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Thorlabs Inc. is an American privately held optical equipment company founded in 1989 by Alex Cable in a spare bedroom in Freehold, New Jersey, and later headquartered in Newton, New Jersey. The company is named after the founder's black Labrador retriever, Thor. It designs and manufactures components, instruments, and systems for the photonics industry, with a portfolio of over 22,000 stocked items plus custom solutions enabled by vertical integration. Thorlabs operates with approximately 2,500 employees across manufacturing and sales offices in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Sweden, Japan, China, and Brazil, with annual sales of approximately $500 million as of 2018. In 2014, Thorlabs acquired Corning Inc.'s quantum cascade laser line, expanding its quantum capabilities. The company offers quantum technologies that include correlated photon-pair sources using spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC), single-photon detectors, and quantum optics educational kits for research and teaching in quantum computing laboratories worldwide.
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