Laser Operations, manufacturer of the QPC Lasersline of lasers appoints new CEO and Senior Director of Manufacturing.
Laser
Operations, manufacturer of the technology-leading line of high-powered QPC Lasers announced today the appointment of Vittorio
Fossati-Bellani to the position of Chief Executive
Officer.Dr. Fossati-Bellani, who has
served as the Company’s Chief Marketing Officer since the beginning of this
year, will commence his new duties immediately.“We are fortunate to have tapped Vittorio to take the helm of Laser
Operations at this time” said Motti Lichtenstein, Chairman of the Board of both
Laser Operations and its holding company, Laser Holding LLC.“Vittorio’s experience and stature in the
industry will serve us very well as we deal with the opportunities and
challenges in this new era of rapid growth for the Company” added
Lichtenstein.
Dr.
Fossati-Bellani is a veteran of the Laser industry, having spent 27 years at
Coherent, where he held, among others, the positions of President of their
Semiconductor Group and Chief Marketing Officer.Since leaving Coherent in 2006, he has been
in various executive positions at DILAS and Pyrophotonics, as well as managing
his own consulting business in the Laser and Photonics field.“I am excited to expand my responsibilities
at Laser Operations and help guide them during this exciting period” said Dr.
Fossati-Bellani.“Laser Operations’
unique product offerings have become the standard of excellence for high
brightness and narrow linewidth GaAs and InP semiconductor lasers and I am glad
to be a part of this excellent team.”
Laser
Operations also announced today that Robert Miller has joined the Company as
Senior Director of Manufacturing, reporting to the CEO.Mr. Miller has significant experience in the
Photonics industry and in other high tech industries, having held similar
positions at Melles-Griot, Advanced Bionics, and Coherent.
"I am confident that
Bob's long and deep experience in laser manufacturing will be key to
Laser Operations' growth in the industrial, medical and defense
markets," said CEO Vittorio Fossati-Bellani. "I have had the
privilege of working with Bob at Coherent and I know that he is a team
player, a problem solver and a motivator."
March 21, 2012
Laser Operations LLC/QPC Lasers announces new distribution agreements. Laser Operations LLC has expanded its sales organization in
a number of countries.
In February it appointed Michael Wang as an in-house
consultant for China,
with the responsibility of advising the company on the business opportunities
in PRC, and also of managing the company’s local distributors.
In March, Laser Operations appointed Soliton, GmbH, as a
new, non-exclusive distributor for Germany,
Austria, Switzerland (German speaking part), and Poland.The Soliton organization will be initially
focused on the company’s non medical market, while current distributor AMS Technologies will continue dealing with Medical
applications.
Also in March, Indeco was appointed as a new non-exclusive
distributor for Japan.Indeco will concentrate on all markets
addressed by the company’s products and technology.This partnership is Laser Operations’ latest
expansion in the Asia Pacific market. Products are already distributed in Singapore, Taiwan,
Korea and China.
March 11, 2011
Laser
Operations LLC, manufacturer of the QPC Lasers product line, announced
today the release
of high power fiber-coupled modules at 1908 nm with power up to 40W CW
and
on-chip Brightlock® wavelength stabilization for
industrial, medical and defense applications.
“Our
team has
overcome two major limitations of conventional
laser diodes in the 1900-2000nm wavelength range,“ commented Laurent
Vaissie, SVP Marketing and Sales for Laser Operations LLC. “Our
Brightlock® modules at 1908nm offer excellent spectral characteristics
and high wall-plug efficiency, targeting a specific laser crystal and
water
peak absorption to enable multiple applications from resonant pumping
of Ho:Yag
and mid-IR generation to direct diode plastic welding and laser
therapeutics”.
Based
on highly reliable InP material and on-chip grating
Brightlock® technology, QPC Lasers’ chips at
1908 nm reach 25% peak efficiency at room temperature with less than 2
nm
linewidth and low wavelength sensitivity to temperature
(0.2nm/ºC).
The
high power diode lasers are available in fiber-coupled modules, with
options
including integrated aiming beam, fiber sensors, and photodiode
options. Alternatively, they can be integrated into SUltra™,
QPC Lasers’ recently released compact turn-key solution. Various
micro-channel
cooled stack configurations are also available upon request for high
power
pumping applications.
February 11, 2011
Laser Operations LLC,
manufacturer of the industry-leading QPC Lasers product line, has
successfully achieved the International Organization for
Standardization's (ISO) 9001:2008 certification. ISO is the world’s
leading developer of International Standards for quality and continual
improvement.
By completing
this certification process, Laser Operations LLC demonstrated its
commitment to uncompromised Quality standards and a Quality Management
System (QMS) which meets the rigorous requirements of world-class
manufacturing and global customer support for its OEM customers.
Additionally,
the company has recently expanded its high volume production facility
by adding 4000 sq. ft. of Class 10,000 clean room space to its existing
building in Sylmar, CA and implemented a comprehensive materials
requirements planning system to meet growing demand for its high power
laser products.
