History
The company was established in 1989 as a wholly owned subsidiary of British Aerospace (now BAE Systems) as a spin off from BAE’s corporate research and development centre in Bristol to undertake the commercialisation of laser technology derived from BAE’s R&D programmes which did not fit with the business of its main operating divisions.
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