Spin-Off Companies

K2 Photonics produces revolutionary dual-comb lasers, a type of ultrafast lasers producing two output beams, from nearly the same components as a single laser, with one key difference: each beam runs at nearly identical repetition rates, but with a controllable difference.
 

Menhir Photonics AG is a manufacturer and worldwide supplier of ultrafast lasers (picosecond and femtosecond lasers). Their laser systems are used in numerous applications including synchronization electronics, microwave generation or telecommunication. Menhir Photonics AG strives for industry quality design warranting a high degree of robustness, stability and reliability under both laboratory conditions and real-world applications in industry and harsh environments such as space.

Time-Bandwidth Products AG, located in the Technopark Zurich, offering OEM-style diode-pumped all-solid-state lasers for micromachining and research.

Time-Bandwidth Products AG was acquired by JDSU Ultrafast Lasers AG on 30. Jan. 2014Download (PDF, 448 KB). JDSU split into Lumentum and Viavi Solutions end of 2015. Since 1. Aug. 2015 former Time-Bandwidth Products AG is part of Lumentum Switzerland AG.

Gigatera AG, developed ultrahigh repetition rate lasers for telecom applications.