A perfect match
Editorial by Dr. Wilhelm Kaenders, President of TOPTICA Photonics AG
TOPTICA can boast today over a dozen Nobel laureates in Physics, not least of all last year’s winners Serge Haroche (ENS Paris) and Dave Wineland (NIST Boulder, USA). What many do not know: It is Berlin high tech motors that just these customers have been installing in their complex apparatus for years.
Adlershof researchers and entrepreneurs are good customers of many years’ standing. At BESSY, the Max Born Institute and Humboldt- Universität, “cold atoms” are generated, quantum computers realised, and times and lengths defined to so many decimal places that a small laboratory in future will be able to answer questions on the stability of the universe. The transfer to applications is running at full steam and for years has safeguarded a stable annual growth for TOPTICA. Applications include microscopy, optical storage, semiconductor metrology etc.
TOPTICA’s commitment in Berlin is no surprise. Eagleyard Photonics has not only internalised the Adlershof principle, but also adopted its name. Both the location and a strong company join forces. With the Ferdinand- Braun-Institut in 1995 we started on a joint development that led to the disincorporation of eagleyard from the institute. Our tentative steps towards “pan-German” collaboration have culminated in a force to be reckoned with on the sector and jobs interdependent of each other in Berlin and Munich.
Early this year, we were very concerned that we were going to lose this technological jewel. As a consequence, TOPTICA Photonics took over the majority holding of the Berlin laser diode manufacturer eagleyard Photonics GmbH, thereby safeguarding and consolidating its core competence. Now we have arrived, as “New Berliners from South Germany”, as hopeful New Adlershofers. Eagleyard and TOPTICA with their 170 employees will be concentrating on expanding their cooperation. We know and document with our step: Adlershof works.