Private company

Avo Photonics

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Avo Photonics, Inc. is a service corporation that designs, develops, and manufactures private-label opto-electronic products for the medical, industrial, defense, aerospace, and communication markets. The company headquarters is located in Horsham, PA, a suburb of Philadelphia, and consists of a 41,000 sq ft (3,800 m2) manufacturing facility that features 16,000 sq ft (1,500 m2) of clean room space.2 It was founded in 2003.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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Avo Photonics, Inc. is a service corporation that designs, develops, and manufactures private-label opto-electronic products for the medical, industrial, defense, aerospace, and communication markets.2

The story

Avo Photonics was founded in 2003 by a group of engineers and laser physicists led by Dr. Joseph L. Dallas, co-creator of NASA's Space Lidar Technology Center. Avo was acquired by Halma, p.l.c., in 2011 as part of their global photonics division.

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Products and brands

Avo Photonics is ISO 9001:2008-certified and ISO 13485:2003-certified. Its manufacturing capabilities include die bonding, laser welding, hermetic sealing, wire and ribbon bonding, fiber attach, vacuum packaging, and test and burn-in. In the past, Avo has manufactured such optical components and systems as diode-pumped solid-state lasers, fiber amplifiers, laser projector sources, high power isolators, tunable lasers, IR imagers, Lidar systems, Reagent photometers and space/airborne rangers.

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Timeline

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