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With the success of that in hand, the three co-founders officially incorporated the company in November of that year, with Buchanan as President, and began operations at 1755 Woodward Dr. in Ottawa in January of the following year, 1971. The spelling of the company's name was changed to "Lumonics" to avoid confusion with another company named "Lumonix".

In April, Imperial College London PHD graduate and scientist, John Nilson, was hired as its first and chief scientist. By September, Nilson was already exhibiting the industry's first commercially available high energy TEA laser at a conference in New York and only a few years later, was involved in the design, specification, assembly and testing of TEA amplifiers for Lawrence Livermore Laboratory's 1975 project "Valkyrie, a CO2 system for Laser Fusion Experiments". "The CO2 laser [was] of interest to the laser fusion effort because of its high power output, high efficiency, and simplicity."

The following year, in 1972, Robert Atkinson (formerly part of Corporate Finance and Acquisitions at Leigh Instruments) came on full time as Vice President and Treasurer, along with Mauchel as Vice President of Marketing who had prior to that only been part time.