Celebrating 35 Years of Innovation

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35th Anniversary Celebration

: Optikos Employees Aerial Photo

: 35th Anniversary Photo

: Steve Fantone reacts to surprise aerial photo

: Cocktail hour

: Cocktail hour

: Dave Biss and Rich Rustin

: Ben Masella and Jennifer Blackman, Todd and Bernadette Thompson

: Dongning Bai and Jian Zhang, Marc and Tess Daigle

: Dan and Susan Hammerle, Fred Childs and Anne Harper

: Tiffany and Andrew McHenry

: Greg and Hillary Balonek

: Susan Hess and daughter Chloe Walton

: Lucy Rusin makes an appearance

: Steve Fantone and Jim Scott

: Dennis Fantone, Betsy Fantone, Lisa Santoro-Lahaye, Steve Fantone

: Steve Fantone welcomes guests

: Welcome comments

: Marc and Tess Daigle, and Tim and Erin Cole

: Dan Orband and Kevin Rovelli like what they hear

: Steve J. Fantone, Jeannette Fantone, Jeanna and Brian Newton, Julie and Cliff Jacobs, Dennis and Danielle Fantone

: Rich and Sherri Rustin, Andrew and Tiffany McHenry, Steve and Betsy Fantone, Dan and Susan Hammerle

: (l to r) Susan and Richard Gregorio, Todd and Bernadette Thompson, Mark and Jill LoCoco, Elaine and Brian Loder

: Alana Van der Mude and Will Rusin, Weston and Kaleigh Moore, Gabriel Marty and Andromeda Huffman, Bill and Lisa Marshall, Bob White and Katelyn Lansing

: Elizabeth Sullivan, Ben Masella and Jennifer Blackman, Martha Warren and Peter Clark, Haskell Kent and Dallase Scott, Dave Biss

: Tasney Mazzarino, Fred Childs and Anne Harper, Janice and Michael Poulin, Bob Ireland, Kristin and Frank Scioli

: Tess and Marc Daigle, Nathan and Lisa Wallace, Kristyn and Brian MacMillin, Erin and Tim Cole

: Dennis Lahaye and Lisa Santoro-Lahaye, Susan Hess and Chloe Walton, Bob Santiano, Julie Santiano, Hillary and Greg Balonek

: Dongning Bai and Jian Zhang, Dan and Caren Connell, Nina and John Price, James Sun and Kristin Zhai

: Karen and Jim Scott, Yvonne Chao, Kevin Rovelli, Dan and Karen Orband

: Steve Fantone with Optikos employees Bob Santiano and daughter Julie Santiano

: The roasting of Steve Fantone

: Dennis Fantone kicks off roasting while Bernadette Thompson, Dave Biss, Jim Scott and Susan Hess wait their turns

: Dennis Fantone looks very comfortable roasting Steve Fantone

: Bernadette Thompson has no shortage of material

: Susan Hess is just warming up

: Dennis Fantone, Bernadette Thompson, Dave Biss and Jim Scott enjoy this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to give it back to the boss

: Glasses and Tootsie Pops–you had to be there

: Steve Fantone is calm during Jim Scott’s rapid-fire quips

: Roasters Dennis Fantone, Bernadette Thompson, Dave Biss and Susan Hess enjoy the show

: Betsy and Steve Fantone cutting the cake

: Yvonne Chao, Kevin Rovelli

: Roy Youman, Andrew McHenry, Brian and Kristyn MacMillin

: Kristin Scioli with Bob Santiano

: Let’s do the hustle…

: Shy and retiring Roy Youman

: Kristin Scioli and Julie Santiano

: Susan Hess

: Lisa Santoro-Lahaye and Hillary Balonek at the after party

2010s

Optikos launches new "brand" at Photonics West 2015

Jim Scott demonstrates LensCheck VIS at PW 2015

Haskell Kent and Imatest CEO, Jeff Herman review Meridian camera testing at PW 2015

Ari T. Friberg presents at Optikos NES/OSA meeting, Oct. 2016

Rep. Seth Moulton visits Optikos for National Manufacturing Day, Oct. 2015

Frank Scioli with LensCheck build, 2015

Rich Rustin testing OG-1000, 2015

Haskell Kent and Lisen Xu calculations, 2015

Roy Youman testing a client lens, 2015

Optical engineers, Dave Biss and Will Rusin with booth visitors, Laser Munich, 2015

