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| ==History==
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| According to Photonis, the origin of the company can be seen in the opening of a new manufacturing facility of Philips in 1937.<ref name=":1">https://www.photonis.com/our-company/our-history</ref> As WWII was looming over Europe, the Dutch electronics company chose Brive-la-Gaillarde in the southwest of france as a new manufacturing location for microwave tubes and other electrical components.<ref name=":0">https://www.lamontagne.fr/brive-la-gaillarde-19100/economie/il-y-a-80-ans-philips-sinstallait-le-long-de-la-correze-pour-fabriquer-des-tubes-demission_12728967/</ref> Philips Brive continued growing after WWII, even working on radar and nuclear power projects, cooperating with Laboratoire d'Electrophysique de Paris (LEP).<ref name=":0" /> In 1960, the factory was flooded, taking two years to build a new factory.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" />
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| In 1963, <s>Philips becomes HYPERELEC</s>.<ref name=":1" /> New products included cathode ray tubes comissioned for the French Atomic Energy Comission and [https://www.nv-intl.com/wiki/index.php/Microchannel%20Plate%20(MCP) microchannel] wafers.
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| In 1937, a new facility of the Philips Group is opened in Brive-la-Gaillarde, France.
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| In 1942, a new facility called Burle of the RCA Corporation is opened in Lancaster, U.S.A., manufacturing microwave and radio tubes for the U.S. Navy.
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| In 1963, Philips becomes HYPERELEC, a Philips Company.
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| In 1970, the company Delft Electronic Products, BV (DEP) is opened in Roden, Netherlands. It manufactured the first image intensifiers.
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| In 1986, HYPERELEC becomes RTC-COMPELEC, still part of the Philips Group.
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| In the same year, RCA Corporation is acquired by General Electric.
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| In 1987, General Electric becomes BURLE Industries.
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| In 1990, RTC-COMPELEC becomes PHILIPS COMPOSANTS, still part of the Philips Group.
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| In 1994, PHILIPS COMPOSANTS becomes PHILIPS PHOTONIQUE, still part of the Philips Group.
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| In 1998, PHILIPS Brive is rebranded to Photonis.
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| In 2005, Photonis Technologies SAS was formed from a 2005 merger of three separate companies.<ref name=":1" />
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| *Photonis
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| **1937 PHILIPS Brive
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| **1936 HYPERELEC
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| **1966 RTC Compelec
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| **1990 PHILIPS Components
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| **1992 PHILIPS Photonics
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| **1996 Photonis
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| *Delft Electronic Products BV (DEP)
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| **1970 Delft Electronische Producten
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| **1973 Oude Delft
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| **1990 Delft Instruments
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| **1995 Delft Electronic Products BV
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| *Burle Industries
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| **1942 US NAVY
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| **1946 RCA Corp.
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| **1966 GE
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| **1987 BURLE Industries
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| **1999 Purchase of Galileo MCP
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| In September 2023 the company rebranded from Photonis Group to Exosens.<ref>https://www.photonis.com/news/photonis-group-becomes-exosens</ref>
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| ==Company Structure==
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| Today, Photonis Technologies SAS has a single subsidiary, Photonis France SAS.<ref name=":2">https://g.co/kgs/H7btjW</ref>
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| Photonis France SAS in turn has the following subsidiaries:<ref name=":2" />
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| *Photonis USA Pennsylvania (formely Burle Industries, Inc.<ref name=":1" />)
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| *Brennel Glass Ltd.
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| *Photonis USA, Inc.
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| *MicroOLED S.A.S.
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| *Photonis-DEP B.V.
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| **Hi-Light Opto Electronics B.V.
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| *Antheryon Optics
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