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...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...Continue Reading

Thank you, friends in photonics, for supporting the New York Photonics Annual Meeting and our economic development agenda. A special thank-you to our sponsors, without whom we would not be in a position to advocate for the region’s optics, photonics & imaging industry. We hope that you enjoyed hearing from Secretary of Energy, Ernest Moniz, senator...Continue Reading

ROCHESTER, NY, October 27, 2016 – New York Photonics honored three leaders in business and education – and a United States Senator – for their contributions to New York’s Optics and Photonics Industry. New York Photonics Executive Director Tom Battley presented the awards in front of more than 180 stakeholders from industry, government and education from across the...Continue Reading

In an article in a local newspaper yesterday, flames from this week’s debate between Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (25th, NY) and her challenger, Gates Town Superintendent Mark Assini were fanned. It is important to note, and easy to verify in these very Blog pages that Louise Slaughter, Congresswoman from the 25th District of New York was pressing...Continue Reading

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 17, 2016 Contact: New York Photonics Executive Director Tom Battley Telephone:(585) 329-4029 Email:tbattley@newyorkphotonics.org Website: www.newyorkphotonics.org New York Photonics Annual Meeting Announcement Progress and potential of the optics and photonics industry in the Rochester region will be discussed Oct. 27 during the annual meeting of New York Photonics, a leading local organizational...Continue Reading

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