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November 22, 2011
PHOTONIS Introduces xSCELL Digital Scientific Camera

1000 Frames per Second Ideal for High-Speed, Low-Light Imaging Requirements                 Lancaster, PA – PHOTONIS USA, a leading manufacturer of imaging...

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September 28, 2011
AXA Private Equity acquires Photonis from Astorg Partners

AXA Private Equity acquires PHOTONIS from Astorg Partners     Paris , September 7, 2011. AXA Private Equity, the leading European...

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September 23, 2011
PHOTONIS Showcase Night Vision Innovations at DSEi

New Technology Innovations Improve Performance of Image Intensifier Tubes   Roden, NL – PHOTONIS, a market leader in night vision electro-optic technologies, successfully exhibited at the recent Defense &...

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March 28, 2011
PHOTONIS to Create New X-Ray Source for ASTRO-H Telescope

Roden, NL -  PHOTONIS Netherlands, a leading electro-optic component manufacturer, has reached an agreement with the Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON) to create a new type of X-Ray source for the calibration of a new...

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March 9, 2011
PHOTONIS USA Introduces Stripline Microchannel Plates

Sturbridge, MA -  PHOTONIS USA, a leading electro-optic manufacturer, introduces a new series of Stripline Microchannel Plates (MCPs).  Stripline MCPs are capable of capturing sequential images of charged particle events at very high...

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March 2, 2011
PHOTONIS USA Announces Adds 40mm Input Size to its Gen2 UltraFast™ Time-of-Flight Detector Line

Sturbridge, MA -  PHOTONIS USA, a leading electro-optic manufacturer, announced the addition of a 40mm size to its Gen2 UltraFast™ Time-of-Flight Detector product line.  The Gen2 UltraFast™ product line can now support...

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February 28, 2011
PHOTONIS USA Adds Capillary Inlet Tubes to its FieldMaster™ Resistive Glass Line

Sturbridge, MA -  PHOTONIS USA, a leading electro-optic manufacturer, announces a new line of Capillary Inlet Tubes, manufactured with FieldMaster™ resistive glass.  The new inlet tubes are designed to control the speed and...

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January 27, 2011
PHOTONIS USA Nets Prism Award for Photonic Innovation

Sturbridge, MA -  PHOTONIS USA, a leading electro-optic component manufacturer, is pleased to announce that the company has been awarded a Prism Award for Photonics Innovation in the category of Information and Communication. ...

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January 14, 2011
University of Leicester to Bestow Honorary Doctorate of Science on Ray Fairbend of PHOTONIS SAS

Brive, FR -  PHOTONIS SAS, a leading electro-optic component manufacturer, is pleased to announce that long-time employee Ray Fairbend has been selected to receive an Honorary Doctorate in Science from the University of Leicester...

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November 29, 2010
French Minister of Defence visits PHOTONIS

French Minister of Defence visits PHOTONIS

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November 22, 2010
Two Products from PHOTONIS selected as Prism Award Finalists

Sturbridge, MA -  PHOTONIS USA, a leading electro-optic component manufacturer, is pleased to announce that the company has had two of its newly released products chosen as finalists for a Prism Award for Photonics Innovation.  The...

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June 24, 2010
PHOTONIS Hybrid Photo Diodes (HPD) to be on CREAM-VII Flight

Roden, NL – PHOTONIS, a leading electro-optic manufacturer, has announced that they have been selected to provide a key component to the Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass (CREAM) experiment to study cosmic ray origins. PHOTONIS will provide...

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June 22, 2010
PHOTONIS Technologies SAS announces strategic investment in MICROOLED SAS, Grenoble, France

Mérignac, France - June 16 2010 – PHOTONIS Technologies is a multinational high-technology group, with more than 40 years experience in manufacturing, sales and innovation in the field of sensor technology for defense, security,...

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May 10, 2010
PHOTONIS USA Awarded Patent for Microwell Plates

Sturbridge, MA - PHOTONIS USA, a leading electro-optic manufacturer, announced that it has been awarded a patent from the US Patent Office for an etching manufacturing process used to create Glass Microwell Plates. The patent is the thirteenth...

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May 10, 2010
PHOTONIS USA Announces Gen2 UltraFast™ Time-of-Flight Detector

Sturbridge, MA - PHOTONIS USA, a leading electro-optic manufacturer, announced the release of its new Gen2 UltraFast™ Time-of-Flight Detector. The new detector has been designed to reach speeds that are twice as fast as standard...

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March 30, 2010
PHOTONIS USA Announces New Optical Receiver for High Speed Communications

Sturbridge, March 29th 2010  - PHOTONIS USA, a leading electro-optic manufacturer, introduces a new optical receiver that offers a large detection area to optimize sensitivity in optical communication applications.  The new...

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March 29, 2010
PHOTONIS HOLDING SAS announces the founding of DEP imaging GmbH in Switzerland

Mérignac, March 23rd 2010 – PHOTONIS is a multinational high-technology group, with more than 40 years experience in manufacturing, sales and innovation in the field of sensor technology for night vision, industrial and scientific...

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February 23, 2010
PHOTONIS USA Announces TruFlite™ MCP line Optimized for TOF

Sturbridge, MA -  PHOTONIS USA, a leading electro-optic manufacturer, introduces a new Microchannel plate product group, optimized for time-of-flight mass spectrometry measurements.  The new line of products, called TruFlite™, are...

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February 2, 2010
PHOTONIS USA Awarded Patent for MountingPad Microchannel Plates

Sturbridge, MA -  PHOTONIS USA, a leading electro-optic manufacturer, announced that it has been awarded a patent from the US Patent Office for its MountingPad™ Microchannel Plate technology.  The patent was granted for a new...

