Ophir Optronics

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Ophir Optronics is high-tech optronics company based in Jerusalem, Israel, now considered to be an international leader in precision infrared optics components and laser measurement instrumentation^{[citation needed]}.

The firm also has offices in Japan, Germany and the United States. It has about 300 employees. It also has sales and service agents in more than 25 other countries around the world.

The company was founded in 1976 by Yaacov Zerem, Ephraim Greenfield and Ephraim Sekemski. The company has three main product lines: laser and photonics measurement instruments, optical IR components and lens sub-assemblies, 3D non-contact measurement.

Ophir's subsidiary Optimet includes among its clients an international dental firm that uses the Israeli firm's sensor as part of a system for measuring patients' teeth to fit them for dental appliances.