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News Stories
August 2009
- Mass High Tech Journal: Gregg Favalora sets his sights on the optics industry
"Maybe it's in his genes or maybe it was from his environment, but Gregg Favalora feels he was destined to work with optics and imaging. In fact he has been working with 3-D imaging since he was in junior high. Favalora, formerly the founder and CEO of Actuality Medical Inc., recently was named customer engagement manager at Optics for Hire, a product development firm focused on optics projects based in Arlington and with operations in Ukraine. Optics for Hire works with clients to incorporate advanced optics into products...." complete story
August 2009
- ZEMAX Users' Knowledge Base: How to model and optimize reflectors for laser pumping
"The goals of modern laser pumping are to focus as much light as possible into the active medium of a laser and to achieve a uniform distribution of light at any given cross section of the active medium. The reflector design is the most significant influence on the efficiency of laser pumping...." complete story
July 2009
- LEDs Magazine: LED engineering firm adds display veteran Gregg Favalora
"Optics for Hire announced July 27 that Gregg Favalora, founder and CEO of Actuality Medical, a hologram-like 3-D display firm, joined the company. Favalora was named a top innovator by MIT Technology Review magazine for his work in hologram-like 3-D display systems. He founded Actuality in 1997 to commercialize volumetric 3-D displays, holds 9 issued patents related to that technology, and led the teams which broke several records in the field of display engineering...." complete story
August 2008
- ZEMAX Users' Knowledge Base: How to create surfaces of revolution via user defined objects
"In non-sequential mode, ZEMAX allows us to use different objects in the design such as lenses, aspheres, cylinders, blocks, and other objects. A system feature also allows the user to create a custom object, if needed..." complete story
February 2008
- * Laser Focus World Magazine: Solar powered flashlight gets new design for those in need
"When John Ellis read a New York Times story on a US Diplomat delivering solar powered flashlights to Africans in need, he knew he wanted to help. The article a profile on Mark Bent...." complete story
April 2006
- Vision Systems Design Magazine: Design services benefit machine vision systems
".....Very often firms don’t have all the skills they need on staff. It’s quite common that companies working in machine vision don’t have any optical engineers, despite how central optics is to the industry. Other customers need our help on optoelectronics and signal processing. A company whose core expertise is software processing or system integration in specific vertical markets might not have electronics people they need to develop a new product, so we are brought in..." complete interview
March 2006
- Laser Focus World: SSS Optical collaborates with Optics for Hire on gas sensors
"SSS Optical Technologies has enlisted the help of Optics for Hire in launching a novel line of gas sensors based on patent pending optoelectronic technology. GOVINDRA stands for gas, odour, vapour identification, networking, detection, recording and annunciation. The primary target of the new ammonia sensors is the poultry industry, where new EPA ammonia emission standards necessitate precise cost-efficient monitoring technologies." complete article