Thorlabs
About Thorlabs
Thorlabs
Thorlabs Inc. is an American privately held optical equipment company founded in 1989 by Alex Cable in spare bedroom in Freehold, New Jersey, relocating headquarters to Newton, New Jersey, named after founder’s black Labrador retriever Thor. The company designs and manufactures components, instruments, and systems for photonics industry providing portfolio of over 22,000 stocked items with custom solutions enabled by vertical integration. Thorlabs operates with approximately 2,500 employees at manufacturing and sales offices in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Sweden, Japan, China, and Brazil achieving annual sales of approximately $500 million as of 2018. In 2014, Thorlabs acquired Corning Inc.’s quantum cascade lasers line expanding quantum capabilities. Thorlabs offers quantum technologies including correlated photon-pair sources using spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC), single-photon detectors, and quantum optics educational kits for research and education purposes in quantum computing laboratories globally.
Company Information
- Founded: 1989
- Country: United States
- Website: https://www.thorlabs.com
- Categories: quantum photonics, hardware
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