonics SAS.

References

  1. ↑ "Toptica: German firm at center of optics world". Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  2. ↑ "TOPTICA Photonics AG in Gräfelfing/Munich, Germany - CCQED". www.ccqed.eu. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  3. ↑ Physics, Institute of. "Supporting laser science". www.iop.org. Archived from the original on 2 October 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  4. ↑ "Page Currently Unavailable | Photonics.com". www.photonics.com.
  5. ↑ "ESO Signs Contract for ELT Laser Sources". www.eso.org. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  6. ↑ "Austrian quantum physicist Peter Zoller wins TOPTICA-sponsored Norman F. Ramsey Prize". www.laserfocusworld.com. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  7. ↑ "Company Profile". 25 April 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  8. ↑ WHAM (3 April 2018). "TOPTICA Photonics expanding in Farmington". Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  9. ↑ "Photonics Company of the Week: TOPTICA". Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  10. ↑ "Worldwide Presence". 11 May 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  11. ↑ BUCHIERE, STEVE. "Ontario County laser manufacturer TOPTICA Photonics to expand". Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  12. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-10-02. Retrieved 2018-09-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  13. ↑ "TOPTICA News". 5 April 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2018.

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