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Global leader in precision motion control, nanopositioning stages, and automation subsystems. Technologies include hexapods, air bearings, and piezo drives. More than 50 years of experience and 1600 employees. Manufacturing sites in USA, Europe, Asia. PI's customers are leaders in photonics, life sciences, semiconductors, and aerospace.

Designs and manufactures piezo nanopositioning systems and nanoscale precision instruments for metrology, photonics, astronomy, and microscopy. Closed loop nanopositioners with low noise, high stability PicoQ sensors. Products include piezo nanopositioners, single molecule microscopes, high precision micropositioning, AFM, and custom design.

Manufacturer of linear and rotary motion control positioning equipment including manual and motor-driven assemblies; rotary tables, XY tables, elevating tables; motor controls and readouts; in a variety of configurations and sizes with payload capacities to 400 lbs.

Manufacturer of precise closed-loop XY stages, Z drives, piezo stages, and other precision positioning equipment; and light sheet microscopes and custom microscope/optics. Works directly with end users and OEMs to provide stock products and custom solutions. Products are designed for long life under demanding applications.

International manufacturer of precision measurement and control equipment. This technology is utilized within precision motion control and machining systems worldwide. Products include encoders (linear, angle, rotary), length gauges, numerical controls, and touch probes for demanding positioning tasks.

Specializes in the manufacturing of fine pitch manual adjusters, with standard pitches ranging from 80 to 508 threads/in. (0.05-mm pitch). Also manufactures components for the photo optics industry, including lens holders, adapters, connectors, and posts. All products manufactured in USA.

OEM manufacturer of high-performance galvanometer scanners and galvanometer-based scan systems for deflection and positioning of laser beams in three dimensions. Scan heads (more than 1200 cps), scan solutions for kW-range and USP lasers, customized systems, control electronics, and laser processing software.

Manufactures stock and custom off-axis parabolic mirrors. Flat, spherical, and aspheric mirrors in ceramic, glass and metal, precision mirror mounts; reflective beam expanders, collimators, FLIR test stations, lidar telescopes; Fourier transform systems, IR lens assemblies and a LUPI-IIA interferometer. Engineering, design, and field services.

Vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of photonics equipment for research, industry, life science, biomedical, and defense applications. Offerings include optomechanics, motion control, optics, fiber and fiber processing systems, light analysis, lasers and SLDs, optical amplifiers, imaging components, and microscopy systems.

Manufacturer of precision optical components and high-power laser coatings from UV to IR. Stock and custom optics: lenses, beamsplitters, filters, windows, mirrors, wave plates, large wedges, prisms, and many more. In-house custom coatings: AR, high reflection, dichroic, and polarizing. Optics from 4 mm to 16 inches.

Manufactures catalog and custom/OEM optical components and assemblies including microscope objectives, motorized zoom beam expanders, high-resolution diffraction-limited lenses, telecentric scanning, focusing and imaging lenses, wave plates, polarizers; also mounting hardware, optical coatings, and lens design services for UV to CO2 wavelengths.

Designs and manufactures IR detectors for the 0.5 to 24 micron range. Products include InGaAs, Ext-InGaAs, InAs, InSb, PC&PV HgCdTe detectors, linear and 2D arrays with a wide range of detector cooling options for defense, security/safety, chemical and biological detection, semiconductor inspection, life science, and spectroscopy markets.