1995 Establishment of "Diode Laser" department at TuiLaser AG. Development of the commercial tunable extended cavity diode laser DL 100 in cooperation with Prof. Ted Haensch of University of Munich. 1998 Company foundatio......1995 Establishment of "Diode Laser" department at TuiLaser AG. Development of the commercial tunable extended cavity diode laser DL 100 in cooperation with Prof. Ted Haensch of University of Munich. 1998 Company foundation. Development of VersaTest-I versatile dynamic disc tester in cooperation with Prof. Masud Mansuripur of University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. Product launch of TA 100 amplified tunable ECDL based on tapered amplifier chips. TuiOptics GmbH, the TOPTICA precursor company, incorporated at Martinsried / Munich as spin-off of TuiLaser, targeting diode laser sources for science and industry. 1999 First violet tunable diode laser based on Nichias violet laser diode. 2000 PVLS, an industrial violet diode laser for computer-to-plate printing, becomes first industrial OEM product (Laser Focus World award 2001). Product launch of MediaTest-I static disc tester. 2001 TOPTICA Photonics AG is the new name and legal form of the company that reflects its constant growth. Presentation of XTRA 300 mW industrial single-mode laser system for Raman spectroscopy. TA-SHG gets the first all-solid-state blue tunable single-mode laser system using a frequency doubled semiconductor amplified ECDL. 2002 US subsidiary TOPTICA Photonics Inc. is incorporated in Westfield, MA. 2003 The iBeam / iPulse product line becomes successor of PVLS. TOPTICAs amplified single-mode diode lasers break the 1 W barrier. 2004 The worlds first test drive for violet optical storage media is presented at MediaTech Frankfurt. Presentation of first tunable femtosecond fiber lasers - FFS. 2005 TOPTICA moves to a new 2500 sqm facilities in Graefelfing / Munich. Introduction of a frequency-quadrupled diode based UV laser - TA-FHG. Introduction of a semiconductor laser amplifier - BoosTA. Introduction of the DLX RockSolid-Technology. 2006 ISO 9001:2000 Certification of quality management system. (download of certificate) Introduction of industrial DFB based diode lasers. Extension of HUSKY reference drives to stamper testers (HD and BD). 2007 iWave (first coherent 405 nm) and XTL (record power 650 nm) OEM lasers are presented TOPTICA introduces DL pro, next generation ECDL CW & fs lasers for THz generation provide solutions for imaging and spectroscopy 2008 US subsidiary TOPTICA Photonics Inc. moves to Victor / Rochester NY TOPTICA introduces series of industrial ultrafast lasers (FFI, PicoFyb) The worlds first 488 nm diode laser (iBeam 488) is presented