LIDROTEC provides wafer dicing laser machines that use ultrashort laser pulses in a liquid environment to cut semiconductors.

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Rochester’s Precision Optical Transceivers Inc., a leading provider of optical transceivers and related active/passive optical components, has acquired nine patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in the areas of optical networking, integrated photonics and photonic radio systems. The ...

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The Optical Society will sponsor Luminate NY’s Finals 2021 to bring the Rochester-based competition to an international stage. One Rochester-area firm will compete in the finals this year. Last year, nearly 1500 people registered to join a worldwide audience as ...

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Two previous participants in the state-funded Luminate NY competition have committed to creating nearly 120 jobs in the city of Rochester's Downtown Innovation Zone.

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The Rochester-based American Center for Optics Manufacturing Inc. (AmeriCOM) has been selected for a five-year $34 million grant from the Department of Defense’s Office of Industrial Policy program to launch a nationwide public-private Defense Precision Optics Consortium partnership between the ...

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Ten companies have been selected to take part in Round 4 of the Luminate NY accelerator program and competition. Some 126 startups from 22 countries and 21 U.S. states applied to be a part of the world’s largest accelerator for ...

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Rochester-based manufacturer Navitar Inc. has won a number of new orders expected to add more than $9.5 million to the firm’s annual revenue. “Life science instrument manufacturers and semiconductor equipment makers are looking for ways to improve their products and ...

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The Upstate Capital Association of New York on Wednesday will host the Venture NY Series A Showcase in partnership with 43North, GENIUS NY, 76West, Grow-NY and Luminate. The event will feature some of the fastest-growing startups from across New York ...

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A Boston-based tech manufacturer will receive a $1 million award and set up operations in Rochester as part of its Company of the Year Award in Round 3 of the Luminate NY Accelerator Competition. SunDensity, which originated at Massachusetts Institute ...

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Members of the local photonics industry recognized five of their own this week for making various contributions to the field. The awards were presented at the annual meeting of the Rochester Regional Photonics Cluster/New York Photonics Tuesday evening at the ...

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More than 2,000 people will congregate in Rochester this week as the Joseph A. Floreano Rochester Riverside Convention Center plays host to the biennial SPIE Optifab, the nation’s premier optical manufacturing conference and exhibition. SPIE is an international not-for-profit professional ...

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 A $4.4 million federal grant will help Monroe Community College turn out higher numbers of precision optics graduates. U.S. Rep. Joe Morelle, D-Rochester, announced the grant Wednesday from the Office of Naval Research for the Defense Engineering Education Program in Optics. ...

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In Geneva, students at Finger Lakes Community College ferment wine, hoping their training will provide either a second career in the wine industry or a less-expensive leg up on bachelor’s degree they’ll complete at Cornell University. In North Chili, meanwhile, students at Roberts ...

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Optimax Systems Inc. plans to expand its Wayne County facility with a 60,000-square-foot addition. The $21.7 million expansion will allow Optimax to raise the bar when it comes to supplying optics for its customers and will help the company solidify ...

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Corning Inc. Foundation has awarded a grant of $750,000 to Monroe Community College’s optics program, aiming to boost the number of graduates who are ready to take on jobs in the optics industry. The grant will provide a new optics laboratory and ...

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