Polytec PI/Lambda Contact information (Polytec PI, Inc. USA)
Address: Suite 212 23 Midstate Drive Auburn, MA 01501
Telephone: (508) 832-3456
Fax: (508) 832-0506
website:  http://www.polytecpi.com/ or http://www.polytec.com
email:
Contact information (Lambda Photometrics Ltd.)
Address: Lambda House, Batford Mill, Harpenden Hertfordshire,
AL5 5BZ, UK
Telephone: 44 (0)1582 764334
Fax: 44(0)01582 712084 -- Telex: 825889 (LAMBDA G)
website: http://194.203.66.156/
email: info@lambdaphoto.co.uk
Polytec PI is curently the world leader in piezo-based nanopositioning
products for semiconductor and optical telecom applications and
has over 1000 employees in 5 countries. Lambda Photometrics is
a Polytec PI company involved in laser-based measurement and positioning.
Background
On June 24, 1997, Polytec PI received FDA clearance to market
a long-pulse and Q-switched ruby laser called LaseAway for hair
removal. The device was found to be substantially equivalent to
the Palomar EpiLaser and Sharplan EpiTouch ruby lasers cleared
for hair removal in March 1997, and was the fourth LP ruby to
be cleared. FDA 510(k) Docket K971193 lists the contact as Susan
D. Goldstein-Falk, with Mark Boardman listed as manager of medical
laser products.
The device was sometimes referred to as the Lambda LaseAway and
had other dermatologiucal applications.
Medical laser industry: "surprisingly unprofessional"
On 25 September 2001, Brian Lula, President of Polytec PI, wrote
the following in a letter to hairfacts:
You are to be congratulated on a very informative website.
Wish it was around when we were marketing our ruby laser product.
To be current, we would ask for one correction to be made. We
pulled out of the medical laser business in 1998 due to its
surprisingly unprofessional selling environment and no longer
manufacture the LaseAway Ruby laser product.
As with several other hair removal laser manufacturers, including
Thermo Electron and Coherent, Polytec chose to focus their energies
on ultra high-tech products.
Note:
This device is not related to the device marketed by Silver Creek
Medical under the name LaseAway, nor is it associated with the
Alabama laser practioner who owns the domain name LaseAway.
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