JML Optical recently invested in new equipment from OptiPro (Ontario, Wayne County, NY) an eSX 300 for grinding, a UFF 300 for polishing, an OptiTrace 5000 surface profilometer for metrology, and PROSurf freeform CAM software for making deterministic corrections. By utilizing OptiPro’s leading edge technology, JML will be able to produce cylinder optics with optimal...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

The ‘sister cities’ of Jena and Rochester (USA) have a lot in common: Here, as there, an optics industry has developed since the 19th century together with suppliers. While in Jena the collaboration between Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe significantly furthered optics research, soon after in Rochester, local industrialists George Eastman (Eastman Kodak) and Edward...Continue Reading

Photonics jobs: Preparing today for future openings​ Top leaders at the American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (AIM Photonics) say the projected optical technician jobs won’t be here for at least two or three years. That means anyone looking for a future photonics job has 25 months to learn more about the industry. >>Read more...Continue Reading

Don’t know what that means?  Read on… These are the only high school students in the nation manufacturing precision optics, and they are doing it during a summer immersion program this July in the East High School Optics Manufacturing Lab. The scorecard: “Yesterday, July 20, Alejandra’s optics measured 1/7th wave.” “Today, Demier Hill’s part measured to...Continue Reading

>>Full Press Release here.<< The actual language that Senator Schumer got in the base bill is this:  SEC. 603. OPTICS AND PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS.  (a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following findings: (1)    The 1998 National Research Council Report, ‘‘Harnessing Light’’ presented a comprehensive overview on the importance of optics and photonics to various sectors of the...Continue Reading

Has the decades-long march to college-for-everyone-at-18 actually closed off options for teenagers and 20-somethings, rather than opened up opportunities? We all know teen-aged kids with potential that seem to “underperform” when pursuing a four-year degree.  We also know college grads saddled with debt, who can’t find jobs in their chosen fields. Maybe a technical certificate that...Continue Reading

ROCHESTER, NY, June 2, 2016 – New York Photonics has awarded two $6,000 grants to schools in the Rochester region. The schools, Gates-Chili High School and Greece Olympia High School, both teach a dual-credit optics course with Monroe Community College’s Optical Systems Technologies program. The grants will be used to support optics labs at the...Continue Reading

The deadline for registration is May 31st. Note: This year there are two new courses focused upon Integrated Photonics. Courses: Fundamentals of Optics I Fundamentals of Optics II Gradient-Index Optics (New in 2016) Opto-Mechanical Analysis Opto-Mechanical Lab Optical Thin Films Optical System Design Modern Optical Engineering Integrated Photonics I (New in 2016) Integrated Photonics II...Continue Reading