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AMS Extends Design Services with Elforlight Acquisition

June 11, 2017 by Jeff Shepard

AMS Technologies has acquired UK photonics company Elforlight. With access to Elforlight's know-how, AMS Technologies is now able to realise turnkey solutions, even for particularly challenging problems in the field of optics.

The acquisition of Elforlight is part of AMS Technologies’ strategy to provide customers with comprehensive design services, including specialized turnkey solutions. Based in Daventry, UK, Elforlight can draw on more than 20 years of experience in laser, beam forming and other optical technologies, especially in the areas of diode pumped solid state (DPSS) lasers and optical parametric oscillators (OPO).

The Elforlight team around founder Keith Oakes has been able to build extensive know-how far beyond technological systems optimization. The company has expertise in application areas like photoacoustic imaging (turning laser pulses into ultrasonic waves by means of absorption) or the MALDI method for mass spectroscopy and is able to transfer problem solving ideas and skills gained in other fields of application.

Complementing the recent opening of its design center for thermal management and electronics in Krakov, Poland, this acquisition strengthens AMS Technologies’ competence in the company’s third key focus area of photonics. Thanks to Elforlight’s expertise AMS Technologies can develop customized turnkey photonics systems that are realized using products of its broad product portfolio.

“With this approach, we are continuing to expand AMS Technologies into a systems integrator with engineering services,” said AMS Technologies’ CEO Jan Meise outlining the company’s strategy. “Customers come to us with their demands and requirements, and with the extensive experience of our specialists we are able to work on and deliver optimal solutions.”