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December 8, 2009
Pittcon 2010 Accepts Three Abstracts from PHOTONIS USA

Sturbridge, MA -  PHOTONIS USA, a leading electro-optic manufacturer, announced that three separate abstracts submitted by the company have been chosen for presentation at the Pittcon 2010 conference in Orlando in March.  Selected for...

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July 10, 2009
PHOTONIS wins award with Intensified Camera Unit (ICU)

PHOTONIS wins Best Lightweight Portable Technology Award on Soldier Technology 2009 London, July 1 st , 2009 PHOTONIS Night Vision today announced that it has won the award for the Best Lightweight Portable Technology for the...

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April 23, 2009
PHOTONIS obtains AREVA certificate

AREVA, world energy expert, offers its customers technological solutions for highly reliable nuclear power generation and electricity transmission and distribution. AREVA and PHOTONIS have a working relationship that goes back a long...

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April 10, 2009
PHOTONIS USA qualified for ISO 9001:2008

PHOTONIS USA is now compliant with the provisions of the ISO 9001:2008 standard in the design, manufacturing, testing and sales of microchannel plates and detectors for analytical instruments, ion guides, electron sources, fiber optic light...

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March 31, 2009
PHOTONIS France SAS qualified for ISO 14001:2004

PHOTONIS France SAS is now compliant with the provisions of the ISO 14001:2004 standard in the production of detection modules and components for the detection or imaging of low radiation or photon levels as well as of specific glass components...

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February 12, 2009
Dutch Captain decorated with help of Night Vision Technology

It has been announced today that Captain Marco Kroon shall receive the "Willems Orde for Courage, Tact and Fidelity" which is the highest Dutch Military Decoration for his achievements in Uruzgan (Afghanistan). It...

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October 20, 2008
NASA launches IBEX mission to Outer Solar System

GREENBELT, Md. -- NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer mission (IBEX) is successfully launched from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean at 1:47 p.m. EDT, Sunday. IBEX will be the first spacecraft to image and map dynamic interactions...

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September 10, 2008
First beam in the LHC - accelerating science

CERN and PHOTONIS teamed up in the development of a unique HPD (Hybrid Photo Detector) for the LHCb (Large Hadron Collider beauty) experiment. Today, at 10h28 (local time Geneva) the first beam in the Large Hadron Collider was successfully...

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September 1, 2008
Contract of US Government

PHOTONIS Night Vision is proud to announce having been awarded by CECOM a 5 years IDIQ contract of up to 40M$ for the supply of Image Intensifier Tubes to the US government. The contract was awarded together with an initial order of 8.2M$ to be...

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August 7, 2008
CERN announces start-up date for LHC (Large Hadron Collider)

CERN and PHOTONIS developed together a unique HPD (Hybrid Photo Detector) for the LHCb experiment. Today, CERN has announced that the first attempt to circulate a beam in the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) will be made on 10...

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July 24, 2008
ASTORG new major shareholder

Astorg Partners has signed with AXA Private Equity a Sale and Purchase Agreement to acquire the PHOTONIS Group. Astorg Partners will be the new major and reference shareholder of PHOTONIS together with the management Team. Click here  to...

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June 20, 2008
PHOTONIS Night Vision very successful at Eurosatory

Eurosatory was held in Paris from 16-20 June 2008.  The show was a big success with over 52.000 visitors and 117 Official Delegations from 75 countries. At the booth of PHOTONIS Night Vision we were happy to welcome...

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April 3, 2008
Cosmic success at LHCb (with PHOTONIS HPD's)

The LHCb experiment (LHCb = Large Hadron Collider beauty) is one of the experiments of Cern (Switzerland/France). The LHCb experiment will help understanding why we live in a Universe that appears to be composed almost entirely of...

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January 14, 2008
Spacecraft MESSENGER (with MCP's of PHOTONIS) encounters planet Mercury

Today (January 14, 2008), at 2:04 p.m. EST MESSENGER skimmed 200 kilometers (124 miles) above the surface of Mercury in the first of three flybys of the planet. Initial indications from the radio signals indicate the spacecraft is still operating...

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December 17, 2007
External audit for PHOTONIS Netherlands B.V

On december 17, PHOTONIS Netherlands B.V. was audited by MKB Certificatie BV. The audit had a positive result which lead to the renewal of the NEN-EN-ISO 9001: 2000 certificate. The NEN-EN-ISO 9001:2000 certificate assures a constant quality of...

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November 7, 2007
Scientific breakthrough with the help of PHOTONIS products

MALARGÜE, Argentina -- Scientists of the Pierre Auger Collaboration announced today (Nov. 8) that active galactic nuclei are the most likely candidate for the source of the highest-energy cosmic rays that hit Earth. Using the Pierre Auger...

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October 1, 2007
Gert Nützel appointed as CTO

Starting October 1st, Gert Nützel will join PHOTONIS as Chief technical Officer (CTO). In the past, Gert worked within the Delft Instruments Group on several R&D positions, including Director of R&D of DEP in Roden. He spent the...

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July 10, 2007
PHOTONIS Netherlands B.V. acquires Hi-Light Opto Electronics B.V.

PHOTONIS is a global business serving the photo sensor technology needs of world leading clients in the areas of Industry & Science, Medical Imaging and Night Vision. We have over 1200 employees in 6 locations in different time zones of the...

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June 1, 2007
ICU (Intensified Camera Unit) nominated on Soldier Technology 2007

Soldier Technology 2007, the world’s premier soldier modernisation conference, the ICU is nominated in the category “Best Technological Development for Future Soldier System Enhancement”. The ICU (Intensified Camera Unit) the...

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