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 everyone at VisitRochester for your tremendous support and raffle donations!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 of the other industry professionals for the warm welcome and keen interest in photonics technology!...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 United States was in the middle of World War I, he and his friend Julius...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 a record 540 people. Event Details: Date: Tuesday, October 18 Time: 5:30pm – 8:30pm Location:...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 joining us with some great news. Learn more about exciting stuff at the RMSC, including...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 Bausch (Bausch & Lomb) founded an optics institute at the university. Since then there have...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 demands. It seems fitting that 2016 is the year that the community has chosen to...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 lens for quantum cascade lasers (QCL), which are tunable to emit in the full infrared...Continue Reading
What can a single molecule do? Plenty–especially as it interacts with light. Today, the science of molecular photonics, loosely defined as the interaction of light with a molecule or molecules and perhaps best exemplified by the natural process of photosynthesis and the Holy Grail that is a molecular computer, is an emerging discipline that is gaining prominence as evidenced by a growing number of institutions focused on the subject. >>Read...Continue Reading
New York Photonics is a not-for-profit organization founded to promote and enhance the New York State optics, photonics and imaging industry by fostering the cooperation of business, academia and government.
