Patrick Edsell

SpectraSensors, Inc. manufactures optically based gas sensors for the industrial process. It offers approval drawings, analyzer racks and cabinets, thermal-modeling of sample streams, sample probes, heated sample transport bundles, stream switching hardware and controls, programmable logic controllers, lighting, as-built design documentation, analyzer startup and commissioning, on-site training for analyzer operations, remote technical support, spare parts recommendation and ordering and field and factory repair. The company was founded by George M. Balogh, John J. Kelly, Siamak Forouhar and Randy May in 1999 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Avanex Corporation is a leading global provider of Intelligent Photonic Solutions(TM) to meet the needs of fiber optic communications networks for greater capacity, longer distance transmissions, improved connectivity, higher speeds and lower costs. These solutions enable or enhance optical wavelength multiplexing, dispersion compensation, switching and routing, transmission, amplification, and include network-managed subsystems. Avanex was incorporated in 1997 and is headquartered in Fremont, California. Avanex also maintains facilities in Erwin Park, N.Y.; Nozay, France; and San Donato, Italy. The facilities also are home to Avanex's Centers of Excellence for specialized research and manufacturing.

NP Photonics, Inc. develops and manufactures fiber lasers, fiber amplifiers and transport fibers. Its proprietary fiber technology is used across a broad family of products, including narrow linewidth, low phase-noise fiber lasers designed for operation in industrial environments. The firm's products include micron fiber lasers, multi-channel fiber laser systems, fiber amplifiers, laser lockers and mid-IR transport fibers. The company was founded by Bernard Kippelen, Honkanen Seppo Kaleva, Nasser Peyghambarian and Shibin Jiang in 1998 and is headquartered in Tucson, AZ.

Captiva Software Corp. provides automatic data capture software and enterprise input management (EIM) solutions to financial, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing and retail sectors. It has offices in the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia and Russia. The company was co-founded by Reynolds C. Bish in 1989 and is located in San Diego, CA.

Part of Koch Industries, Inc., Gigabit Optics Corp. is a company that manufactures optical networking hardware. The company is based in Sunnyvale, CA. Gigabit Optics was acquired by Oplink Communications, Inc. on March 23, 2004 for $1.15 million.

Spectra-Physics, Inc. used to manufacture semiconductor based lasers and laser optics, which was used for everything from inspecting microchips and etching holograms to welding metals and plastics. It was engaged in making of related optical and optoelectronic products such as crystals, diffraction gratings and thin film interference filters as well as sells others photonics components through its Oriel catalog. The company was founded in 1961 and was located in Mountain View, CA.

Part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., Spectra-Physics Lasers, Inc. manufactures lasers, scientific products and RandD.