1982 Photon Control Ltd was incorporated
1988 J. Bibby and Sons bought the US laser company[1]
1992 The name of Photon Control was changed to Melles Griot Ltd
By 1996 the company was making and servicing scientific and industrial electro-optical equipment; it was a subsidiary of J. Bibby and Sons[2]
2001 of Ely; Queen's Award for Innovation[3]
2004 Laser distributor[4]
Thorlabs and Melles Griot jointly announced the purchase of Melles Griot Ltd, Cambridgeshire, a division of the Melles Griot Corporation, Carlsbad CA, by Thorlabs, Inc.[5]