TOPTICA Photonics is a German manufacturer of lasers for quantum technologies, biophotonics and material inspection.[1]
History
The company was initially founded in February 1998 under the name TuiOptics GmbH for selling grating tuned diode lasers, but in 2001 it was renamed to TOPTICA Photonics AG.[2][3] TOPTICA won the contract to provide laser guide stars for the Very Large Telescope in 2010[4] and for the Extremely Large Telescope in 2017.[5] TOPTICA sponsored the joint OSA/DPG Herbert Walther Award and the American Physical Society's 2018 Norman F. Ramsey Prize.[6] Since 2021 Toptica is entitled for research and development incentivation from the state of Germany (BSFZ).
Locations and corporate structure
TOPTICA Photonics AG is a privately held[7] joint-stock company headquartered in Graefelfing near Munich in Germany with more than 490 employees and appr. 130 M€ turnover. Its subsidiary TOPTICA Photonics Inc. maintains the US facilities in New York State,[8][9] whereas the Japanese subsidiary TOPTICA Photonics K.K. is headquartered in Tokyo and the Chinese subsidiaries are located in Beijing and Shanghai.[10][11] The subsidiary TOPTICA Projects GmbH develops laser guide stars.[12][13] In 2023 Azurlight Systems (France) was acquired and added under the name TOPTICA Photonics SAS.
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