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- Lumibird SA designs, manufactures and markets high-performance lasers and associated technologies for scientific, industrial, medical and defense applications worldwide. The company operates through two main divisions, Photonics and Medical, with the Photonics division encompassing brands including Quantel, Keopsys, Convergent, SensUp and Halo Photonics; core products comprise solid-state lasers such as Q-switched Nd:YAG lasers at wavelengths including 1064 nm, 532 nm, 355 nm and 266 nm with energies from 5 mJ to 2.3 J, fiber lasers and amplifiers including high-power CW and QCW models, Raman fiber lasers up to 20 W at 1455 nm and 1480 nm, single-frequency CW fiber lasers with linewidths down to 1 kHz at 1054 nm, 1083 nm and 1.5 µm, laser diodes and modules including QCW stacks and fiber-coupled variants, tunable dye lasers from 200 nm to 4.5 µm, frequency-converted yellow and orange lasers from 520 nm to 590 nm, and LIDAR sensors; the Medical division provides ophthalmic diagnostic and treatment equipment including photocoagulation lasers, YAG lasers, SLT lasers, ultrasound devices such as UBM, subthreshold lasers and dry eye solutions. Founded in 2017 through the merger of Keopsys and Quantel with over 50 years of combined expertise and headquartered in Lannion, France, Lumibird maintains 12 production and R&D sites across Europe and North America, eight international subsidiaries, representative offices in Brazil and Thailand, and a distributor network spanning 110 countries targeting research laboratories, universities, manufacturing, defense, LiDAR applications and ophthalmology professionals. Recent developments include the 2023 acquisition of Convergent Photonics from Prima Industrie enhancing high-power fiber lasers and semiconductor capabilities, the October 2024 agreement to acquire the Continuum nanosecond laser product line and services from Amplitude Laser Group adding over €7m in annual sales and bolstering North American scientific market leadership, a June 2025 major naval contract for VIDAR laser rangefinders awarded to Lumibird Photonics Sweden with Saab and DALO, laser rangefinder orders for the Skyranger 30 system, and October 2024 bank financing renewal exceeding €100m supporting strategic growth with Q3 2024 revenue growth and targets of over 5% sales increase and 16% EBITDA margin.