Menlo Systems

Menlo Systems develops and supplies precision photonics instrumentation, with product lines including optical frequency combs, ultrastable microwave systems, time and frequency distribution solutions, terahertz systems, femtosecond lasers, ultrastable lasers, and complete systems for quantum technology applications. The company says its technology originates in Nobel Prize-winning optical frequency comb research and is used across science and industry.

According to the company, it was founded in 2001 as a spin-off from the Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching near Munich. Menlo Systems is headquartered in Martinsried near Munich and is organized as a GmbH. Its quantum-related offering includes laser systems combining an optical frequency comb, an ultrastable reference laser, and application-optimized continuous-wave lasers for what it calls “quantum technology 2.0,” alongside related stabilization electronics, add-ons for metrology, and photodetectors.