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The Hubner Group, a leading provider of laser, terahertz and high-frequency technology solutions, has opened a new facility for R&D and manufacturing of next-gen laser technologies. Established at the Hübner headquarters in Kassel, Germany, the facility has been named the Hübner Photonics HUB Kassel, and will support the growth of Hubner’s Photonics division. It will also incorporate the company’s activities in development of new radar technology.
Worldwide, HÜBNER Photonics has 70 employees at four different locations, with laser manufacturing operations in Stockholm and Kassel and with sales offices in San Jose, California and Southampton in the UK. A total of 24 colleagues will initially be working at the new Photonics HUB Kassel. According to Dr. Håkan Karlsson, Head of HÜBNER Photonics, with the opening of the new facility, the Hubner photonics team will now have access to expanded and dedicated facilities in Kassel for development and manufacturing of the C-WAVE product line. They will be able to meet the growing demand for the tunable single-frequency laser sources, in particular for use in Quantum technology research and in production of holographic optical elements for augmented reality applications.
The C-WAVE laser technology was developed in collaboration between HÜBNER and the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques (IPM) in Freiburg and the unique features of this advanced laser source is now gaining more and more attention on the market. According to Thorsten Sprenger, Head of Photonics activities at the Kassel location, with the tunable laser light source C-WAVE, Hubner has accomplished a truly innovative development in the field of laser technology. HÜBNER received the PRISM Award in 2014 for the C-WAVE innovation – the most prestigious international science award for new photonics applications.
Mobile phone manufacturers, major internet high tech companies, providers of advanced analytical equipment and microscopes as well as leading universities – are today making use of HÜBNER Photonics products for applications ranging from holographic films for augmented reality glasses, to biomedical research and clinical diagnosis, to process control in pharma production, to basic research applications such as atom physics and quantum optics.
According to Karlsson, these new technologies enable development of quantum sensors with unprecedented measurement precision, ultra-fast quantum computers and super-secure quantum encryption. Hubner’s laser technology can make a significant contribution to this development and therefore the field of quantum technology represents a significant growth potential for Hubner’s photonics business.
