Collaboration

Aktiwave

Aktiwave LLC is dedicated to providing customized optical components and consulting services in optical technologies. Our beam shapers and coronagraphs have been used in a large variety of applications such as astronomy and laser engineering. We have experience in a wide range of domains such as: Optical system design and modeling/Optical pulse diagnostic for ultrafast and telecommunication systems/Spatial and temporal shaping/Intellectual property analysis.

Alchlight

Alchlight, based in Rochester NY, is the leading developer and distributor of advanced and proprietary laser-fabricated materials. Acclaimed by the NY Times as "optical alchemy", they use femtosecond laser processing to etch proprietary nanostructures on materials. Their procedure doesn't coat the materials, instead it changes the intrinsic properties of the materials. Their topographies can change the color of titanium to blue, make silicon attract water, or even make water bounce off of brass.

Allvar

ALLVAR was founded in 2014 and manufactures revolutionary metal alloys. These alloys’ unique negative thermal expansion helps compensate and eliminate the detrimental effects thermal expansion has in a variety of applications. Negative thermal expansion alloys can be used to athermalize optic designs, reduce thermal stress in assemblies, maintain a constant force load, and maintain thermal stability. Currently, we are able to offer our Negative Expansion Alloys in Bar (up to 2.25” round) and tube (up to 3.00” OD) depending on wall thickness. We also offer thermal compensating washers and spacers to maintain constant pre-loads to control the margin of safety of bolted joints. These negative thermal expansion washers and spacers are available as Type B washers and in custom sizes.

Carestream

Carestream is a dynamic, global company with more than 100 years of leadership. In today’s rapidly changing global healthcare environment, where the mandate to provide better outcomes has never been greater, we add value by delivering personalized, affordable and practical options to help our customers advance. Medical providers large and small, from clinics and single hospitals to large networks and even entire countries, are upgrading their radiology and IT systems using our latest solutions.

Clerio Vision

Clerio Vision is developing a revolutionary product for the global refractive surgery market, based on technology licensed from the University of Rochester. Clerio Vision is developing a novel vision correction procedure. Instead of changing the shape of the cornea, as current LASIK-based approaches do, its approach is to use a femtosecond laser to change the refractive index of the cornea with small pulses to “write” a corrective prescription onto the cornea non-invasively. Because this approach doesn’t thin the cornea, it can be repeated as needed to correct vision changes over a person’s lifetime. The approach, called LIRIC, is being commercialized by some of the original architects of the world’s first LASIK systems. Clerio’s core technology has been in development for over a decade and is based on over 40 issued and pending patents. Currently over 150 million individuals in the U.S. alone require some form of vision correction.

Corning, Inc.

Corning, Inc. is a diversified technology company that develops breakthrough technologies that significantly improve people’s lives.  Corning pursues innovation and focuses on high impact growth opportunities in the telecommunications, flat panel display, environmental, life sciences, and semiconductor industries.

DinamicOR

DinamicOR is a medical equipment manufacturer, whose mission is to standardize operating room organization with an ergonomic and intuitive Workflow Management System – improving the efficiency and reproducibility of surgical processes which will enable perioperative staff to focus on providing thoughtful patient care.

Flour Marine Propulsion

Fluor Corporation is building a better world by applying world-class expertise to solve its clients' greatest challenges. Fluor's 40,000 employees provide professional and technical solutions that deliver safe, well-executed, capital-efficient projects to clients around the world. In 2023, Fluor was ranked 303 among the Fortune 500 companies. With headquarters in Irving, Texas, Fluor has provided engineering, procurement and construction services for more than 110 years.

Imaginant

Imaginant is a manufacturer of high-resolution digital cameras, ultrasonic NDT instruments, and handheld and robotic coating thickness measurement systems.

Jordan Scientific

A.N. Jordan Scientific is a scientific consulting company based in Rochester, N.Y. A.N. Jordan Scientific is focused on precision measurements with optics as well as developing new sensors.

Kitware

Kitware, Inc. is a leader in the creation and support of open-source software and state of the art technology.

L3Harris Technologies

L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers’ mission-critical needs. We provide advanced defense and commercial technologies across air, land, sea, space and cyber domains. We bring speed, innovation and flawless execution together with our commitment to make the world safer and more secure.

LC Orthopedic & Innovation

L&C Orthopedics & Innovation was founded in 2016 with a focus in bio-mechanical analysis of individuals in the orthopedics and sports performance world. Our goal is to use automated software to guide rehabilitation, prevent injuries, and improve sports performance to benefit individuals and clinics.

LighTop Tech

LighTopTech Corp. is a women-owned business based in Rochester, NY. LighTopTech, an optical technology company, was founded in 2013. Our goal is to build innovative optical instruments to improve noninvasive imaging in medical and manufacturing fields.

New York Space Grant/NASA/Cornell University

The New York Space Grant is a group of colleges, universities and industry partners that work together to create a variety of opportunities and exposure for individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines and NASA specific initiatives. The Space Grant College and Fellowship program aims to support education and outreach of space related research and events. The New York Space Grant Consortium aims to inspire, engage, and educate students in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines, and to prepare the future STEM workforce for high technology industries, particularly those located in the state of New York.

Optimax

Since Optimax was founded in 1991, optics have been behind enormous progress in technologies as diverse as fiber optic telecommunications, solid-state lighting, digital photography, displays, and diagnostic medicine. We have worked on key programs in aerospace, government research, and defense, and our customers’ successes have fueled our growth. That growth has meant continual investment in: applied research, technology for improved speed and capabilities, and our people.

