Hamamatsu Photonics

Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
Native name
浜松ホトニクス株式会社
Company typePublic KK
TYO: 6965
IndustryElectronics
Founded(September 29, 1953 (1953-09-29))
FounderHeihachiro Horiuchi
Headquarters325-6, Sunayama-cho, Chūō-ku, Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka, 430-8587, Japan
Key people
Tadashi Maruno
(President and CEO)
Products
Revenue JPY 203.9 billion (FY 2024) (US$ 1.35 billion) (FY 2024)
JPY 25.1 billion (FY 2024) (US$ 166.7 million) (FY 2024)
Number of employees
4,225 (consolidated, as of September 30, 2024)
WebsiteOfficial website
Footnotes / references

Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. (浜松ホトニクス株式会社, Hamamatsu Hotonikusu Kabushiki-Kaisha) is a Japanese manufacturer of optical sensors (including photomultiplier tubes), electric light sources, and other optical devices and their applied instruments for scientific, technical and medical use.

The company was founded in 1953 by Heihachiro Horiuchi, a former student of Kenjiro Takayanagi, who is known as "the father of Japanese television".