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News Release from: Jenoptik
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 20 April 2005
Jenoptik Laser acquires 51% of Photonic
Sense
Jenoptik Laser, Optik, Systeme, a Jenoptik subsidiary in the Photonics business division, has acquired 51 percent of the stock in Eisenacher Photonic Sense.
Jenoptik Laser, Optik, Systeme, a Jenoptik subsidiary in the Photonics business division, has acquired 51 percent of the stock in Eisenacher Photonic Sense The company specializes in the manufacture and sale of raw material components comprising high grade optical germanium and silicon (see glossary)
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 18 Nov 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The germanium and silicon crystals are grown by Photonic Sense in crystal growing facilities on the basis of a new and original technology and then further processed using CNC milling, polishing and sawing processes to create plane optics, lenses and mirrors.
Optical components made from germanium and silicon are used primarily in night sight equipment, thermal imaging and monitoring cameras and pyrometrics (contactless temperature measurement), particularly in automobile sensors, medicine and for high performance lasers.
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In addition to companies in the semiconductor and optics industry, Photonic Sense primarily also supplies clients in the military technology market.
Photonic Sense's strategy is developed from the synergy effects created between germanium and silicon and from the vertical or horizontal added value.
The company's product offering includes for example gallium arsenide, calcium fluoride and barium fluoride for the infrared market.
* Investments planned in new crystal growing systems - Photonic Sense was founded in 2003 in Eisenach as a facility for growing optical germanium and silicon.
The company very quickly developed from being a pure trading company for optics and semiconductor materials (with registered offices at that time in Wurzburg) into a globally important provider for high grade optical raw materials.
With around 30 employees the company last year posted sales in the single digit million euro range.
As a majority investment held by Jenoptik Laser, Optik, Systeme , Photonic Sense will in future invest more heavily in other crystal growing facilities.
The medium-sized company will also benefit from being part of the Jenoptik Group, particularly for large and international clients.
* About Jenoptik Laser, Optik, Systeme - Jenoptik Laser, Optik Systeme was founded in 1995 and is a fully-owned subsidiary of the Jenoptik Group.
In the fields of laser technology, optics and sensor systems, the company develops, produces and distributes laser beam sources, optical components, modules and system solutions as well as the technologies used in the precise measurement, imaging, structuring and analysis of a variety of materials.
The company's success is anchored in its use of the latest in technology and its custom-designed applications.
Jenoptik Laser,Optik, Systeme is a company that operates within the Jenoptik Photonics business division.
Sales of the Photonics business division increased from EUR 280m in 2003 to almost EUR 360m in fiscal year 2004; the operating income increased to EUR 34.5m.
The business division employs around 2,600 personnel in the laser, high performance optics, sensor and mechatronics areas.
Jenoptik develops, manufactures and distributes photonic components, modules and system solutions, right through to complete systems, making light available for use as an industrial tool.
* Glossary - Germanium was first identified in 1886 by Clemens Winkler.
It is a very common raw material but only occurs in very small concentration levels.
As a semiconductor it was the leading material in electronics until it was replaced by silicon.
One of its main areas of use today is in infrared optics in the form of windows and lens systems made from poly or monocrystalline germanium as well as optical lenses with infrared transparence, so-called chalcogenide lenses.
These are used in military and civil night sight equipment.
Silicon (often also spelled silicium) was discovered in 1822 by Joens Jakob Berzelius.
After oxygen, silicon is the second most common element in the earth's crust as it is found in a large proportion of minerals.
Elementary silicon is the base material used in particular for microelectronics.
All standard computer chips, memories, transistors etc use ultra-pure silicon as a base material.
In optics it is found in quartz glass which is used in the form of lenses, prisms etc.
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