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Founded in 1971
as a commercial off-shoot of the renowned Max-Planck-Institute in Göttingen, Germany,
LAMBDA PHYSIK has developed into the market and technology leader in pulsed lasers for
industrial, medical and scientific applications.
Over 5000 LAMBDA PHYSIK laser systems have been installed. Indeed, the company now
dominates the worldwide excimer and pulsed dye laser marketplace with a 70% market share.
This dominance has been achieved by the commitment and dedication of over 200 employees in
our headquarters in Göttingen, and our subsidiaries in the USA and Japan. In 1995, LAMBDA
PHYSIK sales topped $50 million, 80% of which was outside Germany. In 1992, LAMBDA PHYSIK
joined with Jenoptik to found MicroLas which supplies complete optomechanical solutions
for applications such as micromachining and marking.
To support the needs of the broad spectrum of industrial applications, LAMBDA PHYSIK has
developed the widest available line of industrial excimer lasers. Our standard products
range from the "miniature" MINex excimer laser, with output power in the
sub-Watt level, through the 200 Watt, high-power LAMBDA 4000 laser. In addition, highly
specialized industrial lasers are available for many applications. These include the
LAMBDA NovaLine LITHO, which provides extremely narrow linewidth and high repetition rates
(1kHz) for Deep-UV Lithography.
As a result, today more than 1000 LAMBDA PHYSIK excimer lasers are hard at work in
manufacturing plants from Europe through the USA, to Japan and the Pacific Rim. These
lasers are marking SMD chip capacitors, eye glasses, electric tooth brushes, medical
dispensers, and aircraft wiring. They are stripping insulation from fine wires for
computer hard disk heads. They are microdrilling highly integrated multichip modules
(MCMs), flexible printed circuit boards (FPCBs) and medical catheters. They are
micromachining nozzles in ink jet printer heads. They are annealing silicon-coated glass
substrates to enable the next generation of low cost, flat panel displays. They are
cleaning wafers, PCBs, lithography masks, read/write heads of harddisks, embossing
rollers, mirrors, lenses, gratings. They are restoring stone, marble and wood sculptures,
paintings, papers, glasses. They analyse combustion processes in engines. They photodetect
the atmospheric ozone concentration and species that impact its complicated chemistry.
With the successful transfer of these and other applications LAMBDA PHYSIK has proved to
be the number 1 in excimer laser material processing, worldwide.
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