[5] According to Carl Johnson, the funds raised by the IPO allowed II-VI to expand its zinc selenide manufacturing capacity.

[13][8] The acquisition of Avalon Photonics, Anadigics, and EpiWorks allowed II-VI to increase its production of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs),[8] important to 3D sensing technology; and the acquisition of Finisar Corporation in 2019 brought to II-VI Finisar's high volume 3DS VCSELs indium phosphide (InP) platform and its experience in integrating InP lasers with optics and electronics in transceivers.

He was formerly with Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (LSCC) Coherent Corp. is headquartered in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania,[18] located north of Pittsburgh in Butler County.

[19] The Saxonburg headquarters site was once the property of KDKA, the world's first commercially licensed radio station, and some of the original structures are still there.

[20] In the 1940s, the site was expanded by the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to become a 400 MeV synchrocyclotron research facility.