Current News

March 31, 2003
BLI Acquisition of SLI Assets.

Boston Laser has organized a group of European investors for acquisition (by a separate holding company) of all assets of Semiconductor Laser International (SLI). The US Federal Court approved the sale on March 17, 2003 and the deal has been closed today.

This acquisition falls well within the strategic goals of Boston Laser of increasing sales and completing its vertical integration by having our own wafer manufacturing facility.

Combining the two operations doubles the sales Boston Laser had alone. The MBE crystal growing facility provides short response time for growing Aluminum free and other wafers.

Since it would have very difficult to have two separate facilities 500 km apart we have moved our Boston operation to Binghamton, NY.

Boston Laser employs most of the SLI technical staff already since March 4, 2003. Among other engineers and technicians, we have now,

• Kelly Crampton, Director of Sales and Marketing
• Dr. Yungeng Gao, Senior Scientist, and
• Dr. Jiang Li, Senior Scientist.
• Yvonne Curtis also joins Boston Laser as Financial Manager.

All senior technical staff from Boston has moved to Binghamton. Boston Laser personnel now includes 8 PhDs.

• Single Mode Semiconductor Lasers
• Fiber Coupled Multi- and Single Mode Semiconductor Laser, and
• Semiconductor Laser Bars, Arrays and Stacks.

Boston Laser, an ISO 9000 company, will continue to maintain its quality of products and services to its well established and new customers. It will attempt to work in concert with its community of customers, employees, investors and vendors.