about

perluma enables the manufacturing activities of its partners by supplying optomechanical assemblies, laser-beam delivery systems, high-NA objectives, precision relay optics, and custom metrology systems. If the process demands optics, lasers, precision motion and robust system control, perluma works on the team to deliver an integrated solution. 

Founded in 1997 by Dr. Dean Faklis, perluma is in Rochester, NY. Dean was a member of the research faculty at The Institute of Optics, founded Ascribe in 1997, co-founded LightGage in 2001 and co-founded Rochester Photonics Corp. in 1989 with Dr. Mike Morris and Dr. Milton Chang, which was acquired by Corning, Inc. in 1999.  He served as VP Engineering & Product Development at PSC (former NASDAQ:PSCX) helping it grow profitably from $70M to $220M with >1,000 employees worldwide.

Each member of the team has 30+ years of industry experience and advanced degrees from the University of Rochester’s Institute of Optics.

DUNS: 078238891, ITAR.