Avo Photonics Expands into Canada with New Facility
HORSHAM, Pa. (February 28, 2007) - Avo Photonics, specialists in optical and RF packaging solutions, has recently expanded its operations into Canada. Due to significant demands for its service offerings, Avo Photonics Canada was created to provide design and prototyping capabilities in Toronto. The subsidiary will support the ongoing opto-electronic design, development, and volume production services present in the company's Pennsylvania home office.
"We are excited to add Avo Photonics Canada to the family. With the vibrant growth in our business, it became necessary to create an additional center to support our existing customers," said Dr. Joseph Dallas, Avo Photonics COO. "The Toronto facility will provide continued outstanding design, modeling, analysis, and characterization services. These offerings expand upon existing capabilities within our U.S. operations and feed directly into the existing production services."
To assure timely and valuable solutions for its customers, Avo Photonics provides a team of engineering and science experts representing the optical, mechanical, electrical, thermal, and materials disciplines. With cross-market skills and specific experience developing products such as high-power optical isolators, light detection and ranging (LIDAR) systems, photometers, telecom lasers, photon-counting detectors, non-linear optic waveguides, and tunable lasers, this team is well poised to efficiently meet the customer at its level of development and assure efficient completion of quality designs and volume production.
"We are pleased to join Avo Photonics and look forward to continuing the company's tradition of excellence," said Dr. Tom Haslett, CTO Avo Photonics Canada. "Our Toronto operations will compliment the ongoing operations in the U.S. and facilitates faster, face-to-face interactions with Canadian and other worldwide customers."
For a complete overview of Avo Photonics' service offerings, visit www.avophotonics.com or call 215-441-0107.
About Avo Photonics
Avo Photonics specializes in photonic design and manufacturing solutions for the communications, military/aerospace, and medical markets. Avo Photonics' mission is to provide support services from design through production for products in all markets. Avo can be found on the Internet at www.avophotonics.com.
