Products Lasers Headquarters Glasgow, United Kingdom | Area served Worldwide Founded 2005 Type of business Limited Company | |
Key people Dr. Graeme Malcolm FRSE, Dr. Gareth Maker, Mr. Bill Miller, Dr. John Nicholls, Dr. David Armstrong Founders Graeme Malcolm, Gareth Maker Profiles | ||
Dr graeme malcolm ceo m squared lasers
M Squared Lasers is a company headquartered in Glasgow, Scotland with a subsidiary, M Squared Lasers Inc. based in San Jose, California. It was established in 2005 by Graeme Malcolm and Gareth Maker who had previously been directors of Microlase Limited and Coherent Scotland Limited.
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The company designs and manufactures lasers and photonic instruments for applications in academia, remote sensing, bio-photonics, defence and metrology. According to their entry in the Scottish Optoelectronics Association, the company specialises 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 and Dr. Gareth Maker who had previously held senior roles in Coherent Scotland, a subsidiary of Coherent Inc. Malcolm and Maker founded an opto-electronics company called Microlase in 1992 as a spinout from Strathclyde University in Scotland. Microlase was acquired by Coherent in 2000. In February 2012 M Squared announced that former Oclaro chairman Peter Bordui is to be the company's chairman.