industry photonics founded 2003 founder joseph l. dallas ph.d. headquarters horsham pa key people joseph l. dallas president tom haslett chief technology officer david winick vice president of engineering jeff perkins vice president of operations kimberly wheeler number of employees 35 website www.avophotonics.com avo photonics inc. is a service corporation that designs develops and manufactures private label opto electronic products and solutions for the medical industrial military aerospace and communication markets . 1 the company headquarters is located in horsham pa a suburb of philadelphia and consists of a 20 000 sq ft 1 900 m2 manufacturing facility that features 16 000 sq ft 1 500 m2 of clean room space . additional design verification is performed at avo s satellite campus in toronto ontario 2 and the company has european distributorship in germany france spain the united kingdom italy and norway . 3 4 contents 1 history 2 design and development capability 3 manufacturing capability 4 references 5 external links history edit avo photonics was founded in 2003 by a group of engineers and laser physicists led by dr. joseph l. dallas co creator of nasa s space lidar technology center . 5 avo was acquired by halma p.l.c. in 2011 as part of their global photonics division . 6 7 design and development capability edit avo photonics design and development capabilities include optical mechanical thermal and electrical modeling and design integration as well as prototyping and testing . manufacturing capability edit avo photonics is iso 9001 2008 certified 8 and its manufacturing capabilities include die bonding laser welding hermetic sealing wire and ribbon bonding fiber attach vacuum packaging and test and burn in . in the past avo has manufactured such optical components and systems as diode pumped solid state lasers fiber amplifiers laser projector sources high power isolators tunable lasers ir imagers lidar systems reagent photometers and space airborne rangers . 5 9 references edit optical key hole . interview with dr. jeff perkins . interview . 3 january 2012 . retrieved 15 may 2012 . invest in canada bureau . avo photonics delivers unique design build services from canada . invest in canada . spring 2005 . retrieved 15 may 2012 . ams technologies . avo photonics . 1 . retrieved 15 may 2012 . bloomberg businessweek . company overview . 2 retrieved 3 may 2012 . a b nasa spinoff . the space laser business model . nasa s relationship with avo photonics 2005 . retrieved 15 may 2012 . avo photonics acquired by halma . halma press release 2011 19 july 2011 . retrieved 17 april 2012 . optics . org . halma picks up avo photonics in 9m cash deal . optics.org retrieved 17 april 2012 . avo photonics production retrieved 17 april 2012 . avo photonics manufacturing capabilities retrieved 17 april 2012 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title avo photonics & oldid 743071875 categories photonics companiescompanies based in montgomery county pennsylvaniaamerican companies established in 20032003 establishments in pennsylvania navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 7 october 2016 at 16 41 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view