Optometrics is a worldwide supplier of high quality optical components including gratings, lenses, filters, laser optics, monochromators, and specialized optical systems and software
A world-class manufacturer of optical components for over 30 years.
Mission Statement
It is the overall goal of Optometrics
to meet or exceed expectations for each and every one of our customers while
meeting our corporate and social responsibility. Our responsibility to our Dynasil
shareholders is to secure a reasonable profit for the products and services we
provide. We will proactively promote ethical and honest behavior within the
company and within the community in which we work. We will achieve these goals
by empowering our employees to make the necessary decisions to support this
direction and to recognize the consequences of indifference. We recognize that
our employees are our most valuable asset and that they must be champions
towards achieving our goals. To this end, Optometrics
Corp. is committed to providing the training and environment to support team
participation and development.
Goals
Optometrics
goal is to provide advanced optical components and systems for use in wavelength
selection applications found in:
- Analytical Chemistry
- Life Sciences
- TELECOM Applications
- Physics
- Education
- Space Sciences and other applications where high quality optics are
key.
OEM Services
Optometrics
caters, in particular, to the needs of its OEM customers by offering special
services such as:
- Kanban stocking arrangements
- Custom packaging programs
- Bar coding capabilities
- Code names for complete confidentiality
- Higher level pre-aligned optical assemblies
The company is also proud of its ability to support customers in all phases
of the product development cycle.
In order to accomplish this, the Company has assembled state-of-the-art
facilities and people to produce:
- diffraction gratings, ruled & holographic, original & replicated
- interference filters
- optical components
- laser gratings & products
- monochromators & accessories
- spectrophotometers
- grating design software
- wire grid polarizers, ruled & holographic, and
- TELECOM components
Key People
In order to provide its customers with
high-quality products, Optometrics has, both on staff and by agreement, many key
technical personnel and consultants including:
- Staff Engineer, with degrees from Wentworth Institute and Northeastern
University in Mechanical Engineering and twenty years experience with the
Company in grating fabrication and development;
- Quality Manager, with a degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology from
Wentworth Institute and over fifteen years of experience in mechanical and
production engineering for several area manufacturing companies;
- A research scientist with the U.S. Air Force and a candidate for a Ph.D. in
Physics provides
general optical consulting to the company;
- A top scientist, formerly with the U.K. National Physical Laboratories, who
wrote the book
“Diffraction Gratings”, provides consultancy to the company’s
holographic laboratories;
- A former staff engineer, now an independent engineering consultant,
providing mechanical, optical and software consulting services to the company;
- A former staff member, with an advanced degree in Biochemistry and a career
as Product and Sales Managers for several of the leading life sciences
companies, provides the Company with consulting services in the fields of
instrumentation applications and sales and marketing;
- Several experienced and dedicated thin-film manufacturing, engineering and
assembly
technicians and team leaders, round out the Company’s key technical
staff.
Facilities
The Optometrics facility in Ayer, Massachusetts contains spaces
for offices, engineering, R&D and production. The company recently built two
holographic laboratories, one for R&D and the second for production work -
they are currently being used for the production of holographic wire grid
polarizers and holographic master gratings for both spectroscopic as well as
TELECOM applications.