Optimax continues to enhance its unique capabilities for fast, reliable delivery of precision optics with superior quality and service enabling customer success and employee prosperity. We leverage our optics manufacturing technology for programs that benefit mankind and projects that defend our freedom. Our know-how, innovation and speed enable quicker production of precision optics to meet emerging market needs. Some of the most sophisticated programs in the world trust Optimax to produce the most complex optics reliably.

OptiPro Systems

OptiPro was founded on one revolutionary, yet simple, concept: optical fabricators deserve more. In the past 30 years, since we introduced the first affordable CNC machine designed specifically for the optics industry, we have consistently built a culture that cares— a culture of employees who live and breathe by our strong OptiPro values and a culture of best-in-breed customers who are collectively on a relentless pursuit of process efficiencies, design improvements, capability enhancements, and marketplace superiority.

Ortho Clinical Diagnostics

Ortho Clinical Diagnostics is an in vitro diagnostics company that makes products and diagnostic equipment for blood testing. Ortho serves two primary industries in the medical field: clinical laboratories, by producing platforms and assays that test for a variety of diseases, conditions, and substances; and immunohematology, by providing the means to ensure blood transfusion recipients receive appropriate and compatible blood.

Ovitz

Ovitz is an exciting medical device company specializing in developing, manufacturing and marketing novel and portable ophthalmic equipment and accessories that facilitate the delivery of ophthalmic care in eye doctors' and primary care physicians' offices, and in schools, rural areas and developing nations.

Parverio Inc

Parverio was founded to address the rising containment known as microplastics. With our revolutionary technology, we aim to bring microplastic testing and awareness to concerned individuals everywhere.

Pfizer

Pfizer Inc. is an American multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation in relentless pursuit of breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. We innovate every day to make the world a healthier place. It was Charles Pfizer’s vision at the beginning and it holds true today. 

Phlotonics

Phlotonics works with integrated photonics for point-of-care diagnostics.

Power2Peer

Power2Peer is leading the charge to a greener future. Founded in 2018 by veteran innovator Dr. Nish Sonwalkar (MIT), our diverse staff has decades of experience in clean energy innovation, software design, and systems management.
At Power2Peer, we understand that the stakes for innovation have never been higher. All of the data show that it is imperative that we curb carbon emissions substantially if we are to avoid catastrophic temperature increases. That’s why Dr. Sonwalkar and our team of experts developed a platform that makes it easier than ever for solar and other renewable energy sources to take hold of the market. By enhancing returns on capital investments in renewable energy while simultaneously reducing energy costs for consumers who opt into the clean energy marketplace, Power2Peer is providing a market-oriented solution to the looming climate crisis.

RAM Photonics, LLC

RAM Photonics, LLC, was founded in 2009 for the express purpose of transitioning high-risk technology into commercial hardware. The company portfolio includes specialty optical and optoelectronic systems for defense, commercial, and industrial applications, including advanced signal processing, high-power laser, and instrumentation systems.

Seeqc

SeeQC is developing the first digital quantum computing platform for global businesses. The company applies classical and quantum technology through digital readout and control technology and through a unique chip-scale architecture. SeeQC’s quantum system provides the energy and cost-efficiency, speed and digital control required to make quantum computing useful and bring the first commercially-scalable, problem-specific quantum computing applications to market. The company is one of the first companies to have built a superconductor multi-layer commercial chip foundry and through this experience has the infrastructure in place for design, testing and manufacturing of quantum-ready superconductors. SeeQC is a spin-out of Hypres, Inc., the world’s leading developer of superconductor electronics.

SiMPore Inc.

SiMPore is a Rochester, New York-based nanotechnology company that designs and produces membranes and membrane-enabled products based on its unique patent-pending platform technology - the NanoBarrier™ ultrathin nanoporous silicon membrane. The NanoBarrier™ membrane is the world's first membrane to offer both tunable nanometer-scale thickness and pore size. SiMPore is developing products that take advantage of these one-of-a-kind features, including filters for separating and concentrating biological molecules and nanoparticles, cell culture substrates for growing cells, and electron microscopy grids for preparing and imaging samples at the nanoscale.

Sun Destiny

SunDensity Inc. produce photonic smart coatings (PSC) for utility solar power producers who need to reduce the cost of energy. Their nano-optical coating improves PV efficiency by downshifting UV rays for greater power output from solar modules, thus lowering overall power costs and accelerating solar energy adoption into the next generation of clean power.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science, with revenues of $17 billion and 50,000 employees in 50 countries. Our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We help our customers accelerate life sciences research, solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics and increase laboratory productivity. Through our four premier brands – Thermo Scientific, Life Technologies, Fisher Scientific and Unity Lab Services – we offer an unmatched combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and comprehensive support.

VisualDx

VisualDx is developed by a team of physicians, educators, artists, and computer scientists dedicated to improving the health of people through better information at the point of care. Founded in 1999, we are guided by three principles. 1. We are committed to patients. 2. We believe that medical education and care are undergoing a transformation from memory-based to a memory-assisted paradigm, where excellent information retrieval is modeled during medical school and later put into practice. 3. We believe that visual representation of medical knowledge fulfills a need for physicians and their patients.

Wetware BioSystems, LLC

WetWare BioSystems, LLC is an early stage biotechnology firm located in Rochester, New York dedicated to the invention, research, and distribution of technologies aimed at addressing Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in the defense and civilian sector. Our portfolio of devices provide a potential means to arrest TBI in a number of use scenarios including: Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast, first response to blunt impacts, and explosive munitions training in soldiers.