Wasatch Photonics, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets enhanced holographic optics for optical networking, defense, test & measurement, and medical applications. The firm's high performance Volume Holographic Optic Elements (HOEs) and gratings can be used in a diversity of industries such as fiber optics & DWDM, defense & security, medicine, energy, computers, and electronics. HOEs can perform both simple and complex highly efficient optical functions. HOEs can also perform multiple functions simultaneously. Wasatch has its roots in the cottage industry of capturing 3-D holographic images â homemade film using Knox gelatin, sensitized with Ammonium Dichromate â that started in the 60â²s after the invention of the laser. The company uses proprietary recording media and patent-pending Dickson grating technologies. It operates locations in Durham, North Carolina and Logan,