Excelitas is the leading provider of advanced, life-enriching technologies that make a difference, serving global market leaders in the Life Sciences, Advanced Industrial, next-generation Semiconductor, Aerospace and Defense end-markets. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Excelitas is an essential partner in the design, development, and manufacture of photonic technologies, offering leading-edge innovation in sensing, detection, imaging, optics, and specialty illumination for customers worldwide. Excelitas is at the forefront of addressing many of the relevant megatrends impacting the world today, including precision medicine, industrial automation, artificial intelligence, connected devices (IoT), and military modernization.

In an interview with EPIC (European Photonics Industry Consortium), Ron Keating, CEO of Excelitas, shared his perspectives on the company’s strategic direction, emerging industry trends and key factors driving growth across advanced optical, illumination, detection and sensor technologies.

The Quarter 2 issue of UV+EB Technology magazine features an article by Excelitas Marketing Manager Stacy Hoge examining how UV and UV LED curing technologies are shaping the future of electronics manufacturing by enabling fast, low-temperature curing of inks, adhesives and coatings.

Miniaturization is driving the development of micro-LEDs, which are increasingly used as subpixels within next-generation micro-LED displays. In the 2026 International Edition of inVISION magazine, Excelitas Group Product Manager Michael Bulk explores how high-precision optics are tackling one of the toughest manufacturing challenges this technology presents: achieving uniform performance across large micro-LED arrays.

Our Noblelight infrared technology takes center stage in a K-PROFI magazine feature on how global oil exploration and oilfield services company, SLB N.V., protects mission-critical cables used in some of the world's most demanding oil production environments. 

In a paper published in the SPIE Digital Library, Excelitas Senior Biomedical Applications Scientist Kavita Aswani and Senior Imaging Product & Application Scientist Gerhard Holst, in collaboration with Aurox Chairman and CEO Tony Wilson, examine key system components enabling a modern, laser-free approach to confocal microscopy.