(Reuters) – United Technologies Corp is nearing a deal to merge its aerospace business with U.S. defense contractor Raytheon Co and form a new company worth well over $100 billion, a person familiar with the matter said on Saturday. United Technologies and Raytheon are seeking to pool resources through what would be the biggest merger in the aerospace and defense sectors. United Technologies provides primarily commercial plane makers with equipment...Continue Reading
Ohad Harlev will be giving a presentation on LyteLoop on June 11th at the RMSC Strasenburgh Planetarium. NY Photonics: What is the idea behind LyteLoop?: Harlev: Storing data in motion. We have been working on this for 3 1/2 years and have 6 or 7 patents depending on how you want to count. Humanity is creating a huge amount of data. Today the world is storing data in a really...Continue Reading
Vincent Associates®, the manufacturer of Uniblitz® Shutter Systems, announces that 2019 is the company’s 50th year in business. The company’s commitment to providing quality state-of-the-art electronic shutter products to the photonics, health science, photography, film, robotics, defense, and aerospace industries has made reaching this milestone possible. Founded by Andrew W. Vincent in 1969, Vincent Associates continues the tradition of focusing on their core competency: Performance shutters and shutter drive systems....Continue Reading
Marty’s Obit: penned by the man himself, of course. Also included is a two-part article that he wrote for the RRPC newsletter in 2009. Martin Dvorin left our world in his sleep Monday, March 11, 2019. Marty came into our world January 31, 1923 in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York, to Minnie and Irving Dvorin, and grew up in a neighborhood of four family private brick houses, pushcarts, the famous Loews’...Continue Reading
A new optics manufacturing enterprise has joined the New York Photonics Cluster: Vertex Optics. Jayson Tierson and Joseph Serio have a combined 45 years of experience in optics manufacturing, process development, and business management. The two now bring that expertise to bear on high-end, precision optics manufacturing with a new optics company: Vertex Optics. Vertex Optics manufactures prototype to small volume high precision brittle material components for the medical, defense,...Continue Reading
Navitar Mobility Division Formed, Dedicated to Autonomy and AI Based Computer Vision Imaging Modules Rochester, New York – Wednesday, February 27, 2019 – Navitar, Inc., a global leader in vision technology, announced today the formation of Navitar Mobility, a new business unit focused solely on autonomy and AI based computer vision imaging modules and emerging applications in mobile computer vision. “While Navitar currently supplies full imaging modules for the autonomous vehicle...Continue Reading
Additional Backing Will Support Three More Rounds of Optics, Photonics and Imaging Competition Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced $15 million in additional funding is being made available to support three more rounds of the Luminate NY business accelerator competition in Rochester. The Luminate competition focuses exclusively on the optics, photonics and imaging industry. The program supports selected innovators as they grow their ideas in Rochester with help from industry experts,...Continue Reading
February 2-7, 2019, the global optics and photonics community descended on San Francisco for SPIE’s annual conference: Photonics West. With a whopping 58 companies in attendance, New York Photonics had its largest showing to date, the largest of any cluster at the conference. “New York companies have been presenting and exhibiting at Photonics West for more than 20 years.” said Tom Battley, Executive Director of New York Photonics, the trade...Continue Reading
Three outstanding women, two in the optics industry, were honored by the National Women’s Hall of Fame as Keepers of the Flame on Monday, December 17. The designees were Dr. Susan Houde-Walter, President and CEO of LaserMaxDefense (LMD), Dr. Alexis Vogt, Associate Professor of Optics at Monroe Community College, and Carol Ritter Wright, former Rochester Democrat & Chronicle journalist, columnist, and auctioneer extraordinaire who has raised many millions of dollars...Continue Reading
Optics Manufacturer Will Add More Than 20,000 Square-Feet to Existing Facility and Add More Than 200 New Jobs New York Photonics OPI manufacturer Rochester Precision Optics will expand its headquarters in the Town of Henrietta, outside Rochester, adding more than 200 new jobs to the region. The company’s growth will accommodate two new projects—the relocation of an infrared research and development company from Florida acquired by Rochester Precision Optics in...Continue Reading
This event highlights the exciting SBIR research in novel optical materials and optics manufacturing research from OptiPro, Optimax, CeraNova, Arizona Optical Systems, Bridger Photonics, and [...]
OF&T will offer new ideas and concepts for the shaping, smoothing, testing and manufacture of conventional and novel optics/optical systems finding applications in existing and [...]
In 2019, the Institute of Optics will hold its 58th annual summer school short-course series, offering a mix of one-week courses and two-and-a-half-day courses. Fundamental [...]
Second Tuesday Networking The June 11th date is a joint event between New York Photonics and the ROSA, the OSA Rochester Chapter. Lyteloop is patented [...]
"Laser Munich" LASER World of PHOTONICS is the international trade fair for Photonics Components, Systems and Applications. The only Eurpoean trade fair for lasers and [...]
Light and Sound Interactive 2019 Innovators, technologists and subject matter experts are converging in Rochester to push the edge of light and sound-based technologies. We’ll [...]
On June 27th, 2019, Luminate's second cohort will participate in an exciting Demo Day event in the Big Tent of the CGI Rochester International Jazz [...]
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.
