Applying Light to Life
Laser and Photonics Solutions
As a leader in cutting-edge photonics technology, NECSEL, an Ushio Group Company, specializes in the design and manufacturing of high-performance laser systems, laser diodes and laser components. Serving biomedical, visual imaging, industrial, and sensing markets, NECSEL offers a wide range of fiber-coupled lasers, multi-wavelength lasers, Novalum laser modules, and UV, visible and NIR laser diodes. With over 35 years of expertise, NECSEL provides reliable, customized laser diodes, LEDs, and free space & fiber coupled laser devices that deliver optimized performance for demanding applications.
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Applications
Medical & Life Sciences
- Ophthalmology
- Photo-Dynamic Therapy
- Illumination & Endoscopy
- Flow Cytometry & Spectroscopy
- DNA Sequencing
- Raman Spectroscopy
Display Technology
- Digital Cinema Projection
- AR and VR
Manufacturing & Industrial
- Position, Distance and Orientation Analysis
- UV Curing, Bonding and Non-Contact Heating
- 3D Scanning, Sorting and Inspection
- Machine Vision and Feedback/Controls
Sensing & Measurement
- Position & Illumination Detection
- Shape, Size and Orientation Detection
- Environmental Analysis
- FiberOptic & Communications Test Equipment
- Metrology
Enhance your Systems with NECSEL High-Performance Laser Solutions
Explore NECSEL’s wide selection of fiber-coupled lasers, laser diodes, LEDs, and multi-wavelength laser systems. Designed for state-of-the art performance and reliability, our products include individual laser components, robust laser modules, and fully integrated systems.

Products
NECSEL Lasers & Modules
NECSEL designs and manufactures high powered visible lasers, modules and systems. We provide photonic solutions for biomedical, visual imaging, industrial and sensing markets. NECSEL is a leader in fiber coupled and free space multiwavelength visible and NIR laser systems
PD-LD Active Fiber Optics
PD-LD’s core competencies include the design and manufacture of fiber coupled active semiconductor emitters and detectors. We have significant engineering and design expertise with fiber-pigtailed lasers, LEDs, photodiodes, and PIN-TIA assemblies. PD-LD also offers laser systems that are spectrally-narrowed and wavelength-stabilized via our proprietary volume Bragg grating (VBG) technology.
Blue Sky Research Lasers
Blue Sky Research offers beam-shaped laser diodes, laser illumination sources, laser modules, and laser components that are robust, miniature, reliable, and easy to integrate into customer applications. With over 35 years of experience, Blue Sky Research has unique expertise in designing laser modules, single-mode fiber coupling of laser diodes, laser diode driving electronics, and system integration.
Ushio Laser Diodes
With over 40 years of experience in the photonics Industry, Ushio Inc., has demonstrated its leadership in the semiconductor laser device marketplace. Ushio provides a wide selection of laser diodes with wavelength coverage from Violet to Infrared, single or multiple transverse mode, optical power levels up to 3W, and a variety of package styles.
LED Chip & Package
Ushio “epitex” series LEDs cover a wide variety of wavelengths in the ultraviolet (UV), visible, and infrared (IR) spectral regions, from 365nm to 1900 nm, based on reliable technology and expertise in epitaxy and packaging developed over 30 years. We offer the broadest LED wavelength coverage for your applications, with shorter wavelength emitters available in 20nm increments (below 1000 nm), and longer wavelength emitters every 50nm (over 1000 nm).
Customized Photonics Solutions
NECSEL possesses the capability to provide distinctive photonics solutions through customized designs, leveraging the extensive expertise of its engineering team and a wide array of proprietary technologies.
Executive Management
William F. Mackenzie
Founder, Chairman, President and CEO – NECSEL Inc & GM Worldwide Photonic Solutions – Ushio Inc.Senior Group Executive Officer/Shikkou-Yakuin Ushio Group
As a global business leader, a technology entrepreneur with 30+ years of experience and a Silicon Valley veteran he successfully managed and guided global companies; public, private, start-up and mature. From starting a semiconductor/telecom “Unicorn” IPO, which went public less than four years after its inception with a market cap of $4B, to founding a laser company which created an entirely new market of Laser Cinema to leading a company that sells or partners with 75% of the world’s highest brand value companies. He loves a challenge and is passionate about building and leading people and businesses. He has an unrelenting drive and able to see the optimal business models through the business complexities by mentoring and striving to bring out the best in people, partnering with supplier/customers and acquiring companies (driven > 16 different transactions). Mr. Mackenzie is a citizen of three (3) countries; has worked in Canada, United States, Europe and spent over four (4) years in Asia on business. In the first half of his career, he concentrated on Silicon, Semiconductors Packaging, telecom, consumer electronics and the second half of his career has been focused on everything to do with light delivered in different forms Lasers, Lamps and LED’s from extreme UV, UV Disinfection, display (Projection, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality), multi spectral imaging, medical system, SWIR, IR etc.
News and Events
Photonics West 2025
Moscone Center, San Francisco CA
January 28 – 30 2025, Booth 4929
Necsel will showcase a selection of laser diodes, fiber-coupled laser diodes, optical components, laser modules, and integrated systems that provide excellent reliability, good beam quality, and precise performance for demanding applications.
Ushio Showcasing LED & Laser Products at Photonics West 2025
LEDs, Laser Diodes, and Laser Modules on Display
Ushio Inc will be exhibiting at SPIE Photonics West 2025, held from January 28 to 30, 2025, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, USA. Ushio will be showcasing Laser Modules, Laser Diodes and the following LED products at our booths 4929. Additionally, our distributor Marubeni America Corp. will also be exhibiting the same LED products at Booth Number: 3215,
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New Product Release – HL65311MG/312MG
Laser Diodes Used in Displacement Measurement
MeasurementMeasurement and inspection accuracy and reproducibility are becoming more and more important in manufacturing, as they are directly linked to higher productivity, better quality, and cost reduction.
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Blue Sky Research Announces Acquisition by Necsel I.P. Inc.
MILPITAS, CALIFORNIA – April 3, 2023 – Necsel Intellectual Property, Inc. (“Necsel”), a leading provider of laser and laser solutions, has acquired the majority of assets from Blue Sky Research Inc. (BSR), a premier manufacturer of precision laser components and modules. BSR’s products are used globally in medical, ophthalmology, bio-instrumentation, metrology, and industrial markets.
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510 Alder Drive
Milpitas, Ca 95035
East Coast
30-B Pennington-Hopewell Rd.
Pennington NJ 08543
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