Thorlabs
| Thorlabs GmbH
|
|
|---|---|
 |
|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1989 (USA) |
| Seat | Bergkirchen , Lübeck , Newton, NJ, USA |
| management |
|
| Number of employees | 192 (2017) |
| sales | EUR 127 million (2017) |
| Branch | Photonics |
| Website | www.thorlabs.de |
| Status: 2019 | |
The Thorlabs GmbH developed in hill churches and Lübeck, manufactures and sells components, modules and equipment for the generation, transport and measurement of light, as well as devices for optical coherence tomography and photo acoustic analysis . Over 200 employees work at Thorlabs GmbH.
The Thorlabs Group is an optoelectronics company headquartered in Newton, New Jersey, with production sites in various US states, in Dachau and Lübeck, as well as in Brazil, Canada, China, France, Japan, Sweden and the United Kingdom . The group is one of the world's most important suppliers for photonics laboratories. The Thorlabs Group employs around 1000 people worldwide.
The company was founded in 1989 as Thorlabs Inc. by Alex Cable in a garage with the aim of developing components for optical laboratories. The product range increased continuously through acquisitions and internal growth; now also be semiconductors , optical microscopy systems , laser systems , cameras and systems for optical fiber processing made.
The company says it sells over 20,000 products and usually delivers them the day after the order is placed.
Web links
- Homepage on thorlabs.de
- Thorlabs makes plans for latest Newton properties . New Jersey Herald . November 8, 2014. Accessed January 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=5965355&privcapId=4380523 accessed in January 2019.
- ↑ a b c Annual financial statements of Thorlabs GmbH at www.bundesanzeiger.de as of December 31, 2017; accessed on March 31, 2019.
- ↑ http://www.octnews.org/articles/8123801/thorlabs-releases-new-mems-vcsel-swept-wavelength-/ accessed on January 14, 2019.
- ↑ http://www.octnews.org/articles/8053382/thorlabs-extends-oct-offering-to-include-248-khz-a/ accessed on January 14, 2019.
- ↑ a b Alex Cable: Introducing Thorlabs . Thorlabs catalog. Accessed January 2019.
- ↑ https://www.thorlabs.com/about_us.cfm accessed in January 2019.