Syneron Candela, a global aesthetic device company, has acquired Ellipse, a Danish medical device company that manufactures and markets Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) and laser-based platforms for a wide variety of medical and aesthetic skin treatments.

Ellipse's key products include Nordlys, a multi-application, multi-technology IPL and Nd:YAG platform for vascular and pigmented lesions, as well as hair removal. The Nordlys also offers a fractionated 1550nm handpiece for skin resurfacing. Other products include an IPL-only system used for skin rejuvenation, facial veins and hair removal, and a fractional nonablative laser system used for skin resurfacing. Ellipse's Selective Waveband Technology (SWT) utilizes dual filtering on all IPL handpieces to selectively deliver precise energy to the targeted area.

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