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Modulight history
 
 
Nov 2008 Introduction of SparkLight, the turnkey platform for high-power lasers
Nov 2008 Modulight scales up power to 20 W at 1470 nm
Sep 2008 Modulight receives 2008 Frost & Sullivan Award for North American Laser Diode Emerging Company of the Year
Sep 2008 Modulight launches high-power collimated laser modules
Aug 2008 Modulight introduces 1470 nm high-power lasers
Jun 2008 Modulight introduces LumiLase product family
May 2008 Modulight continues supply agreement with Vaisala
May 2008 Modulight signs contract with ESA for development of high-brightness pump laser technology
Mar 2008 Modulight launches RangerLase product family
Nov 2007 Modulight introduces high-power TO-can red lasers
Oct 2007 Modulight introduces high-power 1550 nm TO-can lasers
June 2007 Modulight introduces high-power red lasers diodes
Nov 2006 Modulight receives the 2006 Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Innovation for its innovative approaches and remarkable efforts to develop high- power laser diodes
May 2006 Modulight develops lasers for the upgrade of European satellite navigation mission Galileo
Jan 2006 Modulight announces contract from Technology Development Centre (Tekes) for the development of high-power laser diodes
Oct 2005 Modulight appoints senior advisory board
Oct 2005 Modulight receives ISO14001:2004 certificate
Mar 2005 Tyco Electronics laser unit engages Modulight for design services of laser diode chips
Feb 2005 Modulight USA opens at Bay Area (San Francisco) to accelerate customer service in North America
Jun 2004 The world's first intra-satellite optical communications network lasers supplied by Modulight after going through rigorous product testing including radiation tolerability tests
May 2004 Modulight announces multi year supply agreement to Vaisala and expands to meteorology applications
May 2004 Modulight makes public availability for its fiber pigtailed laser products by announcing two generic products that address CATV, instrumentation, RF-over-fiber and other applications requiring high linearity and stability
Nov 2003 Modulight realigns its strategy around key success factors: Agility, Profitability, Customer focus and Reliability
Oct 2003 Modulight announces first distributed feedback (DFB) laser product
Sep 2003 Modulight makes decision to invest to automation
Jul 2003 Modulight receives ISO14001:1996 environmental certification as a result of systematic work to pay attention to environmentally responsible operating culture
Jun 2003 Modulight manufactures 100,000th laser
Jan 2003 Worlds first uncooled 10 Gb/s low-cost laser diode chip announced
May 2002 Modulight starts building representative/distributor network
Mar 2002 Modulight introduces first product - 1310nm 2.5 Gb/s laser diode chip for communication applications
Feb 2002 Modulight receives ISO9001:2000 certification
Dec 2001 Modulight certifies new manufacturing process
Sep 2001 Modulight moves to a new wholly owned 32,000 sq.ft facility
May 2000 Modulight was founded to capitalize on transmitter laser diode know-how by entrepreneurs, bankers & scientists from Optoelectronics Research Centre of Tampere University of Technology