Avo Photonics
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{{Infobox company
| name = Avo Photonics, Inc.
| logo = Avo Photonics, Inc. Logo.jpg
| industry = Photonics
| type = Contract manufacturing
| foundation = 2003
| founder = Joseph L. Dallas, Ph.D.
| num_employees = 400
| key_people = {{unbulleted list
| Joseph L. Dallas (President)
| Tom Haslett (Chief Technology Officer)
| Jeff Perkins (Chief Operating Officer)
| Kimberly Wheeler (Chief Financial Officer)
}}
| location_city = Horsham, PA
| website =
}}
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.Optical Key Hole. "Interview with Dr. Jeff Perkins." [https://archive.today/20120912010247/http://www.opticalkeyhole.com/interviews/avophotonics.asp Interview]. 3 January 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
The company headquarters is located in Horsham, PA, a suburb of Philadelphia, and consists of a {{convert|41,000|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} manufacturing facility that features {{convert|16,000|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} of clean room space.
Additional design verification is performed at Avo's satellite campus in Toronto, Ontario,Invest in Canada Bureau. “Avo Photonics delivers unique design-build services from Canada.” [https://archive.today/20120712092412/http://investincanada.gc.ca/eng/publications/avophotonics.aspx Invest in Canada]. Spring 2005. Retrieved 15 May 2012. and the company has European distributorship in Germany, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Norway.AMS Technologies. "Avo Photonics." [http://www.amstechnologies.com/products/supplierspartners/supplierdetails/avo-photonics/]. Retrieved 15 May 2012.Bloomberg Businessweek. Company Overview. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110224035923/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=28513927] Retrieved 3 May 2012.
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."[http://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2005/ip_8.html 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."Avo Photonics Acquired by Halma." [http://avophotonics.com/_media/uploads/files/news/Avo%20Photonics%20Acquired%20by%20Halma.pdf Halma Press Release 2011] 19 July 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2012.Optics. Org. "Halma picks up Avo Photonics in $9M cash deal." [http://optics.org/news/2/7/12 Optics.org] Retrieved 17 April 2012.
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[http://avophotonics.com/services/production/ Avo Photonics Production] Retrieved 17 April 2012. and ISO 13485:2003-certified.{{Cite web|url=http://avophotonics.com/_media/uploads/files/AVO03-13%20ISO13485.pdf|title=Avo Photonics Awarded ISO 13485:2003 Certification|last=Dietrich}} 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.[http://avophotonics.com/services/production/manufacturing-capabilities/ Avo Photonics Manufacturing Capabilities] Retrieved 17 April 2012.