M Squared Lasers is a company headquartered in
Glasgow, Scotland
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with a subsidiary, M Squared Lasers Inc., based in
San Jose, California
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. It was established in 2005 by Graeme Malcolm and Gareth Maker who had previously been directors of Microlase Limited and Coherent Scotland Limited.
The company designs and manufactures lasers and photonic instruments for applications in academia, remote sensing, biophotonics, defence and metrology. 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.
History
M Squared Lasers was founded in 2005 by Dr. Graham Malcolm
FRSE
Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...
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. Malcolm won the
Katharine Burr Blodgett Medal and Prize
The Katharine Burr Blodgett Medal and Prize is a gold medal awarded annually by the Institute of Physics to "recognise contributions to the organisation or application of physics in an industrial or commercial context." The medal is accompanied b ...
in 2008 in part for the founding of the company.
In February 2012 M Squared announced that former
Oclaro
Oclaro was a United States, US-based business manufacturing and selling optical, optical components. Oclaro was formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. The company is now part of Lumentum (LITE) ...
chairman Peter Bordui was to be the company's chairman.
Optoiq
M Squared Lasers appoints Peter Bordui chairman."
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External links
Official website
Optics manufacturing companies
Manufacturing companies based in Glasgow
Companies based in San Jose, California