Laserod
operates a modern laser facility in
Torrance, California, conveniently located just 20
minutes southeast of Los Angeles International Airport (see map and directions).
Our company is dedicated to providing
exceptional service to a variety of industries including
micro-electronics, aerospace, medical, solar cell, transducer
sensor and others. We offer both services
(laser job shop) and products (custom laser machines)
and have experience in excimer, CO2 lasers and YAG
lasers, our specialty.
Laserod
was formed in 1996 by Rod Waters, a 30 year
veteran of the laser industry.  Prior to Laserod, Rod
co-founded with Floyd
Pothoven, Florod Corporation---a laser equipment supplier. Many of Florod's employees still work for us.
Terry Pothoven, Floyd's son, is one of Laserod's technical
experts. He is our Shop Manager and has over a quarter
century laser experience. Floyd's other son, David, runs production.
 Our laser machines are guaranteed to
produce the same precision results as our laser job shop.
Before you purchase a laser system, we will
demonstrate how the equipment will perform on your product by
producing test samples using your materials and
specifications. Should you then purchase a system from
us, we guarantee that you will be able to reproduce the
results from the sample run.
A map
and directions to our facilities are available online.
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More on Us
Both Rod and Terry obtained physics degrees from UCLA. Subsequently
Rod worked in the Apollo Moon Program for two years where he helped
get us to the moon a year earlier than expected using newly
developed computer technology. In 1965 he joined Union
Carbide's Korad
Lasers headed by Dr. Theodore Maiman, inventor of the world’s first
working laser. At Korad Lasers Rod and his future business
partner, Floyd Pothoven, developed
world class systems
for laser trimming, thermonuclear fusion and welding. In
1974 Rod & Floyd founded Florod Lasers where they pioneered, as
world leaders, laser repair of photomasks
(so called Laser Zapper), failure analysis (Laser Cutter), and
flat panel display repair. 60 of these LCD repair machines,
sold in Japan, allowed the Japanese to become the world leader in
LCDs. In 1996 Rod and Floyd's son, Terry, started Laserod, a laser job
shop and system integrator. In their careers Terry and Rod have been
involved in building nearly a thousand laser systems. |
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