Ondax Awarded Supply Contract By Leading Industrial Laser Manufacturer

March 4, 2010 - PRLog -- Ondax, Inc., the industry leader in Volume Holographic Gratings (VHG) technology for wavelength stabilization and high-performance optical filtering applications, announced today that it recently received a major order for the company’s PowerLocker® wavelength stabilization filters from a leading supplier of high-power fiber lasers and amplifiers.  These filters will be used to stabilize and improve the performance and efficiency of fiber lasers across a number of key applications.  This represents the first high-volume integration of VHG technology into commercial high-power industrial markets, affirming the value of VHG stabilization in the laser industry’s largest market sector.

Ondax was selected after an extensive competitive evaluation and verification of Ondax’s quality and volume-manufacturing capabilities.  Delivery of the stabilization filters, based on Ondax’s proprietary PowerLocker® Bragg Mirror technology, has already commenced and will continue throughout the year.

According to Randy Heyler, Ondax President and CEO, “Our selection as the primary supplier in this competitive evaluation demonstrates a high degree of confidence in our ability to scale volume while maintaining high quality and performance.  To earn this recognition from a top-tier industrial laser company is a true validation of our team and our capabilities, and shows the broadening potential for VHG technology across multiple applications in the industrial laser market.”

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About Ondax: Ondax, Inc. manufactures high-performance VHG filters and stabilized laser sources for a wide range of applications. Our state-of-the-art VHGs improve laser diode performance by increasing spectral brightness, locking emission wavelength and increasing yield. In ultra-fast lasers, chirped VHGs reduce the form factor of conventional pulse compressors by two orders of magnitude while enabling higher laser power. Our single-frequency VHG-stabilized diode lasers cover wavelengths from 403nm to 860 nm for applications in Raman spectroscopy, flow cytometry, biomedical instrumentation, semiconductor material testing, manufacturing, and scientific research. Ondax’s principal fabrication and integration facility is located in Monrovia, CA within convenient reach of downtown Los Angeles and all Southern California airports.