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M Squared Lasers
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M Squared Lasers is a company headquartered in Glasgow, Scotland with a subsidiary, M Squared Lasers Inc., based in San Jose, California.[1] It was established in 2005 by Graeme Malcolm and Gareth Maker who had previously been directors of Microlase Limited and Coherent Scotland Limited.[2]
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The company designs and manufactures lasers and photonic instruments for applications in academia, remote sensing, biophotonics, defence and metrology.[3] According to their entry in the Scottish Optoelectronics Association, the company specializes technically in diode-pumped solid-state ti-sapphire, mid-infrared and terahertz lasers.[4]
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History
M Squared Lasers was founded in 2005 by Dr. Graham Malcolm FRSE and Dr. Gareth Maker who had previously held senior roles in Coherent Scotland, a subsidiary of Coherent Inc. Malcolm and Maker founded an optoelectronics company called Microlase in 1992 as a spinout from Strathclyde University in Scotland. Microlase was acquired by Coherent in 2000.[5] Malcolm won the Katharine Burr Blodgett Medal and Prize in 2008 in part for the founding of the company.
In February 2012 M Squared announced that former Oclaro chairman Peter Bordui was to be the company's chairman.[6]
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