With this acquisition, MW Technologies’ name changes to Amplitude Portugal, becoming the company’s 4th manufacturing site and R&D center worldwide.

“We are very pleased with this acquisition which will enable us to increase our production capacity and so offer a better response to our international customers,” explains Pierre Rigail, VP, Amplitude head of operations.

“Our collaboration with Miguel Melo, our general manager, and his team will also help us strengthen and consolidate our technical expertise,” says Eric Mottay, Amplitude president and CEO.

“Having worked with Amplitude for several years, it is an honor now to be part of a company with the same core values. I am looking forward to sharing our common drive for engineering excellence and quality in laser design and manufacturing,” declares Miguel Melo, managing director of MW Technologies.

Further reading: Eric Mottay: Ultrafast lasers today – The continuous increase in average laser power opens new horizons for femtosecond laser processing, PhotonicsViews 19(2), April/May 2022, 80–83; DOI: 10.1002/phvs.202200010 • Martin Ole Berendt, Hugo Barbosa, Miguel Melo: The Challenge in Realizing Truly Agile Fiber Lasers – Laser-diode seeded MOPAs hold promise of arbitrarily modulated high power laser output, Laser Tech. J. 14(3), June 2017, 30–33; DOI: 10.1002/latj.201700015