Avo Photonics, Inc. is a service corporation that designs, develops, and manufactures private-label
opto-electronic products for the medical, industrial, defense, aerospace, and communication markets.
The company headquarters is located in
Horsham, PA
Horsham is a home rule municipality in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 14,842 at the 2010 census. Horsham is located entirely within Horsham Township, and it is home to the Horsham Air Guard Station at the form ...
, a suburb of Philadelphia, and consists of a manufacturing facility that features of clean room space.
Additional design verification is performed at Avo's satellite campus in Toronto, Ontario, and the company has European distributorship in Germany, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Norway.
History
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.
[NASA Spinoff. "The Space Laser Business Model]
NASA's relationship with Avo Photonics
2005. Retrieved 15 May 2012. Avo was acquired by
Halma, p.l.c., in 2011 as part of their global photonics division.
Design and development capability
Avo Photonics' design and development capabilities include optical, mechanical, thermal, and electrical modeling and design integration, as well as prototyping and testing.
Manufacturing capability
Avo Photonics is
ISO 9001:2008-certified and
ISO 13485:2003-certified. Its manufacturing capabilities include die bonding,
laser welding
Laser beam welding (LBW) is a welding technique used to join pieces of metal or thermoplastics through the use of a laser. The beam provides a concentrated heat source, allowing for narrow, deep welds and high welding rates. The process is frequen ...
,
hermetic seal
A hermetic seal is any type of sealing that makes a given object airtight (preventing the passage of air, oxygen, or other gases). The term originally applied to airtight glass containers, but as technology advanced it applied to a larger categor ...
ing,
wire and ribbon bonding, fiber attach,
vacuum packaging
Vacuum packing is a method of packaging that removes air from the package prior to sealing. This method involves placing items in a plastic film package, removing air from inside and sealing the package. Shrink film is sometimes used to have a tig ...
, and test and
burn-in
Burn-in is the process by which components of a system are exercised before being placed in service (and often, before the system being completely assembled from those components). This testing process will force certain failures to occur under ...
. 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
Lidar (, also LIDAR, or LiDAR; sometimes LADAR) is a method for determining ranges (variable distance) by targeting an object or a surface with a laser and measuring the time for the reflected light to return to the receiver. It can also be ...
systems,
Reagent photometers and space/airborne rangers.
Retrieved 17 April 2012.
References
Photonics companies
Companies based in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
American companies established in 2003
2003 establishments in Pennsylvania