- Headquarters
- Hamamatsu, Japan · East Asia
- Value chain
- Components & subsystems(Inputs)
- What that means
- Makes the parts others build into products: chips, sensors, optics, modules, engines and subsystems.
- Founded
- 1953
- Ownership
- Listed
- Listing
- TSE:6965 on Google Finance
- Website
- hamamatsu.com
- Relevance
- Very high at its strongest, in Advanced Imaging & Photonic Sensing
Hamamatsu, JapanIn 3 capabilities
Each capability the company is listed in, most relevant first: how experts in the field see its global relevance there, why it is listed and the source.
- Advanced Imaging & Photonic SensingVery high
Sensing, Timing & Navigation · Manufacture · listed #5 of 50
Hamamatsu is the leading maker of photomultiplier tubes, photodiodes, InGaAs and X-ray image sensors and scientific cameras used in research, medical and industrial photonic sensing.
Relevance: Leading maker of photodetectors and photomultipliers worldwide
Quantum Technologies · Equipment & materials · listed #10 of 50
Hamamatsu supplies photodetectors, lasers and optically pumped magnetometer components for quantum sensing, owns NKT Photonics, and is a leading Japanese patent applicant in the field.
Relevance: Key component supplier for quantum sensing
Energy Technologies · Equipment & materials · listed #37 of 50
Supplies high-power laser diodes, diode-pumped lasers and photodetectors used in high-energy laser research such as the inertial fusion lasers at Japan's ILE.
Relevance: Laser diode and photonics component supplier.