It’s popular! It has already gone global! We handed out nearly 250 calendars, large and small, at the New York Photonics booth in the Photonics West New York Aisle this year. Industry folks and customers around the world love to get their hands on this calendar. Thank you to all of the sponsors for their support of this great economic development handout. If you live in the Finger Lakes Region you can...Continue Reading
Acquisition Expands Navitar’s Integrated Imaging Solutions Business Photonics West, January 31, 2017 — Navitar Canada, Inc. (Navitar), an innovative manufacturer of precision optical solutions, announced today the purchase of PixeLINK®, a leading developer of digital cameras for use in industrial, life science, and other advanced imaging applications. Based in Ottawa, ON, Canada, PixeLINK manufactures, optimizes and integrates industrial cameras for machine vision applications and microscope cameras for life science and...Continue Reading
High-tech manufacturing company recognized for achievements in the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program OptiPro Systems, LLC, a world leader in precision optics manufacturing equipment, was honored with the 2016 Tibbetts Award for their achievements in innovation and job creation as a participant in the SBIR program. The company credits the program to helping develop solutions for cost-effective manufacturing of optical components with defense and commercial applications. OptiPro was one of...Continue Reading
FluxData Inc. has been acquired by Halma PLC, a United Kingdom-based safety, health and environmental safety group. The deal is expected to nearly double the local workforce, company leaders said. FluxData employs 21 people and expects to add another 18 locally and two more in China as a result of the acquisition, FluxData president Pano Spiliotis said. Halma, a leading safety, health and environmental technology group, announced the acquisition of FluxData...Continue Reading
University at Buffalo researcher Paras Prasad, an internationally recognized expert in optics and photonics, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). NAI Fellow is the highest professional distinction accorded by the organization to academic researchers who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of...Continue Reading
2016: A lot to be grateful for! On December 14, the New York State Photonics Board announced the location of the nation’s test, assembly and packaging facility. The TAP facility will colocate with ON Semiconductor in the City of Rochester. This is another milestone for AIM Photonics in an international competition that holds great promise for our nation with a technology that will revolutionize so much in our increasingly technological lives....Continue Reading
The East High Optical Fabrication laboratory recently added coating capabilities with a Denton DV-502A coating chamber. Patrick Iulianello,Vice President Operations at Accucoat (Rochester, NY) recently helped East High Precision Optics Manufacturing students with their first aluminum mirror coating efforts on 2″ plano discs (made in the lab). Accucoat also helped with some custom tooling for the chamber. Next up: copper coating! East High School is the only high school in the...Continue Reading
Rochester, NY, December 14 2016 A former Eastman Kodak Co. building on Lake Avenue is the recommended site for the research hub of the nation’s national integrated photonics initiative, AIM Photonics, sources say — with a vote confirming the selection expected Wednesday morning. The site is at the edge of Eastman Business Park, formerly Building 81 and now home to ON Semiconductor. The company will lease excess clean room, lab and office space for...Continue Reading
From Laser Focus World: It’s complicated, has been supported by many in photonics (notably SPIE and OSA), has major implications for U.S. makers of products such as high-power fiber lasers and focal plane arrays, and becomes law on December 31, 2016. Here are some thoughts and resources for piecing together how the rules have change in Category XII (Fire Control, Laser, Imaging, and Guidance Equipment) of the U.S. Munitions List...Continue Reading
Just down the road, twenty minutes from Rochester. Off Route 332 half way between the New York State Thruway and Canandaigua. A Department of Defense Trusted Foundry Specializing in Packaging Photonics Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) on a chip. What makes this interesting? Well, for one thing: packaging, and we aren’t talking about wrapping a birthday present or your shipping an receiving department, we are talking about the delicate and miraculous...Continue Reading
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