A new technology company will be establishing its U.S. research and manufacturing headquarters in Rochester. Delta-X Global Corp. is a high technology company with customers in health care, telecommunication and other industries. The company will invest $25 million to purchase and renovate the building at 1964 Lake Ave., in the city, along with a second location...Continue Reading

Based on micro-ring resonators to reduce the size and power demands of visible spectrum phase modulator. Integrated photonics is a rapidly-evolving industry sector, with infrared spectrum applications including high-speed 5G networks, biosensors on chip, and driverless cars. Researchers are now exploring the visible wavelength range to develop a variety of applications: chip-scale LIDAR, AR/VR/MR goggles,...Continue Reading

Optimax is looking to the future as it celebrates 30 years of excellence in the optics industry. Optimax is located in Ontario, Wayne County and its products are part of a cutting-edge technology revolution. President Joe Spilman discussed the company’s growth and expertise Wednesday during our Greater Rochester Enterprise Why ROC conversation. “This is an...Continue Reading

Researchers at University of Rochester’s Institute of Optics for first time distill novel interferometry into a photonic device. By merging two or more sources of light, interferometers create interference patterns that can provide remarkably detailed information about everything they illuminate, from a tiny flaw on a mirror, to the dispersion of pollutants in the atmosphere, to gravitational...Continue Reading

What is happening at L3 Harris’ Space Airborne Systems in Gates in Rochester, N.Y. is out of this world.  This is one of the only facilities in the world capable of these efforts. What these local workers are doing now is testing and assembling the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope that will help scientists explore space as...Continue Reading

A Rochester-based collaborative intended to advance the development and production of photonics devices will be funded for another seven years, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Monday. The American Institute of Manufacturing Photonics will receive $165 million from the Air Force Research Laboratory and $156 million from an array of other sources, including governments, universities, and companies,...Continue Reading

New round of funding will enable next stage of development for defense applications and other capabilities. New York State Governor Kathy Hochul has announced the American Institute of Manufacturing Photonics (AIM Photonics) has secured a new seven-year cooperative agreement with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and the Research Foundation of the State University of New York,...Continue Reading

New research by a City College of New York team has uncovered a novel way to combine two different states of matter. For one of the first times, topological photons—light—has been combined with lattice vibrations, also known as phonons, to manipulate their propagation in a robust and controllable way. The study utilized topological photonics, an...Continue Reading

Optifab, North America’s largest optical manufacturing conference and exhibition, will return to the Joseph A. Floreano Riverside Convention Center Oct. 18-21. The biennial event, organized jointly by SPIE and the American Precision Optics Manufacturing Association (APOMA), showcases the latest technologies in optics manufacturing. Jessica DeGroote Nelson of Optimax and Blair Unger of N2 Imaging Systems will...Continue Reading

Phase II of new grant awarded realizes promise of entangled photons toward faster, more secure computing systems Researchers from Rochester Institute of Technology and national photonic device company, AdvR Inc., built a quantum chip prototype that is bridging today’s traditional fiber optic networks with the future—quantum computing networks. By better entangling, or integrating, the two types...Continue Reading