Specialties
Omega Optical, Inc. designs and manufactures precision optical interference filters in Vermont. The company's products include longpass, shortpass, rejection band, microscopy, emission arc lamp, analytical, laser line and rejection, 3RD millennium-SP/LP/BP, edge, beamsplitters, mirrors, and neutral density filters. It offers custom filters for life science and point-of-care fluorescence based instruments and applications, as well as for research and clinical applications in the biomedical, clinical, and drug discovery markets. The company's also offers bandpass and i-line filters for semiconductor lithographic tools, such as LSI and LCD steppers; and dye-specific filter sets, components, and holders for single and multi-label fluorescence microscopy, as well as to work with researchers, labs, and microscope manufacturers on the development of sets for new applications. Its products are also used in security and biosensors, machine vision and cameras, environmental monitoring, telecommu
History
Established in 1969.
Omega Optical has built its technical reputation on defining the state-of-the-art in optical interference filter performance, designing and manufacturing a wide variety of custom and stock filters for scientists and industry worldwide.
In the beginning...
Our founder and President, Robert Johnson D.Sc., was born and raised in Brattleboro, Vermont. Concluding a five year period of employment in Boston Massachusetts for an optical filter manufacturer, he decided to return to southern Vermont in 1968 to establish his own company. A Vermont corporation, Omega Optical, Inc. was formed January 1, 1969.
Omega Optical was formed to pursue research and development opportunities in the field of photonics. An interest in alternative energy stimulated research into thin-films manufactured from semiconductor materials that would produce electricity from the sun.
Meet the Business Owner: Robert J.
Our founder and President, Robert Johnson D.Sc., was born and raised in Brattleboro, Vermont. Concluding a five year period of employment in Boston Massachusetts for an optical filter manufacturer, he decided to return to southern Vermont in 1968 to establish his own company. A Vermont corporation, Omega Optical, Inc. was formed January 1, 1969.