A good time was had by all!  First real day of fall didn’t dampen spirits at Ravenwood! Thank you to our sponsors, Bergmann, Harris Beach, Visit Rochester, Optimax, Optipro, John W. Danforth, SPIE! Thanks to Brian Carroll, Superior Group, for the Orangemen Basketball tickets! Thanks, Rick Plympton, Optimax, for the Coco Beach condo raffle! Thanks...Continue Reading

… and quite the crowd they are! This is the presentation that would not run on the AV system. For those of you that attended, let me know how I did without the digital crutch! Thank you, Visit Rochester: Don Jeffries, Denise DeSantis-Penwright, Greg LaDuca and our Photonics Liaison, Wendy Ford. And thank you to all...Continue Reading

Local Company Innovates To Compete and Thrive The Germanow-Simon Companies, one of the Finger Lakes Area’s oldest continually operating manufacturing businesses, is celebrating its 100th anniversary next month. In 1905, Harry Germanow arrived at Ellis Island as a teenager, having left his small hometown near Pinsk in what is now Belarus.  By October 1916, when the...Continue Reading

Frontiers in Optics 2016 is quickly approaching and so is the annual PHOTONICS CLAMBAKE! The Photonics Clambake is a melting pot of optics & photonics professionals who gather to enjoy one of the industry’s premier networking events while relaxing with refreshing beverages, great food and lots of clams. The turnout for the last clambake was...Continue Reading

Join us in RMSC’s Patricia Hale Gallery this Tuesday, September 13th! What do you know about photonics?  We’ll be handing out the SPIE Photonics Infographics books to attendees. As you may know, Jena is our sister city in optics, photonics & imaging!  Our friends from Fraunhofer IOP and the Friedrick Schiller University in Jena will be...Continue Reading

On the heels of 2015’s International Year of Light, Rochester, New York is achieving greater recognition for its preeminence in optics, photonics and imaging. Rochester’s 2015 designation as headquarters for AIM Photonics will bring with it a new Test, Assembly & Packaging plant to begin construction in 2017, with new jobs, new technologies and new skill set...Continue Reading

Local optics company Optimax Systems plans to hire 35 new people by 2019 to staff its expanding research and development operation. Empire State Development, New York’s economic development arm, has offered Optimax a $250,000 grant to help fund the R&D expansion. >>Read More Here<<  >>or Here<<Continue Reading

Rochester Precision Optics Wins Phase 2 STTR Grant for Chalcogenide Glass Mid-IR Rochester Precision Optics, LLC (RPO) has been awarded a grant from the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) to pursue chalcogenide glass IR optic development for quantum cascade lasers. RPO, after successful completion of Phase 1 STTR, seeks to develop a fast axis collimating...Continue Reading

The 2017 Call for Proposals is now open and extended to all AIM Photonics members seeking federal funding for tactical projects targeting the AIM Photonics themes of Education, Workforce Development, Roadmap, Assessment, and Industry/Academic. Read More HereContinue Reading

The American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (“AIM Photonics”) is seeking qualified, responsive and responsible bidders to provide proposals for equipment to establish a Test, Assembly and Packaging (“TAP”) facility in Rochester, NY. http://www.aimphotonics.com/equipment-rfp/Continue Reading