Winners announced in the final competition. Double Helix Optics was the winner of the first round of the Luminate NY competition. The Boulder, Colorado-based company received top honors at Luminate NY’s inaugural “Light Tomorrow with Today” Demo Day competition, held in the main tent at the Xerox International Jazz Festival in Downtown Rochester. The company will receive $1...Continue Reading
Corning Incorporated’s Office of STEM is launching a new cycle of the Technician Pipeline Program (TPP) in Rochester! This program includes a salary of $25,000/yr PLUS job placement during the program and a full 2 year scholarship that includes tuition, books, and fees to earn an Associate’s Degree (AAS) in Optical Systems Technology from Monroe...Continue Reading
New York Photonics Member, Sydor Technologies, a global provider of advanced x-ray detectors and diagnostic instrumentation for the energy, research, and defense industries, will establish its new headquarters and manufacturing operations in the Village of Fairport, outside Rochester, NY. The relocation will include the purchase and renovation of a 41,000 square-foot building at 78 Schuyler...Continue Reading
Redwave Introduces the MG line of Chalcogenide IR Glass Materials Designers of components and systems that require optics for 0.8 to 18 microns or current users of chalcogenide glasses and any infrared system will want to know about Redwave Glass, a new US based producer of chalcogenide glass based in Rochester, NY. Redwave currently offers...Continue Reading
DoubleHelix Gets Small In A Big Way Some scientific breakthroughs are massive, the scope of their impact sometimes stretching to every corner of the world. Others are small. Some, as is the case with Luminate resident Double Helix Optics, can be both. That’s not to say Double Helix’s focus and technology is insignificant. Rather, it’s...Continue Reading
Tucked into the omnibus federal budget bill released Wednesday is the funding needed to keep the University of Rochester’s laser lab open and operating. The $75 million is an increase over the $68 million in federal funding awarded to the facility this year. New York’s Democratic Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand jointly announced the funding,...Continue Reading
Pixelink® Awarded Contract to Supply Camera Technology to NASA Orion Spacecraft to use Pixelink camera technology for Optical Navigation System Pixelink, a Navitar Company and a global provider of industrial cameras for the machine vision and microscopy markets, has been chosen in conjunction with Deep Space Systems, an engineering services firm with expertise in human...Continue Reading
Mixer for Luminate’s inaugural cohort networked entrepreneurs with OPI mentors Rochester, NY: Luminate NY, the world’s largest optics, photonics, and imaging accelerator (OPI), held their first ever Fast Tech Pitch hosted by New York Photonics. The event featured three minute pitches from each of the Luminate companies to a group of over 20 executives from OPI industry leaders including Rochester Precision Optics, Navitar, Optimax and...Continue Reading
The latest blog post from our dear colleague, Damon Diehl. “Before getting into a definition of photonics, we first have to define what a photon is. Good luck with that.” >Read More Here<<Continue Reading
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