Lisen Xu, Ph.D., discusses Optikos Surface Metrology Instrument at CIOE 2015

Optikos at SPIE DSS 2015

Steve Fantone gives "Adventures in Optics" talk at The Optical Society of So, CA in 2014

Dr. Fantone posing with some of Optikos's consumer products

Peter de Groot with Steve Fantone at Optikos-hosted NES/OSA mtg., May, 2014

Haskell appreciates the cupcakes at NES/OSA mtg., May, 2015

Haskell Kent appreciates the cupcakes at NES/OSA mtg., May, 2015

Stephen J. Fantone

Steve and Betsy Fantone, with OSA award named in honor of Stephen D. Fantone, Oct. 2013

Steve and Betsy Fantone, with Stephen D. Fantone Distinguished Scholar Award from U of R, May, 2015

Betsy and Steve Fantone cut Optikos 30th anniversary cake, Sept. 9, 2012

Betsy and Steve Fantone cut Optikos's 30th Anniversary cake, Sept. 9, 2012

Todd and Bernadette Thompson at Optikos 30th Anniversary party

Focusing NASA tracking telescopes at Cape Canaveral

Laser Munich 2015, booth setup with Dave Biss and Will Rusin

2000s

In the conference room of the Cardinal Medeiros location

Optikos Holiday Party at the Fantone's, Dec. 2007

Optikos 2007 holiday party at the Fantone's

Steve Fantone and Dan Orband installing an Optikos bench in Tianjin, China, 2001

Steve and Betsy Fantone at Optikos Wakefield grand opening, April, 2007

Clearing out Cardinal Medeiros - 2007

Conference room containing Steve Fantone, Roy Youman, John Everett, Beth Risbick, Scott Nathan, and David Imrie

Stephen J. Fantone at the Great Wall of China - 2003

Boston Business Journal interviews Stephen Fantone, 2007

1990s

The Optikos 10th Anniversary party. From left to right, Phill and Ellen Dunn, Betsy, Dennis, and Steve Fantone, Tom and Cyndy Bates- 1992

Andrew Sheinis working with a Zygo interferometer circa 1994

Living without a loading dock, Optikos employees load product onto a crate for shipment - 1992

20 of Optikos's early employees - 1992

Following a presentation on optics in consumer products

Drafting boards before CAD, notice the Mac computers

Andrew Sheinis working with a Zygo interferometer circa 1994

Pat Cronkite, Peter Carellas, Groot Gregory, and Bob Forsyth at a Rochester optics show

Early nodal slide MTF bench with an early version of video MTF Software – 1990

Sample images used to produce lenticular 3D images for jewel cases

Jian Zhang and daughter at holiday party - 1999

Peter Carellas, Bob Forsyth, Steve Fantone, Mark Wildy -Training on the functions of the newly acquired Tropel line of benches

Sue Metzinger, Richardine O'Brien, Theresa White

Cambridge employees circa 1994

First international trade show, Europe 1990

Cambridge location at Cardinal Medeiros - 1997

Inside the Cardinal Medeiros location in Cambridge, MA

Bob Jacobsen assembling the first Optikos hardware product, a laser based end point detector for a semiconductor plasma etching machine

Orienting a boule for polishing and cutting, Optikos pioneered the polishing of cubic zirconia

Roy Youman working with a Tropel bench

Dan Krill, Theresa White

Polishing a ZZ window

Optikos's booth at a European trade show

Screenshot of LMI plus instrument for measuring contact lens molds

Radial curvature measurement instrument

The Scubascope, a children's subsurface periscope for exploration invented by Optikos

Optikos patent on a virtual reality video headset

Dr. Milton M.T. Chang interviews Dr. Stephen D. Fantone for Photonics Spectra magazine, 1999

1980s

Optikos's first location; the basement of Steve Fantone's house in Saugus, MA

First installation of Optikos knife edge scanning MTF system on to Mann bench system at Polaroid for testing photographic lenses - 1986

Another view of Optikos' first MTF system installation - 1986

Bob Jacobsen polishing a lens

Pat Cronkite working in one of our early labs

Steve Fantone giving a lecture on optics in consumer products

Setting up a floating table on the uneven floors at Cardinal Medeiros Avenue

1st Tropel assembly for Korea - Table setup - 1989

Stephen Fantone makes the cover of Optics News, 1989

Inside front cover of Optics News, 1989

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