Hamamatsu purchases minority stake in Menlo Systems to grow product offering
Hamamatsu Deutschland (Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany) has purchased a minority stake in Menlo Systems (Martinsried, Germany), while Alex Cable has increased his ownership in the company. Menlo Systems is a developer of optical frequency combs, ultrastable lasers, femtosecond lasers, and terahertz solutions.
Reinhold Guth, managing director of Hamamatsu Deutschland, said, "We are excited about this creating an opportunity to collaborate with Menlo Systems to develop measuring and spectroscopic systems that can be utilized by our OEM customers." Michael Mei, CEO of Menlo Systems, emphasized that "the worldwide reach of Hamamatsu will allow us to bring our Nobel prize inspired technology to a much wider customer base. It is now possible for us to develop optical engines that can serve both our end users and manufacturers of complex systems." Alex Cable said that the addition of Hamamatsu to the Menlo Systems family substantiates his belief that Menlo has the best technology and the right products to serve several growing markets.
Menlo and Hamamatsu believe that this purchase of a minority share will lead to new applications and markets for both companies, since there is almost no overlap in their product lines.
Menlo Systems develops instrumentation for high-precision metrology. The company says it is known for its Nobel Prize winning optical frequency comb technology. Its main product lines are optical frequency combs, time and frequency distribution and terahertz systems, ultrafast and ultrastable lasers, and corresponding control electronics. Besides standard production, Menlo Systems develops and manufactures custom made solutions for laser-based precision measurements.
SOURCE: Menlo Systems; https://www.menlosystems.com/events/news-press-releases/view/2730
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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.