• Working with Blue Sky Research a company involved in the design and manufacture of micro-optics, which change an astigmatic beam into a Guassian, circular and diffraction limited beam.  During this time he was involved in the telecoms market, providing products to companies such as JDSU, Lucent to name but a few.
• The establishment of Ayase, a Japanese company expanding into the American market.  As part of this, Kevin ws instrumental in the initial marketing and selling of Arima Opto Corporations laser diodes into the American market.  During this time he was also heavily involved in the patent research and has trade-marked the name 'APC Laser Diode' on behalf of Arima.
• Working as a consultant for Opnext, Kevin was able to use his market knowledge to develop the product line-up and create long lasting relationships with new customers.
• After this Kevin joined the Surefire R&D team and was tasked in devloping laser light sources (both visible and IR) for crew served weapons.
• During his career Kevin has become well aquainted with ITAR regulations and as such held the responsibility of DSP-5 license preparation and application.

FLC is a private company engaged in development, production and distribution of a wide range of FP, DFB and DBR laser diodes, SM individually addressable and broad area laser diode arrays, VCSELs and Quantum Cascade lasers and incorporating them products - laser diode modules free space and fiber-coupled, diode-pumped SS frequency-doubled lasers and OEM modules. Its products cover 266nm to 12um wavelength and 5mW to 750W power range.

FLC supplies superluminescent diodes in visible and IR from 650nm to 2300nm and mid-IR LEDs in 1,2mm – 4mm range.

To complement the main line of products FLC supplies SMT laser diode drivers and collimator optic, line generator optic, laser diode headers and caps, laser diode die.

For 15 years our company proudly serves laser community in Europe and worldwide through its network of international sales representatives. We are able to support most demanding applications in:

• Military
• Space
• Harsh industrial environment
• Medicine

In 2004 FLC moved into the new larger office located in Friedrichsdorf and expanded its sales team to provide better and faster service to the customers. Now its team disposes of 150m² fully networked office space.

Our experienced engineers will help you to use our products in your application or develop a product on demand. FLC offers custom development of laser diode products and consulting services on the laser diode market.

If you look for hard to get laser diode product (exotic wavelength or custom packaging), FLC is the best address to call.