Company History

Micron Optics has been recognized as a premier supplier of wavelength tunable components and a technology leader of filter-based, optical modules and test instruments since its beginning. 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".