- CEO
- Wonho Chong
- Full Time Employees
- 427
- Sector
- Electronic technology
- Industry
- Telecommunications equipment
- Address
- Photonics Valley Ohkusa Campus Komaki AI Japan 485-0802
- IPO Date
- Jul 24, 2001
- Business
- Santec Holdings Corporation, a Japan-based holding company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Standard Market (6777), develops, manufactures, and sells advanced optical components, optical measuring instruments, and related systems for telecommunications, life sciences, sensing, and industrial applications. Founded on August 25, 1979, and headquartered at 5823 Ohkusa Nenjozaka, Komaki, Aichi, Japan, the company operates through key segments including optical components-related, optical measuring instruments-related, and system solutions, with global subsidiaries and sales offices in the United States (Santec U.S.A. Corporation in New Jersey and Santec California Corporation in Camarillo), Canada (Santec Canada Corporation in Ottawa), the United Kingdom (Santec Europe Ltd. in Oxfordshire), China (Santec Shanghai), and Australia via recent acquisitions. Its core products encompass tunable lasers such as the TSL-770 series and high-speed wavelength scanning tunable VCSEL HSL-1; optical test and measurement instruments including tunable filters, IL/RL meters, polarity testers, optical power meters, attenuators, light sources, PER meters, wavemeters, and interferometers; advanced optical components like power monitors, variable optical attenuators (VOA), MEMS VOAs, WDM filters, mux/demux products, liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) based spatial light modulators (SLM), programmable optical filters, and optical submodules; optical imaging and sensing solutions such as 3D optical profilers, swept-source OCT systems, wafer thickness mapping systems, lasers for OCT and sensing, balanced photo detectors, DAQ boards, interferometer modules, and medical devices including the ARGOS optical biometer for ophthalmic applications; as well as system solutions leveraging optical coherence tomography (OCT) technology. In recent developments, Santec Holdings transitioned to a holding company structure in April 2023, formerly operating as Santec Corporation, and established subsidiaries including Santec AOC Corporation, Santec LIS Corporation, Santec OIS Corporation, and Santec Japan Corporation to streamline operations across optical components, imaging/sensing, and domestic sales. Its consolidated subsidiary Santec LIS Corporation completed the acquisition of MOG Laboratories Pty Ltd (MOGLabs), an Australian developer of tunable external cavity diode lasers, laser amplifiers, low-noise laser control electronics, high-resolution wavemeters, and RF synthesizers for quantum technology, atomic physics, and precision measurement applications, on July 1, 2025, following a share transfer agreement signed on May 29, 2025, to expand into quantum computing, communications, sensing, and advanced photonics markets. Additional recent moves include the acquisition of movu inc. in California, the transfer of OCT business from Santec OIS to Santec LIS Corporation, and prior integrations such as JGR Optics Inc. (now Santec Canada Corporation) and OptoTest Corp. (now Santec California Corporation), enhancing its global photonics portfolio and capabilities in scalable optical instruments.