Company History

Micron Optics is recognized as a premier supplier of wavelength tunable components and a technology leader of filter-based, optical modules and test instruments. Calvin M. Miller founded Micron Optics in 1990 and provided customized tunable filters to researchers in the early 90's and helped establish Erbium-doped fiber pre-amplified receivers as the preferred technology for today's dense WDM fiber optic communication systems. Remaining focused on its core, seminal technology - the Fiber Fabry-Perot tunable filter (FFP-TF), Micron Optics has developed an array of products from its high-performance tunable filters, to absolute wavelength references, optical performance analyzers, and high-speed wavelength interrogators. These products address diverse markets such as telecommunications, optical sensing, biotech and general spectroscopy.

June 2002 was marked by sadness for Micron Optics. We, along with many pioneers in the optical industry, grieved with the tragic loss of our Founder, Calvin M. Miller. Cal was the true father of the Micron Optics family. He was responsible for the core development of the FFP technology, for handpicking our management and engineering teams, and for initiating the spirit and unity that binds the employees of Micron Optics as a family. He will truly be missed. However, through the technology and teams Cal put in place, Micron Optics is continuing his vision of providing products with "killer" performance based on "simply elegant solutions".

In 2003, Micron Optics expanded the optical sensing product line to include the si720, an optical sensing analyzer and the si425, an optical sensing interrogator. The si425 and si720 have proven to be the seminal instruments allowing optical sensor field trials to prove-in FBG technology. These instruments, known for their accuracy, quality and ruggedness, were deployed on five continents and under three seas.

The 2004 product highlights consisted of new components and instruments with breakthrough price/performance. With the release of the TF2, our low-cost widely tunable filter, we can now offer up to 400nm tuning range. Micron Optics continued to lead the optical sensing market with the introduction of a field-worthy optical sensor interrogation system, the sm125. Designed to provide the most accurate pressure, temperature and strain measurements for static applications, the sm125 is already used extensively in energy (down-hole oil and pipeline) and structural health monitoring applications.

Jeff W. Miller,
CEO and President