January 3, 2011
Laser
Operations LLC introduces SUltra™, a complete OEM turnkey
solution for plastic
welding and laser soldering, heat-treating, medical laser therapy,
forensics and direct illumination. The system, based on QPC Lasers’
line of Brightlase® and Brightlock® fiber-coupled modules, is available
at multiple wavelengths including 532nm, 980nm, 1064nm, 1470nm, and
1920nm with optical power up to 50W CW or pulsed. The compact OEM
solution (15 cm x 16.2cm x 45 cm / 0.4 cubic feet) comprises the laser,
visible aiming beam, power supply, thermal management system and
controller electronics in a single air-cooled package powered by 100 to
240 VAC. Laser output is delivered via an optical fiber with core size
ranging from 50µm to 800µm and controlled through an RS-232 interface
or a user friendly GUI for fast and easy integration.
January
27, 2010
Laser
Operations’ Brightlock
Ultra-G wins prestigious Prism award for most innovative laser
product of the year Laser Operations LLC, manufacturer of the QPC
Lasers product line, was presented with the 2009 Prism award for its
Ultra-G™ lasers, a family of powerful and ultra-compact green 532
nm
lasers based on its proprietary BrightLock® monolithic chip
wavelength
stabilization technology. The Company and its breakthrough products,
were selected by an independent panel of industry experts and
highlighted during a gala ceremony held during Photonics West in San
Francisco on January 27th. In honor of the 50th anniversary of the
birth of the laser, the Laser Prism Award was presented by Kathleen
Maiman, widow of Ted Maiman, whose husband demonstrated the first
working laser in 1960.
“The
Ultra-G sets the new benchmark for
performance and size of visible lasers and has already generated an
unprecedented level of interest from customers across multiple
disciplines” said Laurent Vaissie, V.P. of Marketing and Sales
for the
company. “On the historic 50th anniversary of the invention of
the
laser, it is with great pride that we see our relentless efforts to
innovate recognized and rewarded by the laser community with this
prestigious award” he added.
“The
Ultra-G incorporates unique technology
innovations both in solid-state laser and monolithic pump diode
wavelength stabilization,” said Dr. Jeffrey Ungar, CTO and
Founder of
the Company. “As has been the case for many of our products, this
achievement would not have been possible without our unique
technological capabilities in both areas, and we are very pleased that
SPIE and Laurin Publishing singled us out from a field of strong
candidates,” added Ungar.
January
24, 2010 Laser
Operations LLC,
manufacturer of the
industry leading
QPC Lasers
product
line, announced new power and brightness records for lasers operating
at
“eyesafe” wavelengths between 1410 nm and 1550 nm. The
company shipped the
world’s first fully collimated 10 kW CW wavelength-stabilized
Brightlock® stack array and
announced significant
brightness and efficiency improvements across the Ultra®laser module product line,
including
fiber-coupled modules producing 125W CW at 1470nm. These new
performance levels
meets the needs of numerous medical, military, and material processing
applications, which previously required solid-state lasers, to be met
with low
cost, efficient and compact diode sources.
Laurent
Vaissie, VP Sales
and Marketing commented “Laser
Operations is proud to have leveraged its unique vertically integrated
design
and manufacturing capabilities to advance the state of the art of long
wavelength semiconductor lasers, further cementing our position as the
leading
provider of “eye-safe” laser solutions. With our InP laser
chips now achieving
45% wall-plug efficiency, OEM customers enjoy even higher brightness
and lower
power consumption from our modules at critical wavelengths such as
1470nm and
1550nm.”
Jeff
Ungar,
CTO and founder of the company, agreed: “The significance of
these milestones
goes well beyond the immediate performance achievements.The underlying
technologies that power these
achievements have momentum behind them, and we expect considerable
continued
improvements in the months to come.These
technological achievements significantly advance the performance of
eye-safe lasers
and point the way to 10-100 kW class eye-safe lasers for military and
industrial applications.
Laser
Operations will present its upgraded “eye-safe” laser
product line at Photonics
West in
San
Francisco
from January 25th to 18th at Booth #309.
September 7,
2009 Laser
Operations LLC, manufacturer of the QPC Lasers product
line, announced today the release of the Ultra-G™ green laser
platform, a new
visible laser product family based on its proprietary
BrightLock® monolithic
chip wavelength stabilization technology.
Designed
for medical applications, the BrightLock® Ultra-G™
MEDICA package features a compact, user-friendly and cost-effective
fiber-coupled source delivering greater than 3W CW at 532 nm in a
narrow core
detachable delivery fiber combined with smart medical features such as
low
power aiming beam, fiber detector and removable blast shield for
applications
in dermatology and ophthalmology.
The
BrightLock® Ultra-G™ is also available as an energy
efficient, compact and ruggedized package delivering a collimated beam
of up to
6W CW of visible green light at 532 nm, which is ideally suited for
applications including long range non-lethal visual disruption
applications in
defense and law enforcement.Laser
display manufacturers developing digital cinema and front projectors
can also
leverage the Ultra-G™’s BrightLock®
monolithic stabilization technology for
stable and passively cooled operation over a wide temperature range.
June
1, 2009
On June 1, 2009, Laser Operations LLC acquired all the assets of
Quintessence Photonics Corporation, the operating subsidiary of QPC
Lasers, Inc. The new company will leverage its financial stability and
the deep business and managerial experience of its ownership group to
support the customer base acquired from Quintessence and pursue new
high growth opportunities in Medical, Industrial, Defense and Consumer
Display markets uniquely suited for the market leading technologies and
products acquired from Quintessence.
