In 2014 LightSmyth Technologies, Inc.was acquired by Finisar (NASDAQ: FNSR) an optical communications corporation whose products enable high-speed voice, video and data communications for networking, storage, wireless, and cable TV applications. This transaction meant that LightSmyth became no longer SBIR eligible. From its founding, LightSmyth Technologies, Inc. was organized around development of innovative nanophotonic products. These efforts culminated in the introduction of high efficiency diffraction gratings for optical telecommunications, defense and biological markets in 2007. Today, LightSmyth offers more than 100 grating products optimized for various applications. LightSmyth products and innovations leverage holographic and diffractive principles combined with state-of-the-art semiconductor manufacturing patterning tools such as Deep UltraViolet (DUV) steppers/scanners.provides polarization-insensitive transmission gratings for telecom applications. The company's products include transmission gratings to angularly disperse incident light into a spectrum, as well as is used in various applications, including optical telecommunications, pulse compression of pico-and femto-second pulses, high power lasers, spectral beam combining, and remote optical sensors and spectroscopy; and LightSmyth jewels, including gems with precious metals, such as gold and silver. Its products also comprise reflection gratings for use in telecom polarization-diversity optics and laser frequency stabilization; diffraction gratings, such as focusing and self-calibrating gratings, and coherent grating arrays; and standard reflection gratings for optical applications requiring spatial separation of light by wavelength, as well as for astronomy and space exploration applications. In addition, the company's products include pulse compression transmission gratings; and nanopatterned silicon stamps comprising nanomachined single crystal silicon substrates providing entry into nanophotonics research for industry and academic institutions, which are used in various applications in optics, photonics, biology, chemistry, physics, polymer research, nanoimprinting, and microfluidics. Its products are also used in various other areas, including surface and diffraction gratings, multiplexers, optical interconnect, labeling, consumer articles, integrated filters and photonics, and pure photonic crystal decorative products. LightSmyth Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is based in Eugene, Oregon.
