Translume was formed in 2001, and since then, the company has demonstrated that its technology is ideal for rapid prototyping and production of MicroOptical and MicroFluidic components. Here are some examples...

On several occassions, for multple customers, Translume has fabricated wafers of arrays of elements for medical devices.

For a wide variety of customers, indluding the U.S. Government, leading universities and biomedical companies, Translume has fabricated, sometimes with integrated optical electronics, flow cells for medical, industrial and research applications.

For a government customer, as shown in the banner at the top of this page, Translume developed a glass ion trap chip with a dual integrated and miniaturized optical and electromagnetic capability. We intend to develop a compact atom-chip-based system capable of producing and optically controlling and monitoring ultracold atoms with substantial reduction in complexity, size, weight and power consumption over the present state of the art.

A large aerospace company hired Translume to develop custom optical components for onboard fiber optic communications. Translume worked with the customer to define specs, render an optical device, test it at Translume's state-of-the-art testing facilities. The components were subsequently used in flight.

Translume was contracted by a couple telecommunications companies to deliver prototypes of optical components rendered with Translumes femtoWrite process. Translume engineers modeled out the specifications of the components, designed appropriate waveguides and then wrote and trimmed them in blocks of glass with Translumes femtoWrite and femtoTrim processes.

A government facility recently employed Translume to modify and fix an existing biochip using Translumes femtoEtch technology. Our engineers successfully added novel features to a pre-existing design using Translume unique laser-based glass manufacturing processes.